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« on: August 01, 2003, 09:16:10 PM »I found this page:
http://www.mictronics.de/?page=cdc_proto
a while back, when I was looking into doing something similar with my Pioneer IP bus head unit. It contains some info on the Blaupunkt, Kenwood, Pioneer, Panasonic and Alpine M-Bus cd changer protocols.
In the end I said to heck with it and decided to continue to use my gamepad and character lcd. Even if there would've been a straight-forward way to get it to work I'd still want to keep the lcd, since the 10-character display on my head unit is nothing to write home about.
For those with Sony head units, the Gnunilink project looks promising:
http://gnunilink.sourceforge.net
Haven't seen any OGG support in the hardware players yet, but there is Flac support in the Phatnoise player.
http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplayers/formats.php
But even then, the price is close to highway robbery and the storage capacity leaves a lot to be desired.
If nothing else, an aux-in adapter for the headunit is definitly worth it. It's nice to be able to use the head unit to control the volume and switch audio sources.
Hope this helps.
http://www.mictronics.de/?page=cdc_proto
a while back, when I was looking into doing something similar with my Pioneer IP bus head unit. It contains some info on the Blaupunkt, Kenwood, Pioneer, Panasonic and Alpine M-Bus cd changer protocols.
In the end I said to heck with it and decided to continue to use my gamepad and character lcd. Even if there would've been a straight-forward way to get it to work I'd still want to keep the lcd, since the 10-character display on my head unit is nothing to write home about.
For those with Sony head units, the Gnunilink project looks promising:
http://gnunilink.sourceforge.net
Haven't seen any OGG support in the hardware players yet, but there is Flac support in the Phatnoise player.
http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplayers/formats.php
But even then, the price is close to highway robbery and the storage capacity leaves a lot to be desired.
If nothing else, an aux-in adapter for the headunit is definitly worth it. It's nice to be able to use the head unit to control the volume and switch audio sources.
Hope this helps.