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OGG Capable Car Stereos?
ZephyrXero asks: "I'm looking to buy a new in-dash CD player for my car, but I can't seem to find any that support Ogg Vorbis. There are numerous players out there that support MP3 & WMA, but the majority of my music collection is in OGG. I even found a definition of what Ogg Vorbis is at the Crutchfield site, but the only player they have for it is this thing. Have any of you been able to find a simple car stereo that will play your OGGs? Or are my only options to re-encode to MP3, connect a portable music player to it, or try to build something like the Cajun project?"
I've got a mini-itx that boots FreeBSD from a 64Mb CF card and then proceeds to play whatever is in my NEC MultiSpin 4x4 CD-ROM Changer.
It boots to playing music in 30s from power on.
Use a DVD Rom drive and you'll hardly ever need to change a disk !
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I'd like to see a nice Linux powered car stereo head unit that would read flash or SD memory cards. A built in card reader could replace cd's. Also it'd be nice to allow recording from the radio to the card. I think I'll go build one. Who wants to buy one?
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My method was just a pair of amplified computer speakers, plugged into an inverter and into the media playing device (which in my case is now the amazingly good "The Core Media Player" running on an IPAQ- does everything the link in the summary does and then some thanks to also having iGuidance, a 2 GB Hitachi CF Format Hard drive, and a bluetooth GPS unit, for a lot less cost). I believe that media player plays OGG, or at least, you can install a codec for it.
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They used to make a single-DIN in-dash unit, but it's discontinued...
Anyway, the fanless model in the first link has SPDIF outputs, and (of course) normal 1/8" phono, which you can slap an RCA adapter on. If you can't use that to play OGG through your stereo, you ain't tryin'.
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Thank you so much for the first decent piece of information anyone has given me here :)
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