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GOODBYE TO THE CD CHANGER? Hello to the 20-gig, 500-CD cartridge.(News)(Brief Article)

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Byline: ANDREW LUU

It's great to live in a society so technologically advanced that listening to your favorite song requires no more than the click of a mouse button. Yet it boggles the mind that we must still resort to the primitive practice of carrying a binder full of CDs when we want to take our music on the road. Or at least that's what we used to do.

Say hello to PhatNoise, a company with a fairly obvious and long overdue solution: a hard drive for your car. It's not exactly a new idea, but PhatNoise's advantage is that it works in sync with most factory audio systems.

First, you install the hard drive, which plugs into the same port for the factory CD changer. Provided software allows you to transfer songs from your computer to a cartridge in much the same way as you do when burning a CD. One 20-gig cartridge holds up to 500 CDs worth of music. If that's not enough, 40- to 60-gig disks are available ...

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