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#104715 - 12/07/2002 05:48 Cool Homebrew mp3 player
SE_Sport_Driver
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Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
Check this out! Full resolution touch screen in-car player. Not very cost effective, but you have to admire the work that went into this... Sorry if this old news.. I just found it.

http://arbytech.com/carmp3.php
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#104716 - 31/07/2002 08:38 Re: Cool Homebrew mp3 player [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
mrfixit
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Registered: 14/06/2002
Posts: 337
Now thats took some thinking! I wonder how long it takes to boot up seeing its got win9x.
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#104717 - 03/08/2002 15:59 Re: Cool Homebrew mp3 player [Re: mrfixit]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3995
Loc: Manchester UK
Probably long enough to switch it on, drive to the supermarket, do your weekly shop and drive home before you get to the desktop
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#104718 - 05/12/2002 10:20 Re: Cool Homebrew mp3 player [Re: andym]
csf
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Registered: 08/04/2002
Posts: 105
Loc: Charlotte, NC
Actually you can get a win 98se install to boot in around 10 seconds, with MINIMAL drivers. Suspend to disk and reboot from disc might also be required (I've got a friend who wanted an empeg but for similar prices he is working toward a "carputer").

Keep in mind that the empeg takes around 15 seconds...


Edited by csf (05/12/2002 10:21)
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#104719 - 05/12/2002 14:27 Re: Cool Homebrew mp3 player [Re: csf]
acurasquirrel_
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Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 241
I dunno about you my empeg never takes more than 7 secs to boot.
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#104720 - 05/12/2002 16:47 Re: Cool Homebrew mp3 player [Re: acurasquirrel_]
tanstaafl.
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Registered: 08/07/1999
Posts: 5539
Loc: Ajijic, Mexico
I dunno about you my empeg never takes more than 7 secs to boot.

I would be very interested in hearing details about your 7 second empeg!

When I first got my empeg, back in the 1.0 software (and earlier than that!) days, it would boot in 8 seconds. As I got more and more music, and later and later software, boot times got longer and longer, until now it takes 15 seconds to boot.

Mine is a single drive (18 GB) player with no third party software: 2.0b13 is the only thing on it, plus 1623 songs/audiobooks/etc with a total play time of 378 hours. (170 hours of audio books, most of them recorded at ridiculously low bitrates)

What boot times to other people get, and if less than the (apparently) normal 15 seconds, how did you achieve it?

tanstaafl.
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#104721 - 05/12/2002 17:01 Re: Cool Homebrew mp3 player [Re: tanstaafl.]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
I thought you knew this, Doug:

The first thing that would improve your boot times is a second disk drive. The reason it takes so long is that it's searching for second disk drive and giving it a chance to spin up. If you actually got a second disk drive, the player would simply find it and quit waiting.
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#104722 - 05/12/2002 17:03 Re: Cool Homebrew mp3 player [Re: tfabris]
genixia
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Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
...and if you installed hijack then you'd have the option to disable the 2nd drive search
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#104723 - 05/12/2002 17:27 Re: Cool Homebrew mp3 player [Re: tanstaafl.]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
8 seconds on a 1.03 30gig single drive MKIIa. 1.03!!!!
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#104724 - 05/12/2002 23:13 Re: Cool Homebrew mp3 player [Re: FireFox31]
Waterman981
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Registered: 14/02/2002
Posts: 804
Loc: Salt Lake City, UT
You really need to come out of your 1.03 cave. See the 2.0B13 light!!! Join the hijack movement!!!
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#104725 - 06/12/2002 15:44 Re: Cool Homebrew mp3 player [Re: tanstaafl.]
schofiel
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Registered: 25/06/1999
Posts: 2993
Loc: Wareham, Dorset, UK
If you have only one drive, you could install HiJack and select the single drive select option which reduces the timeout on 2nd drive detection and allows for a faster boot.
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