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
Do you have a cassette player? If yes, there are some adapters like this one: http://www.rapdealer.de/images/mp3adapter_small.jpg (http://www.rapdealer.de/images/mp3adapter_small.jpg)
If not, maybe you could use a FM transmitter.
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?
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.
Toyota Aygo has a line-in input as standard now.
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
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!