Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <1h8i3fv.1cc57thfmu7fhN%black.hole@jonbradbury.com >,
> black.hole@jonbradbury.com (Jon B) wrote:
>
> > > Oh. Well, my car's CD player doesn't handle MP3 (although the 2006
> > > model of the car does), but it does have a six-disk CD changer, so
> > > I don't need to put a hundred tracks on one disk.
> >
> > I thought that till someone pinched £200 worth of CD changer and £100
> > worth of CDs out the boot.
>
> The changer is part of the dashboard radio-unit of the car, and ceases
> to function if power is removed from it until a code is entered to
> reactivate it. I keep the CDs hidden so no one can see them from
> outside the car. They would have to have another reason to break into
> the car and then find the CDs.

Doesn't stop them if they think there is something worth a fivers worth
of drugs in there, any most code radios people have a way round one way
or another.
--
Jon B
real email to usenet at jonbradbury dot com

In article <1h8i4uq.el1w04xl5cnzN%black.hole@jonbradbury.com> ,
black.hole@jonbradbury.com (Jon B) wrote:

> Doesn't stop them if they think there is something worth a fivers
> worth of drugs in there, any most code radios people have a way round
> one way or another.

Yeah, but they'll go for cars without alarms where they can see stuff
worth stealing rather than an alarmed car that they have to pry a radio
unit out of the dash.

--
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Jon B <black.hole@jonbradbury.com> wrote:

> Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>
> > In article <1h8hlo7.1c89pyypkm9btN%usenet@alienrat.co.uk>,
> > usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote:
> >
> > > You are just making a CD though with up to 20 (short) tracks - I am
> > > talking about an mp3 cd with 100 or so.
> >
> > Oh. Well, my car's CD player doesn't handle MP3 (although the 2006
> > model of the car does), but it does have a six-disk CD changer, so I
> > don't need to put a hundred tracks on one disk.
>
> I thought that till someone pinched £200 worth of CD changer and £100
> worth of CDs out the boot. Course this was 3-4 yrs ago so at the time I
> still hadn't got into the habit of loading all my music onto the
> computer and burning copy discs, or mp3 discs. I have now and the only
> time an original CD is in the car is in its box on the way back from the
> shop.

I stopped using the original CDs when I noticed how much it knackered
CDs being in an autochanger. After that I just used copies. Then I
knackered the car, and when I got its replacement I couldn't be bothered
putting the autochanger in, so I got an mp3 CD player, which is a lot
better than the autochanger ever was (and pretty cheap).



--
Woody
Alienrat Design Ltd

In article <11rgdek53sf2jb7@corp.supernews.com>,
"G.T." <getnews1@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> > You're confusing "proprietary format" with "copy protection." Fact
> > is that the music publishers wouldn't let Apple publish their music
> > if it had not been copy protected.
>
> No, I'm not. If their "copy protection" wasn't a "proprietary
> format" other digital media devices would be able to play them.

Considering that Apple licensed the copy protection, and does not own
it, there's nothing from preventing other MP3 player makers from
licensing it too, is there?

--
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Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <1h8i4uq.el1w04xl5cnzN%black.hole@jonbradbury.com> ,
> black.hole@jonbradbury.com (Jon B) wrote:
>
> > Doesn't stop them if they think there is something worth a fivers
> > worth of drugs in there, any most code radios people have a way round
> > one way or another.
>
> Yeah, but they'll go for cars without alarms where they can see stuff
> worth stealing rather than an alarmed car that they have to pry a radio
> unit out of the dash.

Mines got an alarm, but smash n grabs, case the car, know the job (I
suspect a garage worker, it doesn't go there no more) by the time the
alarms triggered, come to senses run down stairs, your window, stereo,
theives etc are all gone.
--
Jon B
real email to usenet at jonbradbury dot com

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 14:34:41 -0600, Michelle Steiner wrote
(in article <michelle-A28F70.13344101012006@news.west.cox.net>):

> Yeah, but they'll go for cars without alarms where they can see stuff
> worth stealing rather than an alarmed car that they have to pry a radio
> unit out of the dash.

Speaking of cars alarms.......


Blap....Blap....Blap....Blap....Blap............

I hate to think of the times I've heard an alarm blasting away and nobody
paying the slightest bit of attention. That's happened in shopping center
parking lots, cars parked on the street, and even cars in the parking spots
in the condo where I live.

My favorite alarm incident was when I was staying in a Red Roof Inn in
Secaucus, New Jersey. I had a first floor room and a pickup truck with a
voice alarm was parked outside my door. Whenever anyone walked within about
ten feet of the pickup a loud voice would start blathering, "YOU ARE IN MY
SPACE! MOVE AWAY! YOU ARE IN MY SAPCE!" On an on it would go. All of a
sudden I heard a big bang and when I looked out I saw that someone had heaved
a huge trash can from one of the balconies.

Blap....Blap....Blap....Blap....Blap...........

--
James L. Ryan -- TaliesinSoft

Andrew <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote:

> >> Ahh, CD's, how quaint.
> >
> >Bloody practical, though.
>
> Yes, I would really prefer to lug a CD player and boxes containing a
> thousand CD's rather than carry my 60GB iPod around, the thing is just
> too light and small to possibly be practical.

This exchange is about music *in a car*.

You may need to lug your thousands of of CDs with you everywhere. I damn
well don't.
--
Peter

Michelle Steiner wrote:
> In article <11rgdek53sf2jb7@corp.supernews.com>,
> "G.T." <getnews1@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>You're confusing "proprietary format" with "copy protection." Fact
>>>is that the music publishers wouldn't let Apple publish their music
>>>if it had not been copy protected.
>>
>>No, I'm not. If their "copy protection" wasn't a "proprietary
>>format" other digital media devices would be able to play them.
>
>
> Considering that Apple licensed the copy protection, and does not own
> it, there's nothing from preventing other MP3 player makers from
> licensing it too, is there?
>

Bzzt, wrong: "Apple has yet to allow their proprietary FairPlay
encrytion scheme to be licensed to other hardware manufacturers".

Greg

--
"All my time I spent in heaven
Revelries of dance and wine
Waking to the sound of laughter
Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:31:20 +0000, peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter
Ceresole) wrote:

>This exchange is about music *in a car*.

Which is no different to me to walking down the street or sitting on
my sofa.

>You may need to lug your thousands of of CDs with you everywhere. I damn
>well don't.

Maybe you missed the thinly veiled sarcasm in my post.
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G.T. <getnews1@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> Luke Bosman wrote:
> > G.T. <getnews1@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>eMusic! eMusic! eMusic! Cool music, no DRM. 25 cents or less a
> >>track. Play anywhere, anytime.
> >
> >
> > No offence: but change the chaffing record.
> >
> > Can you play the tracks in a vacuum? No. So you're wrong.
> >
> > Now hop it.
> >
> > And there's only three albums worth downloading on the entire site.
> >
>
> Sorry that you're such a boring mainstream FOB.

Strange - you liked his taste in the other message.

--
Woody
Alienrat Design Ltd