New device that allows you to use a Flash-drive to play music in your car!

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Definately a cool idea. What sucks though is that nobody an FM transmitter that works flawless all of the time.
 
Adria, my friend has had one for years. It sucked ass. The quality is noticably reduced, even with his new-car antenna. It actually gets better signal if you unplug the outside antenna. It's suceptable to outside interference as well. Basically, it's not awesome. Good idea, but it just doesn't work like you'd wish.
 
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Adria, my friend has had one for years. It sucked ass. The quality is noticably reduced, even with his new-car antenna. It actually gets better signal if you unplug the outside antenna. It's suceptable to outside interference as well. Basically, it's not awesome. Good idea, but it just doesn't work like you'd wish.
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I find something wrong with this. We can send people to the moon, but not make a quality flash drive for a car.

:dunce:
 
Most common aftermarket headunits nowadays have a auxilary input, a 3.5mm stereo plug that you can plug your mp3 player in to.

Mine does, I plugged my laptop in one day when I was travelling, battery life of my laptop was the only problem.
 
I'm pretty sure you can get loads of head units now with USB inputs in them. 1 sec, I'll take a look.

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Most Mid/Upper range Clarions have a USB input. Such as the DB566USB
 
Delirious Adria
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Naughty boy. A thread gets posted in its relevant area, not where it would get most traffic.

Should GTP just have 1 forum that everything gets posted in? Stuff it, lets just have one huge thread.... :dunce:
 
Delirious Adria
http://www.thegreenhead.com/2006/02/vr3-mp3-fm-modulator-use-usb-flash.php

Stinking-sweet.

Don't start your car with it in the socket (may damage the unit)
Don't leave it in your car when car is not on (may drain battery)​
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Ok then...
Doesn't work with DRM protected music
Says to do it at 128 Bitrate
Doesn't recognize folders or sub-folders.

But if none of those are an issue to you...THAT IS AWESOME!!
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Ok then... That is a huge issue. Many people use subscription based services, so now that's out of the question, I guess I have to rip my CDs. Oh hang on, it's at a crappy 128kbps and I can't sort my music out. This new gadget is so exciting I want to turn on my car with it plugged in...

My advice? Just get a CD player that can play MP3s, has a USB input, or get any decent DAP and plug it in through the line-in.​
 
i have one of those and the audio quality sucks. I also gotta turn up the volume on my ipod pretty high and my stereo volume pretty high in order to have my music at a good volume. As for the usb plug, ive never used a flash drive so i dont know if thats any good.

As for my prefered choice of playing music in car, i use the cassette adapter thing from sony. Very cheap and offers "ok" sound quality.
 
Its a pity my car doesnt have like an easy way to aux input, I use the iTrip for my iPod and the sound quality kinda sucks.....its made worse by the fact that a car moves.. when I use it on my Bose wave radio is resonably good quality but all in all they suck..... :indiff:
 
I had an FM modulator for my iPod and it worked great. It was the Belkin FM Transmitter II, or something like that.

My new car has an Auxillary input and an MP3 CD player now so I don't have to worry about it.

Now if they had a quality way to play straight from my external HDD...💡
 
Who else but Lidl!

But yeah, there's a ton of car stereos with usb ports. Most are lower end brands, but yeah...
 

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