Does anybody know if the "radio" we have has RCA inputs? Here's the deal - hard drive located in the trunk, up to 160GB (yes, that's right, jigga-bites) of digital audio files, accessible by a head unit mounted somewhere up front. Very kewl would be a hacked interface into the audio display of the navi screen... Here's a decent system, it even has WiFi uploads for your car, parked at your house. They can be scheduled updates, so new tunes are waiting for you each morning.

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-Y5Wgr34...=1&cc=01&avf=Y

This is the Omnifi DMP1, it's one of several similar systems available. Anyone know how to install so it's not a kluge in our 04TL?

 

According to my car install guy, there is *no* known way to get ID3 tagging and MP3 navigation on the TL's nav screen. The reason appears to be the built-in XM functionality. There isn't another digital input to make the interface work. It's not about a set of RCA jacks for audio; it's about lack of a place to point the MP3 digitalia because the XM is taking up that bandwidth.

There is a kit coming out for the CL (of all things), but my guy doesn't think he can make that work.

I may have to do what I did in my soon-to-be trade in RL; put the 6 disc Alpine MP3 CD changer in the trunk and run their gumstick head unit (with handy remote) to one of the empty doors in the dash. You'll have to deal with that unsightly green hue though.

BJ