Those with cars equipped to hook up iPod?

I feel silly asking this but we just got a Ford Edge and there is a jack to hook up your iPod, but I'm not sure which cable we're supposed to use?

I only have the headphone cable and the cable to charge the iPod, is this something separate we are supposed to purchase or did it come with the iPod? I can't find my original box for my Nano though.

Thanks for any help, I'm seriously electronically-deficient.

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I had to buy a DH a separate cable when I bought his Ipod. I got it at Radio Shack.

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yes it's a different cable. You can find it at radio shack, each end of the cable looks like the piece you'd connect your headphones to the ipod with, if that makes any sense. So one end goes into the car the other end goes into the headphone insert on the ipod.

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Great! Thanks everyone!

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The jack is called an auxiliary jack - just tell Best Buy or Radio Shack that you need the cable to go from MP3 player to auxiliary jack in the car.

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you can use a or b but not both

A) a 3.5 mm jack to 3.5 mm jack

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021802&p_id=4152&seq=1&format=2

b) your existing ipod cable plugs into the usb

Sync will index your ipod the first time which will take a while.

eta; i have an edge also...you should use the tutriol as it will teach you how to talk to your car

Message edited 4/29/2009 5:21:53 PM.

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Hm. Okay, so I still need help with this (told you I was electronically-challenged )

I bought the Auxiliary jack and I followed the instructions but the "LINE IN" never showed up on the display panel. Also, when I used the iPod cable in the USB port the SYNC system told me that it couldn't index my iPod because it was missing album covers or something like that? I dunno, I'm so confused.

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I have a different cable. It has a pointy thing on two ends and I hook up one to the car, and the other to the ipod. (Kind of like if I were hooking it up to a stereo). I still have to control the ipod through the ipod not the car. In my car, I have to hit the AUX button so that it can play.

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my car has an ipod cord in the glove box

and a place to put the ipod- but I didn't notice that until sunday

(I will have the car for 3 years next month)

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I have the Ford Edge too. I bought the cable at Radio Shack for around 10-15 dollars.

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In my car you plug the power cord into the usb port. If it doesn't have the usb port than I honestly have no idea. I don't have an ipod, I have an iphone with music on it, but I know the ipod cord and the iphone cord are the same, because i have used my sisters cord to charge my phone.

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i have an 08 edge so i don't know how the menu works in the new 09's...

On line-in, you can pretty much connect anything you want that outputs audio. My system plays stuff even though it can't index everything. That is using the USB connection. I recommend using your Ipod USB cable in your car...

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As soon as I hit the Aux button...line in comes up. That's when I know I can play the ipod. Keep pressing the Aux button...