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My last two cars don't have fancy interfaces, but when you connected iPhone to a USB to charge you could also listen to the music.
by rimliu 7y ago
My last two cars don't have fancy interfaces, but when you connected iPhone to a USB to charge you could also listen to the music.
- iso1631 7y agoThat's a fancy interface. Connecting a portable music player to car radios tended to go * 3.5mm cassttee input * FM transmitter input (for cars with CD, not cassette) * 3.5mm aux input Power was a 12V cigarette lighter. During all of this the output from the mp3 lpayer was a 3.5mm device. It was only relatively recently (say in the last 7 years) that most cars started getting USB and bluetooth sockets that took audio connections. Even then there are issues - my 2016 skoda's airplay doesn't play music properly - it frequently skips, I have to use bluetooth to get skipless sound, which means not using maps. Having USB audio input as standard was even more recently than that - I hired a newish car about 3 years ago which had nothing by a 3.5mm input and 12V jack.