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Old 10-14-2006, 01:32 PM
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What are the best music options for you guys that are drivers, besides satellite radio? Do you have a CD Player or MP3 Player, or what? What is the best option in your opinion besides satellite radio?
 
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Old 10-14-2006, 02:44 PM
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Most company trucks have am/fm radios with cassette players. Besides satellite radio, you could get an Ipod and load it up with your favorite songs. Then play it back thru an adapter.
 
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I have Sirius and a CD/MP3 deck.
 
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What is the deal with NEW trucks still having cassette decks? The last Ryder rental tractor I got was a 05 and it had a cassette deck.

Heck most econobox cars come with a CD player now.

I guess we have to wait another decade before we get CD standard. Heck Sterling just added (drumroll please) Cupholders in the last 2-3 years.
 
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Old 10-14-2006, 09:32 PM
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My truck has a cd/mp3 player built in. You can pick up a cheap cd/mp3 player and use an fm-modulator or a tape adapter and use pretty much whatever you want. Heck, take your laptop with a few gigs of mp3s, run it into the adapter.
 
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My truck has a cd/mp3 player built in. You can pick up a cheap cd/mp3 player and use an fm-modulator or a tape adapter and use pretty much whatever you want. Heck, take your laptop with a few gigs of mp3s, run it into the adapter.
That seems more feesible/feesable? then burning cds all day long for your next outing.

Where can I get this adapter?
I have an ibm thinkpad with quite a few mp3's id like to listen to over the stereo in here which is just a cd player.

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http://www.crutchfield.com/S-ptaprZd...300&I=158GT300

Check that one out. It has a front auzillary input so you can easily plug an mp3 player up to it.
 
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Music??

Why, who would need music when I can flow with the drum of that big Series 60 pulling out in front and rock with the rattle of the closet doors in my Columbia.
And if shifting gears doesn't make a sound like a box full of rocks being turned on its side, then you just don't have an Eaton Super 10!
Put that together with the slam of the suspension working over the potholes in South Louisiana and you mave a symphony that only a trucker could love - or tolerate, for that matter!

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So how do these FM modulators work? How do you hook them up to be able to play CDs? I'm a little confused about it, can you help me out?
 
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Old 10-15-2006, 06:26 AM
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You simply plug the fm modulator into the cig lighter, plug the computer or cd player or whatever into the modulator, and tune the fm radio to the station that matches the frequency you set on the modulator. The fm radio then plays it just like any fm station.
 

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