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.

Can you guys at empeg tell me where the serial song info is on the priority list, if at all?

Alex Lear

It's on there already for a possible OEM client; it will probably be in 1.1.

Hugo

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..."

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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Murray 06000047

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

sounds perfect. how tall is it?

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Murray 06000047

It is (unifortunatley?) A standard half-height 5 1/4" unit.

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

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

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)