Guest djfuego Posted September 4, 2004 Report Posted September 4, 2004 Recently I was stuck for a music centre for my room, I needed a cheap alternative to my PC playing music piped to my killer amp system. Expansys had the answer. They sell a converter that plugs into your headphone socket in the smartphone and outs to a normal audio jack, with the option to plug in your headset as well. It's quite amusing seing my phone on the desk dwarfed by a modded Yamaha DSP A970. :twisted:
Guest Palindrome Posted September 4, 2004 Report Posted September 4, 2004 I tend to pack my SDCard with MP3s and randomise them when I'm having BBQs. Hours of music without all the need for lots of wires & CDs all over the place.
Guest Den Posted September 5, 2004 Report Posted September 5, 2004 When I went to Greece last year, I took speakers and an adapter for the headphone jack. Loaded my SD card with mp3's and had enought music for the whole holiday. Quality was good and went pretty loud. (that was on my old e200. Got the C500 now and I'm very happy with it. Amazing battery life!)
Guest falong Posted September 7, 2004 Report Posted September 7, 2004 Sounds like a good solution. Anythings better than carying around multiple gadgets.
Guest Blakey Posted September 7, 2004 Report Posted September 7, 2004 I recently fitted a new stereo to my car and fitted the AUX-IN plug at the same time, routed into my glove box. Net result is that I can plug my phone straight into my car stereo and listen to music in the car from my phone. On car journeys now I find myself with my phone playing Green Day and navigating using Mapopolis all at the same time. Superb stuff!! :-) Blakey
Guest Zain [PRO] Posted September 7, 2004 Report Posted September 7, 2004 I've got four words for you :) : How much? Where from?
Guest Blakey Posted September 7, 2004 Report Posted September 7, 2004 Zain, "How much?" The AUX-In cable for the car stereo costs about £10 or less. You need a car stereo which supports AUX-IN - most do these days but you'd best check. All it is, is a cable which plugs into the back of the stereo and which I've then routed behind the dashboard to the glove compartment. Any car stereo fitters can do that for you easily. You do need to ensure that the AUX-IN cable is the correct one for your car stereo of course. Standard AUX-IN cables are 3.5mm, so I also had to but a 2.5mm to 3.5mm converter to convert and enable it to plug into my phone. They are less than £10 each too I think. With this set up, I can now stick my iPod into the glove compartment and plug it straight into the stereo for long journeys, or I can plug the phone into the same cable with the adaptor for most of the time - as I have less music on my phone than on my iPod. As to "Where From?" just have a search on the internet for car stereo sites. Search on this forum for 3.5mm jack and you'll find threads on cheap converters. Good luck! Blakey
Guest simonbratt99 Posted September 7, 2004 Report Posted September 7, 2004 see this adaptor ony £2.95 http://secure.proporta.com/proporta/F02/PP...=745&t_mode=des
Guest Maverick Posted September 7, 2004 Report Posted September 7, 2004 Heh heh.. I tried going one step forward... Tried to play streaming audio over GPRS onto my car stereo... The problem is that the GPRS radio signal creates some interference ... the speakers bleep :)
Guest Blakey Posted September 7, 2004 Report Posted September 7, 2004 Streaming audio over GPRS - as in live internet radio? Apart from the ridiculous GPRS costs involved, does that work? i.e. can you turn your smartphone into an internet radio? That would be cool, even if it was ridiculously expensive. :-) Blakey
Guest gex Posted September 10, 2004 Report Posted September 10, 2004 Ive done streaming audio from my SP into my car. With T-Mobile USA we get free (sshhhh) data with any voice plan! :) I have a SP formated page for my streams here: http://www.izaino.com
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