I recently started fooling around with an MP3 player for the 1st time. I had just bought a Xitel Inport Deluxe that lets me turn all my old records and cassettes into MP3 files. How to get them to play through my car's sound system? FM modulators sounded really iffy. Could something that costs $7 really do the job? The cord on the Coby can be plugged in in 2 different directions, from the back or from the side. It came with the cord in the back. I plugged it in and nothing came out of my speakers. Then I read the directions and plugged the cord into the side of the cassette, as soon as it went into the tape deck, this wonderful music came out of my speakers.Great deal!