Please. I had a cassette with built-in storage, that could play in a cassette deck player AND had an headset jack plugged in for music on the go.
You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car
Submitted 10 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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cley_faye@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Amberskin@europe.pub 10 months ago
Worked? Mine works perfectly!
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
1995? We were still using these in like 2008.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
2025 as well.
noxypaws@pawb.social 10 months ago
That, plus a portable CD-MP3 player, was the bomb.
I still have my iRiver iMP-350, a portable CD player that could read mp3 and wma files off a CD-R or CD-RW, allowing way more than 74 or 80 minutes of audio. Damn thing still mostly works 22 years later too, thanks in large part to them including a 2x AA battery dongle in addition to the gumstick-shaped rechargeable batteries in the main unit which have long since leaked.
When they started selling head units with aux in ports, I had to have one in my car. And when they started putting iPod connectors in head units, perfection.
stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 10 months ago
iRiver= S tier mp3 nostalgia
moseschrute@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m gen z - though on the older side - and even I remember these
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
The best thing about the 1997 Volkswagen Jetta I had was it had a 12-disc CD-changer in the trunk. Why it was in the trunk, I don’t know, but I had updated the front side deck (which was also cool because it was just a box you could plug into the front and not have to get deeper into the wiring or anything) so it could read MP3 CDs, so 12 of those in the truck basically held almost everything my iPod could.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No longer remember the car model but mine had a deck for 6 in the trunk and one in the dashboard
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I had an Acura with the disc changer in the trunk, I imagine the moving parts right behind the firewall would not fare well for long in heat. You’re right though, the move to burning MP3 CDs felt like you had almost infinite space for all your bands
bcgm3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
These adapters were perfect… The only problem was that personal CD players of the same era skipped when you looked at them wrong.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You definitely had to keep the cd player in a level spot in your car where it didn’t bounce around a lot
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I remember buying a Sony mp3 CD player with 5-second skip delay for $80.
Everyone was still using regular CD players with their 80 minutes of audio, carefully holding their precious device.
While I was living like a god, playing over twenty hours of music, dropping my player over and over, without losing a beat.
Pnut@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I remember shopping for diskmans that had the longest anti-skip.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They are still around. They even come in Bluetooth flavour now so you don’t need the cord.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Perfect for my Bluetooth Discman.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would have had to reach forward, because I never understood them until this thread. Now I can pretend to understand them and just frustratedly say, “It’s basically electromagnets, to oversimplify it” next time someone mentions these.
jerzy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Same setup I have now just plug the rca jack into a Bluetooth receiver instead of a CD player.
sourhill@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
We’re still using one of these haha.
amotio@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, it worked much better than our current USB bluetooth dogle that lags every 30 seconds. Just because we could not get radio wit cassette player. I still have the cassette adapter.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Ugh I WISH… my old car didn’t have Bluetooth so I bought a BT-AUX adapter. It worked INSTANTLY and sounded amazing. Zero delay, loved it so much.
Got a newer car. Bluetooth included! …with a two second delay. I go to plug my BT-AUX adapter in so I don’t have a delay… NO AUX PORT IN CAR AAAA
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 10 months ago
64gb USB stick filled to the brim with pirated music. No skipping, no ads. This is the way.
amotio@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah I used to have my MP3 Bean filled with random music gathered from friends. Little red triangular player, lasted for like three weeks on one charge, just music, no [artist] radio bs on Spotify. My phone lasts one day, if I don’t play music.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Two cars ago I had this. I had a MiniDisk player to go with it. I felt like the coolest young adult.
Then I got another car that had a CD player with no AUX port. Had to get a RF adapter. Worked well.
Then the FCC put limits in the RF adapters and they sounded worse.
Replaced my radio after that one with a shamcy one. Got my AUX cable back!
… Now they took my AUX cable away from my phone.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Get a Bluetooth AUX receiver.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Those didn’t exist yet. It was amm FM Transmitters. They might’ve been around but too expensive.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I had one of those up until 2012, bemu F150 at the time still had the tape deck. They worked well, and even 2019 I used one in a company truck I had at work. But when it broke I was hardpress to find a replacement. I do know they made Bluetooth versions, but most didn’t have good reviews and never bought one to try out.
Korne127@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m 22 and I remember this
tpihkal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I had that same one!
Drekaridill@feddit.is 10 months ago
I did this last in 2020. RIP my old mitsubishi.
Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Like how did these even work??
burgersc12@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Technology connections explains it very well
Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Great explanation I get it now!
zurohki@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Instead of running a magnetic tape over the cassette player’s sensor, you put an electromagnet on it powered by the headphone jack. The cassette player just reads the magnetic field and doesn’t know any difference.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
damn I thought it was writing the tape in real time that would be insane
Mickey7@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You shoved the cassette into your car radio and plugged the other end into a cd player
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Computer Engineer here, studied QED and E&M.
This is the most accurate answer
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The player reads a magnetic tape. Put the same stuff inside the cassette and reverse it, now the player reads a reader.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 10 months ago
Magnets, how do they work
tpihkal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Literally no one knows.
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Pretty sure I still did that in like 2012?
boonhet@lemm.ee 10 months ago
2018 here lol
tamal3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What were you driving cerca 2018? That’s amazing
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
i was using one of these to connect my laptop to my “speakers” (an old stereo set) as recently as 2019, lmao
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Russia or Mississippi?
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Switzerland, which probably makes this even funnier