I just found out I am old fashioned!!

[Gludy]

I have always ignored iPods because they, I thought, were for simply music on the move.

SWMBO asked me if the radio on the new boat had an MP3 input on the radio - it hasn't - so I investigated and found that for £30 I can have an iPod mobile like plug into the cigar lighter tha broadcasts a signal to the radio. Just plug this thing in and you have a media center control for your boat.

I now have a 60gb iPod on the boat which allows for a choice of 15,000 tracks - I just plug it into any cigar lighter socket lower helm fly bridge etc and can choose any music I like from any point on the boat. I paid £300 for this size of iPod. So the total cost was £330 but it can be used in the car or anywhere and you can have about 1100 CD's on the one pod.

Maybe you all already knew all this - I did not, so forgive me mentioning it to those who had kept up with this world more than me. Its seems a very effective way of supplying one hell of a choice of music, at very high quality on the boat.

 

[Alistairr]

Yip, bought the same set up last year, and we use it in the boat, car and house.

But keep quiet about the iTrip(broadcast attachment), I believe they are illegal in this country!

Al.

 

[finnlou]

don't have an Ipod, but one of the main reasons (other than navigation) I installed a PC on the boat was for music, I have nearly all my music collection on HDD now >80Gb, still got a couple of hundred vinyl albums to transfer over yet though.

 

[Gludy]

"But keep quiet about the iTrip(broadcast attachment), I believe they are illegal in this country!"

I do not know a thing!!! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[finnlou]

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But keep quiet about the iTrip(broadcast attachment), I believe they are illegal in this country!


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yes, they are illegal in the UK. http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=10340&Page=1&pagePos=6

 

[twisterkai]

Was going to ask how the music was transferred. Question answered. Why is the iTrip illegal over here? My Brother has got some sort of £30 gizmo from Tescos that does a similar thing (IR link) that does CD/DVD etc etc, and if Tesco sell it surely that's legal?

 

[BrendanS]

because it's a radio transmitter.

 

[BrendanS]

yep, you are old fashioned, and several years behind the times! I first mentioned fm transmitters as a way around on boat sound at least 3 years ago! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The quality still isn't as good as the connectors you can get that plug in the bottom (not the earphone socket)

There is a much better option tho - I know a Fleming 55 that has a proper MP3 server that supplies sound to every cabin in the boat independently - now that's the way to go

 

[Nick_H]

If you want to go one step further you can get a Dension Ice link that plugs into the back of your car radio on the boat, and then links to your ipod. This gives much improved sound quality, and you can control the ipod direct from the car radio, though with limited functionality

If your head unit is Sony, Clarion, Kenwood and probably some others, you can then link a waterproof remote to the flybridge, and you can control the ipod directly from up there as well. I have this set up and its great. The little unit next to the VHF on the left is the remote, and it even has an LCD display with the name of the track on it.

 

[Dave_Snelson]

The difference is that IR (Infra Red) is a line-of-sight light beam transmitter that interferes with no radios. The iTrip is an FM (frequency Modulated) transmitter that can be tuned to the users wanted frequency - almost any frequency, including those of the already reserved spectrum for legitamate radio stations.

I'm sure that the transmitting distance is only short, ie 50M or so, but that could interfere with neighbouring houses / boats / cars etc.

But hey! - Who cares?

 

[tcm]

Not that old fashioned - question

Excellent. the kids have these, so obviously i have dismissed them as idiot toys. They also seem incapable of explaining things about them.

Last time i played with these mP3 things i had to sit poncing around with download things or "riopping" tracks and then transferring to the mp3 thing.

So, my question is - have you axshully got 15000 zillion traxcks on there - or have you got a bit of classic and some other bits and bobs that it come with?

I mean, i'd by an ipod with a squillion tunes in it, but not an ipod with the very dull prospect of me puitting in all the tunes that i already have on cd anyway...

 

[BrendanS]

Re: Not that old fashioned - question

if you've already got the music on your computer, it simply synchronises with it, and downloads the music too it (unless like me your music is all in media player, in which case Ipod is no good, and you need another type of of mp3 player)

If not, you simply buy an ipod with 10's thousands of tracks preloaded for 'backup' purposes from ebay

 

[David2452]

You can also get an adaptor that plugs into the areal socket and the areal plugs in to the back of it, those are legal. Most modern radios have the standard left & right chanel phono inputs and outputs and you can buy a lead to adapt to your MP3 player (or headphine socket from any output device) for £3.99 from Maplin for a much better sound. That cheap lead is also suited to most domestic amps & TV surround sound etc.

David

 

[tcm]

Re: Not that old fashioned - question

ah right, thanks

 

[hlb]

I was trying to buy one of these on the web, but farted about to long. Discontinued on the first site I found, then discontinued on the second. So gave up. There is a caset thingy that goes in the caset player, though only us old fashioned gits have one of these.

 

[Pinnacle]

We bought one from Hong Kong for 1 penny plus postage off ebay. It means you can not only use it in your boat but it can link to your radio in any car, home, office etc.

Great invention! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[wakeup]

Surround sounds party raft!

Err we use one of these Itrips and an Ipod and when we anchor and raft up with two or more mates boats we all tune into the same frequency and hence same party music on all boats

 

[finnlou]

Re: Surround sounds party raft!

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Err we use one of these Itrips and an Ipod and when we anchor and raft up with two or more mates boats we all tune into the same frequency and hence same party music on all boats

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yes, and that is why they are illegal, do you have a licence to be a radio broadcaster?

 

[wakeup]

Re: Surround sounds party raft!

ARSE!!

 

[Hugo_Andreae]

Re: Not that old fashioned - question

For true technophobes I believe there is a service where someone will come round to your house, pick up your entire collection of Cds and download them on to your iPod for around £1 per album. Since my computer is even slower than my bike, I'm beginning to wish I had. Then again I'm not sure how comfortable I would be handing over 250Cds and my iPod to some geeky teenager on the promise that he might give them back at some point in the future.