Post 1198901 by Quixote171@radical.town
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(DIR) Post #1183101 by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2018-08-29T14:35:57Z
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This is the single greatest triumph of technology over itself, boost if you agree.
(DIR) Post #1184662 by Milkman76@mastodon.social
2018-11-14T00:08:09Z
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@maxeddyIn the year 2018, this is the new hotness!! You can feed any high quality, lossless audio streams into a deprecated, unshielded, high impedance analog cassette adapter and fuck it all up in style! Kids totes want this(af) for black friday I bet! I mean christmas or whatever.
(DIR) Post #1187906 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-11-14T02:45:03Z
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@maxeddy They worked better then the radio one!
(DIR) Post #1188059 by keiyakins@elekk.xyz
2018-11-14T02:54:51Z
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@maxeddy I dunno, there were cassette decks that plugged into an 8track player, and actually drew their power from it. (I know this 'cause techmoan stuck an MP3 player in a cassette shell into one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppo3IgHWDzA )
(DIR) Post #1188569 by zlchxo@snouts.online
2018-11-14T03:28:01Z
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@maxeddy my mom uses this on her phone
(DIR) Post #1188860 by suetanvil@mastodon.technology
2018-11-14T03:44:07Z
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@maxeddy In the mid-late oughties, I'd rip 8-ish hours of Radio Paradise to 64kps MP3s and put them on a cheapass flashdrive player. This thing had three buttons (play/stop & volume) and one LED. I'd leave it in the car connected to my cassette player via one of these and listen to a wide(-ish) variety of commercial-free music while I drove.And because the player didn't have a display, I kept a printed one-sheet track list I'd generated with a Perl script from the metadata.
(DIR) Post #1188870 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
2018-11-14T03:44:46Z
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@maxeddy Combined with a CD player and a car power adapter, you too can have a nest of wires from the 90s, tangled around your shifter and that causes your music to go out whenever you go into third gear.
(DIR) Post #1188879 by menn0@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2018-11-14T03:44:59Z
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@maxeddy 😂
(DIR) Post #1189910 by tA@ilovela.in
2018-11-14T03:18:57Z
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@maxeddy They're actually black magic like what even
(DIR) Post #1190408 by drewcassidy@mastodon.social
2018-08-30T00:36:58Z
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@maxeddy ...why does it have a Compact Disc logo
(DIR) Post #1190830 by Cyannin@scifi.fyi
2018-11-14T06:14:25Z
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@maxeddy @hellojed I have a *Bluetooth* version. The battery life is atrocious. It takes this triumph to the next-level.
(DIR) Post #1191549 by lightningcat@noagendasocial.com
2018-11-14T07:41:18Z
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@maxeddy once to prove a point I used one of these and an even older 8-track adapter to play a diskman on a 8-track player.
(DIR) Post #1192336 by whonose123@infosec.exchange
2018-11-14T08:57:52Z
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@maxeddy I had one of those so I could listen to my CD "Walkman" in the car :)
(DIR) Post #1194696 by alsternerd@social.tchncs.de
2018-11-14T12:23:06Z
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@maxeddy It exists with Bluetooth, too.https://www.ebay.de/itm/Audio-Bluetooth-Cassette-Adapter-Wiederaufladbarer-Bluetooth-Musikempfanger/263805349815
(DIR) Post #1195084 by chuso@mastodon.social
2018-11-14T12:40:35Z
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@maxeddy I had one of those to use my MP3 player in an old car 😄
(DIR) Post #1195337 by teslawf@mamot.fr
2018-11-14T12:51:12Z
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@maxeddy i had this in my car. I used to plug my iPod Shuffle to it.
(DIR) Post #1195697 by xaphania@monsterpit.net
2018-11-14T13:06:13Z
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@maxeddy bonus points if the 3.5mm plug then goes into a lightning adapter and connects to a new iPhone
(DIR) Post #1197017 by paul@social.device5.co.uk
2018-11-14T14:17:29Z
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@maxeddy A modern version of this would be the same except extortionate royalties would have to be paid to the manufacturers of the cassette player
(DIR) Post #1197467 by DistroJunkie@fosstodon.org
2018-11-14T14:31:36Z
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@maxeddy 8track still rules in my book, followed closely by the elcaset.😃
(DIR) Post #1197748 by bpsycho1@mastodon.social
2018-11-14T14:41:52Z
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@maxeddyThis made my old car (1988 Grand Marquis) way more enjoyable than it normally would've been. My current ride has a CD deck & no external input tho ☹
(DIR) Post #1198860 by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2018-11-14T15:34:52Z
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@bpsycho1 Made my first car (1999 S10) way better, too. I only had maybe four cassette tapes, all of which were just bootlegs of LPs.
(DIR) Post #1198901 by Quixote171@radical.town
2018-11-14T13:15:14Z
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@keiyakins @maxeddy I did this in my 79 Mercury Cougar in 2002 - played my 32mb Rio mp3 player through a CD/cassette adapter plugged into an 8-track adapter, plugged into the car's 8-track player.Glorious.
