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Shower mp3 Player?
Apreche writes "I was in the shower today humming a song that's been in my head. I started to really want to listen to music in the shower, but the best product I've ever seen is a shower cd player from the sharper image. Are there ANY waterproof mp3 players? I'm looking for about 30 minutes of music, all of the buttons in winamps main window, and stereo sound or better. I mean, now that I have all kinds of digital music, what good is it if I can't listen to it wherever and whenever I want?"
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Time to take a day off...
Apparently, the wonders of a "Ziplock bag" coupled with a pair of "speakers" have been proven to work wonders in showers. But don't tell anyone I told you that.
Get some wireless speakers and hook them up in the shower. Use the remote to change CDs.
What's the problem? This was a pretty lame April 1 joke.
Just attach your computer or you portable to this on the side of your bathtub and you've got a great massage bath (assuming you love music below 20Hz.) For even more entertainment, you can relax in your tub and watch the interfernce patterns as well! See how Mozart or Jay-Z affects your rubber ducky!
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You take half-hour showers? Is it too hard to bring a radio into the bathroom? Why on earth would you need an MP3 player in the shower?
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Problem solved...
If you really can't deal with CDs, radio or silence for half an hour a day...
You might as well just hook up your computer to an FM modulator, and tune a cheap shower radio to the frequency. I got my shower radio for under $15 at target. I would think someone makes a waterproof remote control, and there are plenty of IR repeaters available to get the commands to your computer from the bathroom.
I was talking about this Friday!
I've had a computer in my car for a little over a year, functioning primarily as an MP3 / MIDI player. It uses WinAMP and a Joystick plugin (along with a few other things). I was thinking it would be rather easy to adapt the design for shower use by sealing the gamepad with liquid latex or, for a really hacked look, a zip-lock bag and some caulking, and just run the gamepad cable out of the shower and into a cabinet with the PC and a wireless NIC...
"stereo sound or better"
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Stereo isn't good enough? What do you want, a surround-sound 5.1 channel setup? It takes quite a geek to step into a shower and think "this sounds good, but could use an over-spigot center speaker, plus two more astride the shampoo rack, plus a subwoofer built into the cabinent space under sink."
If I were you, I'd concentrate on reducing the background noise before I consider a second speaker.
Now, if you can just find a source for quality quadraphonic or 5.1 MP3's
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but way back when there was a product that allowed you to have your computer output your mp3's so they could be picked up with a regular radio (within a range of something like 100 feet)... so.. they're lots of waterproof radios... so hook up one of these mp3->radio setups and listen with a radio.
(sorry.. checked on google... but at 1:30 i'm only gonna spend about 4 seconds trying to solve another guy's shower troubles...)
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i don't know if this was the product i remembered from way back when... but it does the same thing.
enjoy your shower.
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Okay.. i spent 10 minutes making YOUR shower better... now _I_ feel dirty. you had better like this...
*grumbles to himself for being so damned altruistic*
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I ran some cabel into the roof and down into the bathroom. Its great having tunes blast out while you're in there.
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I've allready done this. I've run some cables from my room to the bathroom, and hooked up some speakers in there. All I have to do is to set up a playlist on my computer and press play before I go to the bathroom.
The only problem is that I share bathroom with three other people, and I don't have enough line-outs on my amplifier, so whats on in my room, is on in the bathroom. So now my roommates have to listen to my Neil Young records all the time.
But that's not really *my* problem, is it.
Nike makes a all rubberized mp3 player that could prolly be ok in the shower assuming you hang it keeping out of the stream of water. and find some all weather speakers to to use with it. or get one and keep it the bathroom and turn it up loud enough to hear it. and low enough to the ground where the steam shouldnt affect it as badly.
No one has patented the idea yet so knock yourself out.