<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><br>If you don't have a CD changer, then you could open up your car stereo and poke around till you find the Left channel and Right channel inputs to the main audio amplifier, then play a blank cassette tape (if your stereo has a built-in tape player) or play a blank CD (if it has a built-in CD player). Audio ground is just the metal case of the stereo.</div>
</blockquote><div>Using the case as audio ground will usually work, but may be noisy. Because a small amount of noise at the amplifier input gets, well, amplified, most amplifiers have a "power and digital" ground which includes the case, and a semi-isolated "analog ground" which is only used for the input stage. The two ground planes are connected through a small-value inductor or just a thin pcb trace. I'd connect to ground at an input pin or anywhere else in the input stage.<br>
<br>Be cautious reverse engineering connectors, it's possible to cook stuff by accidentally connecting to power pins.<br><br>There are places that sell aftermarket kits for this kind of thing, like these guys: <a href="http://www.connects2.com/">http://www.connects2.com/</a> , but they're a little on the pricey side.<br>
<br>The easiest solution, if you just want to be sure you have tunes for your trip, is to use a cassette adapter or an FM transmitter and avoid the hardware hacking entirely. It's not the best form a sound quality perspective or the most fun, but it works.<br>
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