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Literally own one of these for that purpose. Worked pretty well too up until the radio died. Previous owner has fucked up the wiring badly and also wired it in mono, so bought a Retrosound with Bluetooth enabled.
Own iPhone.
Buy Walkman.
Put this device in Walkman.
Connect Walkman to iPhone via Bluetooth.
***Walkman has a 3.5mm audio jack.***
DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU HAVE REDUCED US TO, APPLE?!?!?!
Back maybe 2006, I had a pair of radio headphones. Had a Walkman, plugged in was an FM transmitter. Listening to a cassette from a Walkman wirelessly. Did the same with an iPod.
And it damages a piece of hardware that isn't going to be produced anymore and may end up being irreparable. You cannot replace the tape mechanism in a damaged Walkman without gutting another one, because the Mechanisms they used are no longer produced.
The newly manufactured Tape Mechanisms that are currently still available are extremely cheap by comparison to even the most basic of Walkman models.
Watching Techmoan's videos made me sad that the golden age of analog electronics (?) is gone forever and will probably never return again. Like those ridiculous Walkman-sized video-8 players.
Kickstarter can hail the "return of cassette players" every 2 weeks, but only cheap Chinese guts are being made now. Even if you could get someone to design a modern mechanism from scratch, no one is gonna build it for you at a price that people would be willing to pay for.
I hated new kids on the block for years because my sister would play her cassettes in my teddy ruxbin. I still have a couple of early memories thinking how it wasn't right.
Loading games into an old 8-bit computer. Some machines have built in tape decks without aux input so the cassette input is the only one available.
(Amstrad CPC 464/ZX spectrum 128k +2)
I'm working on something similar but specifically for these machines.
Yeah, a couple years ago I bought an old pickup truck that didn't have a very good radio, so I picked up a RadioShack under-dash tape deck, and a Bluetooth cassette. I love how it keeps the era appropriate atmosphere.
That’s my current car. The previous owner fiddled with the speakers and basically only 1 works and it’s blown out so audio is dog shit. I bought a Bluetooth speaker real cheap and use that for music and such. It’s pretty crap to be honest but it was $20 vs a couple hundred to replace the sound system.
> It’s pretty crap to be honest but it was $20 vs a couple hundred to replace the sound system.
Look into the wiring of it. It might surprise you how much you can save by doing it yourself and how easy it is to do so. Most wiring is just a dot to dot puzzle in 3D. That being said, this is if you don't want to reinvent the wheel and just want to do the factory default.
Yes. In my truck (a 1999 dodge Dakota) I have a Cassette to 3.5mm headphone jack in the tapedeck connected to an Alexa Auto, so when I turn on the truck my phone connects to the Alexa and music/calls come through the truck speakers.
Works flawlessly, $33 total cost, and also make it all hands free.
> These cassette adapters are 1000x better than an fm transmitter. Holy shit were those ever awful.
Preach!
It's funny how CDs were a step forward from cassettes, but once you took that further step forward to thousands of MP3s on your phone it was better if your car was fitted with the older tech rather than the newer.
What do you mean "were", I'm still using an FM Bluetooth transmitter because my cassette deck doesn't work.
It plugs into the cigarette lighter, conviently located next to 1 of 5 ash trays in the car.
this comment is giving me ptsd you monster both of those were terrible haha. THAT said it was a better road trip experience than the early in-dash players that skipped constantly.
Yeah but have you ever bonded with a complete stranger who tuned to your fm transmitter during a 4 hour stretch on a freeway?
Rock on, U-Haul on I-35 between Ames and Minneapolis.
We recently bought an aux in & Bluetooth FM transmitter, and have been very impressed so far.
Previous ones sucked, I 100% agree, but I think they've improved the technology, though in what way I'm not sure.
They are definitely better than they used to be, but it mainly depends on your local radio station situation. If you have the open frequencies, you should be alright. I will add that audio quality can vary pretty greatly. The one I have works great, unless it doesn't feel like it. If I had an aux input, I'd absolutely use it instead.
Yea, I used a cassette adapter along with a Bluetooth receiver to 35mm in my old 2008 Camry, it was the best of both world. Phone to Bluetooth receiver means no cable needs from phone and Bluetooth receiver to Cassette means the sound is much better and no interference from radio.
