Can the ipod shuffle be used with the car radio speakers?

Question

if so, what kind of connection/wiring would be needed...Considering buying for Christmas gift. ..Car has no CD player...only cassette player and radio

Answer 1

This is simple. All you need is an FM transmitter (your car requires two things: an FM radio and a cigarette lighter socket). It's a simple one piece, and won't tangle like the car kits (that use cassettes) or be a permanent fixture on your dash. It’s a simple plug and go. What you do is you plug in the Fm transmitter into the socket, and there's a wire attached to the transmitter that you plug into the headphone jack of your Ipod Shuffle. Program your own (clear) station on the fm transmitter, and then turn on your radio so that the frequencies are the same. Avoid picking a frequency that’s close to another radio station to get the best/clearest sound quality.

By the way you can buy ANY fm transmitter, don't get fooled into buying one with packaging that say's its exclusive to Apple iPods. You want a universal one.

You can purchase an FM transmitter at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Circuit City etc it's with the ipod/mp3 accessories.

Answer 2

There are a couple of ways you could do this.

I recommend a car kit. This looks like a cassette tape with a wire coming out of it. The wire plugs into the earphone jack on the iPod, and you put the "cassette" into the tape player of the car as if you were playing a tape. They give pretty good sound, considering. You can buy these all over the place -- you wouldn't necessarily have to get one that was "iPod compatible" or whatever because it just fits into a standard earphone jack.

A not-as-good option is to get a small radio transmitter that will transmit from the iPod to the car's radio. These don't work as well because you have to dial in the radio signal and it's therefore subject to interference and weakness in the signal. Again, you can get these all over the place. Don't worry about necessarily getting the one that Apple sells.

Answer 3

There's a cassette adapter you can buy that's designed with a plug for the shuffle's headphone jack at one end of the cord, and what appears to be an audio cassette on the other end.

Plug the jack into the headphone hole on your Shuffle just like you would the headphones, and insert the cassette-shaped adapter into the cassette slot of the car stereo. Turn the Shuffle on, and press "play" on the car stereo - the music should play through the car stereo system (though it may take a bit of jiggling to get it to sound right.)

Answer 4

I use a little gizzmo kind of like an iTrip it use the radio to play the music all u have to do its tune to a empty station and switch your iTrip to the same station and you can listen. It plugs into the lighter. Mine charges it and can hold it ant the same time so it cost $100 if it doesn't charge nor cradle it you can get it for at the absolute most $60 at target. I hoped i helped, good luck and happy holidays