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New iPod Peripherals?

iPod in the Car

I'm a bit confused as to why so many people can't use their iPod in their car.

I guess I had it too easy with my VW--it was prewired for a CD Changer. I picked up an auxiliary input converter and a 10 ft. cable and now I have near CD quality from my iPod directly into my factory car stereo. Haven't used the in-dash CD player since.

Even if you have to pay for installation this solution beats cassette adapters and FM modulators hands down. Definetly worth the extra cash.

http://www.logjamelectronics.com/auxinpconv.html

ps--I am not associated with these guys in any way, just a happy customer.
 
I hope it's gonna be like a apple FM transmitter, you can plug this thing into the iPod (as an extension). On the ipod you can choose the fm wave you'll be transmitting on (like for example 89fm) When you tune any radio in the house or at aprox. 25 metres around your ipod, to this prechosen frequency, you get to hear the stuff your ipod is playing. Plus some additions to this extension, like a mic. Simmilar to griffin techs itrip but with extras.
 
Transpod

Originally posted by bertagert
Ummm...How do you figure? I put all the songs from all my cd's onto the ipod. I haven't use a cd player, car or home, in 6 months.
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I agree...I've tried a few of the iPod fm peripherals, and while none are great I still recommend Transpod as it charges too and has no cable clutter. You get some weird howling noises between songs and during some quieter passages, but I tend to listen to harder stuff in a convertible, so my mileage on this has been rather good.

Still, as an owner of the original 10gb, I'm a little worried Apple is going to come up with something so cool I'm forced to buy another iPod (which I cannot easily afford at the moment). I've spent some time with a 3rd gen and aside from the capacity, I like the feel of my throwback iPod much better.

$.02
-Mike
 
Could one be a phone module? Dare I say the iPhone. The iPaq has modules that allow the PDA to be used as a mobile phone so I would have thought the iPod could. I carry my T610 and iPod around. Would be nice to just carry one device around (iPod!).
 
can anyone say: bluetooth headphones? :D

I think we will see bluetooth headphones :) and hopefully, a wireless remote w/ lcd. this would allow you to not touch your iPod except for charging, syncing, and etc.
 
Originally posted by WM.
(For you non-Washingtonians...never mind. For Phil: my aunt, uncle, and two of my cousins all went to/are going to Wazzu, so unfortunately I at least partially bleed Wazzu red [or Cougar Gold ;) ]. And really, I shouldn't make fun of Price, what with this Neuheisel thing...ugh...)
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All in good fun, anyway.

Besides, between Price and Neuheisel, sure, both of them were fired, but at least one of them had a good time beforehand :)

Originally posted by bertagert
Ummm...How do you figure? I put all the songs from all my cd's onto the ipod. I haven't use a cd player, car or home, in 6 months.
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Most people like to take advantage of their car speakers. (Yes, there's iTrip...)
 
Re: Id like to see something along these lines...

Originally posted by narrowfellow
A little boombox to pop your iPod into.
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Oh yeah I'd buy one in a minute. I have XM radio and would have killed for the boombox combo when I first got it but that was a year ago & it wasn't out yet.

I'd also like to see a car stereo that you can insert an ipod into. I don't use the frequency products like iTrip because of the XM radio & the tape deck can be a pain in the but with wires everywhere.. A radio that freed up an auto outlet and the tape deck wires..whoya..
 
Re: Re: Re: MY IPOD died

This is the third iPod I've owned and I've actually had far more problems/complaints with the new "touch pads" instead of dials.

The buttons and dial are slow and unresponsive..and got forbid your hands be the least bit wet (sweat, or from soda cans, or rain, etc)...then your SOL.

I really don't like the touch buttons...if I could live with 20 GB..I'd use the old iPod over the new 30 GB..

but truth is, I'd actually need a 60+ GB iPod for all my music..at least with the 30 GB one I get half of my music..

So...I live with unresponsive buttons & having to reset it a lot...for the sake of hard drive size & slim design.