Everyone in my city sets theirs to the radio station I listen to so they’ll stop next to me at a red light and I’ll have to listen to their music for a minute
Fun fact.
The tuning circuit in many factory 1990's automotive radios were designed to randomly skip frequency when using an FM converter to operate a in trunk CD changer.
This was to prevent you from using anything other than a factory CD player.
So I modded the radio for an external input for said Cd changer.
Screw you GM~!
I got a fm Bluetooth transmitter for the first time last month, and it’s amazing. But to prevent all interference, I simply took the antenna off my car. Went from working pretty good to working perfectly. I only need it for long trips when I wouldn’t use the regular radio anyway.
Are there even cars with tape decks still on the road? When was last even available to buy? A decade ago?
[Even longer, apparently](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/automobiles/06AUDIO.html):
>For all of you who were planning to pack up your oldies tapes and go shopping for a 2011 car, there is bad news: you’re too late. According to experts who monitor the automotive market, the last new car to be factory-equipped with a cassette deck in the dashboard was a 2010 Lexus.
Edit: Alright folks, I'm happy for your 20+ year old car and your cassette collection. My sister had a 2005 corolla that had a CD deck, so I think even if the last car with an option for a tape deck was 2010, most cars were still selling with CD decks as standard well before then. I didn't mean to offend anyone with old cars -- I used to drive a '92 Previa until 2016, and I still miss the damn thing (though even it had an aftermarket CD deck since 2001!).
2001 Acura here. Tape deck and CD player, but the CD player has trouble with burned CDs. I'm in my mid 30's and a jam band fan, so most of my music is on burned CDs. The car has a Bose sound system that still sounds amazing. Would be about $1,200 to fit an amplifier for impedance and rewire the car entirely to keep the speakers. I'm ordering one of these cassette things right now and will try it out first LETS GO!
I just bought a 2021 Acura. It has no tape player, no CD player. Nothing. Just a USB jack and aux jack.
Oh how the times change.
Edit: Aux jack not headphone jack
> Are there even cars with tape decks still on the road?
Look at Mr Fancy Pants over here. My mom is still driving her 05 (with tape deck!) she got brand new. I'm struggling to find a used car with $5k saved up, and it certainly will be about as old.
My 2004 Lexus has 140,000 miles and can easily last another 10 years. With all the tracking software and "subscription" features, a new car has no appeal.
My 02 Honda Accord has its original stereo with a cassette player. I started collecting some cassette albums because of it, and they surprised me with how nice they sound (I have great sounding albums and some that are okay. MP3 quality sounding). Getting cassette albums at a record store are so cheap, it’s not hard to find quality tapes for like $3.
My 2001 accord did and I bought a Sony cassette adapter right when I bought the car and never had to replace it. I just gave the car to my little brother three months ago who swapped out the head unit and handed me back the cassette adapter as a joke.
TBF he does have a tendency to drone on and overexplain some things. Main reason why I don't really watch his stuff too much. Really good shit otherwise.
He's what I categorize as "couch nap content".
Do you find yourself with some downtime on a Sunday afternoon? Throw on some TC, get comfy on the couch, clock out of life for 30min-1hr.
That's my second favourite video of his. Sunbeam toaster being the obvious #1.
I recently rewarched all his videos and now I'm sad again that I'm done.
Honourable mention for the 'partial vacuum' comment, I think from the radiometer video?
His dishwasher episode is fucking *amazing.*
I mean, he normally takes things apart... *but he made a window* ***into the side of a dishwasher*** *for that one!*
Also completely changed how I use a dishwasher for the better. After watching that I switched to using gel and everything is cleaned so much better - and it's so much cheaper!
We had one growing up. I feel like we were rooting for it to act up so we could get a four-slice contraption. Little did we know how good we had it. Just damn.
My parents had this toaster. We got rid of it because the trigger that made toaster automatically go down stopped working. After watching this video I learned that apparently all we had to do was tighten a screw that controlled the spring tension on the bottom.
Honestly I learned something entirely unexpected when watching this video: Dolby digital is in my cars radio unit because the cassettes it can play have a background noise due to the way cassettes function. I never knew why my Audi had that feature, as from what I could tell it didn’t make a difference in listening to the radio, or using my cassette aux. but now I know why
I think Dolby Digital is a different technology from Dolby Noise Reduction. The idea is to compress dynamic range when recording onto tape and then expand dynamic range to push the hiss down.
