I miss those days
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Aux cable is the pinnacle of car audio sharing technology.
Until the to the fucking jacks out of the phones
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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.
God damn it. Another thing I have to charge.
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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
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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
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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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There are way way worse CDs to get stuck.
Obligatory Don't worry... It comes around again.
Iām Gonna Be and Mr Brightside are the Scylla and Charybdis of wedding discos. Also, for some reason there are always guys in kilts.
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Grandma, what's an iPod?
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...used to be folks also made adapters with FM micro-transmitters for cars without tape decks; might still do...
They still do. This is how I play stuff in my '03 Jeep.
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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!
Probablydefinitely way more powerful than the legal limit, practically making it a pirate radio station... -
I built one myself!
Probablydefinitely way more powerful than the legal limit, practically making it a pirate radio station...Kewl
U need help? I did one myself with icecast and shit
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I remember excluding cars with CD players from my purchasing decisions for this reason! Should either have a tape or aux in.
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Technology Connections' video on the topic:
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How does that work from the fake cassette to the player? Does the fake cassette record what's streaming to it to a loop of tape and let the player pick up the audio?
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glassesSo a cassette tape works by using electromagnetism.
Ferric Oxide (AKA, literally rust powder) has a property that if exposed to a magnetic field, it will create a weak version of that magnetic field within itselfSo the record head of a tape machine is an electromagnet that changes its field based on the actual audio signal, translating audio frequencies directly to magnetic directions and strengths, while the read head is a passive electromagnetic coil that picks up that weak magnetic field on the rust-coated plastic tape while a small motor runs the tape past it and emits it as a soundwave.
The tape adapter skips 90% of these steps ā
ā It just has an electromagnetic coil of its own, positioned so it lines up with the play head, and when you feed it an audio signal, that audio signal gets directly translated to a magnetic field just by running it through the coil. The tape deck picks it up and doesn't even realise there is no tape running through
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God damn it. Another thing I have to charge.
I think they might use AAAs
Down to you if that's worse or better.
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Technology Connections' video on the topic:
Spoiler, they're incredibly simple and quite clever.
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I built one myself!
Probablydefinitely 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.
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Mmmm... did somebody say pudding?
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I'm kinda/sorta there now. The factory media console in my car "understands" mp3 files on a USB flash drive. Why Nissan decided to go with the most cursed UI/UX imaginable to navigate this is beyond me. It's practically useless. I would love to slap in a 1990's vintage Pioneer head unit - with mp3 capability - and call it a day.
FLAC is where it's at. Oddly, most of the head units that understand FLAC don't have CD drives at all. If it has a CD drive still, it probably only understands MP3.
Which is one response to the question of "why would you encode an MP3 at a high bitrate when you can just use FLAC?" It's because I had a car that didn't FLAC.
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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.
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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.
That is a great idea.
