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We were using this well into 2010 or so. Better audio quality than an FM tuner as long as the electromagnet wasn't overheating.
The best option though was to get an inline FM injector and plug it in where the antenna plugged in. Perfect audio.
My 2000s-era cars don't* have tape decks, unfortunately. I say "unfortunately" because they also don't have line in, USB, or Bluetooth, so their AM/FM/CD car audio units are, in 2025, objectively inferior to the AM/FM/cassette ones in my 1990s-era cars.
* Present tense because I still own cars from the '90s and 2000s. I refuse to own any car capable of violating my privacy, which is every new car.
Let me introduce you to the Citroen Ami/Opel Rocks-e/Fiat Topolino, where the entertainment system is a literal bluetooth speaker in a cupholder.
It'd have to be a long-distance relationship, because those aren't sold in the US.
Yeah, but we're talking about cars. I think the Ami is legally something like a dune buggy
I haven’t seen it in ANY of the dune movies though…
Super reasonable. We had a 2004 Honda Pilot at the time, which still had a tape deck.
I swear, even ebikes are starting to get all these GPS tracking features 😅 such a dystopia.
It's okay. My car is covered in cameras and has a mobile broadband connection to the mothership, so it's probably tracking your glorious 90's swag wagons without your consent anyway.
Anyway, sorry about that. I'd tape the cameras up but then the car complains a lot.
Luckily most cars with cd players made after 2007 also included an aux port.
Is this you?
No, but he's right.
*Is this GNU?
You may want to look into a GROM audio subsystem. They work remarkably well. Buddy installed one in his 2004 Volvo and you'd never know it was there.
A lot of CD units from the 2000s were wired to connect to a 6-CD changer mounted in the trunk, and you can get an adapter cable that provides an AUX input this way. I drive a 2001 BMW and I'm able to play music from my phone over the car stereo with one of these (cost around $50).
This worked a lot better before I was forced to buy a new phone without a fucking headphone jack. I have a USB adapter that works but the signal level is much lower than a normal headphone jack so the maximum volume is a lot lower.
To be fair, any car with a license plate too. But still your point is well taken.
My nokia n95 had a small integrated FM transmitter.
Tanked the battery but was fun to play with
Tape adapter should be just as good. If it's not, you probably have dirty heads or are using it wrong (wrong side, NR on, etc).
The tape adapter is legit just a wire that connects to a tape-head inside the cassette body. That's it. It's head-to-head.
Most of the noise and artifacts in tape are a result of the tape itself. No tape, no noise. Consequentially if your tape deck has Dolby Noise Reduction or a similar feature, it should probably be turned off.
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We were using these in 2013 also. Went through a ton of them then never lasted
Yep I used these till the tape deck broke and phones stopped having earphone plugs