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#14336 - 11/09/2000 15:04 Re: digital input / cd changer controls/TV output [Re: wvloon]
94cobra
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Registered: 30/09/1999
Posts: 252
That would be nice. I too have an Alpine 1005 in the dash above my Empeg. So I am interested in doing something like that very much.

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#14337 - 11/09/2000 17:46 Re: digital input / cd changer controls/TV output [Re: 94cobra]
alear
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Registered: 05/07/2000
Posts: 301
Loc: Montana, USA, Bozeman
Can you guys at empeg tell me where the serial song info is on the priority list, if at all?

Alex Lear
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#14338 - 12/09/2000 01:49 Re: digital input / cd changer controls/TV output [Re: alear]
altman
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Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
It's on there already for a possible OEM client; it will probably be in 1.1.

Hugo



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#14339 - 12/03/2001 04:54 Re: digital input / cd changer controls [Re: rob]
danthep
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Registered: 29/08/1999
Posts: 209
Loc: new zealand
Oh man, i've just stumbled on to this thread, and what a great idea!

I know that for the majority of existing empeg owners, we think, CD player? Who needs a CD player. But there are situations where it's handy (just bought a new CD, bringing friends along on a long road trip etc), and a CD Changer controlled from the empeg is a much better solution than a second head unit mounted under a seat or the old portable in the glove box.

For prospective customers i think it would be a killer marketing item. Allot of people i explain the empeg too say they can't understand why it doesn't have a CD drive so that you can listen to CDs in addition to pre downloaded tracks.

"Protect your existing investment by purchasing the empeg cd changer module..."


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#14340 - 13/03/2001 22:15 Re: digital input / cd changer controls [Re: danthep]
muzza
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Registered: 21/07/1999
Posts: 1765
Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australi...
I've had the idea that a single, dumb (no controls except eject button), front loading CD player would be usefull in these kind of situations. it would only have to be the thickness of a portable's CD player with just the slot for front loading (black too!)

it just has audio outs and a serial connector.
The empeg sends instructions to it, play, stop, RW etc and it JUST PLAYS.
certainly there is more than this but it would be a simple option

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#14341 - 15/03/2001 04:41 Re: digital input / cd changer controls [Re: muzza]
jane
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Registered: 10/10/2000
Posts: 350
Loc: Copenhagen SW, Denmark
At home, I have got a "slot-in" CD-ROM player with two buttons on the front. One for play/skip and one for stop/eject.
With some small wires and a PIC controller it should be
easy to controll this from the Empeg, and with audio in to the
"normal" empeg aux-in


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#14342 - 16/03/2001 16:05 Re: digital input / cd changer controls [Re: jane]
muzza
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Registered: 21/07/1999
Posts: 1765
Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australi...
sounds perfect. how tall is it?

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#14343 - 17/03/2001 06:35 Re: digital input / cd changer controls [Re: muzza]
jane
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Registered: 10/10/2000
Posts: 350
Loc: Copenhagen SW, Denmark
It is (unifortunatley?) A standard half-height 5 1/4" unit.

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)



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#14344 - 17/03/2001 07:39 Re: digital input / cd changer controls [Re: jane]
bobo
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Registered: 13/08/1999
Posts: 116
what about connecting it to a free IDE port on the empeg, so there is no need for a PIC and you can also rip audio-cds while driving :-)

bobo


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#14345 - 17/03/2001 12:39 Re: digital input / cd changer controls [Re: bobo]
jane
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Registered: 10/10/2000
Posts: 350
Loc: Copenhagen SW, Denmark
I think this would create more problems than would be
worth the gain :-)
- Dockability?
- Ripping CDs in a vibrating environment
- (I seem to remember an external IDE connector was denied by the FCC or similar?)
- Blocking the only spare IDE-"place"
- Where mount the drive?( OK, my car has two DIN-slots, but where would I mount my HAM radio then?) Long IDE-cables? Noise?

My guess for a "doable" install would be a normal CD-walkman "in the glove box" where the buttons are "patched into" through a PIC controller run from the serial port (or maybe the tuner port?)

I have earlier tried to find out the cd-changer protocol, to operate my in-car-mp3-pc (before the empeg era), but
without luck.
It sould be possible to do the other way around, use the empeg to operate the cd-changer, but documentation is needed.

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)



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