what accessories needed to connect shuffle ipod to car stereo?

Question

i wanted to connect my ipod shuffle to my toyota tacoma stereo, what do i need to do?

Answer 1

If you have an line-in jack (looks like the 1/8" headphone jack on the iPod), get a line-in cable (www.ziplinq.com offers a nice retracable 3-footer; otherwise you'll probably be stuck going with a non-retractable six-footer that'll be spread all over your front seat). If there's a USB jack, use your standard sync cable. If neither of those works, but you have a tape deck, get a cassette adapter like people used to use for portable CD players. One other good option is if there's a set of RCA jacks on the back of your deck, you can get a converter cable that'll plug into your iPod's headphone jack. The least preferrable option is to get an FM transmitter, but these are really low-powered and will be very difficult to tune in clearly in or near any urban setting with a ton of active radio stations, as any signal that's just barely strong enough to be almost understandable through the static will still be strong enough to blow past the wimpy little signal that your poor FM transmitter will be pumping out. In that situation, you'd be much better off just buying a new deck that includes a line-in or USB jack on the face.

Answer 2

If your tacoma has a tape player all you need is a cd to tape adapter that you plug into your shuffle's headphone jack. It doesn't cost more than $20. I used to use mine for a portable cd player a long time ago and now the product reinvented itself and is being used for ipods.

Answer 3

It depends how old your car is. If it has a cassette player, you can get this thing that you pop a cassette in and connect the cord into your headphone jack. There are also docks out can stick you iPod into and then stick the dock in the lighter plug on your dashboard. Another thing is these things that connect to the bottom of your iPod (where your would normally plug it in to connect it to your computer) and it picks an unused radio station, then you set your radio to that radio station and you can listen to your iPod through that.

Answer 4

Easy an auxilary cable to go straigh to your headphone jack and into the auxilairy port on your radio or cd player if it has one if not a cassete tape that has an auxilary cable connected to it and plug directly into shuffle headphone jack

Answer 5

There are several ways. They range from cheap to big bucks. Here is a great site for information. You can even call their presales people and they will give you info specific to your year make model.

http://www.crutchfield.com

DO NOT BUY the wireless FM converter. The wired ones are the best cheap choice.