Audacity Forum

prosser99 wrote:Ok Well, How do you connet the external hard drive in my truck? It doesn't have usb. This sounds interesting. It doesn't require so many cd's. My collection is big.

Well personnaly I would be using a 160gB iPod Classic - in a truck you won't hear the difference between AAC 256 compression versus WAVs. This assumes that you you have an Aux in socket available on your truck's music system - you can use those radio thingys to "broadcast" to the truck's radio, but they sometimes don't work too well (my wife has one!).

WC

I, too, tried to get an FM radio solution to work in my truck and it was less than successful. I found that if I duct-taped the transmitter a certain way to the passenger seat, it's wasn't all that bad. Keeping in mind that Los Angeles has no "dead" FM channels. You are required to slide between two powerful transmitters. "Powerful" is in quotes, here. They're all on Mt. Wilson, some 30 miles away (and a mile up), but still. The little plastic thing on the passenger seat is no flame-thrower.

My sister, though, has one that works perfectly. I don't know how she did it, but she plugs her iPhone in and it sounds perfect. I know it's not a hard-wired connection. The Jeep is way too old for that.

I have to write to her how she did it.

Koz

Don't know if this will help. We have a dead CD player in our car, but the tape player works. I got a gizmo at Radio Shack which is the size and shape of a cassette tape, with a cable coming out of one end. Put the cassette adaper in the tape player, plug the mp3 player into the cable, and, whee, we have music again, with fairly good sound from the car's four speakers.

This would work if you had a tape deck in the truck.

Dave