Submitted 3 weeks ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Two cars ago I had this. I had a MiniDisk player to go with it. I felt like the coolest young adult.
Then I got another car that had a CD player with no AUX port. Had to get a RF adapter. Worked well.
Then the FCC put limits in the RF adapters and they sounded worse.
Replaced my radio after that one with a shamcy one. Got my AUX cable back!
… Now they took my AUX cable away from my phone.
I had one of those up until 2012, bemu F150 at the time still had the tape deck. They worked well, and even 2019 I used one in a company truck I had at work. But when it broke I was hardpress to find a replacement. I do know they made Bluetooth versions, but most didn’t have good reviews and never bought one to try out.
Get a Bluetooth AUX receiver.
Those didn’t exist yet. It was amm FM Transmitters. They might’ve been around but too expensive.
Magnets, how do they work
Literally no one knows.
We’re still using one of these haha.
Like how did these even work??
Instead of running a magnetic tape over the cassette player’s sensor, you put an electromagnet on it powered by the headphone jack. The cassette player just reads the magnetic field and doesn’t know any difference.
damn I thought it was writing the tape in real time that would be insane
You shoved the cassette into your car radio and plugged the other end into a cd player
Computer Engineer here, studied QED and E&M.
This is the most accurate answer
The player reads a magnetic tape. Put the same stuff inside the cassette and reverse it, now the player reads a reader.
Technology connections explains it very well
Great explanation I get it now!
1995? We were still using these in like 2008.
2025 as well.
Yeah, it worked much better than our current USB bluetooth dogle that lags every 30 seconds. Just because we could not get radio wit cassette player. I still have the cassette adapter.
64gb USB stick filled to the brim with pirated music. No skipping, no ads. This is the way.
Yeah I used to have my MP3 Bean filled with random music gathered from friends. Little red triangular player, lasted for like three weeks on one charge, just music, no [artist] radio bs on Spotify. My phone lasts one day, if I don’t play music.
Ugh I WISH… my old car didn’t have Bluetooth so I bought a BT-AUX adapter. It worked INSTANTLY and sounded amazing. Zero delay, loved it so much.
Got a newer car. Bluetooth included! …with a two second delay. I go to plug my BT-AUX adapter in so I don’t have a delay… NO AUX PORT IN CAR AAAA
That, plus a portable CD-MP3 player, was the bomb.
I still have my iRiver iMP-350, a portable CD player that could read mp3 and wma files off a CD-R or CD-RW, allowing way more than 74 or 80 minutes of audio. Damn thing still mostly works 22 years later too, thanks in large part to them including a 2x AA battery dongle in addition to the gumstick-shaped rechargeable batteries in the main unit which have long since leaked.
When they started selling head units with aux in ports, I had to have one in my car. And when they started putting iPod connectors in head units, perfection.
iRiver= S tier mp3 nostalgia
They are still around. They even come in Bluetooth flavour now so you don’t need the cord.
Perfect for my Bluetooth Discman.
Worked? Mine works perfectly!
The best thing about the 1997 Volkswagen Jetta I had was it had a 12-disc CD-changer in the trunk. Why it was in the trunk, I don’t know, but I had updated the front side deck (which was also cool because it was just a box you could plug into the front and not have to get deeper into the wiring or anything) so it could read MP3 CDs, so 12 of those in the truck basically held almost everything my iPod could.
I had an Acura with the disc changer in the trunk, I imagine the moving parts right behind the firewall would not fare well for long in heat. You’re right though, the move to burning MP3 CDs felt like you had almost infinite space for all your bands
No longer remember the car model but mine had a deck for 6 in the trunk and one in the dashboard
I did this last in 2020. RIP my old mitsubishi.
These adapters were perfect… The only problem was that personal CD players of the same era skipped when you looked at them wrong.
I remember buying a Sony mp3 CD player with 5-second skip delay for $80.
Everyone was still using regular CD players with their 80 minutes of audio, carefully holding their precious device.
While I was living like a god, playing over twenty hours of music, dropping my player over and over, without losing a beat.
I remember shopping for diskmans that had the longest anti-skip.
You definitely had to keep the cd player in a level spot in your car where it didn’t bounce around a lot
i was using one of these to connect my laptop to my “speakers” (an old stereo set) as recently as 2019, lmao
Russia or Mississippi?
Switzerland, which probably makes this even funnier
I’m gen z - though on the older side - and even I remember these
I would have had to reach forward, because I never understood them until this thread. Now I can pretend to understand them and just frustratedly say, “It’s basically electromagnets, to oversimplify it” next time someone mentions these.
Same setup I have now just plug the rca jack into a Bluetooth receiver instead of a CD player.
I had that same one!
Please. I had a cassette with built-in storage, that could play in a cassette deck player AND had an headset jack plugged in for music on the go.
I’m 22 and I remember this
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Pretty sure I still did that in like 2012?
boonhet@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
2018 here lol
tamal3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What were you driving cerca 2018? That’s amazing