Hi Brusque,

Just too let you know, You can build your own player with a PIC! Not simple,
but can be done.

I'm nearing the end of a development process for a client where I've made an
MP3 player using a PIC16F877 (20MHz) a Compact Flash card for storage
(reading FAT16) streaming the MP3 data to a STA013 mpeg decoder IC. I've
written all the code in C, no optimisation and it happily plays 128Kbps MP3s
which are more then good enough for a car sound system and much better then
my clients needs.

A 64MB CF card will hold about a CD's worth at the 128Kbps data rate and you
can get bigger ones and IBM micro-drives that pretend to be CF cards in the
1GB range..

Unfortunately, I'm not able to give much detail because it is a commercial
project for a client, but I thought some on the list may be interested to
know it can be done.. :) Others have probably already done it.. :)

If you have any specific questions about it I'll try to answer them..

Actually If anyone is interested I might be able to adapt this system (if my
client agrees) to a kit so you can build your own car MP3 player.. It is all
surface mount though :) Any takers?

Cheers,
Ash

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Digital Nemesis Pty Ltd
www.digitalnemesis.com
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Edson Brusque
> Sent: Friday, 8 February 2002 9:38 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [EE]: Car MP3 player. (oh no, again!!!)
>
>
> Hello people,
>
>     I'm looking for a new CD-player for my car but I'm
> seriously thinking
> about spending some time doing my own Car-MP3-player.
>
>     My idea is to use one of that little single board
> computers (SBC) with
> one AWE64 sound card, one HD and displaying the informations
> on an 4x40
> 44780 LCD. The keys would simply be switches attached to the
> printer port
> with the LCD.
>
>     Well, I'm looking for some DOS based MP3 players and
> there is many that
> could do the job. Probably there's someone that made a player
> with support
> for LCD and switches on parallel port.
>
>     The biggest problem seens to found a SBC (486DX4-100
> would do) that I
> could buy cheaply and only one unit. Someone here knows where
> can I buy a
> 486 SBC on an ISA card format?
>
>     Thank you very much,
>
>     Brusque
>
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