Re: cd player in car

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers, aus.cars
Subject	Re: cd player in car
Date	2016-01-03 20:05 +1100
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Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> wrote 
> Lindsay wrote
 
>> I'm gunna go out on a limb here, and suggest that most standard car
>> stereos will only play shop bought Cd's and CD-R. Not CD -RW or CD +RW
 
> That's been my experience too. I've struggled to 
> get rewritable discs to work in almost anything.

They work fine in decent PC DVD drives. 
 
>> Another possibility the original poster may be facing is that he's
>> engineered the disk as a multi-session disk, which can be played 
>> in a pc and files added to it later, wheras he should master the 
>> disk as a *audio* disc, which can be played in anything, inc PC's.
 
> Yep.
 
>> Whilst I'm at it,...

>> Noddy, you asked for a heads up of my cheap radio/stereo/gps, after 6
>> months: here it is :-D

>> The cheaparse double-din $210 (now$245) jobbie from Honkers is doing
>> what it's supposed to do. It plays DVD's full of music, dvd films, has
>> internal ram for the equivalent of a six stacker, plus usb input and
>> micro-SD input. Oh, and the GPS works a treat once I updated the maps.

>> Has a couple of issues... big bumps in the road/track can make the dvd
>> stop or start? :-D it does not remember volume settings, so everytime
>> you start the car, and someone rings, the first thing you do is wind the
>> volume up for the phone, coz you cant hear the caller saying hello :-)
>> Several other minor issues, but for $210, i'd certainly buy another.
>> oh, glare on the screen is it's biggest problem too. A little black sun
>> shade should be included, but takes 2 minutes to fabricate out of a bit
>> of cardboard.

>> I'd give it an 8.5 outa 10

>> E&OE. :-D

> Cool, thanks.

> I'm looking to buy a combo reverse camera/GPS and would rather an in 
> dash unit than one of the portable jobs. I might have to give one of 
> these a try.
 
> Do you know if they still run an embedded Chinese version of Windows CE? 
> That's what's wrong with my old one. It still powers up and tries to 
> boot, but it generates an error message in Chinese and I can't work out 
> what the fuck it's saying :)

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cd player in car "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2016-01-02 15:00 +0800
  Re: cd player in car Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-02 18:34 +1100
  Re: cd player in car felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-01-02 18:57 +1100
  Re: cd player in car Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2016-01-02 16:27 +0800
    Re: cd player in car Lindsay <ask.me.for.it@hornet.net.ay.you> - 2016-01-02 20:10 +1100
      Re: cd player in car felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-01-02 22:35 +1100
        Re: cd player in car Lindsay <ask.me.for.it@hornet.net.ay.you> - 2016-01-02 22:50 +1100
          Re: cd player in car felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-01-02 23:15 +1100
            Re: cd player in car Lindsay <ask.me.for.it@hornet.net.ay.you> - 2016-01-02 23:29 +1100
              Re: cd player in car Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-03 06:38 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Lindsay <ask.me.for.it@hornet.net.ay.you> - 2016-01-03 17:41 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-03 17:49 +1100
              Re: cd player in car "Jacko" <Jacko_ONE@bigpond.com> - 2016-01-03 16:46 +1000
          Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-02 23:58 +1100
        Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-02 23:57 +1100
        Re: cd player in car Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-03 06:36 +1100
          Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 09:24 +1100
            Re: cd player in car Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-03 09:58 +1100
              Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 10:22 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-03 11:31 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 13:50 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-03 17:48 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 22:08 +1100
              Re: cd player in car "Blue Heeler" <woof@bark.org> - 2016-01-03 00:23 +0000
              Re: cd player in car felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-01-03 11:59 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-03 12:12 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 13:53 +1100
                Re: cd player in car "Blue Heeler" <woof@bark.org> - 2016-01-03 02:53 +0000
                Re: cd player in car Lindsay <ask.me.for.it@hornet.net.ay.you> - 2016-01-03 17:50 +1100
          Re: cd player in car felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-01-03 10:34 +1100
            Re: cd player in car Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-03 11:24 +1100
              Re: cd player in car felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-01-03 12:51 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Jeßus <j@invalid.lan> - 2016-01-03 13:18 +1100
                Re: cd player in car "Blue Heeler" <woof@bark.org> - 2016-01-03 02:51 +0000
                Re: cd player in car felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-01-03 14:02 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 14:05 +1100
                Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 13:57 +1100
              Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 13:56 +1100
            Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 13:54 +1100
        Re: cd player in car "Blue Heeler" <woof@bark.org> - 2016-01-03 00:21 +0000
      Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-02 23:55 +1100
        Re: cd player in car jonz <johnhhhinton7@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 00:53 -0800
        Re: cd player in car "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 20:05 +1100
        Re: cd player in car Lindsay <ask.me.for.it@hornet.net.ay.you> - 2016-01-03 20:37 +1100
          Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 22:12 +1100
  Re: cd player in car "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 06:33 +1100
  Re: cd player in car Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-01-02 20:34 +0000
    Re: cd player in car felix <me@nothere.biz> - 2016-01-03 12:09 +1100
      Re: cd player in car Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2016-01-03 12:36 +1100
      Re: cd player in car Noddy <me@wardengineering.com> - 2016-01-03 13:48 +1100
      Re: cd player in car "Blue Heeler" <woof@bark.org> - 2016-01-03 02:55 +0000

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