I bought a new car (well, new to me… a used car) and it doesn’t have a tape deck. I understand that most people don’t use or want tapes anymore, I have a reason for wanting a tape deck: to listen to my MP3 player. I have one of the cassette adapter things that plugs into the headphone jack.
Now, to listen to my MP3 player, I have to buy one of those radio adapter things. I’m thinking I don’t want one that has to be plugged into a cigarette lighter because I’d like to be able to use it with my home stereo, if I could.
What should I look for? Any brands that work best? I love my tunes and need my music!
(BTW, mods, I’m not sure if this is cafe question, so feel free to move it… but it is about keeping music in my life!)
Bluetooth. You can get adapters for car audio, home audio, computer, and headphones. Don’t know much else, except I use it at home and with headphones myself, but I have seen the Bluetooth symbol outside of car stereo installers, and it’s the way I would go if I wanted to outfit another car.
All but the absolute cheapest junk car stereos (I think that’s what you old folks used to call them) come with both audio in and USB jacks (for use with either an mp3 player or a flash drive). :rolleyes:
Yes, check for an auxilary input for your MP3 player. It will be a little 1/8" hole that you plug a cable into. If so, you just need an $8 (GEEZ!) Male<—>Male 1/8" stereo cable from Radio Shark and you’ll have much better sound quality than the cassette adapter or FM transmitter.
This was my thinking, but as the car is a used one, it might not even have that. My car is a 2006 model and has no such input (they were being introduced with the next model year) Anything older than that, it’d be a pretty unusual thing unless the stereo was an upgraded model.
It does at least have a cassette player (which we use exclusively for the adapter for the iPod), unlike the OP’s car.