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MP3 and car stereo

[Today’s run: Watson Road  3.5 miles]

I’m spending my evening burning audio book MP3 files on to CDs.

Our most modern car is a 2007 and it does not have an interface to an MP3 player like a lot of the most recent cars have.  So here I am burning piles of CDs.

I looked at Wal-Mart for an MP3 to FM Stereo player.  They have them; they had three that I could find, ranging from $30 to $50.  Maybe I should have bought one since I’ve already used about $10 worth of disks.  Those gizmos let you plug the output of your MP3 into a little FM transmitter and you tune your car radio to the right FM frequency to play the audio over your car’s system.

But the price  seemed kind of excessive.  And they were ugly.  They require some source of power for the FM transmitter and that means they are attached to an accessory socket of which we only have one.

Anyway, I’ll be done soon enough and we will have many hours of listening to do.

Our first download from www.librivox.org was “Pride and Prejudice” which we enjoyed.   I am now burning  “The Scarlet Letter” and “The Tale of Two Cities”.

Librivox.org is a place where volunteers can take a chapter or two of some public-domain book and record it on their computer as an MP3 file.  Other volunteers act as project managers for each book.  They coordinate the work and finish it up.

If my car had a stereo which had an MP3 or I-Pod input port I would just put the files on my MP3 player and not burn all of these discs.