All Torque
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Right geek gang, I have a question.
I want to get rid of all my music CDs and store them on my laptop or on iTunes or summat. Am I right that I can upload onto my laptop then transfer them to an external hard drive and connect that via USB to a car stereo. I've found a bunch of USB car stereos for decent prices.
Would connecting via USB be better than simply hooking up an iPod (iPod would only play in mono I'm led to believe.)
Please help as I'm a complete noob with this sort of thing. Selling all my CDs would pay for a decent stereo, where is best to get external hard drives from??
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Kyle T
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iPod will do stereo no problem. Many headunits have got enhanced functionality for iPods like playlists. If you get an iPod touch or old iPhone, you could use spotify in the car too.
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dannymccann
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But to answer your question if you want to do it super cheap just buy one of those 10 quid USB pen drives
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All Torque
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It's gonna be a lot of music, 200 CDs worth. iPod is a good idea then, but in order for the music to be on iTunes it needs to be stored on the computer right? My computer doesn't have enough memory for what 200 albums X ~15 songs per album.
I do like the idea of all the songs being mixed up though, not just whole albums. I have an old iPod nano at home somewhere that could do the job.
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Dom
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Power from the headunits USB port could be an issue but if you stick to 'portable' external drives (usually they're 5400rpm drives) then you should be ok; just note they tend to be a little slow.
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All Torque
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Aaah ok. They're not badly priced either.
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pow
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I'd go for an external drive connected to your PC and then a USB stick for the car. hard drives always seem to take FOREVER to load in car stereos
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Simon_16v
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You can specify the location on your iTunes library, so once you plug your hard drive in just by selecting it will place all your music onto it.
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Dom
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Unless you're using an Apple device (even then that's debatable), why would you use iTunes? 
[Edited on 03-08-2013 by Dom]
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Brett
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I found Kingston DataTraveler Micro the best for the car, very low profile. 64GB one is about £30 I think.
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dannymccann
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quote:
Originally posted by All Torque
It's gonna be a lot of music, 200 CDs worth. iPod is a good idea then, but in order for the music to be on iTunes it needs to be stored on the computer right? My computer doesn't have enough memory for what 200 albums X ~15 songs per album.
Yea, at 5mb a song you are still looking at roughly 15gb, certainly don't need anything the size of a portable hard drive, and even if you did I'm thinking you would be wanting SSD to improve reading times, starring to get out of my tech comfort zone now though 
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
Yea, at 5mb a song...
You'll be looking at near double that if you plan to actually listen to anything with a high enough bitrate (ie - 256/320kbps MP3) to class the sound quality as reasonable.
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I've never had any problems with 128kbps bitrate in the years I've been using MP3s. Perfectly fine sound quality and good on file size. I've got a 16GB Sandisk Cruzer Fit drive in my car which has something like 4.5k songs on it and still has a few gigs of space left.
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