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<blockquote data-quote="spoonraker" data-source="post: 2763374" data-attributes="member: 570956">Well most of the popular front ends work very similar. I use RoadRunner because it&#039;s open source and has a very active community. People are always releasing new skins and mods for it, there is a whole section devoted to it on the mp3car.com forums, there is also a detailed skinning tutorial if you want to make your own skin, which is very easy. One feature I like about it a lot is the gestures feature, it makes it much safer to use a touchscreen while driving. You have all your buttons on screen like play/pause, track skip, etc, but with gesturing you can simply draw a line to the right on the screen to go to the next track, from any menu, anywhere on the screen. A line going up is play/pause, down is stop, left is previous track.As for the computer, go for the Celeron if it doens&#039;t use too much power. The hard drive is slow at 4200RPM, and I also believe you will quickly be looking for more storage with only 80Gb. I&#039;ve got nearly 5Gb of music alone, and most people say I don&#039;t have very much music. The movies are where I really start using up space, with each one being 1Gb or more, it adds up pretty quick. Like I said, more RAM is always welcome, it helps programs load faster and keeps your computer from bogging down while browsing big music lists, it&#039;s just good in general. The soundcard you have is a good soundcard, it may not be supported by the kX drivers, but even so it&#039;s got plenty of features. You can get a 31-band EQ plugin for VST, and a crossover plugin for a media player called Foobar2000, so you basically have most of the kX driver functionality. You&#039;ll just have to use a DAC to route all your sound through winamp and Foobar2000...that is asuming the X-Fi supports ASIO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spoonraker, post: 2763374, member: 570956"] Well most of the popular front ends work very similar. I use RoadRunner because it's open source and has a very active community. People are always releasing new skins and mods for it, there is a whole section devoted to it on the mp3car.com forums, there is also a detailed skinning tutorial if you want to make your own skin, which is very easy. One feature I like about it a lot is the gestures feature, it makes it much safer to use a touchscreen while driving. You have all your buttons on screen like play/pause, track skip, etc, but with gesturing you can simply draw a line to the right on the screen to go to the next track, from any menu, anywhere on the screen. A line going up is play/pause, down is stop, left is previous track. As for the computer, go for the Celeron if it doens't use too much power. The hard drive is slow at 4200RPM, and I also believe you will quickly be looking for more storage with only 80Gb. I've got nearly 5Gb of music alone, and most people say I don't have very much music. The movies are where I really start using up space, with each one being 1Gb or more, it adds up pretty quick. Like I said, more RAM is always welcome, it helps programs load faster and keeps your computer from bogging down while browsing big music lists, it's just good in general. The soundcard you have is a good soundcard, it may not be supported by the kX drivers, but even so it's got plenty of features. You can get a 31-band EQ plugin for VST, and a crossover plugin for a media player called Foobar2000, so you basically have most of the kX driver functionality. You'll just have to use a DAC to route all your sound through winamp and Foobar2000...that is asuming the X-Fi supports ASIO. [/QUOTE]

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