Christopher

Originally posted by abevcole
I called APPLE about 2 months ago, regarding slow dials, which is a misnomer, due to the old model, really has no dials, but anyway, unresponsive keys so to speak. I got it to finally work, myself. after several attempts. Last week, noticed that IPOD was locked on one playlist singer, but would not play, just skipped all the music, appearing to play a little, then skip to another song on the playlist, now it does nothing, and gives me the empty folder and now the sad face, which is death knell.
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Originally posted by Phil Of Mac

Most people like to take advantage of their car speakers. (Yes, there's iTrip...)
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Well, I guess there are a few that can't hook up to the car stereo. I personally have a front input on the deck in my one car and rca jacks on the other and figured most people would have the same or atleast try to hardwire in. I see the itrip as a pretty cool device (don't own one cause they're not out yet for the new ipods). I think that will solve a lot of peoples problems. Of course, I've heard conflicting reports on the sound quality.

I guess, if you can't hard wire the ipod to the car, you really have only two options. Get a new deck, or do the itrip or cassette route.
 
Originally posted by Phil Of Mac
Why do you need a wireless remote for a device smaller than the average remote?
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I think he means to have a remote so you can walk around the house or even for the car, so you can change your songs etc. while the ipod is plugged directly into the stereo.

To add to that, I also think he's saying, he wants a remote that gets all the songs and playlists off the ipod so you can change what ever you want just like you would be holding the ipod in your hand. There is a curent wireless remote but it only offers Play, Pause, FF, RR and Volume. Having a remote that you could actually see the songs and choose which ones you wanted to play would be much better. A remote like this would be possible through a bluetooth dock and remote.
 
Originally posted by bertagert
I think he means to have a remote so you can walk around the house or even for the car, so you can change your songs etc. while the ipod is plugged directly into the stereo.

To add to that, I also think he's saying, he wants a remote that gets all the songs and playlists off the ipod so you can change what ever you want just like you would be holding the ipod in your hand. There is a curent wireless remote but it only offers Play, Pause, FF, RR and Volume. Having a remote that you could actually see the songs and choose which ones you wanted to play would be much better. A remote like this would be possible through a bluetooth dock and remote.
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Such a remote would be about as sophisticated as...another iPod!

Which is why I'm a fan of iTrip coupled with using the iPod itself as the remote :)
 
a wireless backlit remote control showing the current song title/artist with the ability to skip to next track, previous, pause, play, and stop would be exactly what i would want.

i dont have an iPod yet and there are three things keeping me from getting one:

1. i don't have a way to hook it up to the car (yet)
2. i'd have to get up every time i wanna change the song on my home stereo when i'm sitting on the couch (or run a rediculously long cord)
3. i can't afford it (yet)

i'm working on numbers 1 and 3, but i can't do anything about 2... hopefully apple will.
 
Two peripherals:

1) Peripheral for iPod: Airport Extreme broadcast of an iTunes 4 shared music folder (ie, contents of iPod are shared, any playlists are shared, etc, just like iTunes on your Mac). Accessible from any Mac on your AE home network. Broadcasts same as iTunes, can handle multiple streams at once, etc. Question: powered or unpowered? I'd guess powered (dock-style).

2) Peripheral for home stereos: Airport Extreme iTunes Music receiver. Compatible with AAC/MP3. Able to pick up tunes from any Mac or iPod on your AE/Home network. Question of interface: web (with perhaps a handy add-in to iTunes 4.1), TV, or built-in?

Buzzwords: Airport Extreme, Rendezvous, Digital Hub, AAC, iTunes Music Store, Music Network.

That's my guesses and I'm sticking to them.
 
soundtrack

Don't know much about hte new standalone Soundtrack program, but how about something like an Apple version of a microphone, combined with software for the iPod and maybe a firmware upgrade that will allow you to capture audio directly onto the iPod, and then when you sync up to your Mac it could open Soundtrack and ask if you want to include the added material to an existing song/track, or open a new song with it. This would be a pretty cool feature, esp. if they added a stripped down included version of Soundtrack for you to demo.....

Just thinking that they might want to promote Soundtrack more heavily since I haven't heard much buzz about it since its release.
 
I would love to see a new dock that hooks up to my stereo ( i know the current one already does). But I'd like to have a remote control feature for it. Also, i think the mic is a definate because its already capable of recording. A software update would be necessary too though. One software fix I would like to see is eliminating the 4K text limit. I dont use text files because of this seemingly unnecessary limitaion.
Gotta go, see you all later
 
Re: soundtrack

Originally posted by Yellowtooth
Just thinking that they might want to promote Soundtrack more heavily since I haven't heard much buzz about it since its release.
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Soundtrack is a professional audio-mixing program. Apple COULD come out with an iVersion of it, however. I don't know why, but there it is.
 
