For Christmas I got an MP3 player from Darling Hubby. It’s something that I’ve wanted for a while now and I’m really loving it. It will help me get through the boring chores like folding laundry, dishes, sweeping/mopping, etc. I don’t have a radio in every room and I usually do my cleaning while Fidget naps, so I tend to try to stay quiet.
So I have this tiny little MP3 player, cute purple and blue earbuds and Outlander the Musical to rock out to while I’m cleaning. For those of you who enjoy Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, Outlander the Musical is a musical adaptation written to go along with the first book. I love it, except for the woman they chose to do Jaimie’s sister Jenny’s voice…she sounds like an elderly Chinese woman, but I digress. I can sing and dance around while cleaning and no one is the wiser. 🙂
Another perk of having a little MP3 player is that I can use it in my car. The only down side is that it won’t work in my car…For some reason when I plug it into my USB port in my car I get nothing…I called the dealership and brought it in to be looked at. They deterimed that the UBS/AUX port wasn’t sending signals to the stereo, so they ordered the part to replace it. I had the new part installed yesterday and when I went out into the parking lot and tried it before I left, it still didn’t work, even though they assured me it did. The tech ended up coming out and taking a look with me. They only tried it with an auxilliary cable and his smart phone and not a USB cable. I know my USB cable isn’t faulty since it works with my computer to both charge the player and transfer data. After a few tries of him running back into the shop a couple times (which I felt bad about since it was like 20 degrees out and windy) for a couple USB cables he determined that it just wasn’t working.
He ended up taking it back into the shop and looking at it again in the warmth and decided that it’s possibly the radio not receiving the signals from the port. He did tell me that this was an updated port since the original model that came with the car had a tendency to malfunction…Great! Our next step is to order and install a whole new radio…Which means another trip and time spent waiting for that to be installed (at least I was able to get 4 rows knitted on my Bella Sweater and read a little of A Breath of Snow and Ashes this time around.) I’m hoping that this is the last time…It’s starting to seem silly to go through all the trouble just so I can have a little extra music, but it would be nice to be able to switch between all my music without having a ton of cd’s clogging up my glove box…
The car is 16 months old, so it should have worked from the get go, but I had no way of knowing since I never had reason to use it. The only good thing is that it’s all still under warranty, so I don’t have to pay anything out of pocket…or you can believe that I’d just say forget it. Hopefully this time we can make it work…fingers crossed for me.
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