FYI: MP3 prehravac do auta

Ladislav Dobias L.Dobias na sh.cvut.cz
Čtvrtek Březen 4 11:03:35 CET 1999


Ahoj.

Pokud nectete /. (slashdot.com :), tak vam reknu o HW
novince, delane v Anglii.

Je to prehravac MP3 do auta, postaveny na linuxu
(tedy podobny tomu, co chteji delat lidi okolo P. Mosnicky
ktery psal o svem Linux Car Audio System 3.12.1998).
Je s HD az 26GB (max 56), procesorem StrongARM (o kterych
psal K. Volejnik 15.11.1998) na 220 MHz.

Vice info na http://www.empeg.com/

Radsi vam poslu, co pisou na Wired:
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   Linux On Board
   by Leander Kahney 
   3:00 a.m.  3.Mar.99.PST
   SAN JOSE, California -- At the back of someone else's crowded booth at
   LinuxWorld, a British company quietly demonstrates a device that could
   make a lot of noise: the first commercial MP3 car-stereo-cum-computer.
   
   Empeg of Near Wells, England, is showing the Empeg car stereo, capable
   of storing up to 480 hours of music in MP3 format, or about 7,000
   singles.
   
   Unlike the Diamond's controversial Rio player, the Empeg car stereo
   can also surf the Web, send email, and store dates and addresses.
   Naturally, it runs on Linux.
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   "It's really a general purpose computer," said Empeg's technical
   director Hugo Fiennes. "But we're using it to play music, and that's
   what it's being sold as."
   
   Shipping at the end of March, the Empeg stereo is based on a 220MHz
   RISC processor with 8MB of RAM and up to 28GB of hard-disk space.
   
   A basic model with 2GB of hard-drive space -- capable of storing about
   35 hours of music, or 500 singles -- costs US$1,049; a 6GB version is
   $1,399. The Empeg stereo is the same size as a regular car stereo and
   comes with a docking station, so it can be easily removed from the
   vehicle. It has a tiny remote control and an oscilloscope-like screen
   on the front.
   
   It also has a built-in FM tuner, four-channel audio output, and
   features USB and serial ports for downloading songs and software from
   a PC. In addition to Linux, the stereo is compatible with systems
   running Windows. Fiennes said the company plans to add support for the
   Mac.
   
   The stereo's ability to support the Global Positioning Satellite
   system allows it to give directions, and even be programmed to play
   songs appropriate to the car's location -- like the Beach Boys at the
   beach or "Route 66" when cruising the famous highway.
   
   The stereo also has an infrared port on the front for interacting with
   devices like digital cameras or camcorders.
   
   "You can upload and store your pictures on the stereo from a digital
   camera," Fiennes said. "There are loads and loads of things you could
   do with it. It's not just an MP3 jukebox. It's a tiny Linux box."
   
   The Empeg player is being shown at the back of the Debian booth and
   runs the company's distribution of Linux.
   
   The operating system occupies less than 1MB of memory, allowing the
   system to load about three minutes of music into RAM and spin down the
   hard drive to save power and heat. Besides MP3, the stereo plays a
   variety of audio formats and will support future secure formats,
   Fiennes said.
   
   "We're concentrating on getting the music really good, really solid,
   but it's a computer. It's quite open [as to] what it can do," Fiennes
   said.

   Copyright (c) 1994-99 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.

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Zdravi
Lada Dobias

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