Whats Next

[Ranger SVO]

This weekend I added an Ipod to my Mercury. It was like this, I was at Best Buy and they had a 4GB Ipod for $25 off. I guess it was returned because it was one of those open box sales. So I bought it



I added it to the car. Now this thing will hold some music



So far 47 CD's. Its almost full, but I sould be able to get 2 or 3 more CD's on there. I am at 643 songs, so I am figuring about 40 to 45 more songs depending on size.

But I was also wondering. While I was at Best Buy I saw a Western Digital USB Portable Hard Drive on the clearence table. Its an 80 GB HD, so it will hold all the music I own, my son owns and my wife owns and all my friends have.

So I bought it. Can a Kenwood or Pioneer that has USB capability access and play music from this HD? I am booked up this week and well into next week so it will be a while before I can check this out.

But I am curious

[pedro quiroga]

hmmmm....not sure.let us know.

[pedro quiroga]

you maybe should have got the 30gig.lol.

or make a favorite's list and remove the songs you dont listen to

[Ranger SVO]

What I wanted to do in the Mercury is put on the Ipod, CD's that are listened to all the time. Because the Pioneer DEH-P7600MP plays MP3 CD's we only need to keep 3 or 4 CDs in the car at any time. NO More Clutter under the seats.

I still wanna get a 30GB for my truck but to replace the DVD player. The 30GB will do video.

But I still keep thinking, how do I get an insane amout of music in my car? We use it for trips. That why it has XM. The Ipod will only help put what we wanna hear when we wanna hear it at our finger tips.

[psycho_maniac]

it might be able to use the usb hard drive. but the player might be limited to how much it can see. like my computer right now cant see my new 320gig hd and my cell phone can only handle 2gb. im not sure youd have to look it up on google or something. maybe kenwood "model #" hd capacity" or something like that

[sl0wm03]

Just me knowing computers, I don't think you would be able to get it off of a harddrive, they co operate with the computer, opens the certain way, everything that happens when you use the external drive won't be able to happen because the deck don't have the same properties as a computer. But I'm not sure if you could make everything .mp3 because there will still be the first file in there.

[pedro quiroga]

how many songs can one of your burned cd's hold?

also can it play ipod files AAC or is it ACC

[Ranger SVO]

Originally Posted by sl0wm03

Just me knowing computers, I don't think you would be able to get it off of a harddrive, they co operate with the computer, opens the certain way, everything that happens when you use the external drive won't be able to happen because the deck don't have the same properties as a computer. But I'm not sure if you could make everything .mp3 because there will still be the first file in there.

Now thats thinking logically, and you may be right. The USB drives may only recognize Thumb drives. So I'll format the HD first, load a bunch of songs and see what happens.

Originally Posted by pedro quiroga

how many songs can one of your burned cd's hold?

also can it play ipod files AAC or is it ACC

I stay MP3, mainly because I am familiar with it. I typically get 6 CDs on one MP3 CD. This will range from 90 to 120 songs on a CD. I could get more but I keep my VBR quality set to 2 or 1.

And its AAC (I always get it mixed up too), my Pioneer will only play WMA and MP3 files, its an older unit

[pedro quiroga]

before my ipod i had a master cd with 470+songs on it,but i set my quality low to max out my memory.

909 songs-3.35 gigs. i converted them to aac files from wma

still sounds good to me.although i keep some cd's to show off the SQ at the shows i go too.

i met a dude with a SQ system and he said it sounds really good.i'm just happy with that!
listening to the ipod.

[Ranger SVO]

Its always slow the week before school, so I had a chance to check it out and IT WORKS. In our demoboard we have a Pioneer DEH P6900UB. I hooked up my Western Digital Passport USB Harddrive.

AND IT WORKED. The pioneer was able to access and play all the tracks. I was able to navigate to folders and navagate within folders. Now this HD is an 80GB. I wonder if it can access a 120 or 160 version.

I wish I had a Kenwood USB Radio in my display