"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.
It's kinda funny thinking back to how awesome it felt to be able to carry around hundreds of songs from the perspective of having access to services that can listen to any song while it streams on a device large enough to hold my entire music collection and still have tons of space left over.
Yep this was me. Anti skip CD player then mp3 CDs then zune
I wanna repair my dad's 1st gen zune so bad but I don't think you can just drop on Flacs which is like the 1 thing id use it for
dad’s 1st gen zune
Used this in an 05 Jetta until earlier this year. It handled calls too.
...how about bluetooth in an '81 98?..
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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You can't be in audiophile mode in a car. You don't even get proper stereo separation.
You should try the Bowers and Wilkins system in the BMW iX some time. In the USA it's a $3,400 upgrade compared to their mid-range Harmon Kardon system (which itself is an upgrade from the base system), but it sounds amazing. 30 speakers including one in every head rest, two subwoofers under the floor, and 4 bass shakers in the front seats. 1615 watts total. Sounds better than some home cinema setups I've heard.
The most expensive thing I own is less than $3,000. I don't think I'm this target demographic.
Yeah, people obsessed with car stereos are usually of the "I want everyone to know I'm playing music" variety.
And occasionally of the "I want it to be dangerous to listen to music coming from my sound system" variety.
Which I do kinda get, since I, too, thrive on wtf faces, though I generally don't want to be a nuisance or damage my property in the process. Like it's usually a wtf face from an unexpected combination that turns out to be better than one would expect, like saying I like chocolate sauce on sausages (which works because chocolate doesn't have to be combined with tons of sugar).
Good, we don't have time for the demented.
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
Why is there no wifi cassette adapter? That would be so cool.
It'd drain the batteries quickly. Wifi uses a relatively large amount of power, and low-power wifi variants like HaLow aren't widespread yet. Bluetooth has a low energy mode for low-power devices that works well for this use case. I guess it could have a power cord, but then why use wifi when it could just plug into the phone instead?
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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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.
Gonna drop this here for those interested.
Holy Crap at first I thought that was Chandler. Great video tho, and I'll be damned, those things work exactly like I always assumed. I really thought that explanation would turn out to be too simple. Never thought about also having to make both spools turn so the player won't think the tape has run out.
I saw that thumbnail of the table and immediately knew what channel it was.
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.
And the best part is, because the signal is so clean, and there’s no crappy tape grinding across the head adding noise, the audio quality is damn near on par with just connecting the aux directly to the amplifier.
This is my favorite thread of the day. I learned something, and it brought back memories of plugging one of these into my parents '87 Buick LeSabre wagon. Complete with wood grain panels. Yeah, I didn't date much back then.
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.
It's 1995!
And, now that I'm older,
stress weighs on my shoulders
heavy as boulders?
but I told yall, until the day that I die...
Mid 80's me had a cassette player that plugged into the car's 8track tape player
keep it steady? did you neglect to install the shock absorbing plate?
Damn I remeber my dad built it's own shock absorber plate with springs and everything...
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 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.
Hope your CD player had skip protection 😉
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