Cassette adapters are remarkably simple

alternative title. 9 minuets of trying to find out if a simple thing is complex.

I used to have adapter for my 8 track to cassette.

Modern phone with no aux hole, old car with just a cassette player. My kids will never believe i played pluetooth through a cassette

These days you can just buy a Bluetooth FM Broadcaster, plug it in to your vehicle's DC12 power port, set the output frequency on the device and tune your car's stereo to that same frequency and listen to your music completely wire free!

Aftermarket radio in my truck just went , and it's got a parasitic draw on my truck, and the stock one has an cassette player, so I thought I'd search out and see how good these are, imagine my delight when I saw my favorite technology channel has a video on it 😊

HEAD TO HEAD

No, it’s not simple. It’s nine minutes and 32 seconds.

Nah.
The '98 Civic has a Bluetooth device in the lighter socket, so the OG car radio can pick up audio in glorious static-free stereo surround sound, on 89.0 MHz. :)

I'm sorry I was not subbed until today! I thought I was. Great content! Love you!

...sweet sweet AUX jack

Damn, been listening to magnetic rust particles and never knew it.

I used to have one of these. A minivan I drove back in the 00s only had a radio and cassette player and we got one of those and attached my Discman to it to listen to CDs. And YES I always DID wonder how the heck that thing worked. Thanks!

They get hot....

You could also modernize an old home stereo with tape deck with one of those BT tape adapters.

When the Bluetooth one was mentioned I was kind of hoping it would use the turning of the tape spool to generate electricity needed for the bluetooth electronics. That would have been neat.

Hey, you said you saw an mp3 cassette but couldn't find it again. Was it something like the MIXXTAPE?

The next best thing compared to these is the cigarette lighter powered bluetooth/FM transmitters we have these days. For all the mid 2000s vehicles that have AM/FM/CD but no cassete, aux, or bluetooth. Plus its handsfree.

now you can buy bluetooth ver😮

The question is, who'd want to use a crappy frikin CD over a casette.

Dude your funny

what on earth is that cool media player that you hooked it up to? it looked like it playd 3" floppy disks or somthing, looks cool, also awesome video as always

I had no idea they still made these! I love this channel

I remember getting an adapter to play cassettes in my 8track player. Brilliant, I thought. It had great sound quality but I seem to remember the speed fluctuating on some 8track machines affected it.

They make these in a Bluetooth version now aswell, more pricey than the older aux versions and there's a battery you have to charge (in the one I have Atleast) but it lasts a good few weeks to a month so no big deal.
Was the next best option after cutting out the whole cassette player in my car to retro fit a standard bt radio unit in the dash

Would be cool if that bluetooth version could run indefinitely using power from the tape reel motor.
I wonder if it would be enough for BLE?

I'm really confused and I unfortunately can't confirm it anymore because the thing broke and we threw it away but I SWEAR we had one of these with actual tape in it and it would only work if we rewinded after the tape was spent. During that time the mp3 player would just keep playing so you would need to pause quickly when the tape ran out.

you mean the gadget I was using in 1985 to plug a CD player in the car? There're nothing compared to the real thing of the 80s!

his shirt changing every time he cuts to the alt camera angle is one of my favorite things about the intro gag

That's not true at all. It's not the tape that produces the hiss, but the tape amplifier in a tape deck. Try playing a tape deck at a high volume without any cassette in the deck. Without any cassette in the tape deck, press the play button and turn up the volume. You will hear the same hiss, that most people call a "tape hiss". Yes, that hiss that the tape deck itself produces can get recorded unto a tape during recording, but it's not the tape that "hisses" but rather the tape deck itself.

i am pretty sure we (my father) has the same Deck as you have in the Video.
But the full tower.

I had a Bluetooth one in my 2000 corolla and imho it is WAYYY better than getting a dumb RGB aftermarket radio because it still looks like it belongs there.

What are the coloured tapes in the background?

Video too short, did not fall asleep

The Centre portion of the Record is a Wax Cylinder, After Audio Cassette turned up the Grooved portion of Record was Halved for a Record and the remaining was meant for Audio Cassette after CD turned up the Audio Cassette portion of Record was Halved for creating a CD so kindly suggest a suitable collection plan

did he just say... unpossible?

I learned something

So will they lose strength over time and no longer read?

Personally I wouldn't buy the Bluetooth one because I don't like wireless audio

I had one of these forever ago! and I thought it was just the coolest lil piece of tech I ever bought for so many years.

Now they got Bluetooth!

The most antiquated part of this video in 2025 is Google Play Music. RIP.

2000s first car vibes

I wonder if the original adapter has ever been used as a galvanic isolator to remove a ground loop hum in a studio

You can find that mp3-player in cassette shape when you search for “funnytoday365 mp3 player casette”

My first car didn't have a tape deck, so I used one of those FM transmitter accessories. You'd have to find a station on the radio with no reception, and tune the transmitter to that frequency.

I remember getting my 2010 mustang with a cd player and no tape deck. That messed with me. Fortunately it did have an aux input

I wish id seen this video before i got rid of my miatas tape player. I loved the look of it but wanted bluetooth

I loved these things