Connecting to Car Tape Cassette Player

I seem to remember having the same problem a long time ago and getting past it by doing some maintenance like demagnetizing the heads, running the fast forward or backward or something like that. It was some idiot thing taht should have never happened.

supposedly i hear from other people monster adapters don't work well. But try playing the music first then putting in the tape.

Obvious answer, but read the manual for your car. Modern car cassette players can be tricky things. Many will check for the presence of resistance on the spool to check that the tape is spinning properly. When you use cassette adapters on these, they don't detect properly and kick out an error.

However, nearly all of these have a trick to them where you hold down some button as you insert the cassette. This not only stops it checking for this sort of thing, but also stops the wheels from even spinning, which reduces the noise and the heat generated by the tape motor.

Read the manual and look for a cassette adapter mode or an override mode or something to that effect. It'll be in there somewhere.

This might be something or nothing !
does the wire from the cassete adaptor fail anywhere? if its causing an obstruction to the loading mech, your cassete deck might be seing it as a fault.

I figured I would post this in this section since it pertains to the above question.

Are FM transmitters like the one for the previous iPods (the small white ones that fit on the top of the iPod and were made by Griffin and used the iPod's internal battery to run) in the works for the iPod Video?

sorry if i have the wrong end of the stick, but I beleave you are asking if the itunes transmitter (Griffin) for older ipods is the same for the video !

the answer is no, as there is no connector on the top of the 5G ipod.
however Griffin have released a new transmitter for th 5G which connects to the dock connector on the bottom of the 5G.
I have seen them for sale on ebay.

My FM Transmitter was 1 penny on Ebay ($9.00 shipping though) - it plugs into the Earbud connector and into my cigarette lighter and works sweeeeet on my Mini - when my 60-gig Video Ipod arrives it'll hopefully work with that too.