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Oky here goes...

I don't know if anyone done this before... but, what I wan't to do is the
following....

3 things that I have is, Laptop. FM MODULAR - TRANSFERS a signel via fm moduler tp radio where u can plug in you flashdisk and listen music from it, don't know if i explained it well enough. anyway..

what I wan't to do is. the fm modular uses a USB port... which u plug in the back of it set the frequency to the same as the one on the radio in the car.. and wham u can listen music via usb-fm moduler to car radio..

thing is I wan't to use the laptop as the USB device.. which I have found Both A- plugs connecters for usb that is the same which can be compatible with the laptop as the same with the memory stick.

only problem i have is setting it up?! cuz.... the fm moduler picks up the frequency though the usb.. but when i connect the laptop it switches of the frequency but the laptop stil reads the signal of the usb port.

erm. Any info to let this work will be greatly appreaciated thanks!

EDIT; another word for fm moduler... fm transmitter btw
nokkie :p
 
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no, it wont work.

with usb, one needs to be a host, the other needs to be accessing the host. (simple usb, bear with me)

your fm modulator is looking for a flash disc...it is trying to load the generic mass storage device...your laptop is not a generic mass storage device....it is a usb host.

effectively, you are trying to connect two hosts together, which is why you struggled like hell to find a cable with two usb A plugs.
 
BiteMe said:
no, it wont work.

with usb, one needs to be a host, the other needs to be accessing the host. (simple usb, bear with me)

your fm modulator is looking for a flash disc...it is trying to load the generic mass storage device...your laptop is not a generic mass storage device....it is a usb host.

effectively, you are trying to connect two hosts together, which is why you struggled like hell to find a cable with two usb A plugs.
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Ah... i understand, but is there perhaps a way to let the thing think... i have a "generic mass storage device"?
 
yeah, Biteme talks the truth.

Its gonna be hard to do what you want to do with it.

The software on that FM-modulator is very simply. It simply locates the directory's and files on the USB stick and plays them. (effectively numbering each track name to a number, so it sees the files as a number basically or plays it alphabetically etc..etc)

The FM modulator isn't going to search for files on another host. (when you connect your Laptop upto the FM modulator via the USB cable you are creating kinda fake lan almost, and it won't go searching for data across a network) *it won't work*

Flash drives are quite cheap, some places sell 2gig and 4gig sticks for a few hundred smackers.

4gig Axis USB Flash drive : http://www.take2.co.za/product.php?id=2227949
2gig Axis USB Flash drive : http://www.take2.co.za/product.php?id=2122913
 
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The fm modulator I had ,had a stereo input and that u can use to get music from anything with a audio output. I got the cable with it as well. That would be the only way to get audio from laptop.
 
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