This may sound really stupid, but although my new (to me) 2005 Octavia Elegance's manual says there's an AUX input for the Skoda Stream radio, I can't find it. It says it's on the seat armrest, but the seats don't seem to have armrests! It's not on the centre console either.
Can anyone tell me where to find it? It's not a big problem - my old car's audio unit died many years ago and I just got used to driving without music rather than buy a new one. But now I've got a car with sounds again, it would be nice to be able to plug in an MP3 player or phone.

You can buy small FM car transmitters powered from the 12V cigarette lighter socket, plug in or bluetooth whatever you want to it and simply tune car radio to it.

 

Many to choose from on the bay for a fiver.

Edited 1 October, 20205 yr by MicMac

Thanks MicMac.
I used to have one of those. It didn't work very reliably and I gave up with it. Maybe they're a bit better these days. . .

My partners old 2007 seat Leon had a CD/Aux button. There was no Aux input visible within the car. I suspect if you were to pull out the head unit it’ll have a Jack at the back for AUX and you can then neatly feed that through the glovebox or ash tray or similar 

 

 

 

Hope these pictures help

Thanks for the pics. I thought it should be there (great place to tuck away a player safely), but I don't recall seeing anything there on mine. Perhaps it was an option.
I'll check again tomorrow. . .

I don’t think it was standard in 2005. Is your head unit a Stream or Stream MP3? I seem to recall when I had a Stream fitted it had an aux option but never did anything. I have an Audience 6 disk unit now and never did get around to sorting the aux. I just use a FM modulator. 

I think it's a Stream MP3, because the manual supplied refers to playing discs of MP3 content.
BUT when I tried to insert a disc with some MP3 files the display just said "CD-ROM" and it spat it out. However then I tried the same disc in a home system that's supposed to play MP3s, and that wouldn't play it either.

While it's off-topic a bit, here's what I happened next. . .
I'd made the disc using a CD-RW medium (and the home hifi is supposed to take these), but a second test with it set as a standard audio CD also failed on the home hifi - bringing up the message "not finalized". My software is set to finalise discs, so I started to suspect the discs themselves (they're quite old, and CD-RWs are reputed to have a limited lifespan). So I tried the same audio CD content on a write-once disc. That worked in both home and car player.

So we can at least burn some CDs of our favourites (or rather, our son's favourites!) to keep us entertained on the journeys.

 

Can you actually read the name off the front of the stereo in the car. It will say Stream or Stream MP3 a quick google shows it In attached 

 

I may have confused the situation in that the unit plays mp3 disks rather than the whole aux thing in case of Stream MP3 

The bog standard Stream unit does't play MP3 files.

 

The Stream MP3 will but only from the head unit, not the 6 disc changer in the boot.

 

CD-RW cannot be finalised otherwise they could never be written to again.

 

Most CD-RW works fine as standard audio CD format.

 

Older equipment has less compatibility with CD-R and even more so with CD-RW.

Thanks to everyone who responded.
I had a look at the unit this morning, and it is a Stream, not a Stream MP3. There's no AUX socket in the centre console.

I'm not too bothered, as I spent some ten years driving my last car with no working audio system at all. Just being able to listen to the radio or play a CD is a real luxury to me!

About the finalising - there's a bit of confusion here. I used to work in an IT dept. and I used to deal with CDRs all the time. However, that was 10 years ago now, so I've forgotten quite a bit! My recollection is that it's possible to part-write a CD or DVD in a session, leaving space for more data to be written in another session. However, for more data to be added, the CD/DVD must not be finalised. If it is, either more data cannot be written, or any data written after finalising will be ignored by a player (can't remember which). So the idea was that you leave it unfinalised until it's pretty much filled up or are sure you won't want to write any more to it. But some older players (and some modern ones, apparently!) would not cope with non-finalised discs, and these days CDRs are cheap, so there's rarely any need to leave a disc unfinalised.

 

A RW disc works exactly like a normal write-once disc, and can be finalised at any time in the same way. The main difference is that once a write-once disc has been written to, that data cannot be erased from the disc (I think there is a way to mark a session as "deleted", though that part of the disc cannot be used again). But a CD-RW can be completely erased, leaving it clean and ready to be written to again. Even a finalised CD-RW can be erased and used again.

I used to use Nero Burning ROM and Roxio software for writing to CDs, but both these products have been dumbed-down in newer versions, and are just not as good. These days I use Imgburn - which is free, and (I believe) British! The only downside of Imgburn is that it's not as easy to use until you learn its foibles. It's worth learning to use it though, as it seems to do just about everything you might need. This software (apparently - although it's a bit ambiguous) is set to finalise all discs by default.

 

I used to burn CDs all the time for listening to my own groups' work-in-progress at home or in the car, but these days it's often easier to just pop the tracks on a phone (hence the original query about the AUX socket).

7 hours ago, Bassthang said:

Thanks to everyone who responded.
I had a look at the unit this morning, and it is a Stream, not a Stream MP3. There's no AUX socket in the centre console.

I'm not too bothered, as I spent some ten years driving my last car with no working audio system at all. Just being able to listen to the radio or play a CD is a real luxury to me!

About the finalising - there's a bit of confusion here. I used to work in an IT dept. and I used to deal with CDRs all the time. However, that was 10 years ago now, so I've forgotten quite a bit! My recollection is that it's possible to part-write a CD or DVD in a session, leaving space for more data to be written in another session. However, for more data to be added, the CD/DVD must not be finalised. If it is, either more data cannot be written, or any data written after finalising will be ignored by a player (can't remember which). So the idea was that you leave it unfinalised until it's pretty much filled up or are sure you won't want to write any more to it. But some older players (and some modern ones, apparently!) would not cope with non-finalised discs, and these days CDRs are cheap, so there's rarely any need to leave a disc unfinalised.

 

A RW disc works exactly like a normal write-once disc, and can be finalised at any time in the same way. The main difference is that once a write-once disc has been written to, that data cannot be erased from the disc (I think there is a way to mark a session as "deleted", though that part of the disc cannot be used again). But a CD-RW can be completely erased, leaving it clean and ready to be written to again. Even a finalised CD-RW can be erased and used again.

I used to use Nero Burning ROM and Roxio software for writing to CDs, but both these products have been dumbed-down in newer versions, and are just not as good. These days I use Imgburn - which is free, and (I believe) British! The only downside of Imgburn is that it's not as easy to use until you learn its foibles. It's worth learning to use it though, as it seems to do just about everything you might need. This software (apparently - although it's a bit ambiguous) is set to finalise all discs by default.

 

I used to burn CDs all the time for listening to my own groups' work-in-progress at home or in the car, but these days it's often easier to just pop the tracks on a phone (hence the original query about the AUX socket).

I agree with a previous post, get a Bluetooth FM modulator that plugs into the cig lighter for power. You will get what you want for less than £10 and no wiring or work to do just plug tune in the radio, connect your phone to it and go. Even works as a hands free for calls. What’s not to like?