Originally posted by jettredmont
Two peripherals:

1) Peripheral for iPod: Airport Extreme broadcast of an iTunes 4 shared music folder (ie, contents of iPod are shared, any playlists are shared, etc, just like iTunes on your Mac). Accessible from any Mac on your AE home network. Broadcasts same as iTunes, can handle multiple streams at once, etc. Question: powered or unpowered? I'd guess powered (dock-style).

2) Peripheral for home stereos: Airport Extreme iTunes Music receiver. Compatible with AAC/MP3. Able to pick up tunes from any Mac or iPod on your AE/Home network. Question of interface: web (with perhaps a handy add-in to iTunes 4.1), TV, or built-in?

Buzzwords: Airport Extreme, Rendezvous, Digital Hub, AAC, iTunes Music Store, Music Network.

That's my guesses and I'm sticking to them.
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Do ya have to rip off my ideas?!?! Jeez.. ;)

Read thread 2&3
 
Originally posted by dukemeiser
There are about 20 some (26?) pins located on the 3G iPod's dock connector. 6 for firewire, 2 for audio out (at least). So what are the other 18 for? Remote controls might cover another 6. See what I'm getting at? There are a lot of pins that don't have a function yet....until Apple releases something that exploits those functions...
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Ah, yes! A big thank you for reminding me about that. This is very similar to an article MacAddict had in a review about 3G iPods. They must've known something was up.

To add to that, maybe they'll release a FW800 Cable? 6 for regular Firewire, add another 6, and you could get FW800 with my naive thinking ;)
 
Originally posted by loneAzdgari
Do ya have to rip off my ideas?!?! Jeez.. ;)

Read thread 2&3
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Didn't read most of the thread, just skimmed it, and missed your posts. Sorry. Theres only so much fantasizing about DJ IPods and mic-in's that a an can take! :)

But, in contrast to your posts, I put in iTunes streaming connectivity, not just iPod -> speakers. That way your trusty Mac fits into the equation as well ...

:)
 
All this speculation is interesting, but could I place a vote for "lamest thread ever"? It's a rumor about nothing. Apple will introduce an iPod related product, but we don't know what. It's entirely useless.

But I do hope there's something good. Or maybe even a couple of good things.
 
Originally posted by thericky
a wireless backlit remote control showing the current song title/artist with the ability to skip to next track, previous, pause, play, and stop would be exactly what i would want.

i dont have an iPod yet and there are three things keeping me from getting one:

1. i don't have a way to hook it up to the car (yet)
2. i'd have to get up every time i wanna change the song on my home stereo when i'm sitting on the couch (or run a rediculously long cord)
3. i can't afford it (yet)

i'm working on numbers 1 and 3, but i can't do anything about 2... hopefully apple will.
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A good car dock would be great--line out and power in.

a dock with an IR receiver and a tiny remote, and audio out for the stereo. maybe video out for the tv, so you could see what's on.
 
Re: iPod in the Car

Originally posted by sigamy

I guess I had it too easy with my VW--it was prewired for a CD Changer. I picked up an auxiliary input converter and a 10 ft. cable and now I have near CD quality from my iPod directly into my factory car stereo. Haven't used the in-dash CD player since.

Even if you have to pay for installation this solution beats cassette adapters and FM modulators hands down. Definetly worth the extra cash.

http://www.logjamelectronics.com/auxinpconv.html
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I have a similar device for my '98 Golf. I also have a '95 Jetta and have yet to find a device for it. If anyone has any clue where to get one for a '95, please let me know.


Thanks.
 
track transition skip

This is a software issue, but whatever. Id like to see apple fix the little blip you hear between two songs. If im listening to an album where one track plays into another track or something similar, i dont want to know it changed track numbers because i hear a little interruption in the music. Maybe this is impossible to do, but it would be quite nice. :eek:
 
i was just pricing out a 12" pb at apple.com and i threw in a 10 gb ipod for that "buy a bundle" deal when i got to the shipping info screen it said that the ipod was 2-3 weeks. Is that normal? or is something up?
 
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