Christmas is approaching and I want to buy myself a pressie.

I've heard of a cd player that you can load cd's into that then record the playlist etc like a computer hard disk which you can then play back whenever you see fit without the cd.

What are these things called (sorry totally ignorant with this stuff), how much, are they worth it?

 

Is that a very roundabout way of describing an mp3 player?

It comes with software which allows you to "rip" the contents of the CD and converts them into computer-readable mp3 format. So long as you have an mp3 head unit, you can then burn up to 700Mb worth of files (depending on the quality of sound at which you rip, an average 3 minute track will take up 5-6Mb) onto a CD to play through the head unit.

If that's what you mean, you can pick up a halfway decent mp3 H/U for a couple of hundred quid. Be aware that you need a computer to rip and store the mp3 files though.

 

Sort of, the one i got told about you don't need the computer. You can just copy the cd's using the head unit.

 

Do you mean one of these?

Yamaha CD Recorder

There is another one I've seen that only records uncompressed (ie not MP3) but I can't remember the make. I guess it depends on the size of your cd collection as to whether you need to compress them or not.

Neil

 

I think this is what you are looking for, basically you put your cd in and it gets recorded to the internal hard drive, and then you don't need the CD again.

http://www.cel-direct.com/shop1.asp?s_page...ge=radio-cd.asp

You need to go to page 10 and select the Sony MEX-1HD

Pioneer also make something similar, but i'm not sure if Sony or Pioneer make a decent coverter for the dash controls.

IMHO I would by a Alpine 9815-RB MP3 head unit save myself

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by NeilW
Do you mean one of these?

Yamaha CD Recorder

 

[QUOTE]IMHO I would by a Alpine 9815-RB MP3 head unit save myself

 

But as I said above, bear in mind that the Alpine head unit only plays the mp3s - it relies on you having some other means of ripping the music into mp3 format and then burning it onto CD

 

But on the same lines, the one for the house is an Imerge system.
http://www.imerge.co.uk/

These record all onto internal disk and depending on choice, will hook up into inteweb thingy too...

 

I think that the thing you're after is a Pioneer DEH-P900HDD