ipod wont work with my usb ready cd player

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ipod wont work with my usb ready cd player

I just bought an insignia cd player that has a USB port for MP3 players and flash drives - they told me at best buy that it would work - they know for sure from trying that the shuffle and video ipod works but it doesn't seem to work with my nano. I am trying to find out if I am doing something wrong (when I plug it in it recognizes that I have plugged it in and the ipod begins charging and then says do not disconnect like it is updating only it doens't stop saying it and wont let me access anything on it) and I also want to know if maybe there is any kind of adapter that will let me use the nano - best buy said it might be to new since the other kinds work. Does anyobe have any suggestions!?!

Nano, Windows XP

Posted on Feb 12, 2006 5:24 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 12, 2006 5:40 PM in response to blueeyebeauty20

You have to put your songs on the Thumb Drive portion of the nano before they will play on the CD player. It reads them as if they were on a USB drive, not from the iPod part. That's true for any iPod that will work with it.

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Answer 2

Feb 12, 2006 6:04 PM in response to blueeyebeauty20

In your iPod options there is a check box to "enable disk use". You have to turn that one and then it will appear as a drive on your computer. You have to drag songs to it just like you drag any other type of file to copy them. The problem with this method is that you can't control the playback from the iPod, and it will take double the amountof space because the iPod won't play the songs if they are stored in the disk portion. So you would have to have one copy for iPod and one copy for CD player. But why do you want to do that in the first place? The iPod will already play back all the songs, and with a lot more control than the CD player has.

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Answer 3

Feb 12, 2006 6:11 PM in response to Bruce Hoover

Well I was originally just trying to find any easy way to play my ipod in my car stereo without having to get the FM transmitter thing, so to do what you are saying will just waste my ipods memory - or can I just store it on my ipod that way instead of the standard way?

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Answer 4

Feb 12, 2006 6:37 PM in response to blueeyebeauty20

You could store it that way instead of the standard way, but then you can't use it like an iPod for normal listening.

What I did for my car playback was to buy a CD player for the car that has an AUX input on the front. Then you buy a $3 cable from Radio Shack or someplace like that, plug one end into the iPod, the other end into the AUX input, and it plays like a charm.

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Answer 5

Feb 12, 2006 5:59 PM in response to Bruce Hoover

I'm sorry how do I do that - I'm not to good at using my ipod yet...

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