1995? … I keep this adapter for my old 2004 GM Truck … and no one I don’t want bluetooth. The atrocious sound quality is nostalgic to me and reminds me of being a teenager.
I just need to keep it steady
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
BonerMan@ani.social 5 days ago
HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Yup! I have a drawer of these things because my brother ‘ I used to fight over them. Still use on y 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.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
… 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.
someguy3@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I heard the sound quality was really good because it was a direct feed to the reader.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 5 days ago
this is very very wrong. the sound quality was a dumpster fire
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 days ago
“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.
stinerman@midwest.social 5 days ago
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.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yep this was me. Anti skip CD player then mp3 CDs then zune
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 days ago
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
ramble81@lemm.ee 5 days ago
My new hotness has a 30-sec anti-slip feature!
parody@lemmings.world 5 days ago
Not gonna be anti-slip when girls see it 💦
limelight79@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I always loved this Penny Arcade comic about the first iPods and CD players.
BrowseMan@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Damn I remeber my dad built it’s own shock absorber plate with springs and everything…
Hikermick@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Mid 80’s me had a cassette player that plugged into the car’s 8track tape player
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 days ago
My best friend in high school in the '80s had something on his home stereo I’ve never seen before or since: an 8-track tape recorder. We would make 8-track mix tapes and take them to parties … which we promptly got kicked out of because they were tapes of stuff like Yes, King Crimson, Laurie Anderson, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, and didn’t nobody want to listen to that kind of shit back then.
kembik@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Techmoan on YouTube covers stuff like this. Here’s a video for anyone interested.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Aw hell yeah, Sparkomatic!
bamfic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
My buddy in the 80s drove a shit station wagon from the 70s that his parents gave him that had only an 8 track.
apostrofail@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Mid-’80s* me
nicgentile@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Polemische_Pflaume@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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 :)
RGB@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Wouldn’t it be easier to have Bluetooth but have it plug into the cigarette lighter plug and run into the player like the other ones do? I feel like that could have been easily done by the designers
myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 days ago
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
I’m still doing that in 2024. Get on my level.
MrShankles@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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
Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Boss
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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.
Johanno@feddit.org 5 days ago
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
pixelscript@lemm.ee 5 days ago
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.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s what I always thought - I think it would work to use a recording head as the electromagnet, treating the player’s playback head like tape.
mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Gonna drop this here for those interested.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Holy Crap at first I thought that was Chandler. And I’ll be damned, they 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.
jadedwench@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I saw that thumbnail of the table and immediately knew what channel it was.
abcd@feddit.org 5 days ago
Hope your CD player had skip protection 😉
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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.
Psythik@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Why didn’t yoi just upgrade the radio? A decent head unit with an aux jack and bluetooth can be purchased for as little as $40-50, and takes less than an hour to install in most cars with the right adapter. Literally plug and play in most vehicles.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It one of those things when you already have something that’s working for you just fine and it wasn’t important enough to change it.
jagermo@feddit.org 5 days ago
Na, forget CDs and check out my sweet minidisc player! Waaazaaaaaaaa!!??!
bizzle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I had a Bluetooth cassette adapter as recently as like 2021, I like old cars
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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.
Psythik@lemmy.world 5 days ago
These comments are blowing my mind. It’s like no one here knows that you can easily upgrade the stereo to a modern one. Plug and play in most cars with the right adapter.
bizzle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ha! Nope actually, not in my old Cadillac or my Mercedes. Those both had anti theft. That would have been nice though.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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.
DemBoSain@midwest.social 5 days ago
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…
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 days ago
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.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I still use a radio adapter because phones no longer have headphone jacks.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Well I finally got a USB hole and Bluetooth this time, but now I have the Blues Brothers soundtrack stuck in the CD slot (which seems like a pretty ideal choice to be stuck in a car radio).
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 days ago
wha? my phone still does. but of course it’s 6 or 7 years old.
greenskye@lemm.ee 5 days ago
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.
GCanuck@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Peasant.
My CD player had an FM transmitter that I tuned the car radio to.
BonerMan@ani.social 5 days ago
And I just broadcast my own radio station…
smokebuddy@lemmy.today 5 days ago
My Nokia N97 had that too it was so sweet
gazter@aussie.zone 5 days ago
What I wouldn’t give for a modern N series. Those phones rocked.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
It’s 1995!
And, now that I’m older,
stress weighs on my shouldersPyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
oh neat, TMBG! I’m seeing them live on Sunday
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Joke’s on you - that’s literally what I use in my 03 Jetta 😂
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I was still using one of these in 2008 to play music from my PSP.
Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol 5 days ago
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.
Klanky@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I was rocking one of these plugged into an mp3 player circa 2007-2010.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 5 days ago
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.
fubarx@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
The cassette player in my old car had a cover that was also a display panel. It folded out, then you put the tape in and flipped the cover back so it locked, then you could play.
Got one of these adapters to plug in an iPod. Stuck it in, then went to close the panel. The wire got in the way so it couldn’t lock. No way to jam it without damaging the cable.
No return policy back then. It sat in the dashboard until the car died many years later.
BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I had one of these and somehow it also picked up a radio station, so no matter what I played it’d be mixed with some random techno music
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I literally just got my first portable CD player on Sunday. The sound quality is way better than my super cool DRM-free digital library.
Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Gotta Velcro that bitch to the dash!
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
She’s a witch!
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 days ago
That’s fucking dope.
yuri@pawb.social 5 days ago
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
CptEnder@lemmy.world 5 days ago
What is this black magic?!
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Not an audiophile spotted!
art@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You can’t be in audiophile mode in a car. You don’t even get proper stereo separation.
OR3X@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Good, we don’t have time for the demented.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Why is there no wifi cassette adapter? That would be so cool.
dan@upvote.au 4 days ago
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. I guess it could have a power cord, but then why use wifi when it could just plug into the phone instead?