yup...


lately.. i have been looking into..
the use of PC peripherals.. in other areas.
(just for funn)

is there any way to modify a CD-rom
to play mpc, aac/mp4 internally
supplie it with a little LCD display
and connect it to a ordinary car-radio...

just wondering...

If you are very good at programming/electronics, you could, for an mp3 player, build a microcontroller/DSP soultion that interfaces the drive using the ATAPI interface, and then drive an LCD from the microcontroller.

For and OGG/MPC soulution, you could develop and ARM CPU soultion to interface the drive and LCD.

Neither of these are feasable for most people, require HUGE amounts of time and quite a lot of money and would not outperform comercial soulutions.

So, yes they could be achived, but it would certainly not be worth doing so!!

Kristian

/EDIT check www.mp3projects.com for what could be involved, there are some pure PC based player that can be integrated into a car though, far easier!!!

yup...


ahh well..

i just wanted to check it out ..
(CD-rom/hardrive variants)

much to time consuming and expensive
for my taste..

have been real fun.. to assambled a car player..
that could play mp3, mpc, aac/mp4 and ogg..

(maybe a hardrive is more fitt.)

Hi n68, if your ultimate goal is simply to have MP3, Ogg, etc, capability
in a car, then check out this forum:

MP3Car

Lots of folks have already done this, lots of good info here.

Enjoy, Dex

Another site http://www.aros.net/~burnin/oggbox/ ,maybe can help you....

Apparently there are still some stocks around for the empeg (now Rio) car mp3 player. There is an active
group developing firmware for it like ogg-vorbis player and I think some non-audio like maybe gps apps.