Since the XM Direct box isn't the prettiest thing in the world to begin with (it's intended to be mounted under a vehicle dash or in the trunk), I'd say that doesn't look too bad. But my comments about TimeTrax are... first, you're limited to 16 characters each for artist/title info, resulting in some nicely cut-off names... Second, I don't consider putting the radio ID in the ID3 tag embedding it in the file, because ID3 tags are easily changable. Unless someone can prove me wrong, I believe that's all they're doing to prevent distribution/file sharing.
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Since the XM Direct box isn't the prettiest thing in the world to begin with (it's intended to be mounted under a vehicle dash or in the trunk), I'd say that doesn't look too bad. But my comments about TimeTrax are... first, you're limited to 16 characters each for artist/title info, resulting in some nicely cut-off names... Second, I don't consider putting the radio ID in the ID3 tag embedding it in the file, because ID3 tags are easily changable. Unless someone can prove me wrong, I believe that's all they're doing to prevent distribution/file sharing.