(G) Play iPod with cd player?

I got an iPod for Christmas and used it regulary as i was on foot. Now i have a car i dont use it all. I dont want to sell the iPod so how do i incorparate the iPod into my car? I already have an iPod adaptor for a tape player but im getting a cd player very soon. is there a way i can play the ipod through my speakers in my car but with a cd player? would appriciate help,

regards,
elcrack

itrip

yeah i trip, plugs into the top of your ipod and you just tune it into a radio station in your car and it plays

iTrip is certainly the best way of doing it

An alternative, although not quite as neat and tidy, is to get a cd-player/radio that has a line in socket.

i want of them. but make sure you get the one that is a cradel that allows you to charge your ipod while transmitting signals to the radio so u can hear it!

how much do they cost and where can ya get them from??


thanks

rich

try www.ithings.co.uk

You can also get an FM Modulator (about £20 from MotorWorld) which polugs into the aerial of the car and has an RCA input.

I don't agree with the i-Trip being the best solution... It transmits and isn't exactly legal.

Better to get the Dension Ice-Link for your i-pod. It wires directly into the back of your radio to the cd changer port. There is a choice then of whether to wire it to a cradle in your car or directly into the glove-box (where it will be invisible if per chance you forget to take it out of the cradle and hence there'll be less chance of broken window and no i-pod on your return). It costs £100, but the sound quality is excellent and it charges your i-pod while you listen. And it's legal... if that matters.

Visit www.ipodmycar.com

great stuff really usfel!!!!

will be considering this when i have ma car!

thanks

rich

But can you select the songs you want to listen to by using the controls on your car CD player? I know you can't on the standard Blaupunkt unit, but i don't know about after market CD players. I'm looking into buying a new CD player for my car, and thought about getting an Ipod supported player, where the Ipod plugs dtraight into it, and you have full control over the ipod from the CD player screen.

I think you need to have the Blaupunkt MP3 / CD player that you get on the "Sound" option to access the full controls and see the song titles as shown on your i-pod screen.

I have the normal Blaupunkt CD player and make up playlists before I go for a drive and then select my chosen playlist to play. The first five playlists can be selected using CD1 to CD5 on your normal Blaupunkt CD player. Playlists can be as long or as short as you want. And CD6 is where you can choose your own songs, but you need to do this from your i-pod... It's handier to play a playlist...

i forget the name, but alpine have had one out for ages now, it's about 250 quid from halfrauds, but i'm sure ebay will do it cheaper, with this you get a little box of magic that you plag in to the HU's "AI" port, (a port on all apline units that support this feature) then your Pod plugs in the box.

For months i was convinced i was going to get one for myself.
I fitted a couple of these for customers, dead easy, but after sitting there and playing with it.. i mean... erm tuning the radio i found i didn't actually like the interface, it's long winded and not the easiest thing to be doing when driving, theres no wheel so going throuhg artists takes Bloody ages (especially with the high end 60 gb ones), and although the sound quality is second to none, i'm still not convinced this is the way to go... not at that price anyway!

The iTrips, although a genius invention, i'm also not a fan of. firstly the legality... which actually doesn't bother me that much, more to the point is the quality, IMO it's terrible, you would have thought at that close range there would be no interferance.. your wrong..

Me? I've plumped for the cheap (and also bad quality) option, bought a PDA holder off of ebay, dumped my pod in that hooked up a tape adapter and a 12v charger... i have an alpine head waiting to be fitted but i dont know where i'd be without my iPod...

OXCiD3: Have you tried the Blaupunkt ipod stereo thing, and if so, does it have a more user-friendly-interface compared to the Alpine head unit?

Unfortunatly i havn't, Working at Halfrauds i only deal with the new stuff, i havn't heard any bad things about it, ask Wee Smurf, he seems to be the man with the plan!

Sorry i couldn't be more helpful

I be a she-male not a he-male!
So hopefully my technical expertise will not be thought of as less favourable.

I can't make any comment about the Alpine unit, as I haven't been in Halfrauds in a while... They simply didn't have anything that I wanted for my new Panda when I went to get a few bits and bobs for him...

I bought the Dension Ice-Link before I got my Panda, as I had researched details of the radio on the web... Having bought other options for my car in the first place, I wouldn't have minded getting the MP3 Cd player for my car as in the Sound option... but I didn't exactly want a sub-woofer under the passenger seat... I just know that an extra with it was that it can display the track name if it has been input onto your i-pod.

The Dension Ice-Link from my experience is excellent sound quality, even from the basic speakers in my car - No fizz, No crackle, No cut-outs... It's also legal, and easy to fit.

I tend to make up playlists according to the length of journey that I'm taking or for different moods of driving... It's much easier than fiddling about looking for a particular track when you're driving. And if your i-pod is like mine with a few thousand tracks by a few hundred artists, it really isn't that quick to get a particular track, even when you're holding the i-pod in your hand! I can't imagine a system that would make finding a track on my i-pod without having to scroll a long way...

Anyway, for the way I use it, and the sound quality, I recommend the Dension Ice-Link... out of 5.