I bought this item so I could listen to my iPod in the car. It is "ok" for what it is. But, the sound quality is not that great. I live in a small town and just about every station has something on it - very few empty stations so it was very hard to find one that the iPod would play over. I didn't realize that you could just get a cassette player adapter to achieve the same (actually better) results. I found one of those at Walmart for $10 and the sound quality is MUCH better on it than trying to run it through an FM station. SO, if you have a cassette player in your car, that is definitely the better route. If not, then your only choice would be to go the FM transmitter route. Maybe you'll have better success finding an empty station than I did.