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Want to play mp3s to speakers - how to?

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buildingacomputer

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I have an old audio setup with receiver, turntable, and speakers. I would like to use it to play my music collection mostly in 200-220 kbps vbr mp3.

1)What are my options without getting into home theater setup?

2) If I put music on DVD and want to have some control over music selection, will I inevitably need PC connected to receiver?

Thanks.

 
Plug your mp3 player into the receiver. If you have no MP3 player then a DVD player that plays MP3's off DVD would work.
 
1) The audio receiver has TAPE DECK, PHONO, and AUX input posts on the back. Is any one of these compatible with earphone output of my mp3 player? Unfortunately, it doesn't have lineout. I triedd all 3 but audio quality isn't impressive.

2) My old stand-alone dvd player (maybe 5 years old?) cannot play mp3 dvd, though it takes mp3 cd. I asked at a local Walmart but the store clerk wasn't sure if their stand alone dvds (home theater type) can play mp3 dvd's. Is this a common feature for today's dvd player?

Thanks.
 
1) You can get and adapter that will take your headphone jack to RCA plugs which I assume is what you have on your receiver.
2) It is a fairly common feature. You will probably have better luck looking at some models online than asking at your local Walmart.
 
I have a similar question. I have a decent quality CD player for my home stereo, but I'm sick of burning audio CDs of my mp3 music for it.

I have a cheap little 2gb mp3 player that I have hooked up to my home system, but it's a pain and seems stupid to keep replacing the AAA battery for it!

What are my options for a component mp3 player that actually plugs into a wall outlet?
I've seen a number of $30 DVD players that will play mp3 CD-R, but that means I'd have to burn CD-Rs for it. I'd rather something that could take SD or microSD to ease transferring files from my computer.

Any ideas?
 
I was thinking of that. Of course it still involves some amount of maintenance and switching out the batteries and charging them, which I'd like to avoid.

I was thinking of a AAA replacement adaptor that's shaped like a battery but has a wire leading to a dc adapter plugged into the wall... Anyone ever heard of such a thing? I looked at dealextreme but couldn't find anything like that.
 
In the UK, I could set up a Sony Ericsson Walkman phone (tried this with the W800i and W880i) and they have a pass-thru battery charger. I could plug the battery charger into the phone and the headphone piece into the back of that. A 3.5mm jack from the headphone socket to the 3.5mm jack in the back of my Receiver, jobs a good'un.

Phone would stay on and constantly charged via battery charger, it would be connected up to the speakers all of the time and the memory card is often 2, 4, 8Gb and hotswappable.

Can be very useful. I did it for a short time.
 
Cool... $27 w/ free shipping and plays media from a usb flash device. I like it. This may be my Channuka present to myself! Thanks.
 
Cool... $27 w/ free shipping and plays media from a usb flash device. I like it. This may be my Channuka present to myself! Thanks.
 
The Amazon review says it also plays from a USB hard drive! Also there's apparently hacked firmware...
 
Hmmmm... the $27 one went OOS. I'm looking around for a similar device for a good price. I'm seeing some that have USB and SD card slots. That's a cool idea. The silly thing is... I really don't care if it can read CDs or DVDs at all. Just an SD player would be perfect. They make those for cars that plug into the cigarette lighter. Funny they don't make them for home.
 
I'm considering building an AC adaptor-battery to use in the AAA battery compartment of my current mp3 player. Anyone know a cheap 1.5V regulated AC-DC wall-wart style adapter?

thanks
 
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