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 was using one of these to connect my laptop to my “speakers” (an old stereo set) as recently as 2019, lmao
Russia or Mississippi?
Switzerland, which probably makes this even funnier
Pretty sure I still did that in like 2012?
2018 here lol
What were you driving cerca 2018? That’s amazing
Chrysler 300M. Second car I ever owned, kept it for years
I had that same one!
Like how did these even work??
The player reads a magnetic tape. Put the same reader inside the cassette and reverse it, now the player reads a reader.
Instead of running a magnetic tape over the cassette player’s sensor, you put an electromagnet on it powered by the headphone jack. The cassette player just reads the magnetic field and doesn’t know any difference.
damn I thought it was writing the tape in real time that would be insane
Technology connections explains it very well
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
Magnets, how do they work
Literally no one knows.
I did this last in 2020. RIP my old mitsubishi.
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.
Worked? Mine works perfectly!
I’m 22 and I remember this
That, plus a portable CD-MP3 player, was the bomb.
I still have my iRiver iMP-350, a portable CD player that could read mp3 and wma files off a CD-R or CD-RW, allowing way more than 74 or 80 minutes of audio. Damn thing still mostly works 22 years later too, thanks in large part to them including a 2x AA battery dongle in addition to the gumstick-shaped rechargeable batteries in the main unit which have long since leaked.
When they started selling head units with aux in ports, I had to have one in my car. And when they started putting iPod connectors in head units, perfection.
iRiver= S tier mp3 nostalgia
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.
I’m gen z - though on the older side - and I remember using these
Same setup I have now just plug the rca jack into a Bluetooth receiver instead of a CD player.
We’re still using one of these haha.
