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usb port car stereo+ chipod v2 = greatness

well the chipod v2 worked great in the car on the usb port connection, why do I know this?… I forgot my fricken headphones.

so chipod score=2

ipod score=0..

cheap lil crappy 10 dollar mp3 player/memory stick= -1 because it played once but never again.

Chipod linux compatible from the start no drivers no special software.. all others, need every fricken piece of software you can think of.

Downside is the battery rakes forever to charge… I really do mean forever. it has to be attached usb to pc . I do have a usb charger for wall socket.. that sucker just got hot but did not charge. plus when you connect to the pc, even with the thing turned off you can still browse the folders, that is kinda cool kinda bad. bad because while you have it opened to browse, the battery stops charging.. no joke. I di9d not know this. I left it opened with the pc on (booted to Linux Partition) while I slept. woke up and the dang thing was at 75% charge, right where I last left it. It did charge while hooked up to the car stereo on the way to work as I listened to regular local radio … cool. but I really think chipod v1 had a way longer battery life. if this stays an issue, I might just break out my old v1 and my soldering gun.

chipod v1

Chipod v2 

Chipod puzzle

I do not think I charged it good enough, sucker ran dead after like 4 hours. I may go into setting and check the lighting  and display , maybe I had it set to high to long or some crap. the last one I bought was crap, but cost me $50 and the battery seemed to never die.

If I have to, I will swap the batteries and solder the one in . but chances are the new one has a bigger and better battery just soaks more juice, or some crap.

podcast list 7-30-7

For starts I have to say I am using a “Chipod” which is an ipod clone and only cost me $17 for one gig. shipping and everything, I do alot of modding as this is the third one I have owned because I work pretty hard and tend to really bang these suckers up, so $17 is just right and one gig is plenty storage for 8 hours of work. I am a reader and some times poster at the mp4 forums this is where you get all the tips and tricks to mod your mp3/,p4 player. you will get tools and firmware and some of the dress up icons. I have the batman theme on mine . try and enjoy all.

The podcast list is as I state here.

caffination

diggnation

dl.tv

infected

lab rats

linux action show

SlashDot Review

The tech Guy (2 eps)

TwiT

I will post my choice of the better for this week. Count on me being pretty partial to slash dot.. andrew just fires out the tech news like you wouldn’t know.. sorry cnet you didnt have anything going so I will get to you when you post something.

and the working podcast from jobicle.com….. nothing new lately so .. i do nothing.