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.
Mid 80’s me had a cassette player that plugged into the car’s 8track tape player
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.
Aw hell yeah, Sparkomatic!
I had a Bluetooth cassette adapter as recently as like 2021, I like old cars
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.
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.
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.
Hope your CD player had skip protection 😉
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…
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That’s fucking dope.
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…
Does it work alright though? How long do you usually expect it to last on any given day?
They missed an opportunity to use the spinning gear to generate its own power.
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
keep it steady? did you neglect to install the shock absorbing plate?
My new hotness has a 30-sec anti-slip feature!
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.
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
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.
Joke’s on you - that’s literally what I use in my 03 Jetta 😂
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.
I was rocking one of these plugged into an mp3 player circa 2007-2010.
Peasant.
My CD player had an FM transmitter that I tuned the car radio to.
And I just broadcast my own radio station…
