Good accessories for Ipods?

If you like to listen to it in your car and don't have a line-in jack on your stereo, buy a FM Transmitter that can hook up to the cigarette lighter in your car. I got one of those as a gift from my brother a few years ago and it's lightyears better than the old one I had that ran off of two AAA batteries. Definitely has a stronger signal, doesn't eat through a set of batteries in two trips across the state, and it also hooks into my iPod through its bottom, so it charges the iPod at the same time it's transmitting.

As for the case and everything, I think that depends on how you take care of your electronics. I always keep my ipod in the same pocket as my cell phone, so there's nothing that will scratch it, and I've only dropped it maybe two times in the four years or so I've had it. So, yeah, there's a few scratches on the back (times I accidentally threw my keys in that pocket and didn't realize my ipod was in there), but I think that actually makes it look well worn for a piece of electronics that old. I also don't like to waste the extra pocket space that a case would take up.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Get out liberal hippie.

Originally Posted by Audiophile

This is good idea, but if you can, I would recommend a cassette adapter instead. People will immediately say "tape hiss", but honestly on the good ones you can't hear it, even during quiet music. The advantage is that, unlike most radio adapters, it doesn't automatically adjust the volume. I don't know about RacinReaver's but mine pretty much nixed any bass and I had to turn the car volume way up to hear separate instruments with any clarity. The tape adapter also just seems to have better quality overall, with deeper bass, transparent trebles, and clearer drum hits. I don't think there are any with chargers, like the FM transmitters, though, but it only takes up as much battery as regular headphones do anyway.

I'd totally agree on the cassette adapter instead of the FM transmitter, since if you live in somewhere with a ton of radio stations (or drive between areas with two different sets of stations frequently) it's possibly the biggest annoyance on earth. I'm just stuck with a car that doesn't have a cassette deck in it.

I'm totally going to take a look in the back of my car like ramoth recommended, since that's totally a sweet idea. And it's probably even cheaper just to buy those cables than to get any other sort of converter out there (though wouldn't this require your stereo having some sort of auxiliary input setting?).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

No remote CD changer, I opted to go with the mp3-cd player because that seemed like a better idea at the time.

I think there is a spot for AUX input if I had gone for the multi-cd changer (possibly even an unlablelled button up front as well), so with some luck there'll just be some hookups sitting in the back of my car with nothing to do.

And if soldering is needed, there's always my electrical engineering girlfriend.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.