On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:56:28 -0400, micky wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:16:45 -0400, Dan Espen
wrote:

Jim Joyce writes:

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:05:34 -0400, micky wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:10:24 -0700 (PDT), bruce
bowser wrote:

The thing is, I never really bothered or let alone perfected recording with much CD burning or thumb drive use strictly for audio, at least. I have three thumb drives and they're all practically empty.

Unefortunately for me, my car radio plays only audio CDs, not MP3s etc.
and you can't get many songs on an audio CD.

Is your current car still a Toyota? One of the nice things about most
factory Toyota radios is that USB adapters are widely available, easy to
install, and not very expensive. Some of them plug into the CD changer port
on the back of the radio. That's the other nice thing about many Toyota
factory radios. They tend to have a CD changer port. When I added a USB
adapter to a 2002 Highlander it took only about an hour.

Back of the radio?

I just did some searches for my 2006 Scion Xb.
I don't see any indication that there is something
on the back of the radio for USB.

He's talkng about a CD changer port. Rectangular with 6, 8, or 10 or
so pins. See if you can find a CD changer that would work with the
radio and if there is one, there should be a port too.

I know I can connect a player to the AUX port.
I really like the CD controls on the steering wheel which I don't
imagine would work with AUX.

No, they woudln't work with AUX but if y ou have a changer port, they'd
probably work with a changer that plugged into it. But not with an
AUX/USB port that plugged into it. .

With the kind of adapter that I'm talking about, the steering wheel
controls work with USB thumb drives. I can't remember if they also worked
with devices plugged into the Aux port.

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