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Article: Car Audio Systems Toying With MP3
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- March 7, 2001
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JIM SUHR, AP Auto Writer
AP Online
03-07-2001
Car Audio Systems Toying With MP3
DETROIT (AP) -- Call it Napster meets Henry Ford.
The race is on to market in-car audio systems that will end the behind-the-wheel fumbling for cassette tapes or CDs audio systems by storing and playing files in the MP3 format.
Among pioneering systems now being offered is a $1,999 in-dash player capable of storing as much as 1,000 hours of music -- enough to drive round-trip from Los Angeles to New York City more than 10 times without listening to the same song twice.
``MP3 as a format is not going to go away,'' said analyst Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies Inc., a California-based research firm. ...