Two cars ago I had this. I had a MiniDisk player to go with it. I felt like the coolest young adult.
Then I got another car that had a CD player with no AUX port. Had to get a RF adapter. Worked well.
Then the FCC put limits in the RF adapters and they sounded worse.
Replaced my radio after that one with a shamcy one. Got my AUX cable back!
… Now they took my AUX cable away from my phone.
I had one of those up until 2012, because my F150 at the time still had the tape deck. They worked well, and even 2019 I used one in a company truck I had at work. But when it broke I was hardpress to find a replacement. I do know they made Bluetooth versions, but most didn’t have good reviews and never bought one to try out.
Get a Bluetooth AUX receiver.
Those didn’t exist yet. It was amm FM Transmitters. They might’ve been around but too expensive.
Like how did these even work??
You shoved the cassette into your car radio and plugged the other end into a cd player
Computer Engineer here, studied QED and E&M.
This is the most accurate answer
The player reads a magnetic tape. Put the same reader inside the cassette and reverse it, now the player reads a reader.
Yeah, it worked much better than our current USB bluetooth dogle that lags every 30 seconds. Just because we could not get radio wit cassette player. I still have the cassette adapter.
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. My phone lasts one day, if I don’t play music.
They are still around. They even come in Bluetooth flavour now so you don’t need the cord.
These adapters were perfect… The only problem was that personal CD players of the same era skipped when you looked at them wrong.
You definitely had to keep the cd player in a level spot in your car where it didn’t bounce around a lot
I would have had to reach forward, because I never understood them until this thread. Now I can pretend to understand them and just frustratedly say, “It’s basically electromagnets, to oversimplify it” next time someone mentions these.
I had that same one!
I’m 22 and I remember this
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.
I’m gen z - though on the older side - and I remember using these
