As someone said earlier Claudia, there are many radio receivers now with an input jack that you can connect an MP3 player to through the earphone or sometimes other socket on the player. There are more these days with a USB port too. I have a small sony bookshelf system here in the kitchen rocking out Bad Girlfriend: Theory of a Deadman as I write which has a USB port. It isn't particularly useful as far as I can tell for the Blind, it brings up a menu on the radio which you can navigate through with tuning buttons on the radio and select. Essentially the radio is using the attached device as a memory device it can use to retrieve digital data from.
It just struck me that one could probably plug a memory stick into there and play content from that. Problem remains though to read the radio display. When you are shopping make sure you are buying an audio or A U X (auxiliary) input rather than a USB input or both if necessary. With the audio input you will have to balance the volume output from the MP3 player not to overdrive the receiver. More and more receivers are made with inputs and outputs. Not all will be 35 mm jacks though, I have an older Sony boombox which uses a left and right RCA style jack. You can buy cords adapted for this, a single plug on the MP3 end and two RCA style on the stereo receiver end. Keep the rock rolling! ----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 2:21 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Needing Suggestions! Hi, I'd like to purchase a compact stereo or boom box that I can hook up my MP3 players to. Is this possible? Can anyone make any suggestions regarding this? Thanks. Claudia Join either of my groups; the first is for visually-impaired women, while the other is for people wishing to discuss homemaking issues. [email protected] [email protected] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
