Ipod nano hums during car playback

My ipod nano hums during playback in my car. In addition the volume is so low that even with the ipod level at full blast I still have to turn my car system way up to hear the nano at a reasonable listening level. I have tried two different adaptors and that hasn't helped. It works fine when I connect it to my sound system at home.
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First thing to check is the Shuffle function of the iPod. Shuffle should be set to OFF to work with the Alpine correctly and when you updated the firmware it may have reset the iPod to default to turning the Shuffle feature ON.
Source: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7229639&#7229639
Cheers,
Patrick

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