Listen to Music with our Car Computers
You'd expect any car entertainment system to play music, and our computers oblige by providing you with a host of class-leading features. Music playback is controlled using the Centrafuse software interface, providing an easy way of controlling what you're listening to using the touch sensitive display.
Using one of our computers as your car music player has several advantages over traditional mp3 players or head units. For a start, the amount of storage available to you is practically unlimited. Our computers' primary hard drives can store up to 500 GB, which in itself puts all portable mp3 players to shame, but we can always add extra drives if you need more space.
Then there's the ability to play any format of music file out there, like the popular MP3 and WMA file formats, but also Apple's AAC* format, as used on the iPod. And you can be sure that if a new codec appears in the future, your car computer will require only a quick update before it can play you the latest music formats.
The range of media devices that our computers can play music from is unsurpassed by any traditional car music system - music can be played from:
- The computer's large capacity hard drive(s)
- CDs (CD-R, CD-RW)
- DVDs (DVD±R, DVD±RW, DVD-RAM, including dual-layer discs)
- 52 different types of memory card (including SD and CF)
- USB flash drives
- USB external hard drives
- Apple iPods (Centrafuse includes a dedicated iPod mode)
- Any other USB mp3 player that Windows recognises as a drive
- The internet (if you choose this option)
Other features include:
- Easily find the music you want - browse by artist, album, genre or folder
- Browse your music library by looking at album art
- Find a particular song by searching for text in the artist, album, track or filename fields
- Create playlists, have several playlists open at once, and easily switch between them without losing your place in the music
- Shuffle and repeat function
- Display album art or visualisation when playing music (includes full-screen option)
- Treble, bass and balance adjustment
- 10-band equaliser lets you shape the sound to your satisfaction
- Centrafuse always remembers your place in the music when the computer powers down so when you return to your car the music will resume from where you left off (this includes music played from CDs)
- When manually changing track or playlist the music can rapidly fade in and out, rather than producing an abrupt change in the music
- Automatically looks up CD track information from the internet (if connected) and displays track titles instead of "track 1", "track 2", etc
- Automatically scans inserted media (CDs, DVDs, memory cards, USB devices) for music tracks so you can easily choose what to play
- Major music controls (play/pause, previous & next track, increase & decrease volume) are always visible so you can control music playback no matter which mode you are in (e.g. from navigation mode)
- Title of currently playing track is visible from within all modes
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*Centrafuse can currently only play AAC files that are not copy protected. Support for copy protected AAC files purchased from the iTunes music store will be available shortly.
