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Anyone here have the Phatnoise MP3 player yet?

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Old Jan 4, 2002 | 10:55 PM
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Anyone here have the Phatnoise MP3 player yet?
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Old Jan 5, 2002 | 02:56 AM
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Default Re: Anyone here have the Phatnoise MP3 player yet?

What is it and does it work with the factory unit ?
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Old Jan 5, 2002 | 04:07 AM
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Default Web site info here - yes, it's supposed to work with factory head units

<ul><li><a href="http://www.phatnoise.com/">http://www.phatnoise.com/</a</li></ul>
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Old Jan 5, 2002 | 08:05 AM
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Default I was going to but wimped out! Search the Audio Forum- someone did a mini-review.

I was ready to buy one when they went "live" but decided to wait when I found out I might have to give up my A6 for a company car. It looks like a nice product but is fairly expensive at this point. I'm sure there will be a few more options in another 6 months or so and pricing will come down to the $500 range.
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Old Jan 5, 2002 | 10:12 AM
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Yes, 30GB, uses the nav's "speech" to announce artist, album, etc. Works with OEM.
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Old Jan 5, 2002 | 10:14 AM
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Default eh? it interfaces with the Nav's limited language database on the nav CD?

this doesn't sound right.
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Old Jan 5, 2002 | 01:54 PM
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Default It uses a standard called SSA to speak to you... check out their website.

The 'speech' files are actually generated and stored on your 30GB drive. So if you had U2 songs on the hard drive, it would recognize that and store the sound file necessary for your system to speak "U2". It basically uses the Microsoft operating systems text to speed engine.

Anyhow, this seems real cool to me because it's really dangerous to sort through 3000 different songs on a tiny LCD screen whilst flying down the highway.
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sure does sound cool
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