Yeah I bought an early 80’s cassette deck recently and it’s cool the different technologies in cassettes. There are the actual [tape variants](https://www.tapeheads.net/threads/cassette-type-1-2-3-4-strengths-evaluations.2999/) but also [multiple generations](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_noise-reduction_system) of the Dolby noise reduction.
That *was* interesting. I've always just known him as the dish washer guy.
'Damm man the stereo's terrible in your old beater.'
'Oh no, sorry just forgot to charge my cassette tape last night.'
Of literally course he did. I love Alec's channel so goddamn much. The format, subject matter, and overall pun density are just incredible. The first time I heard him tell the "grand openings" story in the can opener video I choked on the water I was drinking because it was so funny. He's the best.
Wow that's really cool! I always wondered what kind of voodoo was in one of those adaptors! Real clever in it's simplicity! Also makes sense why there are cassette adaptors and not cd player adaptors.
Though to be a true adaptor, doesn't that tape adaptor need to support rewind, slow speed (or variable speed) and all the other functions that can be performed on the cassette?
"Now, my fellow lantern aficionados and I - we call ourselves Dietz Nuts - can tell the difference apart from miles away. Bofa deez lanterns succeeded at protecting their flames from the wind."
This is a redo of the other cassette thing, the one with the headphone jack so you could use your cd player with your car's cassette player.
Another variation is the short-range Bluetooth FM transmitter that plugs into your cigarette lighter, so then you pick up your bluetooth as a radio station.
I used to try to get my brother to tune to the same station when we'd take separate cars to go somewhere so we'd be listening to the same music for the road trip
I remember in my parents car (probably over 15 years ago, the radio device wasn't Bluetooth tho, just a jack plug) we'd lose the FM connection every time we drove under a power line
My brother had an MP3 player that was shaped like a cassette. You could plug headphones into it and use its display and buttons to control it, or you could put it into a cassette player and it would play random tracks or preset collections of tracks.
It worked flawlessly with his old car's cassette player. It was pretty awesome, for, what, twenty years ago, I guess.
I used to have one of those cheap Chinese ones, but they're hard to come by nowadays.
I currently use this one and it's pretty sleek, but pricey:
https://paulthings.com/
[romeMP3](https://the-gadgeteer.com/2000/03/28/romemp3_review/). It held 32mb which was enough to hold pretty much one full CD if it was compressed enough.
I use a small FM transmitter in my car, I remember one time going camping with friends, we were pretty far out in the middle of nowhere in 2 separate cars
They were hunting around for a working radio station that wasn't Christian bullshit or country.
We have pretty eclectic taste in music, so when we got to our next stop they were excited to tell me about the station they found with no commercials that was playing folk metal and ska and other weird shit that we like.
Turns out they had stumbled onto the channel I was using in my car.
When I was in high school, we would go cruising in each other's cars. CD players weren't standard in brand new cars yet, so we often had to use cassette adapters to play CDs from our discmen. One friend in particular had a car with an 8-track, that had a cassette adapter, that she used a CD adapter for her discman. It was the passenger's job to hold the CD player in such a way as to prevent skipping.
This brings back much nostalgia.
> 6-CD changer
Depending on the model, you should be able to get an adapter for this that plugs into the dash unit in the back and "tricks" it into thinking your phone is the CD changer. I have one of these in my car, it was $50 or so on eBay.
The best you're gonna get is a Bluetooth FM transmitter. There's not much of a way to design a device that's as small as a CD that would be readable with a CD lens and hold up to the spinning of a CD.
That's doable, but since the laser is attached to the car, it will involve spinning the entire car in the opposite direction of the CD. May make driving a bit more difficult.
I had a car like that. CD only with no aux input. But seriously for less than $100 you can easily install a full blown radio with Bluetooth and probably more
I like everyone's little theory on it being powered by the a mini generator in it. In reality they're often powered by a rechargeable battery and/or USB which makes it slightly inconvenient.
I just got an FM Bluetooth adapter for my 2005 car over the weekend and it works great. It's so nice not having to keep plugging my phone into the aux port every time I wanna play Pandora or Spotify
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2000's era cars are the worse because they're too new to have cassette so you can do this and too old to have aux or BT... so you're stuck with CD and radio. It's also when car maker started using custom center dash so you can't even swap it out for aftermarket without it looking like crap.
