Hook Up your Ride with an iPod: A Great Addition Busting the Cool-O-Meter

On the eleventh day of January 2005, the iPod shuffleyou can have a virtual jukebox in your home, office or
was released in the market. The iPod shuffle is thecar. That's the beauty of the iPod, you can have your
latest addition to the thoroughbred stable of the iPodmusic wherever you are. Now imagine, you, your car
lineup. This digital audio player is made by Appleand the long road. Hooking up your ride with an iPod
Computer. It was released with a tag line "Life isshuffle would provide you with a great number of
random". Unlike other iPods, the shuffle was the firsthours of excellent music fun.
one to use flash memory instead of a hard disk and itAny long drive can be turned into a musical concert
only weighs about 22 grams or .78 ounces. A newwith the iPod shuffle. All you need is an iPod shuffle
innovation that made the iPod more versatile andhookup to connect it with your cars stereo system.
affordable.This would include an adapter that plugs into your
There are two models available for the iPod shuffle.iPod's headphone jack and on the other end; there is a
You can get the 512 MB and the 1 GB model. It playscassette adapter that could be plugged in the cassette
all the saved songs in random order, thus the nameslot of your cars stereo system.
shuffle. Many users of the iPod were always puttingThis and other iPod accessories can make your iPod
their iPod to shuffle mode which made Apple decideshuffle very adaptable to different situations. There
to manufacture the iPod shuffle, it is a cost effectiveare many car manufacturers who has seen the big
fashion that eliminates the need to program the songsinfluence the iPod shuffle has and their vast popularity.
to be played. It uses the iTunes' Autofill, which playsMany have manufactured car stereo systems that
and select song in random order and It can store up tohave a built in iPod hook ups ready. All you have to do
240 songs.is plug your iPod in and you're good to go. You'll never
The iPod shuffle doesn't feature the usual functions asee a roadtrip the same way again.
regular iPod does, like the display mode, scroll wheel,The benefits are endless, you have great music on
playlist management features, address book, games,command. You get great quality music and you get it in
calendar, and notes capability, it is not made to be usedrandom succession which means you don't have to
with iSync. Another thing to note, it is not capable oflisten to the same songs over and over again and you
playing Apple Lossless and AIFF audio files. On theeliminate the need to look down and mess with the
brighter side, iPod shuffle is of better sound quality, withyour iPod while driving. The iPod shuffle gives you
the bass more heard, than the bigger iPods. The sadmusic in random succession which means you don't
thing is it does not have a screen, no equalizer and ahave to look down while driving. You get different
slow speed transfer.music every time you turn your iPod shuffle on.
With more than 400 songs in a small audio machine,