--- title: "Podcasts in my car via CDR sneakernet" date: 2005-10-31T15:14:21-05:00 url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/10/31/podcasts-in-my-car-via-cdr-sneakernet/ author: Les Orchard tags: [asides, podcasts, radio, car, auto, focus, ford, audio] --- # Podcasts in my car via CDR sneakernet Since the [recent demise of my iPod][ded], I've returned to poking around at pre-iPod strategies for listening to podcasts in my car. Hopefully, the little thing will be returned good-as-new from AppleCare-land within the next few days. But until then, I'm left with what I can do using the Blaupunkt MP3 CD player in my 2004 Ford Focus. The closest I've come to anything usable is burning MP3 CD's from iTunes playlists, in combination with [some applescript][script] to make [paper CD cases][pcdc] that list all the podcasts on the disc. Not *too* shabby, other than the fact that this approach would eventually leave me with a large pile of paper-encased CDR's to either archive or toss. But, even considering archival, it's a bit wasteful since I never really have 650MB worth of new podcasts accumulated at convenient times—and even if I did, that'd be quite a lot to listen to. I've tried burning multi-session CDs so as to use up all the space before moving onto the next blank. However, that just results in the MP3 CD player recognizing only the first session. I really would like to reuse a handful of CDRW's for a temporary sneakernet. But alas, it seems my Blaupunkt MP3 CD unit won't read from CDRW's—at least, not the ones I have on hand. But, I do have to say that these MP3 CD's sound a hell of a lot better than my old Griffin iTrip FM transmitter sounded. :) [ded]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/25/ipod-go-thud-then-click-click-click [script]: http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts11.php?page=1#playlisttopapercdcase [pcdc]: http://www.papercdcase.com/about.php

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