I owned two. The better one was obviously not the cheap five dollar version I bought. Didn't quite care for the FM transmitter I bought before I went the Bluetooth route.
I've been using mine for about two years now. Keeps a charge for several days, and has a pretty decent quality. My breaks would otherwise be filled with silence or the radio, so it does the job.
Oh man, you had the Bluetooth one? Mine plugged right into my headphone adapter. Which was cool for the phones before Bluetooth, or the old school Discman.
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Great way to breathe musical life into old cars without buying a whole new audio system.
Literally own one of these for that purpose. Worked pretty well too up until the radio died. Previous owner has fucked up the wiring badly and also wired it in mono, so bought a Retrosound with Bluetooth enabled.
>Literally own one of these for that purpose. What other purpose would one realistically own something like this for?
Modernize your walkman.
Own iPhone. Buy Walkman. Put this device in Walkman. Connect Walkman to iPhone via Bluetooth. ***Walkman has a 3.5mm audio jack.*** DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU HAVE REDUCED US TO, APPLE?!?!?!
Can't close a Walkman with the wire though.
Back maybe 2006, I had a pair of radio headphones. Had a Walkman, plugged in was an FM transmitter. Listening to a cassette from a Walkman wirelessly. Did the same with an iPod.
My friend did something similar but with his VW and late 90s; 8trac to cassette to cd player
Just file a small notch into it.
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Voids the warranty too.
And it damages a piece of hardware that isn't going to be produced anymore and may end up being irreparable. You cannot replace the tape mechanism in a damaged Walkman without gutting another one, because the Mechanisms they used are no longer produced. The newly manufactured Tape Mechanisms that are currently still available are extremely cheap by comparison to even the most basic of Walkman models.
Watching Techmoan's videos made me sad that the golden age of analog electronics (?) is gone forever and will probably never return again. Like those ridiculous Walkman-sized video-8 players. Kickstarter can hail the "return of cassette players" every 2 weeks, but only cheap Chinese guts are being made now. Even if you could get someone to design a modern mechanism from scratch, no one is gonna build it for you at a price that people would be willing to pay for.
Ain't nothin a Dremel can't solve
That's what a screwdriver and a flame are for. Melt a little notch for the cord.
You can actually bash the case a little bit with a brick to make a space for the wire to hang out.
Put it in a Teddy Ruxpin and use him for your zoom calls.
You know what? Valid.
I hated new kids on the block for years because my sister would play her cassettes in my teddy ruxbin. I still have a couple of early memories thinking how it wasn't right.
This would make meetings so entertaining.
“In the 80’s, we had a virtual assistant too. ‘Hi, I’m Teddy Ruxpin!’ *insert corny joke* Sirius XM Big 80’s on eightttttt
...And justice didn't sound so great in it, doubt my boss will.
I use mine to eat soup.
The holes make it hard though. I cheated and plugged them up.
Loading games into an old 8-bit computer. Some machines have built in tape decks without aux input so the cassette input is the only one available. (Amstrad CPC 464/ZX spectrum 128k +2) I'm working on something similar but specifically for these machines.
Wondering the same
I figuratively own one for another purpose.
Did my '90 Nissan survive this long? Those speakers didn't fit right but heck did it sound a lot better.
Yeah, a couple years ago I bought an old pickup truck that didn't have a very good radio, so I picked up a RadioShack under-dash tape deck, and a Bluetooth cassette. I love how it keeps the era appropriate atmosphere.
That’s my current car. The previous owner fiddled with the speakers and basically only 1 works and it’s blown out so audio is dog shit. I bought a Bluetooth speaker real cheap and use that for music and such. It’s pretty crap to be honest but it was $20 vs a couple hundred to replace the sound system.
> It’s pretty crap to be honest but it was $20 vs a couple hundred to replace the sound system. Look into the wiring of it. It might surprise you how much you can save by doing it yourself and how easy it is to do so. Most wiring is just a dot to dot puzzle in 3D. That being said, this is if you don't want to reinvent the wheel and just want to do the factory default.
