technologically illiterate

jrepen · #1 Dec 6, 2007, 08:26 PM

Ok, I've browsed through some of these questions and they're in a new language.

I was excited when I figured out how hook my 8-track player up to my boom box. When I bought my first CD player, I needed a cassette adapter to play it in the car. So, I know somebody will read this and wonder,

"What's an 8-track?" but that's the person who can tell me:
If an MP3 player has an FM receiver, do I also need to get an FM adapter? I want to get one for my boyfriend for Consumermas so he'll stop carrying a stack of CDs out to my car for a 10 minute trip and then leaving them there, but I'm not sure what to get and I'm not made of money. I know what I want it to do, but I'm afraid if I ask some schmuck at Circuit City or Best Buy (if said schmuck will give me the time of day) they'll read the idiot sign on my forehead and try to sell me some $80 gadget that I might not even need.
Thanks in advance, from both of us.

charlotte234s · Dec 6, 2007, 08:51 PM

The mp3 player can be used like a cd player with the tape deck adapter in the car. You don't need an FM adapter, I don't think they even sell those. He can use the mp3 player to play his mp3s or the radio with the FM tuner, and he can play it through the speakers with the mp3 player but he can also just use the car radio for the radio.

Buy him the mp3 player, a nice set of headphones of they don't come with it, and an mp3 car adapter, they make a transmitter one that goes onto the mp3 player for wireless transmitting or if he has a tape deck you can use a tape adapter for a cd player or mp3 player.

jrepen · Dec 7, 2007, 10:28 PM

This is what I'm wondering. I don't have a cassette player anymore, so I would need the fm transmitter, but if it's already got an fm receiver built into it, does the receiver also work as a transmitter? I don't want to end up spending more on the accessories than on the mp3 itself.

charlotte234s · Dec 8, 2007, 03:53 AM

The receiover only receives the signal to the mp3 player, it dosn't transmit it to the radio.

jrepen · Dec 8, 2007, 01:23 PM

figures they'd be scammy like that
thanks all y'all
now I know my price range



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