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1995? .... I keep this adapter for my old 2004 GM Truck .... and no I don't want bluetooth. The atrocious sound quality is nostalgic to me and reminds me of being a teenager.

"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.

Mid 80's me had a cassette player that plugged into the car's 8track tape player

keep it steady? did you neglect to install the shock absorbing plate?

I'm still doing that in 2024. Get on my level.

Used this in an 05 Jetta until earlier this year. It handled calls too.

Hope your CD player had skip protection 😉

I always thought these things were brilliant but was never sure how they worked. They basically had a recording head that sat against the playback head of the tape player and sent a signal into it, right? I was never even sure of that.

I was still using one of those til 2012. That's what I get for having an old car. I did upgrade to a mini disc player tho.

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.

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...

Joke’s on you - that’s literally what I use in my 03 Jetta 😂

Get a poorly made one and it doubles as an AM radio too, or I should say it is only an am radio since you get nothing over the speaker but Am interference.

I had a Bluetooth cassette adapter as recently as like 2021, I like old cars

I was using one of these, and then later a short-wave radio to play on my car radio that was too old for USB but didn’t have AUX-in either.

That's new tech. I had a Radio Shack adapter to play cassettes that plugged into my car's 8-track system.

Peasant.

My CD player had an FM transmitter that I tuned the car radio to.

I was rocking one of these plugged into an mp3 player circa 2007-2010.

I was still using one of these in 2008 to play music from my PSP.

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.

It's 1995!
And, now that I'm older,
stress weighs on my shoulders

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.

The cassette player in my old car had a cover that was also a display panel. It folded out, then you put the tape in and flipped the cover back so it locked, then you could play.

Got one of these adapters to plug in an iPod. Stuck it in, then went to close the panel. The wire got in the way so it couldn't lock. No way to jam it without damaging the cable.

No return policy back then. It sat in the dashboard until the car died many years later.