Hi guys I've just got a brand new 60 plate Econetic and i love it soo much, such a fab little car.

Anyhoo I also have a sony Walkman MP3 player and i've been trying to hook them up. I can plug the mp3 player in to the USP port with the same cable I use to connect to my PC but when i plug it in and push the aux button it seems to register theres something plugged in but doens't give me any options to navigate into the device.

All the mp3's have been ripped with windows media player but it can't seem to find them or even the folder structure any idea's?

Should it simply be a case of plugging it in, pushing AUX and letting it do the rest?? sorry it's bugging me now i thought setting my phone up with bluetooth would be the hard bit but no i got that first time the mp3 player however and im stuck.

Theirs a couple of things, the USB on teh ford isnt usually used to transferr the sound, just teh play data.

If you have ripped your music collection with Windows Media Player, then thats bad news, as they use a WMP MP3 format that doesnt like to play on many things.

Have you tried just the audio jack to see if it will carry the sound?

No i haven't tried an audio jack i don't have the cables. Is that a cable that connects from the headphone socket to the little round socket next to the USP port?

No i haven't tried an audio jack i don't have the cables. Is that a cable that connects from the headphone socket to the little round socket next to the USP port?

Correct.

Unless your MP3 player can be set to 'mass storage mode' and the files are in the right format you need to use the headphone socket to play audio.

Yes, unless you have an ipod, and use the y cable, which is very stiff and breaks, you will need 2 cables, one in the usb socket, and one in the aux socket. They don't tell you this, or didn't know as my car was pretty much first, so I bought and ipod for it, took it with me when I picked it up, and it played, but no sound. So tried an aux cable, and that worked, and I'd forgotten something from my old one, so had to go back, so told them!

You will need a 3.5 to 3.5 Aux!

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Brilliant thanks guys i've ordered the cables, they cost 88p so not exactly a major expence.

Tbh i know i could just use CD's but i figure this has to be a better option than having 100 cd's cluttering up the car.

Yea its deffo is, if you dont mind running the audio directly from it and jsut controlling it from the device then itll be fine, 2 things tho.

1. Put the putput volumne to max and make sure any Sony volumne limiters are tunred off as a low output means you end up tuning the volumne on the headunit to high, and ruins quality

2. Turn off any sound equalisers or bass boost effects on the device and jsut use the Headunits 3 band Eq.