I want to play back the files through my car speakers using the USB port in the car, but it automatically goes to storage. Does anyone know how to get around this? I am willing to hack if necessary.
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Hi Jane,The USB option is really meant for computer-to-device communication. You could use the output jack, which is used for headphones for your car, and maybe buy an adapter for it.
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Hi Jane, The USB option is really meant for computer-to-device communication. You could use the output jack, which is used for headphones for your car, and maybe buy an adapter for it.
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Jane, since the DM-520 has a stereo output jack, you're gonna need a cable to take the stereo output from the DM-520on one end and, through the cable, perform the Right channel/Left channel conversions on the USB end. Personally, I am not aware of the existence ff such a cable; but Radio Shack may be of some help with this.A simpler approach is to bypass the USB connection altogether and purchase a stereo jack-to-stereo jack cable (Radio Shack does stock this item). If your model car has a USB port, I'm pretty sure there's a stereo input jack somewhere! It's the same place you'd connect a mp3 player!Hope this helps. Jane, since the DM-520 has a stereo output jack, you're gonna need a cable to take the stereo output from the DM-520on one end and, through the cable, perform the Right channel/Left channel conversions on the USB end. Personally, I am not aware of the existence ff such a cable; but Radio Shack may be of some help with this.A simpler approach is to bypass the USB connection altogether and purchase a stereo jack-to-stereo jack cable (Radio Shack does stock this item). If your model car has a USB port, I'm pretty sure there's a stereo input jack somewhere! It's the same place you'd... » Read More Jane, since the DM-520 has a stereo output jack, you're gonna need a cable to take the stereo output from the DM-520on one end and, through the cable, perform the Right channel/Left channel conversions on the USB end. Personally, I am not aware of the existence ff such a cable; but Radio Shack may be of some help with this.A simpler approach is to bypass the USB connection altogether and purchase a stereo jack-to-stereo jack cable (Radio Shack does stock this item). If your model car has a USB port, I'm pretty sure there's a stereo input jack somewhere! It's the same place you'd connect a mp3 player!Hope this helps. « Show Less
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Every mp3 player works in the car. Where is the point of the question? If you have a radio with the Cassette, simply buy a cassette adapter, and with 5 dollars you can listen your mp3 player in through yor autoradio. If you have an AUX port in your radio, buy a cord with two males connectors ( probably 3 dollars and radioshack ) and voila' ... you can listen your music in your car. Isn't that simple?
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it plays the sound through the car stereo through the fm radio station which u adjust between bothso f the radio plays station 101.1 u select the same station no. on the transmitter then play the songs u got on the memory "sd card or usb flash drive" then u gonna hear ur music on the car speakers just like radio...
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A flash drive with music will play. I pligged in my phone but it only charged it. Great radio though. You dony have to cut anything out if you have room on your console. Glad I bought it!
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If your car has the media player function when you connect to the usb drive it should automatically play the music from your iPhone. I don't store music on my phone but every time my daughter connect her phone to charge using the usb it plays her music. Hope this help.
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As for USB they are saved from where they left off (like when you shut off your vehicle) as for SD I am not sure as I have not used that function yet. This IS a great Clarion Head unit. Especially if you are a BASSHEAD like myself because Car CD player would skip
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I don't know the answer to that as I haven't tried. Sorry, but I won't be able to try it out now that the stereo is secured. However, the USB in the front is usually used for devices like memory sticks.
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I had similar issue with an external hard drive that I wanted to use to play music. The Audi system only works with certain formats, according to the car owner's manual. I had to reformat the hard drive as FAT32, then it worked.
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I personally have not tried to do that, however the way i set my radio up you cannot access the rear port after everything is closed back up. But you still have the USB port on the front as well, hope this helps
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This uses a SD card. I believe it can also use a USB thumb drive.Mine is defective, so I haven't used it much. Initially it would generate a motorboat noise over the audio within a few seconds of use, now it plays up to about 15 minutes before the distortion starts.
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I couldn't get this to stream calls at all - would stream any music from my phone to anything I plugged into - car stereo, home audio receiver, etc. - but when I would get a call it would not send call audio thru any device??? I bought it more to stream my calls thru my car audio than to stream my music... I wonder if mine is defective or if this is just a limitation on this model? Nothing in the tiny manual that comes with it about streaming call audio at all... ?? Anyone have any info?
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I couldn't find a way to do so. I needed to remove the music from folders in order to play them. You could use separate memory cards I suppose.
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I did a sync through the micro USB but never tried the music through it since I use the headphone jack in the car, it has a narrow adapter for headphone plug if your headphone jack is too thick....
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The USB and SD slots at the front of the speaker system is used for playing USB Memory Sticks or SD Cards only. While playing these media types, the speaker controls can be selected to skip to next or play random etc. Thank You for your question.
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Im Not sure. I dont own a car stereo system that has a usb port..How ever I have hooked the cassette player to my portable speaker which works great..But to hook it up to a car usb port I simply cant answer that for you.. The device does what it says. I convert any songs I like off of my old cassettes and burn them onto a DVD and it works just fine in my car...
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The sound plays through the cars stereo speakers, I have tunned in my stereo 108.00 FM and transmitter configured on 108.00 FM, I put a kingston 4gb flash drive with mp3 and mp4, when play mp4 you can see the video on the screen and sound through car speakers.
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I haven't tried to play music through usb yet, but it does come with a headphone style jack for music input, and I can confirm that the usb port will charge devices. I should get some .wma and .mp3 files and try then on my phones external storage setting...