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That's fucking dope.
omfg if it does pass thru power i’ll lose my mind. my car has a “modern” cassette player with a hole in the door for one of those 3.5mm to cassette converters, i could make this WORK
Pretty sure they have a little battery.
I have one of these, not sure if its the exact model but i can confirm. Comes with a battery.
Can also confirm (to my annoyance) that you cannot have it charging and play music at the same time. So don't bother buying a slim angled micro usb cable like I did...
They missed an opportunity to use the spinning gear to generate its own power.
That's what I'm thinking too! The housing is probably too small to house it all but man it would be cool
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What is this black magic?!
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1995? .... I keep this adapter for my old 2004 GM Truck .... and no I don't want bluetooth. The atrocious sound quality is nostalgic to me and reminds me of being a teenager.
Yup! I have a drawer of these things because my brother & I used to fight over them. Still use one in my dad’s truck when I steal it from him.
Leave those air pods in your pockets kids. Nothing brings the heat like the annoying clacking of the auto reverse on a cassette deck, constantly trying to flip over a cassette that doesn’t flip, while matching the rhythm of your current jam.
... or the faded degraded sound of 'Appetite For Destruction' from the worn down cassette you've been playing over and over again for the past ten years.
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Mid 80's me had a cassette player that plugged into the car's 8track tape player
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"Let me put my my burned CD of mp3s into my discman that is connected to a tape adapter." Me, until about when Zunes hit,Woot for$99.
I had a disc-based MP3 player. The looks on my friends faces when I had 150 songs on my discman and they had 12.
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keep it steady? did you neglect to install the shock absorbing plate?
My new hotness has a 30-sec anti-slip feature!
Not gonna be anti-slip when girls see it 💦
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I'm still doing that in 2024. Get on my level.
Respect. The casette-aux is way better than the radio transmitters, if you don't have bluetooth nor an aux input. I was using one up until about 2015 (with my ipod instead of a cd Walkman though), before my car finally gave up the ghost. Now I just use bluetooth
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Used this in an 05 Jetta until earlier this year. It handled calls too.
Still use this to this day in my car - although the Bluetooth variant. The only downside is that you need to recharge it from time to time. That problem has been recently solved by the purchase of a second one :)
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Hope your CD player had skip protection 😉
Na, forget CDs and check out my sweet minidisc player! Waaazaaaaaaaa!!??!
I always thought these things were brilliant but was never sure how they worked. They basically had a recording head that sat against the playback head of the tape player and sent a signal into it, right? I was never even sure of that.
So normally the magnetic tape would spin by the reader in the player. However instead of a tape they put an electro magnet there. Then they use the same technique to simulate a magnetic tape. Tadaa you made digital audio into electromagnetic audio
There's actually no digital audio involved anywhere in this process. It's all analog.
A magnetic tape cassette holds raw wave data of the sounds it records. Just like a vinyl record, except the groove is in the magnetic field instead of physically etched into the surface of the tape, and the needle is an electromagnet instead of, well, a needle.
An audio cable using a standard 3.5mm jack also transmits raw wave data. It has to, because the electromagnetic pulses in the cable are what directly drive the electromagnets in whatever speakers they're hooked up to. If it's coming out of a digital player, the player has to convert the signal on its own using an onboard digital-to-analog converter (a DAC).
The neat part is that since a tape deck read head is looking for an analog wave signal, and an analog wave signal is what an aux cable carries, the two are directly compatible with one another. If you actually crack one of these tape deck hacks open, you'll find the whole thing is completely empty, save for the audio cable wires going directly to the write head that mimics the tape. Beyond that, there's no conversion equipment, no circuit board, nothing. It's a direct pass-through.
The body of the thing is nothing more than an elaborate way to trip all the mechanisms in the tape deck to trick it into thinking it's holding a valid cassette, while simply holding the write head fixed in the proper spot.
I'm sure you already know all of this. I just think it's really cool and I enjoy talking about it. Analog tech is amazing.
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I was still using one of those til 2012. That's what I get for having an old car. I did upgrade to a mini disc player tho.
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Get a poorly made one and it doubles as an AM radio too, or I should say it is only an am radio since you get nothing over the speaker but Am interference.
I had a Bluetooth cassette adapter as recently as like 2021, I like old cars
I drive a 2001 which is in that dead zone after cassettes but before aux plugs. I still had to be burning CDs a few years ago but eventually stumbled across an adapter that tricks the car stereo into thinking my phone is a 6-CD changer in the trunk.
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My first car had a cassette storage tray on the transmission hump. I made a mount for my portable CD that fit there, and ran the adapter wire underneath the dash. So fly...
Joke’s on you - that’s literally what I use in my 03 Jetta 😂
These were so much better than the radio transmitters. That brief period where cars only had CD players, no AUX or Bluetooth was the worst.
I was using one of these, and then later a short-wave radio to play on my car radio that was too old for USB but didn’t have AUX-in either.
I still use a radio adapter because phones no longer have headphone jacks.
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Peasant.
My CD player had an FM transmitter that I tuned the car radio to.
And I just broadcast my own radio station...
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That's new tech. I had a Radio Shack adapter to play cassettes that plugged into my car's 8-track system.
I was still using one of these in 2008 to play music from my PSP.
This shit blew my mind back in the day, much like how I can plug a dongle into my cigarette lighter and somehow Bluetooth my phone to my old ass stereo.
I was rocking one of these plugged into an mp3 player circa 2007-2010.
I still used one of these daily until at least 2009 to play music from my 2006 5th gen iPod video on my 1993 Buick regal because it sounded 100x better than any fm transmitter could produce at the time.
Thanks for reminding me. I always wondered how exactly those worked, so I looked it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4n8fUjtLQ
I always found them so cool for some reason. Kinda felt like magic back then, which I guess magnetism is the closest thing to it anyway.
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