An ipod is so much nicer to use on the road than XM or Sirius in your car, they don't let you switch easily from your toddlers favorite Raffi to your or your spouses favorite music mix.

When playing soft music, I had to turn up the volume so loud that the background noise was a real problem.

Also as others have noted, it is no substitute for a CD nor, in my opinion, a "real" FM station; however, if you do not mind that the music sounds "thin" and the infrequent static in parking garages, certain bridges, etc

So I should reccommend it A LOT because it is very useful and now you will carry your favorite music in the palm of your hand instead of carrying cd's other thing I

I recently went on a 3.5 hour car ride and the thing worked flawlessly; no static, no changing stations, and crisp music as if it were coming from a CD.It also charges your iPod/iPhone, which is just icing on the cake

I've read a lot about FM transmitters being a crapshoot as to whether or not they work well enough to enjoy the music coming off your device, but in the years I've been using this, I've had no issues

but it's easy to do and at least one other channel is clear so my listening music is never really disturbed

However, once I left the greater Bay Area (probably a bit past Fairfield on 80 East), the static disappeared and I had clear music virtually all the way out to my destination near Mount Shasta, which is close to 5 hours away.

Of course I had to switch the band sometimes, (but not often at all), but I could comfortably enjoy the music through out the 6 hours+ driving

In addition to no background noise, the signal through the cassette adapter is much stronger, so I do not need to turn up the volume on soft music

Music sounds really good and it's awesome to be able to charge the ipod at the same time

There is hardly any static and the music comes in very well.

The music is so clear that you would think it was playing directly from your car radio.

I get a lot of noise with more vocal, ambient, or softer music

For anything but very loud music, it's intolerable.

It has some background static, but no music or talking