You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car
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They are still around. They even come in Bluetooth flavour now so you don’t need the cord.
Perfect for my Bluetooth Discman.
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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.
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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 trunk basically held almost everything my iPod could.
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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.
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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I’m gen z - though on the older side - and I remember using these
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2018 here lol
What were you driving cerca 2018? That's amazing
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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 trunk basically held almost everything my iPod could.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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 high heat, as well as the discs. You’re right though, the move to burning MP3 CDs felt like you had almost infinite space for all your bands
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
I refuse to own any car capable of violating my privacy, which is every new car.
To be fair, any car with a license plate too. But still your point is well taken.
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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.
Yep I used these till the tape deck broke and phones stopped having earphone plugs
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1995? We were still using these in like 2008.
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What were you driving cerca 2018? That's amazing
Chrysler 300M. Second car I ever owned, kept it for years
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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.
iRiver= S tier mp3 nostalgia
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1995? We were still using these in like 2008.
2025 as well.
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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.
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64gb USB stick filled to the brim with pirated music. No skipping, no ads. This is the way.
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.
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i was using one of these to connect my laptop to my "speakers" (an old stereo set) as recently as 2019, lmao
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i was using one of these to connect my laptop to my "speakers" (an old stereo set) as recently as 2019, lmao
Russia or Mississippi?
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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 trunk basically held almost everything my iPod could.
No longer remember the car model but mine had a deck for 6 in the trunk and one in the dashboard
