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.
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
What I wouldn’t give for a modern N series. Those phones rocked.
And I just broadcast my own radio station…
Na, forget CDs and check out my sweet minidisc player! Waaazaaaaaaaa!!??!
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.
Mid 80’s me had a cassette player that plugged into the car’s 8track tape player
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.
My buddy in the 80s drove a shit station wagon from the 70s that his parents gave him that had only an 8 track.
keep it steady? did you neglect to install the shock absorbing plate?
Damn I remeber my dad built it’s own shock absorber plate with springs and everything…
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.
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
Used this in an 05 Jetta until earlier this year. It handled calls too.
Still use this to this day in my car - although the Bluetooth variant. The only downside is that you need to recharge it from time to time. That problem has been recently solved by the purchase of a second one :)
Wouldn’t it be easier to have Bluetooth but have it plug into the cigarette lighter plug and run into the player like the other ones do? I feel like that could have been easily done by the designers
Technically an option for sure. With the Silkroad-special model sold through Amazon the manufacturer decided to have the adapter turn off during charging. So listening to music while the adapter being plugged in is not possible unfortunately.
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 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.
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.
Ha! Nope actually, not in my old Cadillac or my Mercedes. Those both had anti theft. That would have been nice though.
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.
“Let me put my my burned CD of mp3s into my discman that is connected to a tape adapter.” Me, until about when Zunes hit,Woot for$99.
Yep this was me. Anti skip CD player then mp3 CDs then zune
I had a disc-based MP3 player. The looks on my friends faces when I had 150 songs on my discman and they had 12.
I wanna repair my dad’s 1st gen zune so bad but I don’t think you can just drop on Flacs which is like the 1 thing id use it for
dad’s 1st gen zune
It’s 1995!
And, now that I’m older,
stress weighs on my shouldersoh neat, TMBG! I’m seeing them live on Sunday
heavy as boulders?
but I told yall, until the day that I die…
I was still using one of these in 2008 to play music from my PSP.
