can u connect a newer model cd changer with rca jacks??

[95Prober 10+ year member]

just wonderin on this. i heard that in-dash dvd players have rca's connecting the unit, but i dont know if a mp3 cd changer can? see i have a pioneer head unit, please dont say buy a new deck, i dont wanna yet,

and i want to hook up a non-pioneer cd changer with rca jacks. i have a pioneer adapter cable that plugs into the back of my deck. heres a link:



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and enables me to have another set of rca outputs to connect another piece of equipment to the deck using the "Aux" feature of the deck. since a non-pioneer changer wont have the same cables as a pioneer deck does, i was wondering if there was a mp3 cd changer that can be connected via rca cables instead of the normal IP-bus cable ???

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[stones 10+ year member]

Yes, any MP3 player with a headphone jack will work you just need a pin to rca cord found at any electronics shop. I use one on my computer to connect it to my HT.

 

[95Prober 10+ year member]

but i was looking to add a changer, not an ipod or portible mp3 player to connect to the head unit. so i need to find a mp3 cd changer that the signal can be hooked thru rca cables and not the regualr IP-bus cable

 

[stones 10+ year member]

CD changers are so 90's //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif , hard drives and DVD changers is where its at mang!

 

[95Prober 10+ year member]

CD changers are so 90's //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif , hard drives and DVD changers is where its at mang!

but my pocket book is so 90's mang //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif

oh heres an interesting question, can a computer hard drive be connected to a head unit via rca cables???that would be funny, kinda ghetto, but would work great. just mount the slim hard drive somewhere. then again ,skipping would be a problem probably

oh , and i dont play dvd's in my car so dont need one of those. i dont want a cd changer. i have one already. i want an MP3/ cd changer. i only want music in my car, no video. so thats why im trying to find a way to connect an MP3 changer to my deck. the problem is, they will be 2 DIFFERENT brands, so thats the tricky part. i dont want an "FM modulated or RF antenna" changer either. just a regular one

 

[stones 10+ year member]

When i said hard drive I meant portable MP3 player, as some of them actually have one built in.

If you could get your hands on a portable MP3 player with 256 megs or more of memory and just hook it into your aux input with the pin to rca cable I mentioned earlier you would have a bunch of music right at your fingertips, very convenient and easy to install, the price is pretty affordable as well.

 

[95Prober 10+ year member]

yeah. i see what ur saying about portable and all. but i really dont want to connect like that. even though its a good idea. i prefer a real disc player so i dont to bother downloading

bear with me, but i have an idea and wondering if it may work. now i know its just easiest to buy an mp3 deck, but i was thinking it MAY be possible if i did it like this:

1. first, the pioneer adapter, this one :

that connects to the back of my non-mp3 pionner deck and enables me to run a set of rca outputs for "Aux" mode, will be connected to the head unit.

2. then run MALE-to-MALE rca jacks from that pioneer adapter, all the way to the back of my trunk where the mp3 cd changer is mounted.

3. the mp3 cd changer will be just a regular model that has a cd controller which i will mount up front near the dash to control disks , since the pioneer deck cant do it since its not the same brand. now the mp3 cd changer, will not be an "FM modulated OR RF control" style. just a basic regular unit unit, just as if you were to hook it up directly to the same brand head unit.

4. now here is the tricky question that im not sure about 100%. after running the rca's back to trunk, how can i connect rca's to the mp3 cd changer that is not even a pioneer changer?? well, i though of it this way.

on the cd changer side, you must plug in a cable as if you were running it all the way up to the front correct? BUT, what if i used that same kind of adapter that i used on the pioneer side, EXCEPT, it would be that particular cd changer brand adapter, not a pioneer one. coz the pioneer one would have the same plug type and therefore couldnt connect a pioneer one in the changer. then plug the other end of rca's into the cd changer adapter.

in the end, i would have to buy a cd changer, one pioneer adapter like in the upper link, AND another adapter like the pioneer, BUT a different brand.

would it work possibly??