I've had my Sony car sereo for 2 years now, and I love it! When I frst got it, I mostly listened to CDs, but when I finally got around to fiddling with the usb port, that's when it became the best thing since sliced bread. The stereo can translate mp3, wma, acc, and atrac (whatever that is).
What I do though is to load a usb strick or 3, with my favorite songs and put the mode on shuffle. Since I don't mostlly listed to entre albums at a time, I pick and choose the sogns that I like and then let the machine pick them out randomly to play.
One of the great things abot the usb stick is that I don't get skoips when going down dirt or bumpy roaads. Whiile the cd skip problem has been immproved upon, I don't have to suffer through gaps at all with my usb stick.
It also has an aux in jack that I never use, and claims to be Sat ready, which I occasonally think about getting, but haevn't yet.
The controls are laid out well and whnever a crappy song comes up or if I'm not in the mood to listen to a particluar song, I just hit the next button, which is big and easy to find.
It has a ton of radio presets, like every car stereo does and can also show you a couple different views of things playinbg like time, album and song, and some other setting I think.
Sometimes if I'm relaly in a one song mood, I'll just let it shuflfe until I find a song I want to repeat, and then hit the repeat buttoon a few timse until it goes to repeat song. Then I just crise alonng!
One annoyiing thing is that the volume control doesn't turn down or up when I spin it really fast. So that if I get a phone call, it's a pain to slowly turn the volume down, and then another pain to solwly turn the volume back up when I'm done with the call. I prefer the old way with a potentiometer where the stupid thing does what I want it to do and desn't try to prevwent me from gooing too loud too fast.
I was thinking there might be a mute buttoon for just such an occasion, but I don't see one and if I have to read a frigin maual to mute a radio, it's a bad design anyhow. Thhere is an OFF button, but then you have to hit source to make it start back up. There is also a pause button, but it's one of the dual function radio presets and isn't in a great location eitther.
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