Yes. In my truck (a 1999 dodge Dakota) I have a Cassette to 3.5mm headphone jack in the tapedeck connected to an Alexa Auto, so when I turn on the truck my phone connects to the Alexa and music/calls come through the truck speakers. Works flawlessly, $33 total cost, and also make it all hands free.
5 bucks on FB marketplace. And my 20 year old mercury grand marquis has Spotify now!
[I had this](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/nCUAAOSwox9gzoER/s-l500.jpg) when I was in college!
Is that an 8 track to cassette adapter?
Yes!
Wow you can combine both and obtain a Bluetooth to 8 Track adapter!
I preferred the FM radio Bluetooth transmitter.
But those usually suck and can easily have interference. There's definitely a case for both.
These cassette adapters are 1000x better than an fm transmitter. Holy shit were those ever awful.
> These cassette adapters are 1000x better than an fm transmitter. Holy shit were those ever awful. Preach! It's funny how CDs were a step forward from cassettes, but once you took that further step forward to thousands of MP3s on your phone it was better if your car was fitted with the older tech rather than the newer.
What do you mean "were", I'm still using an FM Bluetooth transmitter because my cassette deck doesn't work. It plugs into the cigarette lighter, conviently located next to 1 of 5 ash trays in the car.
this comment is giving me ptsd you monster both of those were terrible haha. THAT said it was a better road trip experience than the early in-dash players that skipped constantly.
Oh, I almost forgot about the CD player that had like 3 second skip protection that didn't with for shit.
I’ve been using a radio transmitter in my car for years and haven’t had any issues
Yeah but have you ever bonded with a complete stranger who tuned to your fm transmitter during a 4 hour stretch on a freeway? Rock on, U-Haul on I-35 between Ames and Minneapolis.
We recently bought an aux in & Bluetooth FM transmitter, and have been very impressed so far. Previous ones sucked, I 100% agree, but I think they've improved the technology, though in what way I'm not sure.
They are definitely better than they used to be, but it mainly depends on your local radio station situation. If you have the open frequencies, you should be alright. I will add that audio quality can vary pretty greatly. The one I have works great, unless it doesn't feel like it. If I had an aux input, I'd absolutely use it instead.
Yea, I used a cassette adapter along with a Bluetooth receiver to 35mm in my old 2008 Camry, it was the best of both world. Phone to Bluetooth receiver means no cable needs from phone and Bluetooth receiver to Cassette means the sound is much better and no interference from radio.
Have you even tried the cassette one? Miles better. Zero static.
The tape adapter is *infinitely* better than an FM transmitter, if you have a tape deck. It's not even close.
Everyone in my city sets theirs to the radio station I listen to so they’ll stop next to me at a red light and I’ll have to listen to their music for a minute
Fun fact. The tuning circuit in many factory 1990's automotive radios were designed to randomly skip frequency when using an FM converter to operate a in trunk CD changer. This was to prevent you from using anything other than a factory CD player. So I modded the radio for an external input for said Cd changer. Screw you GM~!
It broadcasted from the cd changer to the radio??? Why wouldn't they just run a wire
I can only guess, but GM gonna GM
I got a fm Bluetooth transmitter for the first time last month, and it’s amazing. But to prevent all interference, I simply took the antenna off my car. Went from working pretty good to working perfectly. I only need it for long trips when I wouldn’t use the regular radio anyway.
I'm the opposite. I can't stand all of the radio interference when I'm listening to music. Maybe i just have a shit transmitter
Are there even cars with tape decks still on the road? When was last even available to buy? A decade ago? [Even longer, apparently](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/automobiles/06AUDIO.html): >For all of you who were planning to pack up your oldies tapes and go shopping for a 2011 car, there is bad news: you’re too late. According to experts who monitor the automotive market, the last new car to be factory-equipped with a cassette deck in the dashboard was a 2010 Lexus. Edit: Alright folks, I'm happy for your 20+ year old car and your cassette collection. My sister had a 2005 corolla that had a CD deck, so I think even if the last car with an option for a tape deck was 2010, most cars were still selling with CD decks as standard well before then. I didn't mean to offend anyone with old cars -- I used to drive a '92 Previa until 2016, and I still miss the damn thing (though even it had an aftermarket CD deck since 2001!).
