iRiver has announced that they are working on in-dash car MP3 players. I love the idea and remain a huge fan of the Empeg / Rio Car — too bad I had to sell both of mine to raise cash during my unemployed period. Given the declining prices of XScale / ARM components and laptop […]
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One Last Toy
09Jun04Saturday night I made a quick trip to Best Buy to get a 40GB iPod, ’cause being on the road requires a soundtrack… But I think it’s going back after my next Jersey trip.
It’s not that the iPod sucks so much as what came in the box doesn’t live up to the money. After laying […]
This is the same spare unit that I was trying to sell back in December — I had found a buyer for it quickly, but they never came through with the cash and I eventually forgot about it.
This time, I’m giving eBay a shot. Lots of information about the Empeg / Rio Car is available […]
DRM Blues
19Dec02My apologies to everyone who is waiting for the mp3 recordings of the At Large meetings in Amsterdam, but the Sony NetMD Mini-Disc recorder that I used (Model MZ-N707) is broken — by design. This is a spectacularly awful product. It’s a Mini-Disc player/recorder that accepts microphone input and makes digital recordings, but it blocks […]
Selling another Empeg
06Dec02I’m looking to get rid of another Rio Car / Empeg Mk IIa, SN 010101677. It’s a 20GB unit that pulled light home duty playing tunes on poker nights, probably 30 hours of total use. Docking sled was never installed in a car, still have the original box, cables, and remote.
The A/C adapter, manual, […]
