I'm the kind of guy who buys a new car, and drives it until it becomes a service problem. Because I drive gently and keep up with the mainenance, most of my cars go over 200k miles before they get traded in.

My current 2010 minivan (needed to haul my gig gear) has a mini phone jack, so a short cable from my Walkman makes it easy. A bit of Velcro puts the Walkman on the dash where I can see it.

Last Sunday we had a gig that was a bot more than an hour away. I charge more money for out of the county gigs, but these people are good with that. They usually hire us for their big celebration once a year, but missed the last two due to COVID. It was good to see them all again.

It was also good to have my Walkman, which Mrs. Noted dubbed, "Radio Bob" in the car. Radio Bob makes the drive more pleasant.

I put it in the shuffle mode, and I enjoy the variety. I have the pop/rock, shorter classical pieces, jazz, country, Soca, Reggae, Musica Latina, Zydeco, Blues, roots R&B, Klezmer, and others. The percentage of those styles are pretty much the percentage I like and how often I want to listen to them.

For the car, I rip at either 128 or 192, as the road noise masks the finer points of the sound.

If I drive to the Everlgades National Park, it takes about 4 hours, and the radio stations change on the trip. I just stick Radio Bob on the dashboard and enjoy the ride.

I like it being independent of the phone. Perhaps I'm just weird that way, but I've never been uncomfortable with being different before, and don't plan on that now. laugh

There is more than one right way to do almost anything.


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