91. Turn Your iPod into a Boom Box with Remote ControlBEFORE YOU BEGIN 46 Find and Play Music on the iPod SEE ALSO 89 Use Your iPod as an Alarm Clock 90 Listen to Your iPod in the Car As you've seen, an iPod can serve as the musical engine behind photo slideshows on a TV, as an alarm clock with music, as an endless supply of songs for your carby this stage, it's hard not to see the iPod as a sort of "musical core " that can be plugged into just about anything to give it new sonic life. Perhaps the ultimate expression of that is in how you can construct an excellent bookshelf stereo system or "boom box"complete with infrared or RF remote controlout of off-the-shelf components designed around a Dock-like receptacle into which you simply plug the iPod. Free of the tedium of CDs or the random chance of radio, you get all the control of your iPod's info tag navigation and your iTunes' playlists , coupled with high-quality sound from good speakers and the convenience of remote control. Most of these speaker systems even charge your iPod while it plays. What more could you want? 91. Turn Your iPod into a Boom Box with Remote Control
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