Ok, firstly let me point out that I do not condone downloading of music from the internet for free. However, say hypothetically I had, how would I go about being able to listen to them in an XR6T with Premium Sound and a phone car kit using the "media" input?

Any ideas? What needs to be purchased etc?

Hypothetically, you could use any of the many CD burning packages to convert your MP3s to audio format and burn them to a CD, hypothetically.

hypatheticly you could buy a aux input plug a attach a mp3 player

Codsey,

It all depends on what media we are talking about. Ken is correct re the MP3 to CD. Just cut them to CDr and away you go.

If you have a personal MP3 player then you will need the optional media input plug (it does not matter if you have just Single CD or a car with Premium and Phone) The Media plug is seperate and sits under the Tissue holder near the back.

The Media input is about $30 f I recall. It was be a sinch to install yourself. ....

When burning mp3’s onto CD you’ll have to convert them to CD audio (.cda) first. This means you can only fit around 15 songs on a CD. If the Ford audio system (either standard or premium) was able to play mp3’s natively, you would be able to create a data cd (as apposed to audio), which means you could put hundreds of songs on one CD.

Use Neroto burn audio cd’s using mp3’s. It will convert the mp3 into cda automatically.

Various programs allow you rip mp3’s off audio cd’s.

To listen to mp3’s using an mp3 player on the Ford audio system you’ll need the Auxiliary Audio Plug-inInput, which is a wire that connects to the audio system and has a 3.5 mm jack which goes underneath the tissue box shelf as bdennis said. You’ll also need a male-to-mail 3.5 mm headphone jack, to attach the mp3 player to the aux plug-in (via mp3 player headphone jack).

Thanks all, I am going to go with a cd burner (local shop recomended Iomega Predator 3), as I would much prefer to be able to not have any of my original cd's in the car (last car got broken into and I lost all my faviorite cd's) and not have to pay to have cables installed by a tech, plus I can use it for storing other stuff.

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