| | |  | Security & Surveillance | Home » » In-Car MP3 Player & Wireless FM Radio Transmitter for USB Flash Drive & SD Card with 12V Lighter Plug | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | This MP3 player wireless FM transmitter allows you to listen to the MP3 music saved on your USB flash drive or SD card in your car, truck, boat or RV. Now you can enjoy your MP3 music collection without having to spend money to upgrade your car stereo. It plugs into the cigarette lighter socket and plays your music through the car's stereo. Just plug in a USB flash drive with your favorite MP3s stored on it, and your all your tunes will instantly begin playing over the radio! This device also accepts SD/MMC cards (SD high capacity compatible) for maximum compatibility. With this transmitter's audio in port, you can even plug in another audio source. You can connect your iPod, portable DVD player, CD player, laptop computer, portable gaming console, or any other device with a standard headphone jack. This wireless transmitter broadcasts on the full spectrum of the FM band (over 200 stations), allowing you to choose the clearest stations to broadcast your music.
Another convenient feature of this MP3 transmitter is the included remote control. The slim, compact remote is perfect for storage in your car's visor, and allows you to conveniently control the unit from anywhere in the car. You can play, pause and skip songs with the remote, and even change the transmitting station. When playing MP3s, this unit displays information about the song the song title, minutes elapsed, etc. It also has selectable equalizer settings to suit your musical preference. What's included: Wireless Mobile MP3 Player/FM Transmitter, remote control, 3.5mm to 2.5mm audio cable, 1 year manufacturer's direct warranty. | | | Features: | |
• Plays MP3s from any USB flash drive or SD card (SDHC compatible)
• Audio in jack allows you to connect your iPod, portable DVD player, CD player, laptop computer, or portable gaming console
• Powered by your vehicle's 12V cigarette lighter socket
• Built-in FM transmitter to broadcast MP3 music to any FM radio station (206 selectable stations)
• Swivel design allows you to turn the unit 120 degrees from its base for positioning in any vehicle.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 3.55 inches | | Product Width:
| 1.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.87 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.02 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.88 inches | | Package Width:
| 11.88 inches | | Package Height:
| 6.81 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 11 reviews |
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Pretty good for the moneyMar 13, 2009
By Virginia guy
This product is pretty good for the money ($29.99). My only complaints are that it seems a little flimsily made, and that you get a split second of static between each mp3. But it does what it's supposed to do. As a clarification of an earlier post by another user, I note that the device does remember which mp3 file you were on the last time you started your car; it just doesn't remember where you were in that file, so it starts the file over again.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Good for what it is...Jun 22, 2008
By BigDaddyDK
"Big Daddy DK"
This is a basic product to play MP3 files from a flash drive over your car stereo. If you want the finest quality money can buy, this isn't for you. If you just want to hear your own tunes over your radio while driving this product works. It runs a little warm sometimes but it has never overheated or failed to work for me.
Lacks memory to remember where you left off when you turned off your car, but in a vehicle with a 12 volt jack that's always hot it's no major issue. I use a 1GB Sandisk Cruzer with it and it's good for me.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 You get what you pay forJul 09, 2010
By Julia M. Gardner
I actually purchased 3 of these items. One for me and two others for a friend. Let me start off by saying I didn't pay a whole lot for it ($12.99 ea.) so of course you get what you pay for. The quality of the music came through with alot of static. I tried this in 4 different cars with 4 different MP3 players. Two of the cars I wasn't even able to get the music to play through any station. It's a cheap product and I plan on investing alittle more money for one that works. I would not recommend this product.
 Great for the price, some tweaking needed to perfect, no bugsDec 31, 2011
By M. Bonnett
Thought I would add a review for this thing. Didn't buy it through Amazon but through a local store which had it on the shelf for $10. Figured it wasn't much of a loss if it croaked on me. Caveat to the review: I have not tried the USB or SD inputs yet. I have all my music on my Android phone with a good media player and scrobbling support so that just gets fed to the Aux input on the transmitter. With that said, the whole review and the tips below are focused on the Line input of the device and do not take into account anything to do with the SD or USB ports.
After a few days of playing with it and tweaking out some of the quirks, I find this great as a generic FM transmitter with the bonus of a remote control, digital frequency selection all through the band, and MP3 playback internally. To the quirks though:
1) I found initially that charing my phone and feeding through the transmitter at the same time introudced a lot of noise in the audio. Not ground hum but specifically a digital-like noise. I get this with my notebook through headphones when it is charging but goes away when running purely on battery. Might be ways around this and might not turn up for everyone. I find simply having my phone charged ahead of time and running on battery produces perfectly clean audio. My trips are only around 30 minutes max so not something I worry about.
2) Overmodulation/distortion: Very easy for audio distortion on this device. I guess it doesn't have any built in audio limiting hardware which can either be a good or a bad thing. Good being it is a more direct audio path with no modification. Bad being, as noted, it is easy to distort. And if all of your music is at different volumes, you are going to be constantly tweaking the output volume of your given device at every song change. And with the maximum level this transmitter will accept before distorting on you, you are going to want to keep the volume maxed as much as possible as I found the resulting volume through the radio was MUCH less than regular stations. My advice on this is to search for a program called Mp3gain which will put the volume of all your music at the same level so no constantly volume changing in the car.
Once the quirks are out of the way, it is a surprisingly good experience for the price. Not CD quality, but about 98% there and exceptionally clean with no static once a clean channel is found (I found 87.7 the best in my area. Bottom of the band is usually a good bet) which is surprising given the car in question is one with the antenna off the back (2005 Kia Optima) so getting good reception from a dinky fm transmitter is a bit hard to begin with. There are the occasional pops every so often but they are rare enough to not be a bother. All in all, deserves the 5 stars from me given my usage.
I do recommend though not using the included patch cable and using your own. For some reason it seems like the cheapest one they could include as the slightest jostle even at the headphone jack on the phone would cause scratchiness like you'd get from brushing up against a microphone. It is also too short for most cases. You can pick up one anywhere for pretty damn cheap and good quality if you don't have one somewhere in your house already. Monoprice.com is a good place to look here.
Not worth buyingFeb 03, 2011
By ppb
Buttons don't work well, remote buttons also don't work well and it starts playing the first song every time you start your car. That's very annoying... it can't remember the last song that you were playing and start there. And it's hard for you to get it there manually because the buttons don't work well. Bad quality product, overall.
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