How to connect an iPod or other digital music player to your car stereo
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I recently spent "and bought me an iPod. Here is a professional guide to your car stereo docking!
But first …
Unless you already live in a cave in recent years has heard of iPod, Apple's wonderfully designed portable music player. The iPod, you can enjoy the music of hundreds or thousands of CDs in a small box that the conveniently carry in a pocket or purse. His position much better, but the focus of this article is about music. Dueextreme portability of the iPod, many people want to take with them into the car. This is a problem because most cars do not offer iPod connectivity, with few exceptions. Fortunately, there are solutions for people who want to use your iPod in the car.
Direct link:
Pros: Control iPod with stereo and remote controls, automatically charges iPod, perfect sound, easy to install, cheap
Cons: None that I know!
This option is only for owners of radiothat support direct connection to the iPod. Basically everything that you need a cable that connects to your iPod, then the radio. Alpina is a brand I know that offers this feature. Some new cars offer a direct link with the iPods.
To connect via an interface:
Pros: Control iPod with stereo and remote controls, automatically charges iPod, perfect sound quality
Disadvantages: to install, difficult to use
This option is available for owners of moreup-to-date aftermarket radio and some new radio factory.
Aftermarket Radio:
You need a brand dedicated iPod interface. For example, if you need an Alpine head unit, you will receive an Alpine iPod interface. Normally, this interface is a little box that has an output for the radio, and a gateway that connects to your iPod. Basically, you need to find a suitable location for the kits. From there is a good place to spend the iPod cable. Something goodPositions are in the glove compartment, or if you have a lot of data through the path there.
Radios Factory
You need a vehicle specific interface iPod. The only company I know that these interfaces will be produced devices. Visit their site to see if the vehicle is supported. If so, yes! Connect the user interface is similar to the top.
To connect via an RCA cable to RCA.
Advantages: excellent sound quality, easy installation, supercheap
Cons: You can not control the iPod with stereo, iPod will not automatically calculate
You need a head unit that has an auxiliary input to work for them. If your car does not have an aux input, you're probably better looking for another alternative.
How to connect an iPod via FM modulation:
Create benefits: Very easy to install, device is widely available, most devices charge the iPod
Disadvantages: Not the cheapest, poorer sound quality, the iPod can not be controlled byRadio
This is the easiest way to connect an iPod to the radio. Basically you connect your iPod to a device that transmits the music of a radio frequency. Tune your radio to the frequency, and your music through the radio. There are a variety of products available to do so.
Other digital music solutions:
Kenwood makes a barrel "music", which is basically a portable hard drive that interfaces with the Kenwood receiver. This is a great alternative toThey carry an iPod with the car. Just download the barrel the music and the songs are good to go.
Alpine a digital music player. This device includes a hard disk, which you can download your songs. It works much like a CD changer, as it is controlled by the display.
Two words on other digital music player:
The iPod is not the only digital music player available. Creative Labs Zen, and Microsoft has just released the Zune. There are many otherEquipment available. If you have one of these other digital music player, although you can connect some of these techniques to the player on your car radio.
Unfortunately, the iPod has been received much more than its competitors, as far as I know, there is no possibility to interface to other digital music players. You can still run the device to your car stereo through a mini phono to RCA cable. You will also find FM modulators for the iPod that are not specificYou can connect the head unit via the radio.
Words about digital music formats, compression and sound quality:
So, back to the ice age, like 10 years ago, a new digital format known as MP3 began to conquer the Internet by storm. Basically, it allows a music CD to take up minimal space on the hard drive of a man. Before MP3, the most important form for most people was PCM (also known as WAV). PCM is basically an exact copy of the information stored on CD.Anyway, MP3 changed. It is now possible to compress the music to a size much smaller file. As a rule 10x, you can edit the data in the same room. Where a WAV file of a typical song can be up to 50 Mb, an MP3 file with the same song can be up to 5 MB, without a serious loss of sound quality. Songs can be easily transmitted between humans. This, of course, has led a series of controversies … Remember the original Napster?
Yeah, yeah. Whocares?
That's why it matters. For a lot of data in a small room, you must remove some things. In other words, you lose the sound quality. MP3 files allow a greater or lesser amount of compression, and usually this is indicated by the bit rate. Basically, the higher the bitrate, the higher the sound quality.
Yeah, yeah. Who cares?
When playing music in the car, very strong, sound quality matters a lot. So, you want to be sure that when you MP3 (or play the filesother digital music formats) in your vehicle, you use an audio file of higher quality. If you use music files encoded wrong, you regret in any case!
Poorly encoded files tend to sound metallic, "or how they can be carried through. Even the high frequency sounds, such as swimming pools and the voice (especially when the words singer that contain the letter" S ")" swishy sound. "Bass Sound rather muddy and sloppy. If you play this hard stuff, it becomes very annoying.
Anyway, if you intend toListen to digital music in your car, you should be files at high sound quality. If the case of MP3, the files are always 44.1 kHz. The bit rate must be at least 160, but preferably higher. Personally, I encode all my files to 256
Anyway, now you know your digital music in the car!
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