mp3 player car radio thingy conundrum

[alonewiththemoon]

So I got M an mp3 player and a car radio adapter thingy for Christmas. He's trying to set up the car radio adapter thingy now, but is running into a problem. The directions for the adapter say to tune the radio to a dead spot and commence from there. The problem is that his radio can't be manually dialed, and just jumps from station to station as you press its tuning button, so he can't tune it to a dead spot. Has anybody else encountered this problem before? If so, how did you overcome it? It seems to me that this must be a somewhat common issue...

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[rojagato.livejournal.com]

Seems like there should be a manual tuning switch or toggle on the radio -- maybe google the radio model + "manual tuning" to see whether there's a manual online?

[alonewiththemoon]

The car radio's actual manual doesn't have anything about whether it can do manual tuning, but I'm going to google and see if anybody's posted on some discussion board somewhere about it...