Question about aux/mini inputs for the B&O in 2020?

[Oldfart]

Things were much simpler when all I needed was a big suitcase to carry my 8-tracks with me!!

 

[goblues38]

Things were much simpler when all I needed was a big suitcase to carry my 8-tracks with me!!

Don't forget the rolled up book of matches to jam under the 8-track to fix the worn out tracking heads.

The younger kids don't even know what 8-track was.

8 bands or tracks on a continuous real inside a cartridge. there were 4 "programs" with left and right stereo. 4 programs x 2 (left and right) = 8 tracks. Each program had 3-5 songs. So it was easier then cassettes to fins a specific song. press the program button and the tape head jumped to the next program.

man...the 70's were awesome.

https://www.8trackheaven.com/archive/work.html

 

[lawdog]

Thank Apple for the lack of a 3.5mm jack. They killed it first, and everyone else followed suit., Google and most manufacturers followed, and Samsung just killed it on the S20/Note 10....so it's 100% dead. The reason they killed it was to sell you AirPods, which made them billions: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2020/01/09/apple-airpods-more-money-spotify/

Oh, I understand the control exerted by our Cupertino overlords, and I hate it when it actually makes matters worse.

 

[lawdog]

Don't forget the rolled up book of matches to jam under the 8-track to fix the worn out tracking heads.

The younger kids don't even know what 8-track was.

8 bands or tracks on a continuous real inside a cartridge. there were 4 "programs" with left and right stereo. 4 programs x 2 (left and right) = 8 tracks. Each program had 3-5 songs. So it was easier then cassettes to fins a specific song. press the program button and the tape head jumped to the next program.

man...the 70's were awesome.

https://www.8trackheaven.com/archive/work.html

My sister and I had a '69 Chevelle Malibu convertible in HS during the mi-late 80s, and we would go to yard sales/thrift shops looking for working 8 tracks...was hard even then. Among those we had were Sticky Fingers, Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits, and Buffett's White Sportcoat and a Pink Crustacean.

 

[Cobraman044]

Just to add for the music if you want great quality. Rip CD to FLAC format. basically lostless. The great thing is the truck reads that format. You get great quality but the trade off is they are at least 4x the size of 256k bit mp3s. I put them directly on a 64G USB stick. The average bit rate on the FLACs I have ripped have been a little over 1K and the B&O system has not had a single issue reading them.

 

[sixshooter_45]

My truck just killed a Sandisk 64gb that I used to work around the fact that Sync cannot index my iPod...too large/too many files. Too many files on the USB? Same problem.

AN AUX JACK ALLOWS THE CUSTOMER TO PLAY FROM ANY EXTERNAL AUDIO SOURCE HE OR SHE WANTS AND COSTS $2 FOR A MFG.

Or, do like other mfg do and have the system search by folders as you go, not try to index every damn song at once. It is very frustrating.

I know you can create and store music in folders on a USB stick but am not yet sure how our system would work with that setup.

But I'll find out.

 

[GCATX]

 

[Oldfart]

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I still have a wooden box I built to hold all those giant 8 tracks!

Want to replay that last song? OK, hold on for a few minutes while I fast forward to get back to it. I really miss that crap a lot!

 

[Oldfart]

at one point i had a 256gb usb drive in my truck. but it was too hard to search for files so i broke it up into smaller drives and used a hub. depending on how much music you have, you may not need a hub. i use wav format for all my music because i have such an extensive audio system i need the best sound quality. however if you used mp3, you can store about 10x the music on one drive.

I was wondering if you knew what file types or quality the music is when you download it from Amazon when you buy the record? I don't see any options for file quality or file type? I saw Google says, it's" MP3 format with a 256 kbit/s variable bit-rate". I'm wondering if that's a good quality compared to ripping a cd? Thanks for helping me learn this stuff.

 

[lawdog]

I was wondering if you knew what file types or quality the music is when you download it from Amazon when you buy the record? I don't see any options for file quality or file type? I saw Google says, it's" MP3 format with a 256 kbit/s variable bit-rate". I'm wondering if that's a good quality compared to ripping a cd? Thanks for helping me learn this stuff.

256kbps is decent. I try to rip at at least that or 320kbps from iTunes. 128 is about the minimum, but some playback software can even make those sound decent. FLAC files will be lossless/uncompressed, so better but also much bigger files.