A fully-stocked mobile music collection can turn your morning commute from a death march into a thrill ride. Instead, you make do with that warped Sammy Hagar tape, a Johnny Hates Jazz cassette you bought at the car wash, and whatever you can find between the commercials on the radio. Back at home, your computer just sits there, chock full of the ten thousand greatest songs ever recorded, organized by mood, genre, and BPM. Maybe when you get home, you’ll have 15 minutes to listen to them between dinner and bedtime.

Or maybe it’s time to invest in the DMP1. Simply install it wherever you’d put a car CD changer, and wirelessly load it up with up to 20GB of music from your PC. The auto sync feature and the included DWL-121 adapter let you sleep while it sits in the garage and grabs your fave choones, and queues them up like your own personal Casey Kasem. (Of course, we assume your parking space lies within your wi-fi network.) In a pinch, you can even use the USB-equipped removable HDD (20 gigs!) to shuttle data between home and work, or to grab your own copies of a friend’s killer collection of audio files – that’s between you and the RIAA.

Normally, you'd pay two good-size prices for the DMP1 and the DWL-121, but here they are together in one convenient, affordable package you won't find elsewhere. With its durable plastic construction and super-simple interface, the DMP1 is heat-proof and fool-proof in equal measure. Remember that when your Sammy Hagar tape turns into a blob of melted polymer on the dashboard.

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