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Cant play through car handsfree HCA-20

5 replies · 2,363 views · Started 15 April 2004

Built-in media player is not streaming audio to my car speakers. I have P800 connected to a handsfree HCA-20. Only phone calls and voice memos are possible in the car speakers. Other audio only in P800 speakers.
Is there any problem with streaming audio to system connector ?
I was desperated and I have managed to play some wav files through built in Voice Memo player. Simply I had copied those files into C:\documents\Voice\VoiceNotes. But those file must be.... in GSM 6.10 format, 8khz, mono. HELP

No that is not possible. You can only listen to music through the built-in speaker or the headphones that comes with it.

Oh no 😞
Maybe other than built-in player can do this ? I'll pay !
Voice memo player can.
I don't want to use hedphones in my car or another wire from P800 to my car stereo

Nope, no 3rd party apps either. If you want to use mp3s in your car, you're gonna have to connect it to your car-radio

So is it possible to develop application playing MP3 to system connector and further to car stereo ? Or is this a problem of any kind ?
Does Symbian OS and P800 hardware allow for this ?

I don't believe the connector at the bottom is capable of producing stereo sound, so even if someone wrote MP3 software to output through that port, it would be mono. By far the easiest way to acheive what you want would be to locate a 2.5mm (the P800's headphone socket size) to 3.5mm (standard stereo socket size) stereo adaptor. I know Muzikfreakah managed to find one somewhere. The likes of Radioshack or Maplins should have them.

Then you can use standard stereo connectors to plug your P800 into your car's stereo system. All you'd have to do, each time you got into the car, would be to plug the adaptor into the headphone socket of your P800.