There are a variety of FM stereo transmitters on the market that plug into your car’s cigarette lighter and play your MP3s off of your USB flash drive. This is a great way to turn your flash drive into a music player at an affordable price (several models are priced around 30$ US), provided you own a car!
Plug your flash drive into one of these transmitters then select an FM channel on your car and player and the music is broadcast through your car’s speakers. I haven’t tried these transmitters out but if any readers have, I would love to hear feedback regarding the sound quality of these devices.
July 28th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
I thought those are for transimitting played music by FM signals, so they only work on MP3 players, not plain USB drives.
July 28th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
No, not these particular models. If you check out the link you will see a detailed description; Here is a quote from the site selling these units:
“Take any average USB Flashdrive (aka thumbdrive) and turn it into an in-car mp3 player. Simply insert the USB flash-drive into the FM transmitter…”
You can plug your iPod (or other MP3 player) in as well though – it’s not only for USB flash drives, and the unit can act as a charger for those devices.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:02 pm
cool blog