Does anybody know if there are any head units that read digital audio
straight off a flashdisk i.e. sd or cf? it seems like a logical next
step for mobile audio WAY more compact and skip free ,more durable
and less damage prone than cd's. Any comments?

terry g wrote:
Does anybody know if there are any head units that read digital audio
straight off a flashdisk i.e. sd or cf? it seems like a logical next
step for mobile audio WAY more compact and skip free ,more durable
and less damage prone than cd's. Any comments?


If I'm not mistaken, the new Audi nav+ systems have an SD slot and you
can pop in a card populated with mp3's and listen to 'em.

Frankly, I haven't given it a second thought since I installed a phatbox
in my car. The Audi head unit thinks it's a CD changer and I've got
about 20gigs of music (320kbit VBR) on the disc cartridge. Eventually,
I'm going to upgrade that disk to a 160gig drive which should hold a few
thousand CDs at that bitrate. It's certainly not audiophile fidelity,
but no worse than the usual cheesy CD head unit and it's in a noisy car.
Highly recommended for folks with large CD collections that want to
bring them on the road.

Cheers,

Ritz wrote:

terry g wrote:
Does anybody know if there are any head units that read digital audio
straight off a flashdisk i.e. sd or cf? it seems like a logical next
step for mobile audio WAY more compact and skip free ,more durable
and less damage prone than cd's. Any comments?


If I'm not mistaken, the new Audi nav+ systems have an SD slot and you
can pop in a card populated with mp3's and listen to 'em.

Frankly, I haven't given it a second thought since I installed a phatbox
in my car. The Audi head unit thinks it's a CD changer and I've got
about 20gigs of music (320kbit VBR) on the disc cartridge. Eventually,
I'm going to upgrade that disk to a 160gig drive which should hold a few
thousand CDs at that bitrate. It's certainly not audiophile fidelity,
but no worse than the usual cheesy CD head unit and it's in a noisy car.
Highly recommended for folks with large CD collections that want to
bring them on the road.

Cheers,
I used a portable mp3 player through the input jack on my head unit , mp3
are o k for mobile systems, heck it's a 15 year old van not an ideal
environment for sound. I found a jvc unit that has a sd reader built in.
expensive but sweet, it even loads jpgs for the dash display.. cool!!