Can I play MP3?

I'd say it depends on the capabilities of this mysterious "adaptor". What does it claim?

Mike.

The car radio won't see a USB device, it'll see an aux level analogue input, hopefully the $18 device acts as an MP3 player with e.g. 1/8" jack analogue output?

Got a link?

Is it the "iTrip" equivalent you linked to up ^^^ there somewhere?

in which case you tune the radio's FM to the device, and the device acts as a very small range transmitter.

Unless your radio is used to control a number of features on the car (such as in a VW, which yours isn't, since in 2005 VW CD players played MP3s) then I'd go to someplace like crutchfield.com and buy a new radio and spend the hour or so to put it in. (been there, done that). There's probably even a video on youtube for your make and model of car showing just how to do it.

Staying in touch with a particular phone operator at your provider's help desk is key. MP3 players (and now the cloud) sometimes don't do what they're not specifically programmed to do and help desks can go over that with you. If you don't want to ask your phone or device service provider what kind of car radio you should have in your car, then you could always go to the junkyard and into a ruined car and take out a radio system that may still be good.

Are you talking about a specification of the player or an observed symptom? Does the player play music CDs? Have you cleaned the player lens? Does your MP3 CD play in other players? CD players are designed to ignore major flaws in the data stream caused by dirt and scratches. Playing MP3s might not be that forgiving.

The automobile is a VERY hostile place for an optical drive. It gets very hot and there's lots of plastic to outgas and land on the laser system.

I bought a MP3 CD player for my car. Worked ok with pristine CDs for about a year. Then it quit. I cleaned the lens system and it worked for about another year. I gave up and plugged a SD card into the slot and have been using that since. The SD slot wouldn't play anything bigger than a 2GB card.

I'm not sure, but my impression is that in the US there aren't near as many radios in junk cars as there used to be. At least not recent or especially good ones, and maybe not any, because the I think the internet has made selling them easier and more common, so instead of a junkyard waiting until someone wants one and then going out to the yard to get it, they remove them all. Maybe it's not a general thing and just pertains to the yards I go to, though I think I noticed it there 10 years ago.

Has anyone else noticed one way or the other.

To Mark, I know that other radios are for sale, and I know how to install one, but for 3 or 4 reasons I don't want to get one.

The ad says it will fit my car,a 2005 Toyotal Solara, but it doesn't actually say every part of it will work.

Yes, it does fine.

Isn't that hard to do with a car CD player? Anyhow, it plays audio CDs so gure it's clean enough.

Plus the manual for the radio/CD doesn't use the word "MP3" once. That's what really has me convinced.

It plays in the computer. I only have one other CD/DVD player and I haven't tried it there.

I think I played an audio CD in it, but now I'm not so sure. (Only had the car two weeks.)

Thhat's not so small, And you can be loading one upstairs while playing the other.

Note that the other variable with CDs is whether they are pressed pre- recorded or writable ones written by you (which I would suspect if MP3).

So another combination to try is a writable CD with audio tracks rather than MP3...

Mike.

Hmmm. Same link as in other post:

It doesn't really claim much: "Car USB Aux-in Adapter MP3 Player Radio Interface For RAV4 Yaris Tundra Lexus"

I guess it's telling the truth: I will be able to connect a USB to the radio, even if it won't do anything.

One guy says "Very good it's perfect for my yaris 2007."

But his radio is two years newer.

(The price went up to $20 since I bought it. )

Hm.

That's what I finally realized.

I dont' expect that. I think I'll have to use an actual MP3 player, which isn't so bad now that I'm used to the idea. I had a rental car which played mp3's on flashdrives

The description implies the device *is* an MP3 player, just insert a memory stick containing MP3 files into the USB socket, with track selection controlled by the buttons on the radio that would normalluy operate e.g. a CD multi-changer.

Will VLC and WMP and Real Player and the others do that?

There's no way to add audio tracks to a flash drive, rather than mp3, is there?

rather

I was referring to playing CDs with a CD player. I thought that was

There are numerous coding formats for audio (e.g. OGG) and player apps can each cope with a repertoire of them. VLC, in particular, plays *.ts files that my digital TV set-top box records, after I've copied them to my PC; both audio and video!

Mike.

Well, I hope so. It still hasn't come yet, but I have everything else I need, including a thing the size of a cigarette lighter socket that panel-mounts and has a 3.5mm jack and a USB jack. It'll go in a box in the dash in front of the shifter. They sell one that has only the

That would be great. It's supposed to come within a week now and I intend to let your and everyone here know

Right.

I"m reading the help-file for VLC right now. It looks like it will create a .cda file from an .mp3 file, but so far I don't know how to make more than one at a time. I'll figure it out.