Question about stock Dakota CD players & MP3

From : joe

Q: joe@siegler.net joe siegler wrote in my wife and i are looking at a dodge dakota around late feb / early march. i had a question that i thought id get a straighter answer to here instead of calling dodge about it. my current car has a cd/mp3 player in it and ive gotten highly addicted to mp3s - i dont know if i want to go back to a cd player without it. what im looking for is to find out if any of the cd players that come stock from dodge will play mp3s at all. id optimally like to get one stock that plays mp3s so i dont have to immediately replace it with an aftermarket player. if i have to ill do that but id like to know ahead of time so i dont waste $ putting in anything more than the base audio compoment. because if the stock units do not play mp3 ill put in the lowest audio option basically the cassette/amfm player i think and then pull it out with a third party cd/mp3 player. thanks for any help you can give. dont think that dodge offers an in-dash cd that plays mp3s but you might be able to get an aftermarket cd/mp3 changer that will connect to the dodge in-dash head unit. check www.crutchfield.com for starters. joe black 03 dakota 5.9 r/t cc calypso green 93 mustang 5.0 lx hatch with a few goodies .

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From : kyle

my wife and i are looking at a dodge dakota around late feb / early march. i had a question that i thought id get a straighter answer to here instead of calling dodge about it. my current car has a cd/mp3 player in it and ive gotten highly addicted to mp3s - i dont know if i want to go back to a cd player without it. what im looking for is to find out if any of the cd players that come stock from dodge will play mp3s at all. id optimally like to get one stock that plays mp3s so i dont have to immediately replace it with an aftermarket player. if i have to ill do that but id like to know ahead of time so i dont waste $ putting in anything more than the base audio compoment. because if the stock units do not play mp3 ill put in the lowest audio option basically the cassette/amfm player i think and then pull it out with a third party cd/mp3 player. thanks for any help you can give. joe i have a panasonic in my dodge and it works perfectly. you can play anything in it. youll get more out of a aftermarket deck than what chrysler passes off on you. the infinity system is a joke that they put in rams and durangos. just get the lowest thing they offer maybe even just a radio without cassette. places like crutchfield will give you everything you need to do the installation yourself. hope that helps. .