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Old Feb 23, 2015 | 05:16 AM
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Hello .Does anyone know if you can use a mp3 player other than Apple ipods with their Harley ipod interface(#76476-10) and saddlebag ipod holder(#76000143)? I currently have a Sony mp3 which works fine and has all my music library on it. Thanks.
 
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Old Feb 23, 2015 | 08:13 AM
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I'm gonna say no because you would have no way to connect it to the interface. The HD interface has an Apple 30 pin connector as the in source.
 
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Old Feb 23, 2015 | 08:34 AM
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No, you can't. That's why it's called an iPod interface, and not an MP3 player interface.
 
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Originally Posted by djcos1
Hello .Does anyone know if you can use a mp3 player other than Apple ipods with their Harley ipod interface(#76476-10) and saddlebag ipod holder(#76000143)? I currently have a Sony mp3 which works fine and has all my music library on it. Thanks.
You know that is a great question.......I had a Fatboy that I put a fairing on awhile back and I bought a Sony head unit which had an Ipod plug and a USB plug. I figured out that I could plug a memory stick with music on it and it played as if it where an Ipod but the 2013 SG OEM system doesn't have a USB port just and Aux jack. Try plugging a memory stick into it with mp3 (not wave) music and see what you get.
 
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if your prime mover is control of playback through the hand controls...I found the HD interface to be a pain.

you have to constantly take eyes off the road to see on the display if the unit is responding to inputs.

I like my eyes on the road.

so I try left, left, enter, up, enter, right right enter...

and find that the ipod is doing nothing like I hoped.

this was on cvo that I rode expressly to try out the ipod interface...in the end on my own bike I have a power supply and use the front panel aux in for my ipod...I saved hundreds

mike
 
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