For general information, I have been looking for a CD player that would
have three capabilities.

1) it must play mp3s
2) it must have remote controllability
3) it must have what I have read referred to as 'station scan.' That is
it will scan all radio stations (not just presets) for 5 to ten seconds
at a time and then move to the next station unless told not to do so.

The last is a deal breaker because that is how I listen to the radio and
watch television and it is most difficult to find. However Blaupunkt
sells three models that satisfy these criteria and they are:

Los Angeles
San Jose
MP3000

The Los Angeles is a beautiful receiver but out of my price range. The
San Jose and MP3000 are more reasonable and only differ slightly.

I have seen the San Jose for $239 and that includes the remote and the
MP3000 for $199 without a remote at millionbuy.com.

I am distressed by the bug Aaron Reams has found in the San Jose as that
is the model I had decided upon. I would imagine all three models share
the same bug. Re-encoding all of my cds at 192 Kbps is out of the
question.

Perhaps someone here knows of an in dash radio/cd player that will do
what I am asking.

Pat.

on or about 5/10/02 4:03 PM aaron@INTERVAL.COM wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>Be forewarned... I purchased this model Blaupunkt (San Jose MD41) and there
>is a bug in their MP3 decoder algorithm.  Any songs recorded at a bit-rate
>of 128 Kbps or less will have cracks and chirps in them periodically.
>Unfortunately I have 20+ GB of MP3 recorded at 128 Kbps ( CD-quality ).
>
>Fortunately, I called their tech support and they said that they are aware
>of the problem and do anticipate a firmware upgrade to fix the problem in
>the future.  Who knows when that will be though.  Until then, I'm re-ripping
>my CDs at 192 Kbps... long process.  Oh well. :-(
>
>Aaron
>-85 Westy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brent Christensen [mailto:sbsyncro@HOTMAIL.COM]
>Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:52 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: mp3 players in vanagons
>
>
>There's an easier way...
>
>http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/S-IaLCl5J39yx/ProdView.asp?s=0&c=3&g=6270
>0&I=023MP3000+
>
>Brent
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Karl Ploessl" <ploessl@SUNMAC.SPECT.UPENN.EDU>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 8:42 AM
>Subject: mp3 players in vanagons
>
>
>> the following is in German, but maybe it gives someone an idea. And with
>> 49.00 Euro affordable http://www.microboss.de/mp3/mp3carrock.htm
>>
>> Karl
>> '81 Westy "Jenny"
>> Wilmington, DE
>> http://homepage.mac.com/karlploessl/album.html
>>