I am new to this forum so please bear up with me. I am also not good with electronics so I hope someone can shed some light on my problem and hopefully suggests a fix.
I drive an old car that doesn't have USB input for the audio, and I don't want to change the car's audio unit with a more modern one because I like the looks of it (it fits the rest of the interior like no after market unit does). But playing music MP3s from a USB is much more convenient than keep changing CDs so I purchased from eBay a USB adapter that hooks to the audio unit and is supposed to play MP3s like it was a CD changer (my car is missing the CD changer). Sometimes it works, but most times it does't.
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Here is what happens:
1) Most of the time the USB adapter doesn't turn on. I turn on the audio unit and the AM/FM radio works but when I switch to the CD mode it says No Disc. When I check the USB adapter I see that the power light is off. If I disconnect the power cable and reconnect it then it works.
If there is a CD in the CD player then the audio unit reads the CD player but doesn't recognize the USB adapter. (Most of the times there is no CD in the CD player though.)
2) The USB adapter is turned on and the audio unit recognizes it and plays the MP3s but it gets stuck on MP3s that are long (such as classical music that is 50 min long). Sometimes it skips the large MP3 files and sometimes it completely stops reading any other MP3 file.
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Here is how the USB adapter looks like (but the one I purchased doesn't have the bluetooth option): http://www.ebay.ca/itm/BMW-Car-Audi...udio_Video&hash=item19e6bb819d&vxp=mtr&_uhb=1
Another thing you need to know about my car is that even when the car is off and the key is not in the ignition there is power toin the 12V cigarette lighter. So if I leave my phone connected to the cigarette lighter and turn off the car overnight and come in the morning, I will find the phone completely charged (I don't do this though!) I am just letting you know because it might shed some light into how the electrical wiring for my car works. I find it odd that the car still supplies power to the cigarette light when the car is turned off. I wonder if this has anything with the first problem I mentioned above.
Any helpful feedback is much appreciated. I am not an electrical person but I am a mechanical engineer so I am not completely clueless when it comes to electronics. May be someone can guide me into how to fix this problem.
I drive an old car that doesn't have USB input for the audio, and I don't want to change the car's audio unit with a more modern one because I like the looks of it (it fits the rest of the interior like no after market unit does). But playing music MP3s from a USB is much more convenient than keep changing CDs so I purchased from eBay a USB adapter that hooks to the audio unit and is supposed to play MP3s like it was a CD changer (my car is missing the CD changer). Sometimes it works, but most times it does't.
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Here is what happens:
1) Most of the time the USB adapter doesn't turn on. I turn on the audio unit and the AM/FM radio works but when I switch to the CD mode it says No Disc. When I check the USB adapter I see that the power light is off. If I disconnect the power cable and reconnect it then it works.
If there is a CD in the CD player then the audio unit reads the CD player but doesn't recognize the USB adapter. (Most of the times there is no CD in the CD player though.)
2) The USB adapter is turned on and the audio unit recognizes it and plays the MP3s but it gets stuck on MP3s that are long (such as classical music that is 50 min long). Sometimes it skips the large MP3 files and sometimes it completely stops reading any other MP3 file.
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Here is how the USB adapter looks like (but the one I purchased doesn't have the bluetooth option): http://www.ebay.ca/itm/BMW-Car-Audi...udio_Video&hash=item19e6bb819d&vxp=mtr&_uhb=1
Another thing you need to know about my car is that even when the car is off and the key is not in the ignition there is power toin the 12V cigarette lighter. So if I leave my phone connected to the cigarette lighter and turn off the car overnight and come in the morning, I will find the phone completely charged (I don't do this though!) I am just letting you know because it might shed some light into how the electrical wiring for my car works. I find it odd that the car still supplies power to the cigarette light when the car is turned off. I wonder if this has anything with the first problem I mentioned above.
Any helpful feedback is much appreciated. I am not an electrical person but I am a mechanical engineer so I am not completely clueless when it comes to electronics. May be someone can guide me into how to fix this problem.