car radioes extinct?

steve remchak · **Posted:** Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:26 pm

buy into the generic bullshit of the HP obsessed and claim the only sound you need in your cabin is the uproarious harmonic rumblings of massive V8 power? well i guess that doesn't bode well for the likes of Sirius / XM Radio.

i got this survey via e-mail today from Sirius and apparently they fear those that tote their own music. personally i love a good noisy exhaust but over the long haul with the family, i like a little Traffic "Spark of the Low-Heeled Boys".

so given the depth and breadth of this group here, i must ask this; what is the attraction to carrying your own prepared tunes? am i old as i want someone other than myself to play me music as i drive the interstates?

i know my musical tastes, and i have many a CD that i could put on a "mix-tape" for my own enjoyment, but i still believe i like to listen to music played by someone else for my own entertainment.

isn't the point of radio to play stuff like they see it? what was that thing before the I-pod? chicks with tape recorders i believe.

now get off of my lawn dammit....

Emmett Willis · **Joined:** Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:30 am **Posts:** 69

Other than npr I hardly listen to the radio at all.

Having ~17,000 songs on an ipod and a good interface through the factory head unit (yes, chevrolet put a USB jack right on the factory stereo) is one of the best things about my cobalt.

Plus you can barely hear the turbo anyway....

steve remchak · **Posted:** Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:28 pm

Emmett Willis wrote:

Other than npr I hardly listen to the radio at all.

Having ~17,000 songs on an ipod and a good interface through the factory head unit (yes, chevrolet put a USB jack right on the factory stereo) is one of the best things about my cobalt.

Plus you can barely hear the turbo anyway....

hey Homey, long time no hear from. i get the 17k tunes but after a certain period of time don't you know what will eventually spool up? i mean it is art of your own making no?

Sean O'Connell · **Posted:** Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:44 pm

having lived with the absence of a radio for four years in my gutted e36 i can tell you that using an ipod as a source of music does not work as well in practice as it does in theory. take a 3 or 4 hour drive to vir or cmp and the battery never seems to make it the entire trip and i could never remember to charge it for the return drive. then the car ride leaves you miserable and deaf. believe it or not i actually spent money to put a descent radio into my M3, its nice to have the choice of raido cd or even plugging in an ipod. one of the best ways to find out about new music is from the radio, something old guys like Steve might not care about because you listen to the same old music over and over and over.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:52 pm

Sean O'Connell wrote:

having lived with the absence of a radio for four years in my gutted e36 i can tell you that using an ipod as a source of music does not work as well in practice as it does in theory. take a 3 or 4 hour drive to vir or cmp and the battery never seems to make it the entire trip and i could never remember to charge it for the return drive. then the car ride leaves you miserable and deaf. believe it or not i actually spent money to put a descent radio into my M3, its nice to have the choice of raido cd or even plugging in an ipod. one of the best ways to find out about new music is from the radio, something old guys like Steve might not care about because you listen to the same old music over and over and over.

because when new music was really "new Music" Sean, i heard it on the radio? Dude, new music is out there somewhere. i'm inclined to believe that you will readily find it on satellite more than you will on anything other than the internet these days........ and some of us just don't have that kind of time anymore.......

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 1:16 am

We have Sirius or XM in all three of our vehicles. I rarely use either of my ipods except for walking courses at autocrosses. - AB

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

Pandora and Google Listen is all I need. All my cars are wired with a bluetooth receiver to aux input to stream from my Epic on the dash to the radio. Get in the car and automatically connect if BT is on, works great.

Cancelled my XM last year. Occasionally I listen to 96.1, 101.1, or 91.5 if I'm too lazy to push the button on my phone.

I do a 12 hour drive with the family every xmas and I would go nuts without Google Listen.

clinehall · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:34 am

i'm about 70 % ipod 30& old timey radio in day to day driving. I like the ipod because i am guaranteed to hear something I know I like. When I'm on a long trip I will do a lot of channel surfing an find it interesting to listen to new music. I will come home reciting new (to me) Country or Rap lyrics.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:23 am

Spelling also seems to be extinct....

Radioes?

I like my XM but I listen to a lot of sports talk and comedy. I also don't have a car that has a killer sounding exhaust note either :cry:

Chris Landi · **Joined:** Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:31 pm **Posts:** 579

pssst, it's "a lot" :wink:

RodneyWright · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:44 am

I dumped my XM years ago after they canned my 2 fav radio stations. My preferences are acid and smooth Jazz and there are few stations in the triangle that play what I like. I've joined e-music and they have some of the best Jazz selections I've ever heard. For $12 bucks a month I can sample and down load new songs to the iPod and and I'm happy as a clam, assumming clams are happy by nature to start with.

I added an iPod controller to the stock mustang radio, put the iPod on random and just let it roll. Only issue I have right now is it's not easy to seclect songs w/ the current setup. May have to go another direction, but driving without an iPod now is like not having your cell phone on you. Gotta have it..

JohnByers · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:52 am

I am a ESPN radio whore. I love Mike and Mike, Colin Cowherd, Scott Van Pelt. And call me a sappy something something but I like listening to Sirius channel 8 and 9 to the best of the eighties and nineties......

We have two Sirius portable recievers to move between the cars and the house with lifetime suscriptions

Emmett Willis · **Joined:** Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:30 am **Posts:** 69

steve remchak wrote:

i mean it is art of your own making no?

Of course not, I don't have the musical talent. As for charging the car charges the ipod.

I had xm when I first got the car. Nice having all the stations but the sound quality is horrible. I could see listening to it in my truck but fortunately or unfortunately my stereo reveals the low sample rate of music from space.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:59 am

Aaron Buckley wrote:

We have Sirius or XM in all three of our vehicles.

Ditto. Something must be wrong with me (there's a news flash right?) because I pay for and listen to XM to keep FROM hearing people talk.

Bernie Baake · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:01 am

I listen to the dulcet reverberation of 400 whp pumped through three inch pipes sans cats and mufflers while on long trips. Noise to some,music to me.

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