[fishguy]

I just got my iPod and bought a Jensen adapter to play the iPod through the cassette deck in my Honda CR-V (standard Honda stereo with cassette). The tape drive won't accept the adapter, just ejects it whenever I insert it, and I have made certain that the cord doesn't interfere at all and that the adapter lies flat as it should in the tape deck. Anyone with a Honda car stereo and an iPod please help. Apple sells a Sony adapter that they claim works with side inserting car stereos but the Jensen I bought claims to be universal. Can a Honda car stereo use a cassette adapter to play an iPod through? If not, is there an auxillary input (RCA jack) on the back of the car stereo that I can run a cable out the dash somewhere? I'm going to be seriously PO'd if this won't work.

thanks for any help

fishguy

[waffffffle]

Those tape adapters don't work with every car stereo. Try contacting the manufacturer and tell them the exact model of your stereo. They will most likely send you one that works with your stereo. That's what happened to my dad once when he bought an RCA portable CD player that came with a tape adapter. His stereo kept spitting out the tape even though it worked fine in other car stereos. He called up RCA and they sent him a special adapter that worked with his radio.

[Big Mac]

Why not get one of those devices that transmit the audio to an unused FM station? That seems like an easy solution, and there are iPod specific ones. I haven't used one myself, though, but it's worth a try.

[Worst. Episode. Ever.]

I've tried two different FM transmitters. Neither one worked very well.

[CMYKid]

they sound like, well, YOU know... and aside from signal strength and interference problems, the bandwidth (and related audio quality) of FM radio is even lower quality than that of MP3s.