[Padgett]

Problem with a thumb drive is that it is hard to pick an album/song/artist, takes an app to do that. Have finally solved the storage problem but the selection process takes a bit more.

The history of mobile music is interesting from the first automobile radio (1924), automobile transistor radios & 45 players (both 1956), 4-tracks (1962), 8-track (1964), cassette (1970), and CD (1982).

Since 1956 the big issue has been "where to store" all of these things (records, tapes, CDs) and the problem was solved with thumb drives but early ones just played either in order or randomly.

It was not easy to just select an album and particularly when a quality recording is between 3 and 10 MB. Per song. (Living the Blues is 23:11 and 42.4MB, Fiedler version of An American in Paris is 16:46 and 30.7MB ). Pretty soon the GB start rolling up. But modern technology is better and any decent tablet can sort by anything you want and display the cover art (on an 8" tab I usually split screen between the engine diags and the album art).

ps I draw the line at Rap and have a particular dislike of Rapabilly.