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.
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 had a Bluetooth cassette adapter as recently as like 2021, I like old cars
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.
Ha! Nope actually, not in my old Cadillac or my Mercedes. Those both had anti theft. That would have been nice though.
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.
“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.
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
Yep this was me. Anti skip CD player then mp3 CDs then zune
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.
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.
I think yours might be broken.
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.
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See. Told you it works!
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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.
I heard the sound quality was really good because it was a direct feed to the reader.
this is very very wrong. the sound quality was a dumpster fire
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.
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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
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
Does it work alright though? How long do you usually expect it to last on any given day?
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
That’s very doable. Thank you
She’s a witch!
That’s fucking dope.
What is this black magic?!
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?
Not an audiophile spotted!
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.
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 :)
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
Technically an option for sure. With the Silkroad-special model sold through Amazon the manufacturer decided to have the adapter turn off during charging. So listening to music while the adapter being plugged in is not possible unfortunately.
Joke’s on you - that’s literally what I use in my 03 Jetta 😂
Peasant.
My CD player had an FM transmitter that I tuned the car radio to.
My Nokia N97 had that too it was so sweet
What I wouldn’t give for a modern N series. Those phones rocked.
And I just broadcast my own radio station…
Na, forget CDs and check out my sweet minidisc player! Waaazaaaaaaaa!!??!
It’s 1995!
And, now that I’m older,
stress weighs on my shouldersheavy as boulders?
but I told yall, until the day that I die…
oh neat, TMBG! I’m seeing them live on Sunday
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
Boss
That’s new tech. I had a Radio Shack adapter to play cassettes that plugged into my car’s 8-track system.
Better yet, play your phone audio through your 8-track system!
This is blowing my mind lmao. At what point just buy a new radio deck. They make modern ones that look vintage. Has HD radio and BT…
I was rocking one of these plugged into an mp3 player circa 2007-2010.
