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Anybody recommend a good Lightning port to iPod 30-way adapter?
paul8f:
Have an Apple iPod Classic that uses the old-style 30 pin connector.
Trouble is, the Sony Dream Machine docking station I bought has an 8 pin Lightning port.
An adapter I bought on eBay fits, but doesn't work. |O Can't seem to find anything on Amazon.
Can anybody recommend an adapter that will allow both charging and music playing?
NiHaoMike:
Find or make a cable to split it to USB and analog audio.
tooki:
--- Quote from: paul8f on September 05, 2020, 02:14:00 pm ---Have an Apple iPod Classic that uses the old-style 30 pin connector.
Trouble is, the Sony Dream Machine docking station I bought has an 8 pin Lightning port.
An adapter I bought on eBay fits, but doesn't work. |O Can't seem to find anything on Amazon.
Can anybody recommend an adapter that will allow both charging and music playing?
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No such adapter exists officially. The official Lighting-to-30pin-dock adapters are to allow you to use newer devices on older docks, not vice versa. The crap on eBay is just a "dumb" adapter that passes through the power and USB. The ebay listings say "Supports charging (with a wall adapter) and data sync (with a computer) but will not be recognized by any other device" so I'm not sure why you expected it to work.
Since Lightning is digital only (unlike the old Dock connector that was digital and analog), and it's likely using a proprietary Apple protocol to receive said digital audio, there's no practical way to feed in audio to it.
Go back on eBay, but instead, buy a speaker dock with the 30-pin Dock connector. Since they're obsolete now, and millions were sold, they should be pretty cheap. Similarly, you could find one at a thrift store.
paul8f:
--- Quote from: tooki on September 06, 2020, 02:29:43 pm ---No such adapter exists officially.
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I'm thinking the very same now. (Although I have read stories of some folks having success with these adapters on Bose docking stations). Do you know if there are any official Apple products that would do the conversion? -- Not that I'd buy it or anything, coz knowing Apple you'd pay a hefty fee to get it.
A thrift store is exactly the place I picked up the used docking station. It doubles as an a clock-radio alarm unit, so it's not a complete loss! ^-^ ...Plus I can still feed the headphone jack of the iPod into the rear Audio In (AUX) port of the docking station, and listen to my tunes that way. Just a pity I can't use the full interface.
NiHaoMike:
Does it have a USB port? You should be able to plug in the iPod over USB and then use the interface on the unit to navigate files. Of course, then you might as well just plug in a USB drive.
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