{"id":1433,"date":"2007-05-21T11:15:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T11:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/21\/query-aftermarket-ipod-connect\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T11:15:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T11:15:40","slug":"query-aftermarket-ipod-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/21\/query-aftermarket-ipod-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Query: After-Market iPod Connection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, back in November, I bought a new car, which came with a six-month free trial of Sirius Satellite Radio. That&#8217;s about to run out, and while it does have its good points, I&#8217;m not really interested in paying money to listen to the radio.<\/p>\n<p>What I would prefer is to be able to play my iPod in the car. Which I can do at the moment, using one of those little FM transmitter things. The problem with this is that it requires a clear FM frequency to work, which means it&#8217;s essentially useless in any major metropolitan area (or at least in Boston and NYC, which are the cities we visit most frequently)&#8211; there are no FM frequencies in NYC that don&#8217;t at least have a lot of interference from nearby powerful stations.<\/p>\n<p>My question for the Internet, then, is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What is the best way to directly connect my iPod to the stereo in my car?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that it must be possible to get a car stereo that has an iPod input, or at the very least an &#8220;Aux. In&#8221; jack that I can plus the iPod into, but I don&#8217;t know anything about the options. Somebody out there must, though, so if you do know, leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p>(It would be nice if whatever the solution is allowed me to continue using the stereo controls on the steering wheel in my car, but if I had to live without those, I could.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, back in November, I bought a new car, which came with a six-month free trial of Sirius Satellite Radio. That&#8217;s about to run out, and while it does have its good points, I&#8217;m not really interested in paying money to listen to the radio. What I would prefer is to be able to play&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/21\/query-aftermarket-ipod-connect\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Query: After-Market iPod Connection?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}