Devblog

We had a stereo in the kitchen that Kirsty has had for 10 years but it’s recently started badly skipping when playing CDs so needed to be trown out. I personally don’t have many CDs since getting rid or loosing them all while at uni and since then everything has been mp3s, iTunes on my laptop and iPods so I’ve not really bought any new CDs until recently.

I’ve bought a few as they’re useful in the car – I’m not going to get an even more expensive car just so I can hook my iPod up to it so I now get CDs, rip them to my PC and iPhone, Kirsty’s iPod if she wants them and then put them in the glove box.

Thing is, now we needed a new stereo for the kitchen it brought back the iPod dock question – should I get something that we can drop an iPod into instead of routing around for CDs? I thought – “yes”. However, I definately wanted one that could play the radio as well and ideally one that would also play CDs. Combine this with the fact that there’s a Credit Crunch on and I didn’t really want to pay more than £50. Since the VAT rate is about to jump up as well I knew I wouldn’t be able to spend weeks Googling for one. Another problem is one of iPods. Kirsty has got an iPod Shuffle so it’s unlikely we’d get one that would take that but since it’s only a few gig and she wants to get a Nano or Touch at some point we just ignored that.

The last problem is my iPod – it’s got a phone built in. Not a single website can give a definate straight answer as to whether their bits of kit would accept an iPhone – they’d have lists saying they accept 3/4/5 G 30Gb etc etc blah blah but nothing on the iPhone. I eventually decided the best bet was to spend as little as possible and then see if it worked.

We got a Proline Something-Or-Other from Comet for £40 – not bad. Plus it turns out that it does accept my iPhone as well. Bargain.