Connect MP3/Minidisc to car

2006-07-16 19:30:54

I was just wondering if there is some way of creating either an audio jack, or and audio socket from my car CD player to connect an MP3/Minidisc player to?

Thanks

Connect MP3/Minidisc to car

Reply #1 – 2006-07-16 19:36:47

Do you have a cassette player? If yes, there are some adapters like this one: http://www.rapdealer.de/images/mp3adapter_small.jpg

If not, maybe you could use a FM transmitter.

Connect MP3/Minidisc to car

Reply #2 – 2006-07-16 19:43:45

No it's a CD player.  But I don't understand why the functionality isn't there in all cars by default - how hard can it be for the manufacturers to produce an audio input for the car speaker system?  I don't know much about this, but how does the CD player connect to the speaker system?  Can you manipulate that somehow?

Connect MP3/Minidisc to car

Reply #3 – 2006-07-16 20:15:09

I guess you are talking about adapting an existing CD audio player.

I have an MP3 CD player which I think is the bee's knees.  However, I see that some stereos now have USB input, so you could plug any player in there.  I think I'll get one of those next; they make a lot of sense.

Connect MP3/Minidisc to car

Reply #4 – 2006-07-16 20:28:39

Toyota Aygo has a line-in input as standard now.

Connect MP3/Minidisc to car

Reply #5 – 2006-07-16 20:33:36

It is simple enough for manufacturers to have the input there.  However they do not do that.  Aftermarket could add a jack in the dash with a DPDT switch to select from the regular output and a line out from your minidisc.  It might just be easier to U/L them to your computer and burn them to a CD-RW.  YMMV   

Connect MP3/Minidisc to car

Reply #6 – 2006-07-16 20:45:46

Well I don't want the connection just so that I can listen to my MP3s in my car, I actually want to rip my original CDs to put them on my MP3 player, just to have more tracks available without swapping CDs, and more choice!