I was still using one of those til 2012. That's what I get for having an old car. I did upgrade to a mini disc player tho.
Why didn't you just upgrade the radio? A decent head unit with an aux jack and bluetooth can be purchased for as little as $40-50, and takes less than an hour to install in most cars with the right adapter. Literally plug and play in most vehicles.
It was one of those times when you already have something that's working for you just fine and it wasn't important enough to change it.
I was still using one of these in 2008 to play music from my PSP.
Gotta Velcro that bitch to the dash!
Mid 80's me had a cassette player that plugged into the car's 8track tape player
My buddy in the 80s drove a shit station wagon from the 70s that his parents gave him that had only an 8 track.
Mid-’80s* me
Aw hell yeah, Sparkomatic!
My best friend in high school in the '80s had something on his home stereo I've never seen before or since: an 8-track tape recorder. We would make 8-track mix tapes and take them to parties ... which we promptly got kicked out of because they were tapes of stuff like Yes, King Crimson, Laurie Anderson, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, and didn't nobody want to listen to that kind of shit back then.
Techmoan on YouTube covers stuff like this. Here's a video for anyone interested.
Get a poorly made one and it doubles as an AM radio too, or I should say it is only an am radio since you get nothing over the speaker but Am interference.
I had a Bluetooth cassette adapter as recently as like 2021, I like old cars
These comments are blowing my mind. It's like no one here knows that you can easily upgrade the stereo to a modern one. Plug and play in most cars with the right adapter.
I drive a 2001 which is in that dead zone after cassettes but before aux plugs. I still had to be burning CDs a few years ago but eventually stumbled across an adapter that tricks the car stereo into thinking my phone is a 6-CD changer in the trunk.
Hope your CD player had skip protection 😉
I still used one of these daily until at least 2009 to play music from my 2006 5th gen iPod video on my 1993 Buick regal because it sounded 100x better than any fm transmitter could produce at the time.
keep it steady? did you neglect to install the shock absorbing plate?
My new hotness has a 30-sec anti-slip feature!
Not gonna be anti-slip when girls see it 💦
This shit blew my mind back in the day, much like how I can plug a dongle into my cigarette lighter and somehow Bluetooth my phone to my old ass stereo.
1995? .... I keep this adapter for my old 2004 GM Truck .... and no one I don't want bluetooth. The atrocious sound quality is nostalgic to me and reminds me of being a teenager.
Yup! I have a drawer of these things because my brother & I used to fight over them. Still use one in my dad’s truck when I steal it from him.
Leave those air pods in your pockets kids. Nothing brings the heat like the annoying clacking of the auto reverse on a cassette deck, constantly trying to flip over a cassette that doesn’t flip, while matching the rhythm of your current jam.
I heard the sound quality was really good because it was a direct feed to the reader.
this is very very wrong. the sound quality was a dumpster fire
My first car had a cassette storage tray on the transmission hump. I made a mount for my portable CD that fit there, and ran the adapter wire underneath the dash. So fly...
I had one of these and somehow it also picked up a radio station, so no matter what I played it'd be mixed with some random techno music
These were so much better than the radio transmitters. That brief period where cars only had CD players, no AUX or Bluetooth was the worst.
Na, forget CDs and check out my sweet minidisc player! Waaazaaaaaaaa!!??!
That's new tech. I had a Radio Shack adapter to play cassettes that plugged into my car's 8-track system.
Better yet, play your phone audio through your 8-track system!
This is blowing my mind lmao. At what point just buy a new radio deck. They make modern ones that look vintage. Has HD radio and BT..
Joke’s on you - that’s literally what I use in my 03 Jetta 😂
I was rocking one of these plugged into an mp3 player circa 2007-2010.
Peasant.
My CD player had an FM transmitter that I tuned the car radio to.
My Nokia N97 had that too it was so sweet
And I just broadcast my own radio station...
The cassette player in my old car had a cover that was also a display panel. It folded out, then you put the tape in and flipped the cover back so it locked, then you could play.
Got one of these adapters to plug in an iPod. Stuck it in, then went to close the panel. The wire got in the way so it couldn't lock. No way to jam it without damaging the cable.
No return policy back then. It sat in the dashboard until the car died many years later.
Thanks for reminding me. I always wondered how exactly those worked, so I looked it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4n8fUjtLQ
I always found them so cool for some reason. Kinda felt like magic back then, which I guess magnetism is the closest thing to it anyway.
I literally just got my first portable CD player on Sunday. The sound quality is way better than my super cool DRM-free digital library.
