MP3 Adapter?

[Steven]

It seems such a waste of money buying a cd or cd mp3 autochanger when there should be a way of using an mp3 player (portable). Does anyone know of a way of running a cable to the glove box via an adapter so you can plug in a portable mp3 player? That way there would be no moving parts and you could have hundreds of tracks at your disposal......

 

[Dan]

has your head unit got audio in? if it has you can run a lead to your HU from your glove compartment and then plug your mp3 player in and switch to AUX on your HU and you're sorted!

 

[Alan]

Re: Re: MP3 Adapter?

you would need a head unit with audio in, some alpine units have audio in if you buy a special adapter that plugs into the cd changer input. If you have the standard fiat head unit with the changer control there may be a way using the sony changer adaptor but i don't know what type of connections sony use so i couldn't be sure.

If you just have the standard fiat head unit then you would need to get one of those tape adapters!

 

[Roberto]

You could try these little beauties

http://products.sony.co.uk/productdetail.asp?id=3_34_1823

http://www.kenwoodusa.com/excelon/excelonKeg.jsp

Rob

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Re: MP3 Adapter?

Couldn't you just plug the portable MP3 into an amp? (If you have one)

Daz

 

[Nicola]

A few months back I bought an mp3 player that is the shape of a tape. You load your mp3's on it and put it in your tape deck on your headunit. You headunit plays it just like a tape although, it just reads the tracks of a metal strip.

You also get headphones if you just want to listen to it while on the bus, I must say it does look a little weird. People look at you wondering why you have headphones plugged in to a tape.

If you want any info on it i will try and find out where I bought it on the web

Nicola

 

[Droptical]

MP3 whatnots

Hi guys,

I've been lurking here for a while, thought it was about time I contributed something

I've been wondering the same thing for some time, I want to hook up my ipod... the options I came up with so far are:

- one of those wacky tape adapters; like a cassette tape with a wire coming out of it:

http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shopping/pages/cassetteindex.html

it works, it's cheap, but the sound quality is not fantastic...

- Some people make a little FM transmitter you plug into your mp3 player, it transmits at a very low power on a selectable freq so you can just tune your bravo radio in and listen...

http://kryton.clickandbuild.com/cnb/shop/mannelectronics?listPos=&productID=12&search=&op=catalogue-product_info-null&prodCategoryID=5

it's a little bit more expensive (but not much), sound quality is probably not fantastic, it's technically illegal in the uk, but no wires all over the place !!

- The last thing I've been thinking about is to build something to fool the headunit into thinking there's a CD changer connected and so enabling the CD line-in for use by the ipod, but we'd need the CD changer protocol... don't know if these are published anywhere, otherwise maybe I'll get around to picking up a cheap/busted CD changer and see if it can't be reverse engineered...

al.

btw, the links are just ones I found, haven't actually bought stuff from any of those guys...

 

[Nicola]

Re: Re: MP3 Adapter?

I think mine was 190 pounds, not one of the above 9.99 cheapies.

http://www.digisette.com/en/products/DUOdx.asp

similar to this

Ta Nicola

 

[Alan]

Re: MP3 whatnots

i've used on of those Ipod FM transmitters in my car, sound quality is exactly the same as listening to the radio to be honest, worth a buy if you can find one cheap enough.

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Re: MP3 whatnots

If you want one of those FM transmitters, i think i still have mine floating around somewhere...

Make me an offer..

Daz