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I dream of a perfect music player for my car.

w00dy

w00dy

In heaven there is no beer
Jun 18, 2004
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that's why we drink it here
Something has been pissing me off with the iPod lately. I can't delete songs directly from it. I get my music the old fashioned way, I download it. I experiment with new music. Sometimes you gamble and sometimes you lose. There are songs on my player that I never want to hear again, but it's such a hassle to take down a list of bad songs and then comb through my library later, when I get around to plugging the damn thing in. I want a simple player, with gobs of storage (preferably something I can swap with a standard hard drive) and I want to be able to delete things straight from it. Is that too much to ask? I don't care how big it is. I'm just going to plug it into my car. I don't jog with it or anything. Does anybody know of such a device?
Rep and kind words will be paid for any information leading to my happy in-car jamming.
 
jimmydean

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,425
13,547
Portland, OR
I love my Sansa player, but you can't delete from it either. But I installed Rock Box and it's awesome.
 
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RaindogT

Monkey
Dec 22, 2005
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Kansas City
Second the Sansa-- my iPod was acting suspiciously, and I picked up a Sansa based on reviews/recommendations and price. Haven't looked back--

As was mentioned, you cannot delete directly from the player, but having used both (iPod and Sansa) I can say that deletion will me much easier with the Sansa (if you's a PC user...). You can treat it like a removable drive, right click and delete...
 
jimmydean

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,425
13,547
Portland, OR
I run Linux and just add/delete files at will. The Rock Box software has a better random algorithm than the default software.
 
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blue

boob hater
Jan 24, 2004
10,160
2
california
My iPhone holds 8 gigs and my library is around 120gb, so I'm always changing everything on it...seems to work well. I used to have a big hard drive iPod (I think 80gb?) and I wasn't a big fan of using it while driving/working out because shuffle was so intensely random...
 
ALEXIS_DH

ALEXIS_DH

Tirelessly Awesome
Jan 30, 2003
6,148
796
Lima, Peru, Peru
i have a pioneer 6xxx head unit hooked to a 32gb usb drive.
havent popped a cd in a while. just take the usb with me to add a few ripped albums every week or so.
 
jimmydean

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,425
13,547
Portland, OR
My JVC deck has a USB port on the front and I ca hook my Sansa to it. I have to use the Sansa to play the tunes, but it also charges through the USB, so it doesn't drain.
 
narlus

narlus

Eastcoast Softcore
Staff member
Nov 7, 2001
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the ipod is good for some things, and poor in some regards too...i think it's ridiculous that you can't even check the track # from the player w/o having to hook it to a machine and run itunes.

to get rid of songs you don't want, what i do is to assign it a 1 star rating, and then filter for those in itunes and delete.
 
Bushwhacker

Bushwhacker

Turbo Monkey
Dec 4, 2003
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Tar Effing River!! NC
I have a 8 gig Sansa and I CAN delete right from the player. While the song is playing, hit the bottom button to get to "Music options" and scroll either up one or all the way down + one to bring 'delete song" in to view.(it's kinda hidden).
 
LeRoy

LeRoy

Monkey
Apr 11, 2002
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Wellington - NZ
narlus said:
the ipod is good for some things, and poor in some regards too...i think it's ridiculous that you can't even check the track # from the player w/o having to hook it to a machine and run itunes.

to get rid of songs you don't want, what i do is to assign it a 1 star rating, and then filter for those in itunes and delete.
Click to expand...
Damn you for beating me to the punch. I use the same tactic for tunes that are improperly labeled. I am very specific about ensuring that my tunes are organized. You can create a smart playlist of all your 1 star rated songs and call it "Fix or Delete".
 
TreeSaw

TreeSaw

Mama Monkey
Oct 30, 2003
17,675
1,861
Dancin' over rocks n' roots!
I just got an iPhone, but I use either a creative (my old one is still kicking and it's only a 1GB) or an RCA Opal (8GB) to plug into my stereo (has the port). I can delete directly from the Opal and do so quite often as I like to sample random music too. Quite user friendly, (PC click and drag through the USB connection) and they're inexpensive (I think mine was around $50 at Christmastime).
 
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