Alpine to Release iPod Interface in Autumn 2004

jeblucas writes "Not to be outdone by the recent iPod your BMW news, Alpine updated the details on their iPod interface for those of us who want to spend cash on the sound system, rather than the logo. Apparently announced in January (?), this should be available this fall. Sweet! You can ask for more info by emailing Alpine directly."

Comments

Stereo v Logo? Maybe you'd rather have a kia.

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, if you think all you get with a BMW is a logo, maybe you'd better turn that stereo up until your eardrums burst - because your brain is already hemorrhaging. If I'm in a car it's to drive, and drive I will. Music is nice, but there's no sound like a proper exhaust note at 140mph.

Re:Why?

[Nasarius]

I thought you could just rip and burn your ipod stuff to a cd and just pop in the cd instead of hardwiring it to your car? Oh wait, that might be illegal...

I've never used iTunes (or an iPod), and even I know that:
1) If you're talking about music purchased from the iTunes store, no, you can burn them onto CD essentially as many times as you want.
2) That utterly defeats the purpose of the iPod. I don't want to carry around a stack of CD-Rs when I have an iPod that can store hundreds of CDs worth of music.

WGARA

[boristdog]

iPod this, iPod that. They didn't invent the goddamn MP3 player. Why not just put a "line in" jack on any car stereo so we can use any MP3 player on any car stereo? Or any other audio device for that matter.

Had an MP3 player long before the iPod existed.

Re:WGARA

[HaveBlue34]

It is arguably the best mp3 player and as far as the majority of consumers are concerened iPod == mp3 player.
Ford did not invent the automobile but I bet you couldnt name the guy who did.
The iPod is a great product at a good price. People know it and people are buying them in droves, not just cause they are 'hip' and 'cool' but because they are good.

Re:PAID ADVERTISEMENTS??

[PeekabooCaribou]

Register for a Slashdot account, exclude "Apple" stories from the homepage. Satisfied?

Re:Please, no more iPod news!

[dasmegabyte]

This is because the iPod is at the juncture of geek/tech life and what everybody else does. It is rare that something that enraptures us will also interest impress others, like (oh say) a girl or something.

Personally, I'd like to see a lot fewer article about Linux's acceptance or nonacceptance on the desktop, the pervasive attacks on our freedom by DMCA/RFID/PATRIOT/DRM/GWB/Internet Explorer, the sense or nonsense of outsourcing or anything relating to SCO. I mean, come on -- "Darl McBride's toilet overflows, says stolen memcopy algorithm to blame." This is supposed to be "stuff that matters," when indeed it's usually the same shit served up cold with the same for insights modded up (and, you know, anything *I* post).

But the iPod...well, the iPod was something out of left field, and it's something that confounds our community because so many of us still don't understand how it can be so popular when it's so expensive. It's right -- or as right as right can get with software. So what if it's lacking features -- this just goes to show that little features done sloppy aren't worth one feature done well and marketted without prejudice. If we could take that to heart -- make an Open system that had a single high quality choice for every function you could like, instead of one based on thousands of discordant choices -- well, there'd be no stopping us.

Re:PAID ADVERTISEMENTS??

[Squozen]

Oh sure, it holds twice as much, by storing files at 64kbps. Go go sound quality! Let's not forget that ATRAC came in last in a public 128kbps sound quality test.

iPod owners don't shop based on price. We shop based on quality. Don't try and argue this. As somebody once said, there's nothing that somebody can't build a whole lot cheaper and a whole lot worse.