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Title: iPod Jukebox
Post by: Freeplay on March 30, 2007, 08:06:15 pm

I've built a couple of dedicated juke cabs now, with great success..... however
My teenage kids just don't take to it.

No matter how much of there awful music I put on it, they keep telling me they are old dinosaur machines.

THEN... The kids come out with " can't you make a jukebox.. that we just plug our  iPod into"

So I was thinking... not a bad idea..... a cab with an ipod interface.

Well ... has it been done... or can it be done..

A cab shell...... with a screen... and audio built in... and some control buttons... with some sort of docking station

Title: Re: iPod Jukebox
Post by: Barry Barcrest on March 30, 2007, 08:10:21 pm

Freebox should do it if you put the ipod into disc mode and build the databas off the ipod. However you will not have album art

Title: Re: iPod Jukebox
Post by: digitaldj on March 30, 2007, 11:23:34 pm

Just build a overgrown IPod with sound system built in. Otherwise you'll have to study the Ipod for how anything can interface with it. I do know they make screens for them for watching movies so that means a screen can be interfaced. As for anything else you would have to search the net.
Kevin

Title: Re: iPod Jukebox
Post by: csa3d on April 01, 2007, 05:23:10 pm

Here's a link on interfacing audio to an ipod.  I was looking at these for an automotive solution a few months back.

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=132916

Title: Re: iPod Jukebox
Post by: BobA on April 01, 2007, 07:01:49 pm

Here is one that comes close that someone already sells.  An Ipod doc with remote contrrol and TV display and sound.

Title: Re: iPod Jukebox
Post by: JackTucky on April 01, 2007, 07:57:59 pm

If they love Ipod so much, just give them a mic in port.  They can use that wonderful wheel to play their music

=J

Title: Re: iPod Jukebox
Post by: digitaldj on April 01, 2007, 08:11:15 pm

auxilery input, get it right dude! Mic input the impedance is wrong and sensitivty is to high.