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Playing mp3 in my car

Aug 3, 2009 10:47AM PDT

My car is mp3 enabled - it came factory installed. How do I play MP3 players on it? I have a 2009 Hyundai Santa Fe.

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Go to buy a mp3 player
Aug 3, 2009 2:20PM PDT

I'd like to say that it's better to buy a DVD player for your car. Only mp3 is not sufficient

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Options
Aug 3, 2009 11:54PM PDT

Your likely options for playing mp3s are:

MP3 CDs - Instead of making regular audio cds that only hold a small amount of music, you can make mp3 cds that hold much more - you can burn whatever takes up 700MB.

Using the aux input for mp3 players. Get a cable (if the car didn't come with one, you can go to your local Fry's/Best Buy/Radio Shack, etc.- if you can't figure it out, ask). It will have two male ends. One goes into the headphone jack of your mp3 player and the other goes into the aux input in your car. You'll need to locate where this is, as every manufacturer does this a little differently. Usually when you do this, the head unit detects the aux input is being used and will start playing. Of course you'll need to turn on your mp3 player.

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it amazes me
Aug 3, 2009 11:56PM PDT

That the dealer that sold you your car didn't explain this to you.

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To emilio321. Post deleted.
Aug 5, 2009 8:41PM PDT

I notice you recommended a car audio from a site that shows in your profile as a link to your homepage.

I'm treating that as spam as you appear to have some connections with that site.

Please note, we keep these forums very clean of advertising and other spam, and while forums elsewhere may allow such links and connections, these forums do not.

That is why I deleted your post.

Mark

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Different options
Aug 6, 2009 3:13AM PDT

Question is what you mean with "MP3 enabled".

Some car stereo's can play CD's with MP3 files on them. In that case, you can burn about 200 MP3 songs onto a CD and play it on your stereo.

Some others offer an USB input. In that case you can copy thousands of MP3 songs onto a single USB stick and plug that into your stereo (connection can be hidden somewhere).

Or it can mean that you have an Aux input to which you can connect an external MP3 player, in which case you just need a cable as someone mentioned.

For completeness: if it's one of the first two possibilities, and you'd want to connect your external MP3 player, you can consider an in-line FM modulator. Some more info in this link: http://www.cleverandeasy.com/Multimedia/scosche-interference-free-fm-transmitter-for-your-ipod.html

Hope this helps.