How to listen to music from Nexus 4 (LG) thru AUX in 2009 Yaris?

[Kar98]

Right, "line in cable" was the other name for it. My first CD player had two 3.5 mm out jacks, one was for headphones and powered, and the other one was labeled "line out" and unpowered because it didn't need to drive headphones and expect the system it got plugged into to provide power. Which the car stereos I had in the Europe of the '90s did. Advantage? You could keep the discman running on a pair of AAs for many more hours because it didn't need to provide an amplified signal, just a signal.

I guess that wouldn't work at all with the standard aux-in jack on a Yaris.

[IllusionX]

Originally Posted by Kar98

Right, "line in cable" was the other name for it. My first CD player had two 3.5 mm out jacks, one was for headphones and powered, and the other one was labeled "line out" and unpowered because it didn't need to drive headphones and expect the system it got plugged into to provide power. Which the car stereos I had in the Europe of the '90s did. Advantage? You could keep the discman running on a pair of AAs for many more hours because it didn't need to provide an amplified signal, just a signal.

I guess that wouldn't work at all with the standard aux-in jack on a Yaris.

If you ever plugged a headphone into one of the "non powered" ports, you'd find that it is just the same as the headphone jacks but without volume adjustability. Ie, max volume.