I miss those days
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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.
