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I really need to be able to charge and play, which I wasn't thinking of when I bought it.
I have a separate charger (sometimes I charge one, play the other, all the time admiring my diamond shoes) so that never occurred to me.
My current deck (forget the brand) gives an error in my tape deck intermittently. More than half the time it tries to play side B, side A, side B again and then ejects it. The one I have before that just gave up the ghost in terms of playing sound never had that mechanical problem.
The battery on my mini is going so I will run out of juice often. In which case, I plug the charger in the bottom and the adapter into the headphone jack. But, of course, since this one uses the bottom adapter, I can't do that here.
And that happens to me every once in a while with the monster adapter. From what i can tell, it occurs when I've first put it in to the tape deck (the adapter usually lives inside the tape deck. I only take it out when I'm going on a trip or something.) or when it's cold outside.
since this one uses the bottom adapter
Bugger. Of course. They need to fix that.
From what i can tell, it occurs when I've first put it in to the tape deck (the adapter usually lives inside the tape deck. I only take it out when I'm going on a trip or something.) or when it's cold outside.
For me, it's whenever I turn the stereo on.
Vaguely relatedly, I was listening to Kojo Nnamdi (on my iPod, so connected) where someone was bitching about CD rips losing fidelity.
I remember when the issue was CDs vs. LPs. Are we beyond that?
In retrospect, I don't even know why I bought the one I did. It was just dumb. Now I'm out 25 bucks and still need to buy a casette adapter.
So we seem to have decided that FM adapters suck and tape adapters suck?
I wouldn't say tape adapters suck.
I suppose I should be grateful the USB connector is in the front:
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So we seem to have decided that FM adapters suck and tape adapters suck?
No, I really loved the plain old-skool Monster tape adapter I had. I'm going to buy another one, toss this one in the glove compartment and try to learn from the error of my ways.
Shiny and new doesn't always equal better.
I really have to make my way through the ilounge reviews of all of them.
I got a more-expensive kind of FM transmitter (from DIO, I think) which cost $79. It has an adaptor that attaches to the "cigarette lighter" so it charges the iPod, and I've driven from Boston to NJ (and back) with very little static interference.
The only downside I can see if that I've got to take my iPod Mini out of its protective case every time I run it in the car, but that's a small sacrifice.
