Worked? Mine works perfectly!
Pretty sure I still did that in like 2012?
2018 here lol
What were you driving cerca 2018? That’s amazing
Same setup I have now just plug the rca jack into a Bluetooth receiver instead of a CD player.
1995? We were still using these in like 2008.
2025 as well.
I’m gen z - though on the older side - and I remember using these
I did this last in 2020. RIP my old mitsubishi.
I had that same one!
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.
I had one of those up until 2012, because my 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.
Get a Bluetooth AUX receiver.
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.
I’m 22 and I remember this
Magnets, how do they work
Literally no one knows.
They are still around. They even come in Bluetooth flavour now so you don’t need the cord.
Perfect for my Bluetooth Discman.
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.
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
64gb USB stick filled to the brim with pirated music. No skipping, no ads. This is the way.
These adapters were perfect… The only problem was that personal CD players of the same era skipped when you looked at them wrong.
I remember shopping for diskmans that had the longest anti-skip.
You definitely had to keep the cd player in a level spot in your car where it didn’t bounce around a lot
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.
We were using this well into 2010 or so. Better audio quality than an FM tuner as long as the electromagnet wasn’t overheating.
The best option though was to get an inline FM injector and plug it in where the antenna plugged in. Perfect audio.
My nokia n95 had a small integrated FM transmitter.
Tanked the battery but was fun to play with
My 2000s-era cars don’t* have tape decks, unfortunately. I say “unfortunately” because they also don’t have line in, USB, or Bluetooth, so their AM/FM/CD car audio units are, in 2025, objectively inferior to the AM/FM/cassette ones in my 1990s-era cars.
* Present tense because I still own cars from the '90s and 2000s. I refuse to own any car capable of violating my privacy, which is every new car.
Super reasonable. We had a 2004 Honda Pilot at the time, which still had a tape deck.
I swear, even ebikes are starting to get all these GPS tracking features 😅 such a dystopia.
I refuse to own any car capable of violating my privacy
Is this you?
No, but he’s right.
*Is this GNU?
Let me introduce you to the Citroen Ami/Opel Rocks-e/Fiat Topolino, where the entertainment system is a literal bluetooth speaker in a cupholder.
Yeah, but we’re talking about cars. I think the Ami is legally something like a dune buggy
I haven’t seen it in ANY of the dune movies though…
It’s okay. My car is covered in cameras and has a mobile broadband connection to the mothership, so it’s probably tracking your glorious 90’s swag wagons without your consent anyway.
Anyway, sorry about that. I’d tape the cameras up but then the car complains a lot.
Luckily most cars with cd players made after 2007 also included an aux port.
Tape adapter should be just as good. If it’s not, you probably have dirty heads or are using it wrong (wrong side, NR on, etc).
The tape adapter is legit just a wire that connects to a tape-head inside the cassette body. That’s it. It’s head-to-head.
Most of the noise and artifacts in tape are a result of the tape itself. No tape, no noise. Consequentially if your tape deck has Dolby Noise Reduction or a similar feature, it should probably be turned off.
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