This article explains how to use a car cassette adapter. It contains information about how cassette adapters work and suggests good alternatives to cassette adapters.

Cassette tape adapters allow you to play external audio devices, including CD players, smartphones and MP3 players, from the head unit of any car cassette deck. They are shaped like a compact cassette on the outside, but the internal workings are very different.

While compact cassettes contain two connected reels of magnetic tape for audio, cassette adapters in cars contain magnetic inductors that trick the cassette players into thinking they are cassettes.

Listening to music in your car with a tape adapter is easy. Here are the basic steps to connect a CD player, mobile device, or other audio source to your car's tape deck: