I miss those days

[lucky_777@lemmy.world]

Spotify Jams now. But passing the aux is a lost bonding experience

[anomnom@sh.itjust.works]

Until the to the fucking jacks out of the phones

[jaschen@lemm.ee]

God damn it. Another thing I have to charge.

[bamboodpanda@lemmy.world]

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

[thteven@lemmy.world]

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

[dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Am poor still driving my 1997 truck, it has an aux tho

[nigelfrobisher@aussie.zone]

I’m Gonna Be and Mr Brightside are the Scylla and Charybdis of wedding discos. Also, for some reason there are always guys in kilts.

[hupf@feddit.org]

Grandma, what's an iPod?

[sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca]

They still do. This is how I play stuff in my '03 Jeep.

[captainblagbird@lemmy.world]

I built one myself!

Probably definitely way more powerful than the legal limit, practically making it a pirate radio station...

[child_of_the_bukkake@lemmy.cafe]

Kewl

U need help? I did one myself with icecast and shit

[tbi@lemmy.world]

I remember excluding cars with CD players from my purchasing decisions for this reason! Should either have a tape or aux in.

[captainblagbird@lemmy.world]

Technology Connections' video on the topic:

[vinesnfluff@pawb.social]

adjusts glasses

So 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 itself

So 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 —

— 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

[vinesnfluff@pawb.social]

I think they might use AAAs

Down to you if that's worse or better.

[mystikincarnate@lemmy.ca]

Spoiler, they're incredibly simple and quite clever.

[frezik@midwest.social]

I built one, but by that time our local FM radio waves were so saturated that there was no good frequency to use.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Mmmm... did somebody say pudding?

[frezik@midwest.social]

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.

[daporkchop_@lemmy.ml]

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.