I love my cassette to aux adapter <333

  • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Those tape adapters were the second best way there ever was to get music on a car, second only to having an aux jack.

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    4 months ago

    cassette aux to MP3-CD player was awesome during the aughts, almost any car could jam out hours of curated pirated music that you burned to a cheap disc

    • one day at work in the middle 00s, my 15 year old shitbox got broken into to steal my low-end, after market CD player and my CD case.

      it was a big CD case with like 30+ discs. the case probably cost more than all the CDs, because they were all shitty burned ones lol.

      i remember being way less pissed than my colleagues were on my behalf. i was just thinking, “damn, i hope they like tool.” i was back up with a new burned CD and player before the next commute lol.

      i ended up getting one of those ones that could read data CDs, so i could put like a shitload (80-100) of mp3s on one CD.

      ⬆️⬇️ for changing folders
      ➡️⬅️ for changing files

      it was some star trek ass shit.

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    dangus is objectively correct about the removal of features in cars that should be realistically bundled into the cost of a new vehicle but of course half of y’all are in this thread like “nerd actually I like the inferior bluetooth sound quality so it wouldn’t bother me”

    • WellTheresYourCobbler [ey/em, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      4 months ago

      If I’m being honest I do agree with the poster I just wanted post the emoji and the evil orange site doesn’t have our big beautiful emojis. In newer cars I like CarPlay a lot and I really don’t like the generic systems that the OEMs design. GMs decision to remove it from their lineup (the subject OP was discussing) is baffling considering such a shitty company to begin with.

      Also if I can nerd for a sec

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      We are actually talking against the rise of shitty Bluetooth and voicing supper for metal-on-metal aux cord connection to the car (in my case through a cassette head) which imo sings better than cheap Bluetooth. Still wired CarPlay exists so I can only yells-at-cloud but so much

  • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Steering wheel-mounted bluetooth controls really shook up the “looking away from the road for entirely too long while fighting with the touchscreen on my phone (and/or head unit) that refuses to recognize input from my dry-ass fingies and then nearly getting into a wreck” industry

    Now it’s more of a “getting annoyed that I can’t fast forward to the next song while I make turns” paradigm

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    I always preferred aux jack in cars are just better because it’s not only the driver’s music that can be played but also any passengers that get in and have their phones, or it was ipods a decade or so back. Bluetooth is slower to connect than a jack.