Using ipod in the car

I am going to buy my husband a new video ipod for Valentine's Day. He says that he has a buddy that can listen to his ipod over his car stereo over an FM transmitter or something like that. Can anyone tell me if that is a built in ability in the fifth generation ipods, or will I have to purchase something additional. Thanks for any help!

I use the following Kensington Digital FM Transmitter/Auto Charger and LOVE IT (bought it at the Apple Store)!!
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=C76 178CF&nplm=TK885LL%2FA
Not only can you listen to the iPod, but it will charge at the same time. I use it in a major city with a lot of stations and have had little to no static using this product.
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I have since changed to a hardwired dock connector in all my cars. These ALWAYS work.
Just about any car audio shop can install these at a low cost.
They are unaffected by firmware updates, and they charge my iPhone and iPod at the same time. So when I get out of my car I have a fully charged iPhone.
Go hardwired, it will ALWAYS work.
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I actually have a couple of questions, all related to the SHuffle I bought a week ago. I primarily want to use this in the car, using my car stereo speakers as I was doing with my iPod and Belkin FM transmitter (before my wife commandeered the "main" iPod as our home stereo!). Problem is the transmitter that works for the iPod has a different kind of plug (twi different "male" parts) than the Shuffle (only one prong)> So I bought the Belkin cassette adapter at the same time as the Shuffle. That worked beautifully the first time I used it; after that, everytime I put it in the cassette deck, the cassette deck ejected it after trying to "play" the cassette. I'd appreciate any suggestions on this; I already returned the Belkin cassette adapter to the store. Has anybody had this problem with the "Monster" adapter advertised on this website? It's so easy to use the iPod in the car; I never imagined it would be so hard to do the same with the Shuffle!
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usually when im driving to and from work, or jsut around town
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try that...yes the fm transmitters for the ipod and ipod mini will not work witht he shuffle because they use the ipod and mini ipod's extension port to draw power.
hope this helped
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I do not have a CD player in my car but have a slot for it to go and a multipin socket at the back where the CD player would dock. Would it be possible to buy a adapter to play my ipod through it. I suspect not and unique to the Car Manufacurer. A VW.
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Hi again,
You have to make sure the input socket first, if yours are the same type as Benz, which are for digital signal, then you can't plug your iPod directly. There are few ways to make the connection with your car stereo.
1. Cassette adapter - which is cheap with sound quality just OK. But make sure you buy with a good brand name e.g. Sony or Philip, otherwise, you will end up with the same problem as mine. I bought one of no-brand, it stucked in it and could not eject.
2. FM transmitter - If your car stereo with Radio, then there are plenty option, which costs more than the cassette adapter, sound would be better but depends the FM frequency in your country, if there are too many radio stations then it will produce noises. Do a google search, you can find dozen there, I bought the monster cable which is not bad.
3. You may go and check with an expert of car stereo company, they will recommend with some new products. I currently using this, they are great with good sound quality but expensive
http://www.revozport.com/iplug-rds.htm

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