Bluetooth transmitter for iPod 160GB

[HAL2001]

Not really 68MLa-like but there is a lot of experience here so I would like to hear your opinion. A week ago I got a hold of a very beautiful iPod 160GB. It’s hardly used and in great condition. I would like to use it wireless on my car radio. Of course I know there are FM transmitters but I would rather use it by means of bluetooth with a 30 pins bluetooth transmitter. eBay is full of them and I mailed with a couple of sellers but they don’t know anything of the stuff that they are offering. 

 
I would like to know if it’s possible to use the buttons like play, pause, next etc. on my car radio to operate the iPod. Of course this is functioning great in combination with a iPhone but what about the combination car radio-bluetooth adapter-iPod?
 
Gadgets like the  Jabra A125s, the Sony TMR-BT8IP, the Kokkia i10s and the MacSense BTi-600 all seem to do what I want but they are not for sale anymore or rather expensive. 
 
eBay is full of these kind of bluetooth transmitters: http://tinyurl.com/hsuavz5. Sellers even claim they have the desired protocol AVRCP (Audio/Video Remote Control Profile) that makes the buttons of car radio’s remotely operate an iPod with these kind of transmitters.
 
Does anyone have experience with these kind of transmitters or can you recommend another transmitter?
 
Thanks for your thougts!
 

 

[techknight]

I dont see why it wouldnt? As long as the bluetooth dongle supports AVRCP and has a genuine apple authentication chip it should work fine. 

A2DP is the audio stack, AVRCP is the control stack. I know the ipod is capable of it, because the original home docks could control them that way. So as long as the bluetooth adapter has the firmware to understand the AVRCP control stack, and convert that data into ipod control data, it will work. But it also requires the apple authentication chip which means the hardware developer has to pay big bucks. Cheap chinese knockoffs = stay away. 

I know most newer head units support AVRCP. So thats not an issue. 

Its going to very from dongle to dongle. Youll have to do some research and make sure it supports AVRCP. 

Also the link you provided has one of the worst cases of broken english that I have read in awhile, that is screaming stay away, its probably a cheap chinese knockoff that will likely not work correctly. And the fact that he says it wont work with ipod touch 1, and 2, well... yea... that means it has no ipod control chip inside, or at least not a very good one. genuine ones required the apple license agreement authentication chip crap for developers. 

If the bluetooth dongle just picks up the audio only and transmits it, then it doesnt need a chip. But if any dongle requires to interact with the ipod in any way, it requires the apple authentication chip. keep this in mind. I dont remember what the exceptions are though. 

The prices for the Sony are about what I expect for a genuine product that works with everything. It could very well have its own internal DAC. 

 

[HAL2001]

Just a few days after my posting I came across a Creative BT-D5 Bluetooth transmitter on our equivalent of Craigslist. I picked it up for just 10 euro and now my iPod classic has Bluetooth. And I can use the buttons on my car radio to skip to the next song. It does exactly what I want.

http://uk.creative.com/p/speakers/creative-bluetooth-audio-bt-d5-iphone-ipod-transmitter

 

[techknight]

And its creative audio. They would have definitely been on the apple developer list, so full support indeed.