Just another technophobe story

[Derek]

The new car has a usb slot so I thought I'd try to make use of the thing and got meself a memory stick and a couple of hours.
I have a fair bit of my music collection saved on the laptop so I reckoned I could just copy the stuff I wanted and away I'd go.
So I did and into the car with me to find the car doesn't like WAV.

OK, back to the great indoors, had a coffee and another go. I thought I'd just put them in at MP3, but all my music files are WAV or Flac and I didn't have a converter.
So I found one on-line and I had at it, I thought.
I moved all the music I wanted to a "NEW" folder and then batch converted the lot as MP3 to the memory stick (because my new converter said this is the easiest way) forgetting the original WAV files were also there, confusion reigned, not with the computer, with me, I didn't know what I was looking at, I seemed to have three of everything except for the stuff that didn't make it because the stick was full to bursting.
I took the pragmatic way out, deleted the lot. Had a Coffee.

Day 2
Considered selling the car for one with a multi CD changer.
But the WAF kicked-in and dismissed that sordid thought, after all I'd only just bought the thing (the Car not the Wife).

Memory stick in hand I fired up the laptop and settled in for another round.
And what do you know, I still had all the music in my "NEW" file, grand I thought, I'll do the batch convert onto the stick and I'm home, so I did and it didn't. All the stuff I'd put on the stick and deleted was still there. It took me, let's say an embarrassing amount of time to see a little protection switch. I had a coffee.
Got back for another go, switched the switch put the stick into the computer and everything went dead, I'd forgotten to switch the wall socket for the laptop on, the battery had run out. I had a coffee.

So, back to the laptop, little blue light on, memory stick in place, deleted all the files on the stick, did the batch convert to it, bingo, all looked good.
To the Bat-mobile; stick firmly slotted in, car ignition on, media button in dash on, success and it only took two days. I had a deserved Coffee.

[Ivor]

What a 9 year old would have completed in minutes. With no coffee! (just some M&Ms)

Still...

[Derek]

I don't thrust them nine year old's to make coffee...

[jkeny]

Should have got a car with LP playback - I believe they are making a comeback :)

[Derek]

Should have got a car with LP playback - I believe they are making a comeback :)

I wonder are they backward compatible?

[mick]

Only while in reverse!

[Rocker]

Should have got a car with LP playback - I believe they are making a comeback :)

I wonder are they backward compatible?

VHS yes, HMV and Columbia, not sure. Try it and report back