Can I link my bluetooth MP3 player to my bluetooth system in the car to play the songs through the bluetooth connection?

 

Hi,

I am going to give you a qualified "no". I have never seen a way to do that as I believe that the Bluetooth in the ES350 is for the cell phone only. The AUX connector or an interface box for the iPod appears to be the way to go. That being said there may be a bluetooth outboard interface for the iPod but I have never searched for one or seen one mentioned.

Please understand that I may be totally wrong but I have never seen any postings taking that approach.

Regards, PETER

 

If you could, the speaker for the bluetooth is only one small 2.5" mono speaker. Nice idea, maybe next year...

 

Do you have an input jack inside the center console? If so I would just connect the mp3 player there. Our ES came equipped with the jack and this is where we connect our Ipod.

 

The thread was asking about a bluetooth link, not a cable hookup.


BTW, why did Lexus not allow us to hear the phone calls come through on our great ML speakers instead on the tinny one they gave us?

 

There was no misunderstanding about his question. I was offering other options. Some may not realize that there is a jack in the center console.

 

IIRC, the BT setup in the ES 350 does not support A2DP, which is necessary for your BT-enabled MP3 player to stream 2-channel (i.e., stereo) audio to the ES's audio system which can then play it back in stereo (or mono, if some of your MP3s were encoded in mono ).

 

I can verify toneman's answer. There is absolutely no provision in the nav software for a2dp bluetooth stereo profile.