The new Salamander line is so far ... flawless.

Love the look, love the sound and especially, love the ease of use. I am such a fan of trying out new artists by just giving them a fair listen as I drive around and I can do that in seconds. I hear a song on the radio or on Mtv or whatever and I hit the 'Net and download it onto my juimpdrive and when its time to go I am jamming brand new tunes in the car. I love it!

I am also thrilled with the reliability of the engine that turns mp3s into music. Other units have crashed when they get a large mp3 file or a wma or something it can't digest. The Salamander 5000 has not run into anything it cannot handle.

The sound is a real improvement too. Other units have been only so-so on sound quality compared to a proper mp3 engine like a Zune or iPods but the Salamander sounds terrific! I can hear what the artists was thinking when he recorded the track. I can hear Steve Tylers heart beating occasionally. I can hear the police pounding on the studio door when I listen to 50 cent, I can even hear the sound of Katy Perry running out of song ideas.

It's like I'm there...sigh.

OK If I am going to get one of your awesome MP3 playing in dash car stereos, where do I get hte music?

#1 Obviously the best place to get mp3s is your own CD collection, rip them all to MP3 or WMA and off you go.

#2 iTunes and The Zune pass. iTunes has good points and bad points but it is the largest, most popular and arguably fastest. Zune pass has a financial advantage, Instead of spending a few $ each time you want to listen to a new song, spend $15/month and have unlimited access to all the music in the world. It is not much money and you can load up all your favorites in the first few months, and even after that $15 isn't much to have free music anytime you want it. Try new artists and songs you heard once on the radio without worrying about the cost. Nothing is more frustrating than hearing a song you like then dropping $20 on the album only to find not only does the artists suck, but the radio version you sort of liked isn't even on the album you bought. ARGH!

#3 Illicit downloading. Not that I would ever condone this sort of thing, but some people use torrents or file sharing sites to share music with others. Google the process or go to wikipedia to learn more.

#4 Direct sharing. Ask friends to throw some playlists or files onto a drive and share the old fashion way. It's a good way to expand your horizons and then you can go back and get the music the legal way using your Zune pass.

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MP3 Innovations went away for a while but our supplier got out fo jail and we are back to selling the hottest car stereo innovations around for bargain prices! Check out what we have to offer today. We Still have all the old favorites but the new lineup has some real crowd pleasers as well.

I am really excited to see these Mobile Note takers start flying off the shelves. ten years ago no one had an iPod and 15 years ago no one had a cell phone no we can't imagine life without them. THe Mobile note taker is the next big thing.

In a few short years the idea of a pen that only writes on paper will be as archaic as a pen you have to dip in a jar of ink.

Get yours now and see what I am talking about!

Now if only they would come out with one for Zune! When is someone going to create an adapter that lets Zune owners take advatage of all of these cool iPod accessories? Zune is way cooler but iPod has cornered the market on cheap and innovative accessories!

How hard is it? a simple crossover cable or dock adapter that lets me plug my Zune into an iPod stereo or charging station or whatever!!

Get to work engineers! free us from the enslavement of Apple's ACC reich! Ihk bein ein Apple hater for a reason! Don't get me wrong the iPod is the coolest thing on the planet but if Apple had had Microsoft's success the Internet would be run by Police and file sharing would be something that only happened on the Sci-Fi channel.

Apple has done everything the DOJ has accused Microsoft of in terms of anti-competition practices the only difference is that when Apple did it no one noticed because no one was buying Apple products.

I like the Zune because it has a bigger screen and a better interface but that's only because Apple showed them how it could be done and in true Microsoft fashion they copied and improved the idea.

The iPod is the only player onthe market that doesn't support WMA. Why is that Department of Justice?
iPod doesn't have an FM radio. How hard is that?
iPod makes you choose between a large screen (Touch) and the storage capacity to watch movies on it. Why?

Turn away from the dark side people! Put your iPod on eBay where they are happiest and get a Zune! You will never look back!

$15/month for all the music you want! Are you serious? That's better than free because it is stealing without guilt! Do you know how much music you can download in a month?

ALL OF IT!

