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Jinserta Bluetooth FM Transmitter Handsfree-Calling Radio Adapter Car Kit with Dual USB Port
If anyone here had followed my threads at "Garage" on how I brought my 1995 Isuzu Trooper into the 21st century, they might remember what I did with this cheap piece of Chinese technology. With my Dremel, I made a solid walnut back-plate fitting the shape of the device's front panel, and installed it in a rectangular shelf of my vehicle's center console.
I added an extra illuminated rocker switch for it. It has always worked dependably and "just fine". With my installation, I still kept my cigar-lighter free and functional, and eliminated the problem other had with the device disconnecting when the car would hit a bump in the road.
It was made to simply turn on when you twist the ignition key -- thus my rocker switch. It otherwise turns off by pressing the center button in the left-side dial.
The LED screen is small, and you are not going to pick a different album to play while driving, or you'll wreck your car as a road hazard worse than a college girl with a cell-phone. I use it with a mini USB stick by SanDisk. As my 32GB stick filled up, I found a 64GB unit. But it is also getting full, with only 19GB now of free space.
The device instructions say that it works with a 128GB USB stick. The caveat with USB sticks of any size is that they must be formatted as FAT-32 -- and that's the way most of these USB drives ship initially. It gets trickier when you want to reformat them.
Anyway -- THE PROBLEM: 64 GB USB sticks work just fine. You can use the device to drill down through subdirectories to pick an album -- for instance "Local Folder" -> .. -> "Rock and Roll" -> "Kansas" -> "Carry on Wayward Son", and the device will begin with that tune and play the whole Kansas album, looping back for replay.
For some reason, a 128GB USB doesn't work to allow the folder selection and so forth. I can't figure out why the size of the USB drive matters in this way. But I can see that expansion of the music library probably means filling up a second USB stick to keep handy in the vehicle.
AFTERTHOUGHT: It appears that Amazon used the photo of my Trooper's center console with an earlier version of the walnut retainer. Giving away my personal identi-titty!
If anyone here had followed my threads at "Garage" on how I brought my 1995 Isuzu Trooper into the 21st century, they might remember what I did with this cheap piece of Chinese technology. With my Dremel, I made a solid walnut back-plate fitting the shape of the device's front panel, and installed it in a rectangular shelf of my vehicle's center console.
I added an extra illuminated rocker switch for it. It has always worked dependably and "just fine". With my installation, I still kept my cigar-lighter free and functional, and eliminated the problem other had with the device disconnecting when the car would hit a bump in the road.
It was made to simply turn on when you twist the ignition key -- thus my rocker switch. It otherwise turns off by pressing the center button in the left-side dial.
The LED screen is small, and you are not going to pick a different album to play while driving, or you'll wreck your car as a road hazard worse than a college girl with a cell-phone. I use it with a mini USB stick by SanDisk. As my 32GB stick filled up, I found a 64GB unit. But it is also getting full, with only 19GB now of free space.
The device instructions say that it works with a 128GB USB stick. The caveat with USB sticks of any size is that they must be formatted as FAT-32 -- and that's the way most of these USB drives ship initially. It gets trickier when you want to reformat them.
Anyway -- THE PROBLEM: 64 GB USB sticks work just fine. You can use the device to drill down through subdirectories to pick an album -- for instance "Local Folder" -> .. -> "Rock and Roll" -> "Kansas" -> "Carry on Wayward Son", and the device will begin with that tune and play the whole Kansas album, looping back for replay.
For some reason, a 128GB USB doesn't work to allow the folder selection and so forth. I can't figure out why the size of the USB drive matters in this way. But I can see that expansion of the music library probably means filling up a second USB stick to keep handy in the vehicle.
AFTERTHOUGHT: It appears that Amazon used the photo of my Trooper's center console with an earlier version of the walnut retainer. Giving away my personal identi-titty!
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