Do you love podcasts and have a commute, me too! You need to be listening to podcasts in your car, what I’ve done is put together several ways in which to achieve that goal quickly, cheaply and easily.

You want to listen to podcasts in your car?

If, like many people today you have a smartphone, be it an Android phone, iPhone or Windows Phone, however if you listen to podcasts but aren’t making use of your Smartphone, you are simply missing out on SO much potential.

Not only does using your Smartphone enable you to subscribe using any number of apps, thus keeping all your podcasts up to date, but the connection capabilities of a Smartphone mean that you can take your podcasts practically anywhere with you, especially in your car.

I’m hoping that you are a subscriber of my particular podcast? If not why check out the subscribe page where you’ll be able to see a video I put together of several different podcast apps for Android, however some of them will also be available on iPhone and possibly even Windows Phone.

What kit do you need to listen to podcasts in your car?

What I’m going to do now is show you a few ways in which you can listen to the podcast in your car. I’m making a foolish assumption that you already have an aux in socket or cable, it’s essentially the same connector that you plug your headphones into on your phone or MP3 player (unless you have the iPhone 7).

Now we’ve made that assumption, you have a few ways in which to get the audio out of your phone and into your car stereo.

You can use a cable like this to plug straight from your phone and into the aux socket on your car stereo (not if you have the iPhone 7 though:

IBRA 3.5mm Stereo Jack to Jack Audio Lead 1.5 m – Black

That particular cable is a little more expensive than some of the cheaper cables, but it’s got a good design and is well made, meaning it should last you a good while, and given the amount of “in and out” that happens in a car you want a strong cable. Heck, you’d hate for a cheap cable snapping to be something that gets in the way of you being able to listen to podcasts in your car, right?

You’ll want to spend a little more on your cable, especially if you’ll be plugging and unplugging it a lot. The other point about that particular cable is it has cases in mind, being that it’s a thin connector which should mean you don’t need to take your case off your phone to use it. This is a huge benefit that until you start to use it, you won’t appreciate.

Even if you don’t have an aux cable or socket in on your car, you can get devices like the Geartist Bluetooth FM transmitter which you connect your phone to over Bluetooth, it then transmits on an FM frequency which you can tune your car radio into, simple. This method will also work for the headphone socket-less iPhone 7.

Now what, is that it? Are you ready to listen to podcasts in your car?

Once you’ve got your phone setup with one of the podcast applications (and hopefully subscribed to This is Rammy), it’s simply a case of plugging in the cable, or connecting to the Bluetooth signal. If you’re using Bluetooth, all you generally need to do is turn it on and your phone will connect allowing you to play it through your car.

The device that I use is a bluetooth receiver with built-in battery, this plugs into my cars AUX port which happens to be in the glovebox, this remains charged by the handy USB port that is also in there. This can be picked up on Amazon for around £10 at present.

Of course, many new cars already have Bluetooth connectors built in, which will then simply require you to sync your phone to your car, choose the correct setting on your stereo, and just play your podcast.

If you have a particular use case and you’re unsure how you can get it all to work, let me know and I’ll try to help you work it out. I’m an avid podcast listener, and I wouldn’t want a small technical issue get in your way of the luxury of being able to listen to podcasts in your car.