MP3 Frequency Player

Louise77

Hi,
Don't have a CD Player in the car and can't afford to put one in...can anyone recommend one of those adaptors which you can plug your mp3 players into and it will play the songs on a specific frequency on the radio??
Thanks a mill guys
L

prospect

Belkin do them, but they retailers in ireland cannot legally stock them.

ds20prefecture

Depends on the MP3 player. For iPod or iPod mini, the Griffin iTrip is the business. For anything else, I believe the iRock is quite good.

check this place out
http://www.egears.co.uk/cat_accessories.cfm

bazz26

prospect wrote:

Belkin do them, but they retailers in ireland cannot legally stock them.

I think the law states that if it has a broadcast range of over 100 meters it is illegal to use but something like an iTrip is fine.

The iTrip is ideal as long as you have something like an iPod or mini iPod to connect to it and these are more expensive than a cd player (unless you already have one of course). It picks up the frequency on one of your FM stations on your car.

prospect

Well Bazz26, that would make perfect sense. But i did spend the latter half of last year trying to locate one, and this is the answer i got every time, even though it only broadcasts over approx 15 meters.
Reason, radio piracy!!!!
But hopefully you are right and they have changed this stupid law.

Also, the belkin FM Transmitter (which i later bought for about $20 in NYC, broadcasts a signal from ANY device with a headphone jack.

lostinsuperfunk

I got a similar yoke from Arkon , a SF150a. $20 + around another $20 postage. It's pretty good. The reception drops in and out occasionally (although that is probably due to my crappy car radio + broken aerial) and if you drive long distances you occasionally have to retune as you come into an area where "your" frequency is already in use.
Do you have a cassette player? If so, you could get one of those cassette adapter jobbies. They're cheap and give reasonable sound quality (better than FM).

bazz26

prospect wrote:

Well Bazz26, that would make perfect sense. But i did spend the latter half of last year trying to locate one, and this is the answer i got every time, even though it only broadcasts over approx 15 meters.
Reason, radio piracy!!!!
But hopefully you are right and they have changed this stupid law.

Also, the belkin FM Transmitter (which i later bought for about $20 in NYC, broadcasts a signal from ANY device with a headphone jack.

If you know someone coming back from the US then they are very cheap over there. I know a few people who have brought them back.

Fabritzo

My brother got a radio fitted today, they tried to sell him a transmitter dealy for €40.

AMurphy

Radio Shack has several of them.

See here.

TheMonster

Louise77 wrote:

Hi,
Don't have a CD Player in the car and can't afford to put one in...can anyone recommend one of those adaptors which you can plug your mp3 players into and it will play the songs on a specific frequency on the radio??
Thanks a mill guys
L

If you don't have a CD have you a tape player, any standard tape adapters will work if so.

JOSSYJACOB

My friends toyota yaris had no CD player. He has a tape player. He bought an MP3 player - Sony DiskMan type in which you could insert a mp3 CD . He also bought a tape adapter.The whole kit cost him around 120 Euro. This tape adapter's one end could be connected to the MP3 player and the cassette like interface could be inserted to the tape player.

But this is a "bulky solution" !