card readers?

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Does anybody know if there are any head units that read digital audio
straight off a flashdisk i.e. sd or cf? it seems like a logical next
step for mobile audio WAY more compact and skip free ,more durable
and less damage prone than cd's. Any comments?

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Ritz wrote:

> terry g wrote:
>> Does anybody know if there are any head units that read digital audio
>> straight off a flashdisk i.e. sd or cf? it seems like a logical next
>> step for mobile audio WAY more compact and skip free ,more durable
>> and less damage prone than cd's. Any comments?
>>
>
> If I'm not mistaken, the new Audi nav+ systems have an SD slot and you
> can pop in a card populated with mp3's and listen to 'em.
>
> Frankly, I haven't given it a second thought since I installed a phatbox
> in my car. The Audi head unit thinks it's a CD changer and I've got
> about 20gigs of music (320kbit VBR) on the disc cartridge. Eventually,
> I'm going to upgrade that disk to a 160gig drive which should hold a few
> thousand CDs at that bitrate. It's certainly not audiophile fidelity,
> but no worse than the usual cheesy CD head unit and it's in a noisy car.
> Highly recommended for folks with large CD collections that want to
> bring them on the road.
>
> Cheers,
I used a portable mp3 player through the input jack on my head unit , mp3
are o k for mobile systems, heck it's a 15 year old van not an ideal
environment for sound. I found a jvc unit that has a sd reader built in.
expensive but sweet, it even loads jpgs for the dash display.. cool!!