MP3s in the car? Been there … done that …
When I travel, I always take my laptop, and make sure that I have a good collection of MP3s on it. I rip all of my CDs to MP3 for portability, and often connect my laptop to the stereo in my truck. Because of 802.11 wireless technologies, I also realized a while ago that I can sit in my truck and download MP3s from my server in the house!

Last summer we picked up a small travel trailer and I am slowly outfitting it with current gear. I have a Sony multi-CD changer, and we have some surround-sound speakers that we aren’t using in the house. I’m also going to install a small server with full wireless connections – both client and access point. While the trailer is sitting at home, out by our barn, it will be on my home network … so we’ll be able to copy MP3s and other software to and from the trailer.

Rockford is offering a similar capability with their jukebox … which might be easier to use for the average user. I know that I’m not interested … I have my solution.

Download Music to Your Car. Rockford Corp. is offering a jukebox that sits in the trunk of a car and downloads music from a PC: Users could pull their car into their garage and at a predetermined time each night the jukebox would download new music from a PC in the house. The product retails for $600. This is a good idea but I’m not sure what the benefits are over using any portable digital music player in the car. I have an iRiver and recently bought an adaptor so I can listen to music from the iRiver in my car stereo. My method doesn’t do automatic downloads but that seems to me a small benefit to using the jukebox in the trunk…. [Wi-Fi Networking News]