How do you connect your iPod to your home and car stereo?
To connect your iPod to your stereo, you can buy a cable that has an headphone plug on one end and stereo RCA connectors on the other. (You need an empty set of inputs on your receiver.)
Car stereos are a little trickier. If you are lucky, your car stereo has auxiliary input; in that case, you can buy a suitable cable to connect the iPod to the car stereo. (I have a low-end Alpine stereo; it has auxiliary input. It had to be connected to the back of the head unit, which required pulling the head unit out, plugging the cable in, and snaking the cable out behind the dash.) If you do not have a car stereo with auxiliary input, you can try to use one of those little FM-radio transmitters that plug into the iPod. You have to look for a clear frequency band to transmit on. I didn't have much luck with this, the sound suffered from interference and static. This works better in rural areas where there are fewer FM stations.
dont know if anyone answered this for you but in a couple neat ways. The ipod has a little stand that it sits on that plugs into the USB port. Your computer sees this just like an external hard drive and plays it from there.
In your home stereo you can hook it up through the headphone jack or use a spiffy FM tuner that sends what is on the ipod to a channel ( not being used by any station, it has been set aside for this use) just like a radio station does. You can then control the sound through your car or home stereo. Of course the advantage of this is that you can carry your music home and to the car and office.
If you do not want to put the cash out now for an ipod the cell phone industry is getting in on the ipod business and you will be able to store your music on your cell and plug in headphones and thus eleminating another peice of equipment you carry. There are some phones that are already able to store mp3s( that is the file form) but larger storage will be coming in about a year or less.