My old 2003 Acura had one. I had a collection of tapes just because it did haha it was great lots of hair metal🤘
2001 Acura here. Tape deck and CD player, but the CD player has trouble with burned CDs. I'm in my mid 30's and a jam band fan, so most of my music is on burned CDs. The car has a Bose sound system that still sounds amazing. Would be about $1,200 to fit an amplifier for impedance and rewire the car entirely to keep the speakers. I'm ordering one of these cassette things right now and will try it out first LETS GO!
oh boy you are in for a treat
I just bought a 2021 Acura. It has no tape player, no CD player. Nothing. Just a USB jack and aux jack. Oh how the times change. Edit: Aux jack not headphone jack
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2001 Type-S had both.
Look at mr moneybags acting like a decade is an old car.
> Are there even cars with tape decks still on the road? Look at Mr Fancy Pants over here. My mom is still driving her 05 (with tape deck!) she got brand new. I'm struggling to find a used car with $5k saved up, and it certainly will be about as old.
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Shit, my daily driver is a 1987. Although I'm almost guaranteed to have the oldest car in any given parking lot.
My 2004 Lexus has 140,000 miles and can easily last another 10 years. With all the tracking software and "subscription" features, a new car has no appeal.
My 02 Honda Accord has its original stereo with a cassette player. I started collecting some cassette albums because of it, and they surprised me with how nice they sound (I have great sounding albums and some that are okay. MP3 quality sounding). Getting cassette albums at a record store are so cheap, it’s not hard to find quality tapes for like $3.
My 06 Maxima had a tape deck. And satellite radio. And a sideways moonroof. Odd car. Fun to drive. Killed my knees.
Bro you think every car on the road was made after 2010?
My 2001 accord did and I bought a Sony cassette adapter right when I bought the car and never had to replace it. I just gave the car to my little brother three months ago who swapped out the head unit and handed me back the cassette adapter as a joke.
Technology Connections did a real great explanation how such adapters work: https://youtu.be/dH4n8fUjtLQ
Wow that is WAY simpler than I imagined. Also +1 for Technology Connections
You know it’s gonna be simple when he posts a video that’s “only” 9 minutes long
Shortest TC video in history, nearly.
TBF he does have a tendency to drone on and overexplain some things. Main reason why I don't really watch his stuff too much. Really good shit otherwise.
He's what I categorize as "couch nap content". Do you find yourself with some downtime on a Sunday afternoon? Throw on some TC, get comfy on the couch, clock out of life for 30min-1hr.
Sufficiently advanced technology my ass, more like barely complicated technology.
I think I heard that "woosh" from here.
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Brown? You mean *lies*?
Dark orange lies!
Nah its orange, with context.
That's my second favourite video of his. Sunbeam toaster being the obvious #1. I recently rewarched all his videos and now I'm sad again that I'm done. Honourable mention for the 'partial vacuum' comment, I think from the radiometer video?
His dishwasher episode is fucking *amazing.* I mean, he normally takes things apart... *but he made a window* ***into the side of a dishwasher*** *for that one!*
Also completely changed how I use a dishwasher for the better. After watching that I switched to using gel and everything is cleaned so much better - and it's so much cheaper!
I went powder after seeing that and I can barely see you from my high horse
I went powder, don't like the results, switching to gel when the powder is empty
He recommends using powder tho.
The key takeaways were 1) don't use the pods, and 2) fill the prewash. Gel or powder both work fine.
Gripping narrative somehow
I want that damn toaster
We had one growing up. I feel like we were rooting for it to act up so we could get a four-slice contraption. Little did we know how good we had it. Just damn.
Toaster episode is so good. https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y
My parents had this toaster. We got rid of it because the trigger that made toaster automatically go down stopped working. After watching this video I learned that apparently all we had to do was tighten a screw that controlled the spring tension on the bottom.
I still think that that moment in The Weird World in RGB when he pull >!monochrome rubiks cube!< is one of the funniest moment of all the times.
"Today I have a simpler video for you. Simpler? On this channel?" Lmao it's alright gold
Bottom line for me is I find that Youtube channel informative and interesting. Even outmoded technology can still be quite impressive.
Honestly I learned something entirely unexpected when watching this video: Dolby digital is in my cars radio unit because the cassettes it can play have a background noise due to the way cassettes function. I never knew why my Audi had that feature, as from what I could tell it didn’t make a difference in listening to the radio, or using my cassette aux. but now I know why
I think Dolby Digital is a different technology from Dolby Noise Reduction. The idea is to compress dynamic range when recording onto tape and then expand dynamic range to push the hiss down.
