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Spoiler, they're incredibly simple and quite clever.
Grandma, what's an iPod?
They make these things with bluetooth now believe it or not.
Pair the tape
Stick it in a cassette player
Play music on your phone.
Pair the tape
I can't even, why is this so funny?(◕‿◕')
Love me some anachronism stew.
God damn it. Another thing I have to charge.
I feel like this could work using a tiny generator attached to the drive's motorized wheel, but that's probably too complex to be cost-effective for something like this unfortunately.
I think they might use AAAs
Down to you if that's worse or better.
I can see the use if you're for example driving an older car with mostly original kit and don't want an anachronistic stereo in it. So you pair up your fake cassette to your modern phone and can still play Spotify or w/e with the original kit.
There's even an 8-Track version of it.
Also buying a whole-ass new car stereo (+ installation) is much more expensive than a bluetooth adaptor from China
So if you're driving an ancient car out of necessity rather than for the aesthetic, this can help you get music into it.
F'course
Most cars from the age of tapes nowadays are relics. "Old cars" in the range that poor people drive out of necessity are from the CD age instead.
Am poor still driving my 1997 truck, it has an aux tho
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And this meant that car audio systems with a cassette slot were more future proof than car audio systems with only a cd slot.
Aux cable is the pinnacle of car audio sharing technology.
Bluetooth is nice too since you can use the media controls on the steering wheel. In case your mix contains tracks which aren't fire. Ok I see where I made the mistake. Aux is sufficient.
In case your mix contains tracks which aren't fire.
Not a problem I've ever had.
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Mmmm... did somebody say pudding?
I had one that turned 1/8" into it's own radio frequency. It was really shitty but it worked!
Edit: just looked and they still sell them! https://www.amazon.com/Transmitter-Adapter-Built-iPhone-Players/dp/B076X3GSMH
I built one myself!
~~Probably~~ definitely way more powerful than the legal limit, practically making it a pirate radio station...
I built one, but by that time our local FM radio waves were so saturated that there was no good frequency to use.
Kewl
U need help? I did one myself with icecast and shit
I used to have one that would broadcast a short-range radio station that you would tune the car radio to. You’d have to make sure its frequency was far from an actual radio station or you’d get crosstalk. On long road trips you’d have to keep adjusting it.
Lol, we used those little transmitters that you plug into the cigarette lighter plug until several years ago in a mid 2000s car, and they're still sold and used by people. The funniest thing that happened was when we were overtaking a semi who had one of these, but with a stronger transmitter, so for a couple of seconds we were listening to the guy's random turbo folk music.
I remember excluding cars with CD players from my purchasing decisions for this reason! Should either have a tape or aux in.
*scuttles out of the sewer*
my linux phone had an FM transmitter so I could just override any station with my jams
*scuttles back into sewer*
What phone do you have? That's an interesting feature like IR blasters
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Psshhht. I used to have a microphone that let me SING ON THE RADIO. It literally put me on the FM airwaves. You may have heard some of my stuff.
HEY GOOD LOOKING I'LL BE BACK TO PICK YOU UP LATER
Those were great. They did a job for everyone that couldn’t afford the latest tech in the car. Now you’re lucky to get a head unit with an Aux plug, much less a CD player.
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If the car was old enough you could plug a cassette adapter into an 8 track adapter.
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I had one of those too. I don't miss it at all, though, because the sound quality was dogshit. Now get off my lawn, damn kids!
You may have missed the protective film on the magnet head. When I had one, it was a night and day difference once I got the protective film off.
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When I get my IROC I'm planning to do this.
I had a lil radio emitter that plugged into the iPod so it would replace the local stations !
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I have one that is bluetooth to cassette. Unfortunately, it has a lot of artifacts during playback. Opted for a bluetooth transmitter that connects to an empty radio channel? Frequency? Works well.
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I had a fuckin boombox in my back seat for a while, then I upgraded to one of those portable ipod docks and plugged that shit into the cigarette lighter. Actually was pretty decent lol
The original aux cable! And you never needed to pair shit!
I loved these things. Never understood how they worked (still don’t) but I didn’t care!
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