Lidl Car mp3 radio reads from memory stick £60

gromituk

Hmmm - not sure it's a good idea to encourage drivers to be diving for record buttons when they should be concentrating on the road!

dfarry

sxi-kenny wrote:

being a car enthisiast i wouldnt touch these with a barge pole, you get what you pay for when it comes to ICE (in car enyertainment)

better going to www.caraudiodirect.com, if you want to pick up a good stereo

Or stick with LIDL if you want cheap and cheerful...

I already have a Clarion MP3 headunit on my car and it's fine.... the UDB input on this one is interesting though... I assume if you connected a bus powered external Hard disk (via a USB extender cable) you could have access to thousands of tracks.....no more CD clutter!!

Anyone thinking of doing this though just be wary... the unit may only read FAT16 formatted drives and the FAT16 filing system does have a number of file/storage restrictions... http://www.buildorbuy.org/fatchart.html

Still alot of files but you need to be a bit mindful of how you store them in subfolders and also long file names (more than 8 characters in the filename) will restrict how many files you can store in a single folder further. Also the maximum volume size under FAT is 4GB...many external hard disks are larger than this.... but perhaps the LDIL headunit can read multiple volumes.

Anyone fancy doing some testing then

wobblebottom

Just bought one-- it has got RDS.. looks fine to me..

let you know after xmas when its been fitted..

sxi-kenny

i was just expressing my own opinion on the lidl stereo

and as far advertising websites, i have nothing whatsoever to do with caraudiodirect, i have ordered numerous things from them before and they have always gave me good service

gromituk

Thanks for confirming that, wobblebottom. dfarry: pity the radio doesn't support the ext2 filing system, as used by Linux (and for which free Windows drivers are available) - no need to pay royalties to Microsoft to use that one.

wobblebottom

And theres a bloke on Ebay floggin one for £100 ! evn used lidls picture to advertise..

Im well chuffed..

gromituk

sxi-kenny: your views would carry a lot more weight if you actually explained them, rather than just saying "this product is crap".

panther

Yes it does have RDS. Still playing with mine but noticed it even displays the correct time automatically. I was lucky as they only had about 8 units in my local store and I bagged the last one.

dfarry

gromituk wrote:

Thanks for confirming that, wobblebottom. dfarry: pity the radio doesn't support the ext2 filing system, as used by Linux (and for which free Windows drivers are available) - no need to pay royalties to Microsoft to use that one.

I'm not too familair with ext2 but yes... any royalty free and more flexible filing system would be good for things like this!

mcmurphy

if it's got a usb port could i just plug my ipod in to this and play the music i've stored on there?