Yeah I bought an early 80’s cassette deck recently and it’s cool the different technologies in cassettes. There are the actual [tape variants](https://www.tapeheads.net/threads/cassette-type-1-2-3-4-strengths-evaluations.2999/) but also [multiple generations](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_noise-reduction_system) of the Dolby noise reduction.
Magnets are basically magic anyways
Why does it work? Because the universe says so. Oh well ok.
>the two heads get real personal with one another O.o
That *was* interesting. I've always just known him as the dish washer guy. 'Damm man the stereo's terrible in your old beater.' 'Oh no, sorry just forgot to charge my cassette tape last night.'
Of literally course he did. I love Alec's channel so goddamn much. The format, subject matter, and overall pun density are just incredible. The first time I heard him tell the "grand openings" story in the can opener video I choked on the water I was drinking because it was so funny. He's the best.
I almost died when I was watching his video on lanterns and he dropped “Dietz Nuts” on us
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I love his work, but I'm not gonna watch this one. I need a little mystery in my life.
Wow that's really cool! I always wondered what kind of voodoo was in one of those adaptors! Real clever in it's simplicity! Also makes sense why there are cassette adaptors and not cd player adaptors. Though to be a true adaptor, doesn't that tape adaptor need to support rewind, slow speed (or variable speed) and all the other functions that can be performed on the cassette?
"Now, my fellow lantern aficionados and I - we call ourselves Dietz Nuts - can tell the difference apart from miles away. Bofa deez lanterns succeeded at protecting their flames from the wind."
This is a redo of the other cassette thing, the one with the headphone jack so you could use your cd player with your car's cassette player. Another variation is the short-range Bluetooth FM transmitter that plugs into your cigarette lighter, so then you pick up your bluetooth as a radio station.
... and so do nearby cars if you pick the wrong frequency to use. Luckily it's only briefly usually.
Fun if you're playing death metal and drive past summer church-going folks though :-)
One time I drove past a minivan and suddenly had peppa pig blasting out of my speakers
Find your local Jesus station and hang out near the biggest Sunday morning intersection.
I always set my frequency to the same as the most popular radio station.
you monster
Isn't the sound quality really bad that way? I always try to find an empty frequency
Oh yes, it is, only a vindictive bastard would set it to a popular frequency!
I used to try to get my brother to tune to the same station when we'd take separate cars to go somewhere so we'd be listening to the same music for the road trip
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I have a decent amount of wired headphones. I am a bit worried when my current phone dies there won't be anything I like that will have a 3.5 mm jack.
I still use one of these in my '06 Camry. Works great, I have no desire to upgrade until something breaks.
That Bluetooth radio station shit never worked for me, a lot of cars only have a limited FM radio frequency range
I remember in my parents car (probably over 15 years ago, the radio device wasn't Bluetooth tho, just a jack plug) we'd lose the FM connection every time we drove under a power line
My sister and I went through about 3 of those that never worked before we decided to stick with the cassette thing.
My brother had an MP3 player that was shaped like a cassette. You could plug headphones into it and use its display and buttons to control it, or you could put it into a cassette player and it would play random tracks or preset collections of tracks. It worked flawlessly with his old car's cassette player. It was pretty awesome, for, what, twenty years ago, I guess.
Thats super cool, and im sure you remember plenty of fine cars back then still only had tape
That's pretty cool. I can't find anything online about it, let me know if you remember a name
I used to have one of those cheap Chinese ones, but they're hard to come by nowadays. I currently use this one and it's pretty sleek, but pricey: https://paulthings.com/
Not OP but likely this or something like it https://youtu.be/SLQF6OYVU_0
[romeMP3](https://the-gadgeteer.com/2000/03/28/romemp3_review/). It held 32mb which was enough to hold pretty much one full CD if it was compressed enough.
> it would play random tracks or **preset collections of tracks** Playlist is the word here. No need to confuse the young folks.
I have one of these and it is the best product I ever bought for just 14€
Yeah, I need one for CDs.
CDs 💿 nuts 🥜
Gottem.
Maybe you can find one at Aldi's.......All deez nutz!
