• @stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    84 hours 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.

  • Bizzle
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    54 hours ago

    I had a Bluetooth cassette adapter as recently as like 2021, I like old cars

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      54 hours 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.

    • @yuri@pawb.social
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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

        • @airbussy
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          65 hours ago

          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…

  • @PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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    55 hours 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.

  • @Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol
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    45 hours 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.

  • Dem Bosain
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    76 hours 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…

  • Arthur Besse
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    7 hours ago

    keep it steady? did you neglect to install the shock absorbing plate?

    photo of a cardboard box packaging for SONY DISCMAN WITH COMPLETE CAR MOUNTING KIT
package has this text on top of a photo of the discman and accessories listed:
8 HOURS CONTINUOUS PLAY BACK WITH 2 x AA BATTERIES
RECHARGEABLE BATTERY CAPABLE (BP-DM10; OPTION)
1bit DAC AVLS MEGABASS
COMPLETE CAR CONNECTING KIT SUPPLIED
SHOCK ABSORBING PLATE
CAR CASSETTE ADAPTOR ENABLES CD PLAYBACK THROUGH YOUR
CAR CASSETTE DECK
CAR CIGARETTE LIGHTER POWER CORD INCLUDED
beneath the English-language text is this smaller text in Spanish:
8 HORAS DE REPRODUCCIÓN CONTINUA CON 2 PILAS AA
JUEGO DE CONEXIÓN PARA AUTOMOVILES SUMINISTRADO
across the bottom right corner it says:
EASY INSTALLATION

  • @BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
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    45 hours 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

  • IninewCrow
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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.

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

      • Pup Biru
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        33 hours ago

        this is very very wrong. the sound quality was a dumpster fire

    • HonkyTonkWoman
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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.

      • IninewCrow
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        248 minutes 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.