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Phatnoise Review
Well, I got the phatnoise yesterday. Installation would've been easy if they hadn't forgotten to give me the mounting hardware 
So for now it is wedged in there with a t-shirt 
For those who aren't aware, the phatnoise system uses the information stored in your ID3 tags to sort your music on the hard disk, so I spent about 3.5 hours yesterday entering in/making sure tag info entered is consistent. So far I have about 71 full albums on there, and I am only using 28% of the HD. This is nice, but I have about 100 or so other albums to tag and put on. I figure I wont have it full for about a month - month and a half.
The software is relatively easy to use, I had trouble getting the voice tags to work (The system "speaks" the album/artist/playlist/genre [depending which mode you are in] to you in a female voice before switching to track mode and letting you skip tracks just like a CD) but I am not sure that I want to use that feature anyway.
Playback from the head unit takes some getting used to, but once you have the buttons down it is no problem. The 1-6 buttons select which mode you are in, you arrange it by playlist, artist, album, genre, or just from tracks 1-4000 or so. I usually sort by album. (Note: These features are useless if you don't make all of your ID3 tags consistent)
All in all I love the system, and can't believe I waited this long to get it. This is a must for any music lover. And at $680 taxes in I am definitely not complaining! (it retails for just under $900)
EDIT: Mounting brackets acquired!
So for now it is wedged in there with a t-shirt For those who aren't aware, the phatnoise system uses the information stored in your ID3 tags to sort your music on the hard disk, so I spent about 3.5 hours yesterday entering in/making sure tag info entered is consistent. So far I have about 71 full albums on there, and I am only using 28% of the HD. This is nice, but I have about 100 or so other albums to tag and put on. I figure I wont have it full for about a month - month and a half.
The software is relatively easy to use, I had trouble getting the voice tags to work (The system "speaks" the album/artist/playlist/genre [depending which mode you are in] to you in a female voice before switching to track mode and letting you skip tracks just like a CD) but I am not sure that I want to use that feature anyway.
Playback from the head unit takes some getting used to, but once you have the buttons down it is no problem. The 1-6 buttons select which mode you are in, you arrange it by playlist, artist, album, genre, or just from tracks 1-4000 or so. I usually sort by album. (Note: These features are useless if you don't make all of your ID3 tags consistent)
All in all I love the system, and can't believe I waited this long to get it. This is a must for any music lover. And at $680 taxes in I am definitely not complaining! (it retails for just under $900)
EDIT: Mounting brackets acquired!
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