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I've got an old laptop lieing around and want to use it as a mp3 player. Is there a way I can install it on the stock radio?


'96 Civic LX

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Yea, you can get a wireless fm transceiver and plug it into the headphone or line out on the laptop and set your fm to like 87.9 or something. if you want to wire it physically, no.

Or if you got a tape deck, get an adaptor from an electronic store.

 
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or you could just get a head unit that supports mp3 cds

 
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YES, there is a way to wire it physically. do i know how? no... but it can be done. it should be pretty easy, actually... you just need to hook the laptop's speaker output to the head unit via the CD changer connector... 3 or more of those wires should be analog audio input.

 
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dont the head units have AUX lines on the back? I'm guessing you can hook that to the laptop..

 
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my vote is FM modulator, or tape deck adapter. there no other way to do it to a stock deck, tho.

 
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seriously, just buy a whole new mp3 player... Aiwa's start around 200.

 
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aftermarket HUs may have AUX inputs, but not the factory ones. FM modulators don't sound the best; tape adaptors look ghetto and don't sound any better than FM. i don't see why you guys are recommending MP3-CD players... you're still stuck with CDs that get scratched, can skip, and navigating 500-some songs on a CD is a pain in the ***. besides, he already has a laptop, which is a MUCH better solution, as long as it can be wired.

i'm at work, no photoshop here...

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CD AUDIO ANT.

that's sorta what the back of the factory HU looks like (both the CD and tape versions).
the larger connector is where the main audio connector goes, the little circle thing is where your antenna plugs in.
if you have the honda single-CD player or CD changer, it plugs in to that smaller connector.

a few of those pins on the CD connector are analog audio inputs; i.e., basically the same thing as a headphone jack or RCA jacks, just in a fux0red-up connector. you just need to figure out which ones those are.

see if you can order the CD connector cable, cut the end off of it and strip the individual wires, and plug it in to the HU... then get a 1/8" headphone/audio cable, slice the end off and strip the wires, and plug it in to the speaker jack on your laptop. turn on the car, set the CD as the source... load up some music on the laptop, and start touching wires together 'til you hear something [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]

EDIT: fixed the crappy ASCII drawing

 
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Thing is when I press the CD button it does nothing. Theres probably a modulator or something in the cd unit that tells the HU that theres something there.


Edit: I tired a cheap FM modulator and the should realy sucks. I don't know if some or better then others.

 
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do u have a cassette deck? my old saturn had one and i used the tape adaptor that came with my discman occasionally... it sounded as good as a clear FM radio station... and if you're comfortable taking things apart, you could run the wire for the adaptor through the player itself in to the dash, so it wouldn't look so ghetto with the wire hangin down [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/IMG]

 
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I got no cassette deck or cd player. Just the stock head unit.

 
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How much and where could I get a wired FM modulator?

 
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Double post sorry.