weirdI miss those days
DiplomjodlerI had one of those too. I don’t miss it at all, though, because the sound quality was dogshit. Now get off my lawn, damn kids!
BjörnStrange. The quality should be about the best a cassette or aux cable could deliver. They are basically just two electromagnets controlled by the audiosignal.
They are so simple there isn’t a lot to do badly.
Yeah it’s cassette quality. That’s what I’m talking about. It wasn’t anywhere near the quality of a direct AUX connection.
Most of cassettes lack of audio quality isn’t actually the quality, it’s the tape hiss. Without the tape there’s no hiss so they sound basically as good as a straight aux cable. It’s basically just a weird connector in the middle of the cable.
Cassette adapters are remarkably simple
You may have missed the protective film on the magnet head. When I had one, it was a night and day difference once I got the protective film off.
It’s a bit late to check that but I’m pretty sure i didn’t have any protective film there.
macnielAnd this meant that car audio systems with a cassette slot were more future proof than car audio systems with only a cd slot.
Aux cable is the pinnacle of car audio sharing technology.
Bluetooth is nice too since you can use the media controls on the steering wheel. In case your mix contains tracks which aren’t fire. Ok I see where I made the mistake. Aux is sufficient.
SubArcticTundraIn case your mix contains tracks which aren’t fire.
Not a problem I’ve ever had.
Didn’t see those myself until they already had USB
Until the to the fucking jacks out of the phones
It took me moving Country to get out of this situation, as my old Toyota was basically indestructible. Now I have Bluetooth, and the only CD is The Blues Brothers OST, which is stuck in the slot.
There are way way worse CDs to get stuck.
Obligatory Don’t worry… It comes around again.
HIMYM - I'm gonna be (500 miles)
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.
Just have a cd player that can play mp3 cds, over 100 songs per cd EZ
or push down an Aux Cassette, plug in your iPod/Walkman/Smartphone and listen to everything you could imagine.
Well if your car didn’t have one you had to do something else. It’s an easy concept to grasp lol
TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾or you could just push down an Aux Cassette, plug in your device, and listen to everything you could imagine?
Well if your car didn’t have one you had to do something else. It’s an easy concept to grasp lol
moosetwinor you could just push down an Aux Cassette, plug in your device, and listen to everything you could imagine
Well if your car didn’t have one you had to do something else. It’s an easy concept to grasp lol
Well if your car didn’t have one you had to do something else. It’s an easy concept to grasp lol
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.
This somehow makes me feel older than the hip pain does
I think it’e because of how long ago it was. I feel like society hasn’t changed very much since ~2012 (last time this was necessary) so it all feels like one long continuous blur. And then you realize that was 13 years ago.
tetris11*scuttles out of the sewer*
my linux phone had an FM transmitter so I could just override any station with my jams
*scuttles back into sewer*
What phone do you have? That’s an interesting feature like IR blasters
I remember reading about that phone and wanting it badly. I ended up getting a Nexus One instead. The Nexus One was its own marvel.
I remember weighing up either getting the iPhone at the time, the Nexus One, and the Nokia N900. It was a close call between the Nexus and the Nokia, mostly because I wanted those sweet sweet Android apps that everyone had, but ultimately I went with the N900 and it changed my life.
I could write my own Python on the train, I learned C and C++ over the course of a long car trip, and even started writing my own Apps on the device itself. Can you imagine that? On-device app development? In any language you want? It was unheard of at the time, and is relatively unheard of even now.
Maemo and then meego were so, so good. N9 was probably my favorite phone ever honestly.
I had an adapter like that from aliexpress because my car didn’t have bluetooth.
Those things were awesome. I had an old vehicle that only had an 8 track. My options were to listen to Don’t Look Back for the thousandth time or pick one of those up (in the days before ali express) and plug my CD player into it.
I did listen to Don’t Look Back a lot.
𝕿𝖊𝖗 𝕸𝖆𝖝𝖎𝖒𝖆I had a lil radio emitter that plugged into the iPod so it would replace the local stations !
I loved setting mine to the frequency of a local station and watching the confusion in other cars at a stop light if they were listening to the same frequency. I didn’t do it too often because it is pretty annoying though and not too hard to figure out who’s doing it.
Discman on a tray with little bouncy shocks, in an attempt to keep the CD from skipping, but it didn’t matter because it would skip anyway.
I have one of those in my car today.
orcaI loved these things. Never understood how they worked (still don’t) but I didn’t care!
Technology Connections has covered how they work.
Cassette adapters are remarkably simple
Technology Connections is going to turn into the XKCD of explainer videos.
SmokeyDopeElectromagnets and a touch of devil-math from the STEM layer of hell, as is with most technology.
I still use one whenever I drive my father’s car. It’s Bluetooth connected now, which does mean I have to charge it, but since phones removed the headphone jacks… /Shrug
RememberTheApollo_Those were great. They did a job for everyone that couldn’t afford the latest tech in the car. Now you’re lucky to get a head unit with an Aux plug, much less a CD player.
I drive a 2001 which luckily came with a CD player that was wired to use a 6-disc changer mounted in the trunk. For $50 I got an adapter cable that tricks the unit into thinking my aux device is the 6-disc changer. This worked great until I got my latest phone which doesn’t have a fucking headphone jack. I bought an adapter but the top volume level is pitifully low, so I’m back to burning CDs to play in my car.
I bought an adapter but the top volume level is pitifully low, so I’m back to burning CDs to play in my car.
This is odd, because the voltage levels should be somewhat normalized across the USB-C adapter and your old headphone jack. It may be an issue with your adapter having a shitty DAC. Basically, the adapter has to take the digital audio signal, and convert it to analog. Cheaper adapters will use cheap digital-analog converters (DACs) which will either output lower levels, or will tend to change the signal as volume increases.
It’s also possible that it is purely an analog converter, in which case your phone is actually using its internal DAC. There are benefits and drawbacks to this, but it’s possible that your phone is software-limiting its internal DAC’s power output to avoid burning out from a bad connection.
NickwithaCThe original aux cable! And you never needed to pair shit!
Lol my dad had one. I’m Gen Z.
I last saw that in like 2016 (car was like made in like the 2000s). Then the new cars didn’t even have the casette thing anymore.
Lord WiggleFuck you I’m not THAT old
Look at that young whippersnapper. I had one for my discman.
If the car was old enough you could plug a cassette adapter into an 8 track adapter.
ikiddDear god, I had one of these. I was driving a 74 Ford pickup with an 8-track and it was the only way to play my music through the single speaker in the dash. High fidelity.
Plug… plug it into a zune
I actually had a Zune. They were pretty nice as far as MP3 players go.
Heck, I still use my old Zune. Replaced the battery, hard drive, and screen a couple of years ago and the thing is a beast.
Yeah, they were actually pretty ahead of their time. It was before people had become accustomed to music subscriptions, so that scared a lot of people away. But the fact that it would just automatically sync with your library, and you could download whatever songs you wanted for offline play in the car… It was groundbreaking at the time. Plus it had a built-in FM receiver, so you could listen to the radio while on the go too.
…my father-in-law still squirts, but mostly from neuropathy-associated incontinence…
socsaMinidisc of gtfo
My best friend in high school had a stereo with an 8-track recorder.