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Originally posted by Undertoad
The thing stopping me from doing this is the price of MP3 players for the car. Last I looked it was still like $300 for a player. Portable players that will take MP3 CDRs are under $100 now, so what's the deal?
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There is no deal; car stereo CD players that will play CD-Rs and CD-RWs with <a href="http://www.mp3shopping.com/english/CDC-MP3.htm">mp3s</a> on them can be bought for around $150. Check places like Best Buy, or even Target. Reputable brand names as well, if that is a must. The increased cost of in-dash stereos vs. MP3 discmen is that the engineering effort and care going into the former is somewhat higher, as more sophisticated sound systems tend to be attached to them. The latter are - if you opt for a cheap solution - uniformly flimsy and badly-engineered. If you have to produce sound that will be put through speakers, with amps, etc. and construction that can't fall apart after being shaken and vibrated a lot for years and years inside a car, you need to be careful.
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OTOH I must have had about 7 different solutions for CDs in the car and they all fail the most important factor: they all skipped. Portable CD players have skip protection and car players don't. [/b]
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This is unusual. In-dash car CD players that are factory built-in are usually rock solid; I can only speak from experience in regard to those in Hondas and BMWs (from 1997 onward), but none of those that I've seen have shown any sign of skipping whatsoever. YM obviously V.
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