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Hey, Franki-boy Krygowski, where are those seasonal workers from Donegal you promised to prove?
On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 18:56:25 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 22:53:33 -0000 (UTC), news18 wrote: Err, but can you get HD radio signals to make it worth while. it seems to me that broadcast audio quality has not improved in decades. I live in the Santa Cruz mountains of Californai and listen mostly to classical music in the car. There are 3 classical stations within range for regular FM broadcasting, and 2 more on HD Radio sub-channels. Because of the mountains causing reflections and presenting obstructions, reception is marginal on regular FM, and dismal on the HD Radio sub-channels. In other words, it's not worth the effort listening to OTA (over the air) music in my area. I wouldn't mind streaming Pandora in the car, but I don't want to pay for the bandwidth, or switch phone vendor to T-Mobile to get free audio streaming as part of the plan: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/unlimited-music-streaming-with-music-freedom For now, I have a 128GB flash drive that is crammed full of digitized music that I plug into my Pixel 1 phone with a USB-OTG cable. While a bit clumsy, the lack of commercial advertising and talking heads makes this scheme quite attractive to me. It used to be that people had CD discs that they could play through their car radio, and it wasn't awkward at all :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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Hey, Franki-boy Krygowski, where are those seasonal workers fromDonegal you promised to prove?
On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 18:56:25 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
For now, I have a 128GB flash drive that is crammed full of digitized music that I plug into my Pixel 1 phone with a USB-OTG cable. While a bit clumsy, the lack of commercial advertising and talking heads makes this scheme quite attractive to me. Basically what we have. One light classical and another 'folk'. The head unit provides two usb sockets in the console, so we select one or the other to randomise play on the rare occasions we want noise whilst we travel. We prefer listening to the natural sounds around. SWMBO'd was not impressed when I quickly vetoed her first choice of new sedan on too much road noise. There only two classical music stations in the whole of the Sydney Metro area and, out side, you had better like both sorts of music 'country and western' because that is all you'll get. |
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Hey, Franki-boy Krygowski, where are those seasonal workers from Donegal you promised to prove?
On Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:14:46 +0700, John B. wrote:
It used to be that people had CD discs that they could play through their car radio, and it wasn't awkward at all :-) Lol, only one CD? Our previous uta, a nissan navara, had a six stacker, that I used only once, to test it out to see if it worked well. Since we prefer quiete as we travel, and CDs left in a vehicle will dish up, it was ever used again. It also took a USB stick for mp3s, etc. Weirdly,neither past or resent vehicle likes bluetooth linking with mobile phones,which suits us fine as we do not like to idea of google/et- all tracking as we travel. |
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