Haier iPod and iPhone Car Charger with Built-in 3.5mm Aux Input and Noise Filter (Apple Certified) $8 + Free shipping

You need an AUX input in your car to play music through your car speakers using this, correct? Mine only has an USB input.

My car doesn't have the aux input or USB input, what to do? Any alternative?

I currently use a hacked together solution that does the same thing as this:

• I have an old iPhone dock (for the 1st-gen iPhone)
• I send the audio out from the dock to my car stereo aux port
• Dock is connected to a car charger
• I have an iPhone/iPod extension cable that plugs into dock that I then connect my iPhone 4S to

This works brilliantly. Only have one connection to make to both charge and send audio out. The audio is sent out as a line out, so there is no volume control on the iPhone, which is good because I don't have to worry about finding the right volume for the best audio quality.

Sounds like this does the same thing and I think that is worth $8. I wonder if the noise filter does any good. I would buy this myself to replace my somewhat kludgy solution that is a bit of a mess of wires, but I'm planning to go Bluetooth sometime soon. Proper Bluetooth (with A2DP) is much better than this, but that costs a lot more than $8.

Edit: BTW, I've been using my solution for a year with my iPhone 4S, and have not noticed any issues with the battery. I dont' think frequent charging is a problem.

You need an AUX input in your car to play music through your car speakers using this, correct? Mine only has an USB input.

you don't need this. just plug your iphone/ipod usb into this and your phone and you should be good to go. i had a borrowed iQ i was driving a few weeks ago with a usb and it worked great doing that with my ipod. charged it while it showed the files too!

Thanks but the problem is i have a Galaxy S3 and my car cannot read it when its plugged into the USB port.

i think you may have to put the phone into a different usb mode. i have the same phone but don't have usb in my car to try it. but that's how it works when you plug it into the computer you need to tell it it's a media drive so it'll read the right folder structure.

i would assume it would be the same way with a car, maybe someone else can chime in.