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terryclothAfter work, I stopped by best buy to see what they had in the way of ipod stuff. The answer was 'nothing', but they did have a generic headphone jack to radio adaptor that powered itself out of a car's cigarette lighter (note: the Civic Hybrid's cigarette lighter will not actually light a cigarette; it's even labeled '12 volt DC power outlet') and looked like it was designed to broadcast on any frequency. And was pretty cheap, at least compared to the ipod-specific one.
The dark side of 'broadcast on any frequency' was an extremely fiddley analog tuning wheel -- it took at least fifteen minutes to get the car radio and the transmitter aligned. Although, unless someone jostles it or something, I shouldn't have to do that again. I also had to adjust the ipod's volume to something deafening in order to have it be audible over the radio...
But that potential problem turned out to be a nonissue, since the crappy walkman speakers I had at home also needed the volume turned way up to play at a decent volume. I think I'll definately use those from now on, and not just because the white earphones are a big 'rob me' sign -- I've already lost two of the four little foam covers that came with the ipod headphones, in one day of use. Plus, sticking things in my ears got less and less comfortable the longer I left them there.
Then I got home, and spent an hour or two filling out the band name info for all the unlabeled mp3s, deleting the blank ones from the list, and picking up a bunch I'd missed because they were in the wrong place (mostly, They Might Be Giants).
The dark side of 'broadcast on any frequency' was an extremely fiddley analog tuning wheel -- it took at least fifteen minutes to get the car radio and the transmitter aligned. Although, unless someone jostles it or something, I shouldn't have to do that again. I also had to adjust the ipod's volume to something deafening in order to have it be audible over the radio...
But that potential problem turned out to be a nonissue, since the crappy walkman speakers I had at home also needed the volume turned way up to play at a decent volume. I think I'll definately use those from now on, and not just because the white earphones are a big 'rob me' sign -- I've already lost two of the four little foam covers that came with the ipod headphones, in one day of use. Plus, sticking things in my ears got less and less comfortable the longer I left them there.
Then I got home, and spent an hour or two filling out the band name info for all the unlabeled mp3s, deleting the blank ones from the list, and picking up a bunch I'd missed because they were in the wrong place (mostly, They Might Be Giants).
