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[–] 110 points 1 year ago (18 children)

And this meant that car audio systems with a cassette slot were more future proof than car audio systems with only a cd slot.

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  • [–] [S] 102 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Aux cable is the pinnacle of car audio sharing technology.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It took me moving Country to get out of this situation, as my old Toyota was basically indestructible. Now I have Bluetooth, and the only CD is The Blues Brothers OST, which is stuck in the slot.

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    [–] 50 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    *scuttles out of the sewer*
    my linux phone had an FM transmitter so I could just override any station with my jams
    *scuttles back into sewer*

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What phone do you have? That's an interesting feature like IR blasters

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I remember reading about that phone and wanting it badly. I ended up getting a Nexus One instead. The Nexus One was its own marvel.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I remember weighing up either getting the iPhone at the time, the Nexus One, and the Nokia N900. It was a close call between the Nexus and the Nokia, mostly because I wanted those sweet sweet Android apps that everyone had, but ultimately I went with the N900 and it changed my life.

    I could write my own Python on the train, I learned C and C++ over the course of a long car trip, and even started writing my own Apps on the device itself. Can you imagine that? On-device app development? In any language you want? It was unheard of at the time, and is relatively unheard of even now.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    They make these things with bluetooth now believe it or not.

    Pair the tape

    Stick it in a cassette player

    Play music on your phone.

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    [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I had one of those too. I don't miss it at all, though, because the sound quality was dogshit. Now get off my lawn, damn kids!

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Those were great. They did a job for everyone that couldn’t afford the latest tech in the car. Now you’re lucky to get a head unit with an Aux plug, much less a CD player.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I drive a 2001 which luckily came with a CD player that was wired to use a 6-disc changer mounted in the trunk. For $50 I got an adapter cable that tricks the unit into thinking my aux device is the 6-disc changer. This worked great until I got my latest phone which doesn't have a fucking headphone jack. I bought an adapter but the top volume level is pitifully low, so I'm back to burning CDs to play in my car.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Psshhht. I used to have a microphone that let me SING ON THE RADIO. It literally put me on the FM airwaves. You may have heard some of my stuff.

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  • [+] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I used to have one that would broadcast a short-range radio station that you would tune the car radio to. You’d have to make sure its frequency was far from an actual radio station or you’d get crosstalk. On long road trips you’d have to keep adjusting it.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Lol, we used those little transmitters that you plug into the cigarette lighter plug until several years ago in a mid 2000s car, and they're still sold and used by people. The funniest thing that happened was when we were overtaking a semi who had one of these, but with a stronger transmitter, so for a couple of seconds we were listening to the guy's random turbo folk music.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    If the car was old enough you could plug a cassette adapter into an 8 track adapter.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I have one that is bluetooth to cassette. Unfortunately, it has a lot of artifacts during playback. Opted for a bluetooth transmitter that connects to an empty radio channel? Frequency? Works well.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I loved these things. Never understood how they worked (still don’t) but I didn’t care!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    The original aux cable! And you never needed to pair shit!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Technology Connections' video on the topic: play

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Discman on a tray with little bouncy shocks, in an attempt to keep the CD from skipping, but it didn’t matter because it would skip anyway.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    When I get my IROC I'm planning to do this.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I had one that turned 1/8" into it's own radio frequency. It was really shitty but it worked!

    Edit: just looked and they still sell them! https://www.amazon.com/Transmitter-Adapter-Built-iPhone-Players/dp/B076X3GSMH

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This somehow makes me feel older than the hip pain does

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You can't even pass people the aux anymore

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I have one of those in my car today.

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