• ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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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.

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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.

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      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

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        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.

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    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.

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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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      Why didn’t you 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.

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        It was one of those times when you already have something that’s working for you just fine and it wasn’t important enough to change it.

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      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

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          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…

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              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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            Does it work alright though? How long do you usually expect it to last on any given day?

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              It’s not too shabby, never really counted it but I believe it lasts for about 6h at least on a full charge? I usually only drive for around an hour max though so it’s more of a guesstimate

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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.

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      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.

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        … 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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          noo… you’re not moving the wire right. You have to move it back left when it does that & then hit the ff button twice.

          fuckinghingworksjuatfinedroveacrossthreedamncountiestofindafyckinradioshack25goddamndollarsassholewouldnttakediscover

          See. Told you it works!

          shitbirdbettersitstillandnotjostlethatdamnwireifuckinlovethissong

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      I heard the sound quality was really good because it was a direct feed to the reader.

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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.

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      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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      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.

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        Ha! Nope actually, not in my old Cadillac or my Mercedes. Those both had anti theft. That would have been nice though.