mj

My Bro has a gadget like an audio cassette that he connects a minidisc player to and puts into the cassette player in the van.

Can you buy the same sort of thing but without the need for minidisc players or cables, ie, some kind of flash memory gadget that you pop all your mp3's on and then just put it in the cassette player and off you go.

Chicken Man

Dunno mate, but if you find out that they do exist I'll put my name down for one!!!

Brian the Sn@il

yep heard of them, but have limited memory i think 256 Meg at the MOST !

so only a few tracks at 256KB about 30 ish

if they are cheap they are worth it but ive seen them for +money !

mj

found this, only 64 meg though

http://www.mp3players.co.uk/site/uk/rome2.html

darkblueturbo

on a related subject, I've got an MP3 player but with no tape deck on the head unit, I can't use the gadget thing like MJ's brother.

Is there anything about that I could use to hook up my MP3 player to a CD head unit?

12LEE

what head unit?

darkblueturbo

Sony CDX-630M

12LEE

You need a Sony XA-300 aux input adaptor.

darkblueturbo

How good is that for service. Ta very much Mr. 12lee

12LEE

I'll sell ya one if ya like

darkblueturbo

how much for? I've done a search on the web for them and I'm not sure what I've found...

I assumed you were just talking about a cable that plugged into the Line out on the mp3 player and the Aux in on the head unit, but all I found was this
which didn't seem right to me...??

12LEE

That's the boy. Sony don't make it easy. Most of their HUs require this box to tell the Unilink bus to enable an aux in.

We can do XA300 at £89 delivered.

If you've already got a changer, simply buy a 2-way phono switch from Maplin and when you're in changer mode, flip the switch so that the audio source comes from your mp3 player.

darkblueturbo

I'll have to think about it - that was a bit more than I was after spending. Thought I was looking at £20 tops for a cable. B@stards.

Thanks for you help, though - I'll drop you a mail if / when I'm ready to go for it.

Does it come with all required cables, btw?

Thanks

12LEE

Sony offer the following cables as an option:

Unilink cable to connect XA-300 to head unit: £41.57
Phono cables from XA-300 to head unit: £102.52

Only joking Everything required is in the box, bar the mp3 player to XA-300 cable.

darkblueturbo

I was just about to swear!! You're a funny guy.

Cheers mate - will maybe be in touch about it one day.



PS - sorry for hi-jacking the thread