Best way to play music from memory stick in my old car

barnaclebill

I have a 15 year old car, sound system is good,CD slot but no Aux point, I want to play MP3 music from my memory stick and have been told I need an FM transmitter plugged in the lighter socket. Is that the best option? And does anyone know a good make/model to buy

Sandtree

An FM transmitter will give you radio quality sounds and you'll need to ensure that it can act as your media player... the one I had years ago could only plug into a MP3 player. Depending on where your lighter socket is you may want to consider the ergonomics of using it on the move.

Alternatives are to replace your head unit with a more modern solution or to burn the MP3s to disc rather than using a stick... depending on your current head unit it may be able to read a disc of MP3s or you may need to burn it as an audio disc.

pbartlett

i used one many years ago and they work well. search on amazon 'car fm tramsmitter'

PRAISETHESUN

I also used to use a FM transmitter in my old car - it plugged into the headphone jack of my mp3/smartphone. Worked quite well. Tune it to an end of the FM spectrum that doesn't overlap with your local radio stations and you're set to go.

I do also recall seeing devices back in the day that inserted into CD/cassette players one one end and had a headphone jack on the other, which should also work depending on your car's audio setup. Not sure if there's anything that'll play directly from a USB stick, but if you go hunting you should find something that will work.

Gadgee

This should meet the need .

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BF52BY7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

At about £11 what's not to like!

Username03725

Not wishing to be contrary but I tried a few different in-car FM xmitters a few years ago to solve the same problem and without fail the sound quality was awful. Maybe things have improved since, but listening to a thin tinny sound wasn't nice, esp when going back to R2 reverted it all back to decent quality. 

Andy_L

Gadgee said:

This should meet the need .

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BF52BY7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

At about £11 what's not to like!

No menu display so navigating through the memory sticks file structure is likely to be an unpleasant experience

Gadgee

For the price there will always be shortcomings (such as navigation issues with plugged in sticks)  but as far as sound quality and general phone handling is concerned, it is quite acceptable.

Carrot007

It really depends on where you are. If you are in a big city you will find even with a good FM transmitter than let's you select the freqwency manually rather than choose from a few bands, that you will find nothign without overlap (unless you get a "technically illegal" one with a decent signal).

I am sure you have an AUX in though, it will just be aroudn the back of teh unit and not easily accessible. There are kits to bring it top a front port. Then buy a bluetooth reciver and plug that into it (and to a usb socket via the power portt (may actually be a lighter socket still in a 15 year old car!). That's what I do, though on mine the AUX is on the front of the unit so much easier to access. Still fitting the port is easy if you want to do it.