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Old Sep 5, 2011 | 11:00 PM
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Mine is a 2000.Radio sounds great.But it won't play mp3s.Are there any factory radios that will work with my Boze sytem that will play mp3s.
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Old Sep 5, 2011 | 11:02 PM
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Mine is a 2000.Radio sounds great.But it won't play mp3s.Are there any factory radios that will work with my Boze sytem that will play mp3s.
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Install the PAC adapter, then you can plug an ipod into your radio.
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Old Sep 5, 2011 | 11:19 PM
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Install the PAC adapter, then you can plug an ipod into your radio.

I assume you're saying there is no factory radio.What is PAC adapter?
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Old Sep 5, 2011 | 11:21 PM
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Contact member C5 Bearsfan his name is dennis and he owns DDMods a forum sponsor. He knows everything there is to know about audio on these cars and you can't beat his prices.

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Originally Posted by cdkcorvette7
Contact member C5Bearsfan his name is dennis and he owns DDMods a forum sponsor. He knows everything there is to know about audio on these cars and you can't beat his prices.
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Old Sep 6, 2011 | 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Black Cloud
Mine is a 2000.Radio sounds great.But it won't play mp3s.Are there any factory radios that will work with my Boze sytem that will play mp3s.
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Are you saying you can't plug in an mp3 player (true), or that your CD player won't play mp3 encoded songs (not so true)?
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Old Sep 6, 2011 | 06:05 PM
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Are you saying you can't plug in an mp3 player (true), or that your CD player won't play mp3 encoded songs (not so true)?
It will not play MP3 music format CDs.
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Old Sep 6, 2011 | 06:33 PM
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MP3's weren't that prevalent 11 years ago, CD players of the day only really played the CD format at the time.
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I thought the ones I recorded were mp3 but I now see that they aren't. So, you could just load them into your computer and reburn them as an audio CD. That'll do the trick.
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If you have a smartphone there's zero reason to use your cd player today.
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Please explain
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I was having problems with cd burned from my computer in either format playing in my corvette bose radio cd with out cd changer.So after talking to people from this forum and Dennis at Double D MODS.I bought Ipod adapter kit pxdp and pxhgm4 .This wire harness and adapter which plugs into wire harness in back of bose stock radio with out 12 cd changer.It allows me to plug in Ipod and play music using radio controls vol,fastforward etc.I also charges Ipod.With directions on DD web site it took me about 1 hour going slow nervous about messing things up.I think it cost around 89.00.alot cheaper than new radio and keeps the original look . ( Ipod put in glove box out of sight )So give Dennis at Double D Mods a call.Hope this helps you.
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Originally Posted by F&Yb0dluvr
If you have a smartphone there's zero reason to use your cd player today.
He means that music from the smartphone can be sent via Bluetooth to a the car stereo (if you install a Bluetooth capable head unit). The systems in my Corvette and Baja can do this but I usually use the iPod since the head unit displays the album/song info and has iPod-like controls.
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Originally Posted by Black Cloud
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mp3s burned onto cds don't always play--- cd players back in '98 were finky as to the type of cd that the songs were recorded on, and the precise manner in which they were recorded. just get the pac adapter-- it's cheap, and it's easy to install (just yank out you passenger accessory panel and run the wire under the passenger seat).

Plus, you get the added bonus of being able to use any phone, pda, or mp3 player with your stock system, and not limited to just a 700 meg cd.
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Originally Posted by K9Leader
He means that music from the smartphone can be sent via Bluetooth to a the car stereo (if you install a Bluetooth capable head unit). The systems in my Corvette and Baja can do this but I usually use the iPod since the head unit displays the album/song info and has iPod-like controls.
thats not what he means. he means that with a pac adapter, you can connect any player with a standard 3.5mm stereo output to your stock bose stereo.
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Originally Posted by JMG2
thats not what he means. he means that with a pac adapter, you can connect any player with a standard 3.5mm stereo output to your stock bose stereo.
All my MP3s are on disks.Approx.1000 songs.I have yet figured out how to open the disks to move the files back on my computer .
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Originally Posted by cdkcorvette7
Contact member C5 Bearsfan his name is dennis and he owns DDMods a forum sponsor. He knows everything there is to know about audio on these cars and you can't beat his prices.
Dennis is the man for stereo setups.
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I have an Iphone 4 connected to my stock Bose cd player with the Peripheral adapter. http://shop.doubledmods.com/Peripher...ter-ipodc5.htm
Not only do I have hundreds of songs I can listen to with the ipod part of it, I have SIRIUS, Pandora, you tube and thousands of other stations with apps. My cd player is collecting dust.
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All you need is an analog input to the headunit, then you can use any MP3 player to plug it into since your really only sending analog output to the head. Many use the CD changer input at the back with an adapter but if your headunit has a cassette (that you never use), there are connectors for that or even wireless that you tune to an empty FM station.
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Originally Posted by Black Cloud
All my MP3s are on disks.Approx.1000 songs.I have yet figured out how to open the disks to move the files back on my computer .
Download and open itunes. Insert a disk and it'll suck your music into your computer. You can then burn new disks in AUDIO CD format from itunes. Done.
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