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How the Car mp3 Stereo Works
Most of us known the mp3 stereo in its portable version (where you wear headphones) but now units are being made that can be installed in cars. A car mp3 stereo is installed in your vehicles and you can listen to the music through speakers. Some models also allow you to listen through headphones. Some models include FM radio tuners and microphones for recording but mainly all a car mp3 stereo plays musical files that are stored on a pre-recorded CD.
One of the advantages of car mp3 stereo players is that they are DAPS that allow you to directly encode audio into it from other digital formats that have a line digital audio signal. This means that you can download music to your car mp3 stereo the same way you can the portable kind of recreational model of mp3 player.
Don’t be confused by the acronym DAP. All it really stands for is Digital Audio Player which is defined by a device that can organize and play digital music files. It is more commonly referred to as a MP3 player. Most of us know DAPs for their ability to play tunes but more sophisticated computer users have been playing music online for years using Windows Media Audio (WMA.) The files that play inside your car mp3 stereo are similar except instead of playing files from a site online the unit is playing tunes from a disc. At any rate you will have to download the music onto a storage file before you can play it on an mp3 stereo player.
Just like the portable models, the car mp3 stereo also can run on a battery (including rechargeable batteries) or they can run on your car battery. Many of the versions installed in cars simply run on conventional battery power.
Essentially there are three main types of digital audio players and you can find all three in the form of a car mp3 stereo. First of all there are the primitive flash based players that are designed to hold audio files on internal or external media like memory cards. These units do not have a lot of memory and are more commonly found in USB hard drives than inside a car stereo nowadays.
Secondly there are hard drive based car stereo mp3 players that are also known as digital jukeboxes. These devices come with a higher memory that ranges from 1.5 GB to 160GB depending on the brand and the technology. The Apple iPod, Creative Zen and Microsoft Zune are examples of popular digital jukeboxes.
The car devices mainly just play CDS. This includes both audio CDs and home-made data CDs containing MP3 or other digital audio files. The good thing about these car stereo mp3 players is that they are very compact and take up next to no space inside your dashboard once they are installed. Yet another good thing is that as the technology for them becomes more accessible the price of them keeps coming down every year making them more affordable to the general public.
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