Listening to iphone 5 through car radio

Yorky

For a car radio without an auxiliary socket or bluetooth, is an FM transmitter the only way of listening to music on the car radio? If so, this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-Car-Tunecast-Universal-Transmitter/dp/B002S8AFE8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1360777398&sr=8-2 seems good but a tad expensive.
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Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Mimikyu

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hooter0140

http://stores.ebay.ie/In-Car-Connections

I use one of these, great little product

OldmanMondeo

May I be rude and ask, I have an Iphone 4s and a 3.5mm AUX jack in the car, but I am unable to get my phone to play via the stereo. Do I need some connector or convetor?

Probably not the cheapest but still cheaper than that one on Amazon:

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/5244878/Trail/searchtext%3EFM+TRANSMITTER.htm

I have one myself and it works fine provided that you keep the playback volume on the iPhone relatively low. Otherwise the sound will be distorted, most noticeable with 'S' sounds.

hooter0140

No, it should play straight trough. Select the aux setting on your car stereo.
Maybe the aux lead is dodgy???

Deep Thought

hooter0140 wrote: »

http://stores.ebay.ie/In-Car-Connections

I use one of these, great little product

do you have a link to the product? the link above is a search link that gives 431 products

hooter0140

Deep Thought wrote: »

do you have a link to the product? the link above is a search link that gives 431 products

What car do you drive?

Piliger

OldmanMondeo wrote: »

May I be rude and ask, I have an Iphone 4s and a 3.5mm AUX jack in the car, but I am unable to get my phone to play via the stereo. Do I need some connector or convetor?

Have you plugged the headphone socket of your iPhone into the Aux socket of the radio ? What happens ?

princemuzzy

after going through god knows how many of these fm transmitters i finally saved and got a parrot mki9200

trust me its worth it

Lagoona Blue

princemuzzy wrote: »

after going through god knows how many of these fm transmitters i finally saved and got a parrot mki9200

trust me its worth it

do you know if you can connect an Ipod through the parrot kit ?

OldmanMondeo

Piliger wrote: »

Have you plugged the headphone socket of your iPhone into the Aux socket of the radio ? What happens ?

I have done that, used to plat an MP3 player via same cable. Tried my Iphone and nothing. Will try again with both devices to rule out cable problem.

brophs

By any chance do you have a case on your iPhone? It could be stopping the cable going fully into the jack.

Piliger

And make sure the Radio is then switched to 'Aux' in it's 'Input' settings - sorry if that's obvious :P

OldmanMondeo

No case and Radio is on AUX, not a silly suggestion. Will have to find the cable & MP3 player I had and try it later.

Piliger

OldmanMondeo wrote: »

No case and Radio is on AUX, not a silly suggestion. Will have to find the cable & MP3 player I had and try it later.

I had an iPhone 3G for years and played it through my aux input very successfully - best of luck. In my car the aux input was in the glove compartment :P

OldmanMondeo

Piliger wrote: »

I had an iPhone 3G for years and played it through my aux input very successfully - best of luck. In my car the aux input was in the glove compartment :P

Same as mine. Think the cable might get damaged case the input is at the side and would catch the end of the jack.

Carpenter

http://www.adverts.ie/car-parts-accessories/cool-radio-fm-transmiter-for-apple-ipod-and-iphone-enjoy-your-music-in-car-radio/2503490

Job done I got 1 and its perfect

Piliger

Carpenter wrote: »

http://www.adverts.ie/car-parts-accessories/cool-radio-fm-transmiter-for-apple-ipod-and-iphone-enjoy-your-music-in-car-radio/2503490

Job done I got 1 and its perfect

When you say 'perfect' ...... what do you mean ? because the history of these kinds of transmitter devices is not very good, in general.....

Carpenter

Piliger wrote: »

When you say 'perfect' ...... what do you mean ? because the history of these kinds of transmitter devices is not very good, in general.....

All I can say is I have it 2 months using it every day and its working like new and the sound is like a CD.

Eoin

Lagoona Blue wrote: »

do you know if you can connect an Ipod through the parrot kit ?

Yep, if you google the specs, you'll see that the MKi9200 is designed for iPods/iPhones. It also has USB and 3.5mm inputs as well as A2DP streaming over Bluetooth, so lots of options available.

I had one in my old car and really want to get it fitted in my new one. They're a great bit of kit.

I've never had any luck with any of the FM transmitters, but that said, I've not had the patience to try all the different frequencies.

princemuzzy

Lagoona Blue wrote: »

do you know if you can connect an Ipod through the parrot kit ?

Yes and can play music from sd card and USB sticks as well controlling the iPod through the kit works really well too new software and a 30 pin to lightening connection and they are compatible with all new products

Best money I have spent on any accessory

Ninap

I found a cassette adaptor had much better sound than an FM transmitter. Something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Monster-iCarPlay-Cassette-Adapter-iPhone/dp/B002DW92IE