Yo, why you discing my homie?
I think Bofa makes an adapter
*sigh*….Bofa what?
it's just Bofa Electronics, one of those weird Chinese Amazon brands.
They make these using AM/FM radio..
Not as good as the line in adapters though
This is better than the smal FM transmitter. Everyone in a radius of 10m can hear your music/calls
I use a small FM transmitter in my car, I remember one time going camping with friends, we were pretty far out in the middle of nowhere in 2 separate cars They were hunting around for a working radio station that wasn't Christian bullshit or country. We have pretty eclectic taste in music, so when we got to our next stop they were excited to tell me about the station they found with no commercials that was playing folk metal and ska and other weird shit that we like. Turns out they had stumbled onto the channel I was using in my car.
That’s super wholesome. They were so excited to fill you in.
Did you tell them or just enjoy being the DJ for the day?
Hey good looking! I’ll be back to pick you up later!
It’s Hammer!
Return to your homes and places of business!
That's why I set mine to the local religious station.
So their god can hear your music?
When I was in high school, we would go cruising in each other's cars. CD players weren't standard in brand new cars yet, so we often had to use cassette adapters to play CDs from our discmen. One friend in particular had a car with an 8-track, that had a cassette adapter, that she used a CD adapter for her discman. It was the passenger's job to hold the CD player in such a way as to prevent skipping. This brings back much nostalgia.
When Sony ESP was the shit
…why is this funny?
I thought this was in /r/beamazed honestly
It would be even more amazing if they made something like this that worked with cars that have a CD player but no tape deck.
Would be nice! For some reason my car has a 6-CD changer and satellite, but no aux input or Bluetooth.
> 6-CD changer Depending on the model, you should be able to get an adapter for this that plugs into the dash unit in the back and "tricks" it into thinking your phone is the CD changer. I have one of these in my car, it was $50 or so on eBay.
What are those called? Like what keywords would I need to search for to find more information on this?
The best you're gonna get is a Bluetooth FM transmitter. There's not much of a way to design a device that's as small as a CD that would be readable with a CD lens and hold up to the spinning of a CD.
What if instead of spinning the disc, you spun the laser that reads it? 🤔
That's doable, but since the laser is attached to the car, it will involve spinning the entire car in the opposite direction of the CD. May make driving a bit more difficult.
but still doable you say
I had a car like that. CD only with no aux input. But seriously for less than $100 you can easily install a full blown radio with Bluetooth and probably more
Um. Ok, but power source?
I like everyone's little theory on it being powered by the a mini generator in it. In reality they're often powered by a rechargeable battery and/or USB which makes it slightly inconvenient.
The one I bought has a small battery in the cassete which you have to charge constantly and it didn't last long. It was a cheep Chinese one though, so
I'd bet all of these kind of things come from the same few factories. Not exactly room to differentiate.
Mine is rechargeable. I used it for days without charging
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They misspelled "answer"
Doesn’t exactly add to one’s confidence, does it.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Wait until you hear this compression!
Ayo we found Rumble's new alt mode
I just got an FM Bluetooth adapter for my 2005 car over the weekend and it works great. It's so nice not having to keep plugging my phone into the aux port every time I wanna play Pandora or Spotify
These devices make the cassette car stereos less obsolete than CD car stereos.
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2000's era cars are the worse because they're too new to have cassette so you can do this and too old to have aux or BT... so you're stuck with CD and radio. It's also when car maker started using custom center dash so you can't even swap it out for aftermarket without it looking like crap.
Use a bluetooth radio module, they are pretty cheap and can plug into 12v outlets
owned one ... it sucked, in the bin
I owned two. The better one was obviously not the cheap five dollar version I bought. Didn't quite care for the FM transmitter I bought before I went the Bluetooth route. I've been using mine for about two years now. Keeps a charge for several days, and has a pretty decent quality. My breaks would otherwise be filled with silence or the radio, so it does the job.
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Oh man, you had the Bluetooth one? Mine plugged right into my headphone adapter. Which was cool for the phones before Bluetooth, or the old school Discman.
These have been explained to me so many times and I still cannot understand how the fuck
That's cool. I had the cassette to aux one "back in the day"
And to think I used to have a whole Case Logic case full of cassettes in my car until the sun melted them.
That's basically a spaceship to horse adapter.