How to play MP3 on car stereo?

I have a car stereo with a usb port on it, but when I plug my mp3 player into the usb port the mp3 player just shows the file transfer screen and will not do anything. The car stereo just says no files found.With normal use, unplugged and headphones it works perfectly. Any help appreciated.

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There are a few ways you can go about doing this . . .

1. If you have a lap top, you should be able to run a USB cable from it to your stereo and transfer files that way. If you do so, you computer may just recognize your stereo as another hard drive and you may be able to drag and drop files into your system.

2. If you stereo has a USB port, I'm guessing that it has an auxiliary input as well (this would look like a headphone jack except you put sound through it rather that it producing sound) In that case, you could buy one of those cables with a headphone plug on both ends. One end would go into your Mp3 player, and the other would go onto the auxiliary port on your stereo.

3. If you have a tape player in your car, you can buy a cassette adapter. It would run the audio from your mp3 player through the tape player and you would listen to it like a cassette.

4. If you can get you hands on an FM transmitter, those are interesting as well. powered by by your cigarette lighter, you plug the jack into you mp3 player and the device transmits a signal that you cam pick up on your car radio. A small downside they may have is that there can be interference from radio stations some times and you would have to switch frequencies.

I have done pretty much all of these things, and I must say that besides already having the music on your stereo, option #2 would give you the best results.