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KernelG · 10-19-2008, 01:45 AM

I just picked up a Transcend TS8GCF133 8 GB 133x CF card from Amazon for $22. Transcend sells the card for $26 direct, and a PCMCIA adapter for 8 bucks. I ended up buying the adapter from them and had no trouble, though their web site crawls sometimes and I had to juggle the checkout page to get it back onto https secure mode. Both the adapter and card are working perfectly in my 2006 Civic.

I have just under 900 songs on the card right now. Most are encoded at 256 kbps VBR, so it's sitting at around 6 GB. An 8 GB card, which ends up being 7.5 GB (FAT32), is just about perfect if you're using higher bit rates.

For Mac OS X users, I installed a program called Blue Harvest to keep .DS_store files and "._" resource files from being written to non-Mac volumes. This had originally ballooned the directory up above 999 files and the card did nothing. No errors, nada. Getting rid of the extra files fixed things 100%. I'm also using a program called Media Rage (the "Organizer" module) which can re-arrange audio files into folders based on their ID tags, so I can drag an iTunes playlist of songs out into a new folder and get them organized as Artist/Album/ for the card instantly, then just copy the whole lot over.

I have a DLO Transpod for my iPod Touch, and it works well with the Line In, but now that large Compact Flash is so cheap it's like a permanent iPod that's always there (with nothing extra to hide). It's great!

10-19-2008, 01:45 AM	#74 (permalink)
KernelG Junior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: SF Bay Area, CA Posts: 13	I just picked up a Transcend TS8GCF133 8 GB 133x CF card from Amazon for $22. Transcend sells the card for $26 direct, and a PCMCIA adapter for 8 bucks. I ended up buying the adapter from them and had no trouble, though their web site crawls sometimes and I had to juggle the checkout page to get it back onto https secure mode. Both the adapter and card are working perfectly in my 2006 Civic. I have just under 900 songs on the card right now. Most are encoded at 256 kbps VBR, so it's sitting at around 6 GB. An 8 GB card, which ends up being 7.5 GB (FAT32), is just about perfect if you're using higher bit rates. For Mac OS X users, I installed a program called Blue Harvest to keep .DS_store files and "._" resource files from being written to non-Mac volumes. This had originally ballooned the directory up above 999 files and the card did nothing. No errors, nada. Getting rid of the extra files fixed things 100%. I'm also using a program called Media Rage (the "Organizer" module) which can re-arrange audio files into folders based on their ID tags, so I can drag an iTunes playlist of songs out into a new folder and get them organized as Artist/Album/ for the card instantly, then just copy the whole lot over. I have a DLO Transpod for my iPod Touch, and it works well with the Line In, but now that large Compact Flash is so cheap it's like a permanent iPod that's always there (with nothing extra to hide). It's great! Last edited by KernelG; 10-19-2008 at 01:47 AM.