mStation in-car MP3
Similar Units in Halfords for £499 (19/11/01) (Inc fitting)

 In Car / In PC

Features

mStation will change the way you store and listen to music. Imagine having a small jukebox containing your entire music collection, allowing you to listen to any track from every album you have ever owned, instantly - that's mStation!

Compact as a CD auto changer, mStation is easily added to your existing car stereo and stores over 3000 of your all-time favorite songs, allowing you to listen to any one of them instantly. mStation is a hard drive based MP3 changer that can store 10GB of files. That's about 160 Hours!

Working in conjunction with your PC, you can transfer any of your own CDs to mStation in less than 6 minutes using a specially developed version of Real Jukebox Plus - probably the world's favorite jukebox software.

Why are we selling them so cheap?

Traxdata were the UK distributor for this product, Fortunately for you they went in to liquidation (not so fortunate for them) We bought this stock and can offer it a Very advantageous price. The product is badged TraxData on the packaging but is similar to units sold by major Car HiFi vendors at much greater prices.

What is mStation?
mStation consists of a removable hard drive tray and a dock for the PC. When mStation is docked with the PC it appears to your machine as a normal FAT32 hard drive.

What comes with the basic kit?

• The mStation unit itself

• Real Jukebox Special Edition Software
• Cabled Controller for dashboard mounting
• A PC dock, Mounts in PC 5¼" Bay
• A Car dock , For mounting in boot etc.
• An infrared remote control
• FM modulator
• A carrying case
• A 5 language manual
• Two security keys
• All cables and connectors

mStation features:

• mStation can store and play over 3000 tracks.
• It is easy to convert MP3 file songs from an Audio CD to MP3 file format.
• Bit rates upto 320Kb/s
• When mStation is connected to a PC, the PC will see mStation as a regular internal hard drive.
• It is easy to install in your Car like an ordinary CD Changer.
• It is easy to connect to your Car's stereo by using the supplied RF modulator or just connecting it to "line in".

The specification lists as follows:

mStation Technical Specification

• Comes complete with 10 GB 3.5" EIDE/Ultra DMA hard-disk
• Uses car 12V power for car dock power.
• Uses internal computer power cable for PC dock power.
• PC docking interface: 40pin IDE connection.
• Car docking interface: RCA outputs or 3.5mm headphone jack.
• Controls: Up, Down, FF, REW, Play, Pause, Select, Equalizer.

Sound Specification

• Nominal effective output voltage: 1V
• Output impedance: 1kOhm
• Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz
• Signal to Noise ratio: >90dB
• THD+N: 0.1%
• IMD: 0.06%

Dimensions

• mStation: 122mm x 43mm x 215mm
• PC bay: standard 5 1/4" bay ( 144mm x 43mm x 230mm )

Dash Mount LCD Display

• Dimensions: 56mm x 32mm visual area.
• Display: 20 x 4 character dot matrix.
• Equalizer: Rock, Pop, Jazz, User, Normal.
• Song and directory information (filenames or ID3 tags).
• Song length and time played.
• Play mode info (repeat, etc.).