Jeff's LiveJournal

I recently bought a 20 GB Archos portable MP3 player (for only $103 after rebates and discounts) as many other people on FatWallet also did. It's a pretty nice player, especially due to the fact that it has the RockBox opensource Archos firmware project. I've been wanting to hook it up to the stereo in my Jeep, but hadn't been able to because my factory-shipped Chrysler stereo headunit didn't have an auxiliary line-in. Since my Jeep had a CD player and not a cassette tape player, I couldn't use one of those cassette adapters. It also didn't have a CD Changer connector so I couldn't use one of those CD Changer to AUX adapters. And I definitely didn't want to use one of those FM modulators on an empty station, since I knew it would only give me a poor quality signal.

So I figured the best option would be to get a replacement stereo headunit that would allow me to directly connect my MP3 player via an AUX input. ( read about the stereo installation )

  
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