audio input in glovebox??
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audio input in glovebox??
I'm curious about the audio input (female headphone adaptor) found on the inside of command equiped cars. Have any of you found it? Is it on non-command cars? I remember reading a few posts about it a while back, and am trying to figure out how to connect my ipod (mp3 player) to the stereo. If you could explain its functionality or post a pic I'd appreciate it.
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It is only there on COMAND equipped vehicles. A line-in cable connects a device to the input and the input is controlled by an AUX option in the COMAND screens. It is a very clean input, great for exactly what you want to do. Without COMAND, use of a cassette adapter may be necessary, but with the cassette input behind the face of the stereo, that may be easier said than done.
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If you didn't order COMAND, then you can use a Panasonic Cassette Adapter. It has the thinner wire lead than most, on the top (left) of the adapter, and will allow you to feed it through a small gap between the face and the mechanics of the cassette deck. My iPod works great this way, but I might be selling it and going for the latest model (10gig) or the new Archos Jukebox MM.
www.archos.com
www.archos.com
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I'm not too sold on the Archos, I have a Studio 20GB. It skips. I can't believe I have an mp3 player that skips. How lame. And the random function isn't very random. My next player is gonna be USB2.0 or FireWire/iLink. It took me 8 hours to transfer 12GB of songs. The display is pretty small too, and not very well lit. I think I'm gonna return it.
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i see a lot of you like to return things. i personally have not returned anything i've purchased since .... well i can't remeber the last time i returned anything. Given the rate of complaints expressed on this forum about many different consumer goods I worry about the merchants ability to sell. I always romanticize the middle ages, what you see is what you get. I am usually happy with that.
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Well, I wouldn't return it just for any of those other reasons. But having an mp3 player that skips is just plain unacceptable. Memory prices are so cheap now that they should have enough buffer in a dedicated music player to load an entire song into memory. I mean, it skips just sitting at my desk listening to it! Not even walking or in my car or anything. I would consider that either defective or a failure in it's primary design.
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Originally posted by hphan
Well, I wouldn't return it just for any of those other reasons. But having an mp3 player that skips is just plain unacceptable. Memory prices are so cheap now that they should have enough buffer in a dedicated music player to load an entire song into memory. I mean, it skips just sitting at my desk listening to it! Not even walking or in my car or anything. I would consider that either defective or a failure in it's primary design.
Well, I wouldn't return it just for any of those other reasons. But having an mp3 player that skips is just plain unacceptable. Memory prices are so cheap now that they should have enough buffer in a dedicated music player to load an entire song into memory. I mean, it skips just sitting at my desk listening to it! Not even walking or in my car or anything. I would consider that either defective or a failure in it's primary design.
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I rip all mine at 128K (good enough for my ears). They sound fine on my computer. I would have attributed it to a bad transfer issue, but the songs don't skip consistently. Sometimes a song plays all the way through fine on the player, other times it'll skip. I know it shouldn't skip since it's a digital recording... but it does! It can't be a low power issue because I keep it plugged in at my desk. All I can think of is that it sometimes hiccups the DSP for some strange reason when it tries to read the hard drive. Can't be something funny goin on with unshielded speakers either since I'm just running the headphones that came with the player. I've never dropped it or otherwise abused it, so I've just come to the conclusion that this product sucks 
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Originally posted by Rick
If you didn't order COMAND, then you can use a Panasonic Cassette Adapter. It has the thinner wire lead than most, on the top (left) of the adapter, and will allow you to feed it through a small gap between the face and the mechanics of the cassette deck. My iPod works great this way, but I might be selling it and going for the latest model (10gig) or the new Archos Jukebox MM.
www.archos.com
If you didn't order COMAND, then you can use a Panasonic Cassette Adapter. It has the thinner wire lead than most, on the top (left) of the adapter, and will allow you to feed it through a small gap between the face and the mechanics of the cassette deck. My iPod works great this way, but I might be selling it and going for the latest model (10gig) or the new Archos Jukebox MM.
www.archos.com
What's your impression of the sound quality using the cassette adapter with the Ipod? Curious, because before I got my CD changer I thought cassettes in general sounded pretty lousy on the Bose. Granted, they were some pretty old cassettes that I was listening to.
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Bos: The cassette adapter sounds pretty good. I never noticed a problem with frequency response of the cassette deck itself...even when I played an 25 year old demo tape from an old garage band I played in as a kid. With the adapter, I do notice a slight drop in the highs, but road and wind noise usually gobble that up anyway. The iPod does sound better that my portable CD/MP3 and my older Rio 800...but the Rio has built in EQ so I can adjust around that. Adjustments to volume and EQ can be done in iTunes2 before dumping out to the iPod...when I remember.
Sidenote to hphan: The Archos product shouldn't skip....it's digital! Perhaps you have to reformat the entire HD and start over from scratch as you may have some digital data left over from stuff you've deleted. The new JukeboxMM uses a 7200rpm 10 gig drive. My reasons for getting it would serve my needs for digital photo and video storage (interfaces with Firewire/USB2.0, Smart and Flash media cards) with a color display for previewing digital material...as well as MP3 and data storage.
Damn....I hate sounding like a tradeshow ad (Now accord will move this one for sure)
Sidenote to hphan: The Archos product shouldn't skip....it's digital! Perhaps you have to reformat the entire HD and start over from scratch as you may have some digital data left over from stuff you've deleted. The new JukeboxMM uses a 7200rpm 10 gig drive. My reasons for getting it would serve my needs for digital photo and video storage (interfaces with Firewire/USB2.0, Smart and Flash media cards) with a color display for previewing digital material...as well as MP3 and data storage.
Damn....I hate sounding like a tradeshow ad (Now accord will move this one for sure)
Last edited by Rick; Apr 26, 2002 at 09:31 AM.
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There is an EQ on the Ipod
If you update your ipod to the latest version of the firmware, available at the apple site, you can have an EQ. It allows you to set it globally for all songs, or to set individual songs with their own settings through itunes. You also get an address book feature that lets you download contacts from outlook or palm software and store them on your ipod. cool.
On a side note, i think the archos player is a piece of trash compared to the ipod. The build quality is terrible, and what is the point of having 20 gigs of space if takes all day to fill it through usb. The firewire ipod is superior.
On a side note, i think the archos player is a piece of trash compared to the ipod. The build quality is terrible, and what is the point of having 20 gigs of space if takes all day to fill it through usb. The firewire ipod is superior.
