Hooking Up An Aux-in Mp3 Player - Options?

[Socal]

I've got a new MP3 player that I want to be able to play through my car. My HU, an Eclipse 530R3, is rather old, but it has a CD changer currently hooked-up in the trunk. I want have RCA imputs running from the HU to be able to plug into the stereo mini-jack on the MP3 player.

After poking around, I found a 13-pin DIN to RCA adapter like the one below, but as I suspected my HU wasn't Aux-imput ready so it didn't work.

Info here

So, what options are there? After reading a thread here about jumpering this and that wire on the DIN connection, which I understood very little of, it's clear that going from a DIN to RCA isn't as simple as pluging in the appropriate adapter.

Would something like this work?

It's designed for a Kenwood HU

[drlava]

I've got a new MP3 player that I want to be able to play through my car. My HU, an Eclipse 530R3, is rather old, but it has a CD changer currently hooked-up in the trunk. I want have RCA imputs running from the HU to be able to plug into the stereo mini-jack on the MP3 player.

After poking around, I found a 13-pin DIN to RCA adapter like the one below, but as I suspected my HU wasn't Aux-imput ready so it didn't work.

Info here

So, what options are there? After reading a thread here about jumpering this and that wire on the DIN connection, which I understood very little of, it's clear that going from a DIN to RCA isn't as simple as pluging in the appropriate adapter.

Would something like this work?

It's designed for a Kenwood HU

aftermarket radios SHOULD have aux-in option. That dongle appears to be an ai-net interface. Read up on your radio's documentation to see if it can be put into aux mode. otherwise, you need to get a changer simulator dongle or a new HU.