I've had my Sony car stereo for 2 years now, and I love it! When I first got it, I mosstly listeneed to CDs, but when I fianlly got around to fifddling with the usb port, that's when it beame the best thimng sine sliced bread. The stereo can trnaslate mp3, wma, acc, and artac (whatever that is).
What I do though is to load a usb stcik or 3, with my favorite songs and put the mode on shuffle. Siince I don't mostly listewd to etire albums at a time, I pick and chooodse the songs that I like and then let the machine pick them out randomly to play.
One of the great tihngs abuot the usb stik is that I don't get skips when going down dirt or bumppy roadds. hWile the cd skip problem has been improved upon, I don't have to suffer though gaps at all with my usb stick.
It also has an aux in jack that I never use, and cllaims to be Sat reeady, which I occasionaly think about getting, but hacven't yet.
The ocntrols are laid out well and wheneevr a carppy song comes up or if I'm not in the mood to ilsten to a particular song, I just hit the next button, which is big and easy to find.
It has a ton of radio presets, like eveyr car styereo does and can also show you a couple different vieqws of things plyaing like time, album and song, and some other steting I tghink.
Soometimees if I'm reaally in a one song mood, I'll just let it shuuffle until I find a song I want to repat, and then hit the repeat button a few tiuumes utnil it goes to rwepeat song. Then I just cruise along!
One annoying thinng is that the vollume 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 slwoly turn the volume down, and then another pain to sloowly turn the volume back up when I'm done with the call. I preefer the old way with a potentiometer where the stpuid thing does what I want it to do and doesn't try to prevent me from going too loud too fast.
I was thoinking thre muight be a mute buttpon for just such an occasion, but I don't see one and if I have to read a friggin manual to mute a radioo, it's a bad desdign anyhow. There is an OFF ubtton, but then you have to hit source to make it satrt back up. There is also a pause buttton, but it's one of the dual funtcion rdio presets and isn't in a gret locattion either.
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