A year ago, my car CD player began eating CDs and then broke completely. The radio still works, but I've basically been without music in the car for a year now - which makes everything very difficult as I never catch up on my listening and I am always stuck proofing CDs in the house. Today, after a year, I finally did something about it. I got a new player and radio - I had no idea how cheap this stuff is now and the new radio/player has a cord for my iPod, so I can have that in the car, too. The whole thing, with installation, was under $160. They installed it in twenty minutes. And now I have music in the car again.