I have to run, I am going to watch Rise of the Lycans on my Zune.

http://www.carplayer.com/

The NEO iON is an iPod adapter that is worth the trouble (although I am not convinced it is worth the price) Check out how the Neo iON does what all the other iPod connecters say they will do.

A cool gadget that might finally make it worth while to carry your iPod to your car, but at $159 US it had better come WITH an iPod!

MP3 or Motion Picture experts group layer three, has changed music and entertainment forever. It has made it finally possible for us to choose exactly what we carry around with us and allowed us the user to listen to what we want whenever we want to and wherever we want.

Thank you German guys who created .mp3 Thank you!

But would mp3 matter at all without the devices that so neatly make use of it? Without the now ubiquitous iPod? The ipod was inspired by Star Trek (if the story could get any nerdier I don't know how) Don't get me wrong I love Star Trek but the fact that it inspired new technology cracks me right up.

Mp3s have freed music and other audio media and taken them on the road like no other platform. Walkman, discman, seem like carrying a turntable around now compared to the solid, safe and secure miniature masterpieces of movable music that mp3 players offer.
I am not a fan of the iPod per se, but I do love MP3 players and ipod is the chief of the tribe. I am a Zune man myself, I liked the larger screen and freedom from Appleby's strict control of everything. The Zune allows me to listen to anything at all, while the iPod is the ONLY MP3 player in the world that fails to support wma files.
Zune also has an FM radio and WiFi music sharing.

That said, I love to drag any song I find onto a jump drive and play it in the car ten seconds later in my VRCD500 if you haven't got MP3 in your car, you may as well be driving a horse.

ACC and WMA are arguably better than MP3 but MP3 is a no hassle universally supported format that just makes my life easier. If you have some odd formats and want to standardize your collection, heres how:

Thanks Jasmine France  for this cool tutorial:

Step 1: Download and install Free MP3 WMA Converter. Open the program.

Step 2: Click the File drop down menu and select Add files (or hit Ctrl+F on your keyboard). Navigate to the folder on your hard drive that contains the files you want to convert, such as My Documents > My Music > iTunes > Kate Bush > The Sensual World.

Step 3: Select the files that you want to convert. You can select more than one file at a time by clicking and dragging your mouse cursor, or by holding down Ctrl as you select each file. (You can repeat steps 2 and 3 if you wish to add files from various folders.)

Step 4: By default, the software will save your newly converted files into the same folder as the original files. If you would like to select a new output directory, uncheck the box next to "Save in the file's directory," then click the ellipses button next to the Output path section and navigate to the location where you would like the new files saved.

Step 5: Make sure the output format is set to MP3--that's the default, but it's always good to double check. This free app can also be used to convert to and from other formats as well, such as WMA or FLAC. 

Step 6 (optional): If you would like to adjust the output settings of your file even further, click the ellipses next to the Format parameter section. Here, you can set the bitrate for the file as well as make other adjustments. Click OK once you have the settings to your liking.

Step 7: Click the Convert button in the lower right corner of the window. You can monitor the progress of the conversion in the top and bottom sections of the screen.

Step 8: Free MP3 WMA converter does not preserve most of the metadata from your files, so you will have to manually input the ID3 tag parameters if you want that info attached to the MP3. Click Options > Tag editor (or Ctrl+T); then, navigate to the newly converted MP3s on your hard drive and update the file information by filling in the fields in the right column of the window .

Microsoft upgraded its Zune Pass music subscription service, allowing users to pick 10 songs each month that get permanently added to their music collection.

For the first time since Napster went down music lovers are actually getting a value for their downloading dollars. Zune pass lets you pay a modest fee for actually buying music without any of the Apple strings attached nonsense.

I don't know about you but the idea of buying something I don't really own makes my teeth hurt. WIth ACC you owed it as long as you only used it when and where they tell you and for as long as they tell you.

Go Zune Pass and get your music without strings.

Ex-Google staff launch rival search engine, Cuil
The new site promises better results by scouring a larger index of web pages than Google, but experts are cautious about its prospects

.....searching for results across 120 billion web pages compared with Google's index of 40 billion pages...

....Last month, Google performed 82 per cent of searches in the UK last month, according to Nielsen Online, compared with 5 per cent for Yahoo!, 4 per cent for Microsoft's Windows Live Search, and 3 per cent for Ask.com....

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