The transmitter works fine as long as there's not a lot of interferance. It works fine in my house, I can't tell the difference between it and plugging it directly in. When I'm in the car it varies from ok to terrible depending on where I'm at like Beta said. If you can help it, you'll proabably be better off with getting a cd player for your car that has input jacks. If you can't find one reasonably priced, you'd probably still be better off just going with one that has a mp3 cd player and burn your music to disks.