{"id":248,"date":"2005-03-19T05:02:32","date_gmt":"2005-03-19T05:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2005\/03\/2005_03_19_1302.php"},"modified":"2018-01-30T15:28:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T07:28:37","slug":"external-audio-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/19\/external-audio-for-everyone","title":{"rendered":"External audio for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entry\/1234000083036679\/\" title=\"View article\">GM adds line-in jack to their cars<\/a><\/strong> <em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/\" title=\"Visit Engadget\">Engadget<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GM line-in with the iPod\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160322141407if_\/http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/common\/images\/2622842417451596.JPG?0.4053618654237342\" height=\"128\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"16\" width=\"129\"><div class=\"caption bottom\">&#8230;See guys, that wasn\u2019t so hard, was it?<\/div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope the rest of the automobile industry would follow suit so we can finally phase out those tape-adaptors, FM-transmitters, or spending quite a penny on modifying our audio setup just to accomodate external audio devices (iPods, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>A line-in jack is pretty much standard to all audio devices, and now that I&#8217;ve read that bit of news, I&#8217;m wondering why people (including myself) never noticed that glaring flaw in automobile audio. You pay premiums to modify your car setup, or buy a BMW with iPOD support when a simple audio line-in could&#8217;ve solved that problem&#8230; and would not be limited to special audio gadgets such as the iPODs.<\/p>\n<p>As the article said: <em>it&#8217;s about friggin&#8217; time!<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GM adds line-in jack to their cars via Engadget &#8230;See guys, that wasn\u2019t so hard, was it? I hope the rest of the automobile industry would follow suit so we can finally phase out those tape-adaptors, FM-transmitters, or spending quite a penny on modifying our audio setup just to accomodate external audio devices (iPods, etc.). &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/19\/external-audio-for-everyone\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;External audio for everyone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8,13],"tags":[110,169,595,603,803],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-music","category-technology","tag-audio","tag-bmw","tag-internet","tag-ipod","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}