SL/R230: Aux Jack in SL
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Originally Posted by LASTYYLE
does anyone know how to make use of the aux input on the SL?
where is it in the car?
and what kind of input will it accept?
thanks in advance!
where is it in the car?
and what kind of input will it accept?
thanks in advance!
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Yes, on the right hand wall of the glove box, I think it's a 3.5mm jack to take the output of things like MP3, mini-disc players and iPODs. I think it may have been deleted (along with some other things) in the current year model (heater buttons on the top centre console, key-dependent seat memory, any others?) but you have an 03, same as mine and it's definitely there on mine.
Not that I need it to listen to my John Denver CDs...
Not that I need it to listen to my John Denver CDs...
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From: Ponce Puerto Rico
SL500 2003 previous/ E350 2007 actually
Originally Posted by blueSL
Yes, on the right hand wall of the glove box, I think it's a 3.5mm jack to take the output of things like MP3, mini-disc players and iPODs. I think it may have been deleted (along with some other things) in the current year model (heater buttons on the top centre console, key-dependent seat memory, any others?) but you have an 03, same as mine and it's definitely there on mine.
Not that I need it to listen to my John Denver CDs...
Not that I need it to listen to my John Denver CDs...
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The most useful thing it accepts is an MP3 player. I connect an Archos 380 which gives 80gig of MP3's and also improves the sund as you have a degree of independent sound control out of the COMAND system, which I think is crap. Perhaps they took the socket out of 04 models as they are introduing the ability to (as I understand it) replace CD with MP3.
There is an aux menu on Comand which allows you to set sound quality and preferences.
What I want is a driectly replaceable USB hard-drive unit to replace the cd 6 changer that also lets me use the COMAND head unit with MP3 tags etc.
I have arond 15000 tracks and around 1500 albums on the archos.
There is an aux menu on Comand which allows you to set sound quality and preferences.
What I want is a driectly replaceable USB hard-drive unit to replace the cd 6 changer that also lets me use the COMAND head unit with MP3 tags etc.
I have arond 15000 tracks and around 1500 albums on the archos.
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Originally Posted by uk1
The most useful thing it accepts is an MP3 player. I connect an Archos 380 which gives 80gig of MP3's and also improves the sund as you have a degree of independent sound control out of the COMAND system, which I think is crap. Perhaps they took the socket out of 04 models as they are introduing the ability to (as I understand it) replace CD with MP3.
There is an aux menu on Comand which allows you to set sound quality and preferences.
What I want is a driectly replaceable USB hard-drive unit to replace the cd 6 changer that also lets me use the COMAND head unit with MP3 tags etc.
I have arond 15000 tracks and around 1500 albums on the archos.
There is an aux menu on Comand which allows you to set sound quality and preferences.
What I want is a driectly replaceable USB hard-drive unit to replace the cd 6 changer that also lets me use the COMAND head unit with MP3 tags etc.
I have arond 15000 tracks and around 1500 albums on the archos.
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From: Ponce Puerto Rico
SL500 2003 previous/ E350 2007 actually
Originally Posted by uk1
1. It's rechargeable
2. Just a copy of what's on my main jukebox PC. You'll be suprised how they mount up. allofmp3.com is very affordable.
2. Just a copy of what's on my main jukebox PC. You'll be suprised how they mount up. allofmp3.com is very affordable.
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04 SL500
It's just one of these sitting loose in a glove compartment!
http://www.archos.com/products/prw_500571.html
http://www.archos.com/products/prw_500571.html
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From: Ponce Puerto Rico
SL500 2003 previous/ E350 2007 actually
Originally Posted by uk1
It's just one of these sitting loose in a glove compartment!
http://www.archos.com/products/prw_500571.html
http://www.archos.com/products/prw_500571.html
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04 SL500
Originally Posted by carlosfernandez
thanks for the link but I really want to see the mp3 connected in your glove compartment, just to figure out how I can do the same.
I'm sorry - you've clearly misunderstood. Any MP3 player with a headphone socket can be plugged into the aux socket in the SL glove compartment. Taking a picture of it is barmy.
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2003 SL500 Sport Package
CarlosFernadez -- Really, this is simple -- you have a SL500 -- just open up your glove box -- look to the left sidewall and you will see a small "headphone" type jack there. Go to a Radioshack and buy a cable with two male ends to it ... one side plugs into the headphone jack of your MP3 player and the other end (exactly the same as the other side) plugs into the jack in the glovebox.
Turn on the MP3 player -- hit play on it and hit the SVC button on your Command unit. Select the AUX option I believe and you will hear sound. Most likely you will need to turn the volume to MAX or near MAX setting on your MP3 player.
The cable should cost <= $ 10 anywhere
Turn on the MP3 player -- hit play on it and hit the SVC button on your Command unit. Select the AUX option I believe and you will hear sound. Most likely you will need to turn the volume to MAX or near MAX setting on your MP3 player.
The cable should cost <= $ 10 anywhere
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Originally Posted by carlosfernandez
Thank a lot I finaly found the jack and star serching for an I pod or mp3 for my car.
Last edited by tiggerfink; Feb 6, 2005 at 05:44 PM.
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If you were able to control the iPod through the COMMAND, they would really move the game forwards and render, for example, the CD changer completely redundant. But isn't that jack is just for the audio signal?
The other thing is that the cable shown by ricky is just a mono cable - a stereo cable will have three connections.
The other thing is that the cable shown by ricky is just a mono cable - a stereo cable will have three connections.
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Originally Posted by uk1
Ricky,
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are using a mono cable. It will sound better with a stereo cable.
Jeff
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are using a mono cable. It will sound better with a stereo cable.
Jeff
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In the analog world (which is what is flowing down that wire), connecting left and right will just add the two together and you end up with mono (L + R). To separate the two out, you need as difference signal (L - R) as well. This is how conventional FM radio works; the difference signal is transmitted on a sub-carrier out of audible range; for mono users, they just use the L + R signal and filter out the L - R signal; for stereo users, the stereo decoder takes the sum of the two: L + R + L - R = 2L to give the left hand channel and the difference of the two: L + R - (L - R) = 2R to give the right hand channel.
See, all that algebra you learnt in school did come in useful one day...
In the digital world, it's easy because the signal is sampled (quantized), typically at 44100 samples a second and you just transmit L and R samples alternately and let the hardware at the receiver separate and sort them out.
In the context of that audio jack in the SL, if you use a mono cable, you will get mono sound. That aux jack is designed for tape/mp3/md headphone outputs...
See, all that algebra you learnt in school did come in useful one day...
In the digital world, it's easy because the signal is sampled (quantized), typically at 44100 samples a second and you just transmit L and R samples alternately and let the hardware at the receiver separate and sort them out.
In the context of that audio jack in the SL, if you use a mono cable, you will get mono sound. That aux jack is designed for tape/mp3/md headphone outputs...
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Please blueSL, I just finished my PreCal homework! 
If we'll get mono sound, can't we trace where that aux is plugged into from the COMAND, open up the COMAND and just wire out a L and R from there instead so we get both L and R?
If we'll get mono sound, can't we trace where that aux is plugged into from the COMAND, open up the COMAND and just wire out a L and R from there instead so we get both L and R?