(DIR) Post #1198909 by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2018-11-14T15:37:00Z
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@Quixote171 @keiyakins That's a gorgeous set up for a true American land yacht.
(DIR) Post #1198924 by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2018-11-14T15:37:59Z
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@alsternerd oh my god this needs to be in the Louvre.
(DIR) Post #1198969 by Cherylb@raggedfeathers.com
2018-11-14T05:54:59Z
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@Canageek @maxeddy uhm. I actually had one, or two, of these. 😃
(DIR) Post #1198970 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-11-14T06:23:39Z
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@maxeddy @Cherylb I had one of these and one of the radio type ones. the radio type 1 generally wouldn't work too badly in Canada, but in the US where there is a lot more stations on the radio it was hard to find an empty frequency for long
(DIR) Post #1198971 by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2018-11-14T15:40:16Z
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@Canageek @Cherylb I drove from Detroit to Denver years ago and had to change frequency on the FM adapter about once every hour. It was infuriating.
(DIR) Post #1198977 by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2018-11-14T15:40:41Z
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@Cherylb @Canageek They wore out! I went through, like, three of them.
(DIR) Post #1199031 by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2018-11-14T15:42:58Z
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@djsumdog A very real problem for me, too! The throw was so long on my S10's shifter and that didn't help a bit.
(DIR) Post #1199041 by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2018-11-14T15:43:21Z
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@suetanvil This is beautiful.
(DIR) Post #1199653 by Anke@tootplanet.space
2018-11-14T16:15:09Z
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@maxeddy I don't understand what this is. Why does it say 'compact disc' on something cassette shaped?
(DIR) Post #1200381 by kevasimoto@mastodon.social
2018-11-14T16:50:45Z
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@maxeddy There's Even a Triumph of that Triumph!
(DIR) Post #1200468 by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2018-11-14T16:56:26Z
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@Anke It's an adapter for connecting audio devices to your car or home stereo through a casette tapedeck. The casette-shaped device had a tape head that "played" whatever was connected to the stereo jack to tape deck. It even had a looped tape inside!It says Compact Disc on it because it was originally sold as a means for listening to CDs in a car using a discman or other portable CD player. History!
(DIR) Post #1200553 by Anke@tootplanet.space
2018-11-14T16:59:49Z
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@maxeddy Thank you!Yeah, without the CD label, I would have guessed right.
(DIR) Post #1204360 by ppng@mastodon.social
2018-11-14T20:05:06Z
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@maxeddy Sorcery.
(DIR) Post #1204928 by KitRedgrave@cybre.space
2018-11-14T20:42:58Z
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@maxeddy code accumulates so many things like thisi would swear my job is literally making janky adapters like this every day
(DIR) Post #1205443 by jimgon@hulvr.com
2018-11-14T21:08:09Z
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@maxeddy I had one of those.
(DIR) Post #1209685 by ilexmate@linuxrocks.online
2018-11-14T23:41:27Z
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@maxeddyStill using it, old player, good speakers. In my almost steampunk desktop
(DIR) Post #1221057 by norwitnorreason@queer.party
2018-11-15T12:28:39Z
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@maxeddy my first car was a 1999 and this thing saved my LIFE during my long commutes
(DIR) Post #9go12Pxv573CwayPb6 by netscaler@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-03-15T20:07:51Z
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@maxeddy I will never understand how those work
(DIR) Post #9go66Dk8xsRhy0A8IK by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2019-03-15T21:04:39Z
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@netscaler It just ouputs the signal from the cable onto a piece of metal that presses against the reader in the tape player! It's really clever.
(DIR) Post #9goEnFDk9A6kdO29eS by hyphen@anime.website
2019-03-15T22:42:04.887611Z
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@maxeddy I had the honor of using one of thoseit was like using an artefact from a lost civilization's most arcane magical knowledge
(DIR) Post #9isa4lk9bSZlql9Pc0 by bulkington@radical.town
2019-05-16T20:43:34Z
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@maxeddy I had one last for over 10 years of near daily use.
(DIR) Post #9isb2aq5H48tPDS1IG by lyliawisteria@octodon.social
2019-05-16T20:54:22Z
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@maxeddy bonus points if you plug it into a cassette walkman cause the car deck eats tapes.
(DIR) Post #9isb7UtomllEQpXIJs by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2019-05-16T20:55:17Z
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@bulkington I had to replace mine every few years or so. The tape heads would just wear out!
(DIR) Post #9kueWzvdW0IjWXxS0O by phenokage@snouts.online
2019-07-16T16:27:05Z
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@maxeddy I sometimes wonder if MP3 player tech had gotten smaller faster if we would've seen a cassette that was just an MP3 player, where you could dump a playlist on it and pop it in your car and scrub through tracks by fast-forwarding.
(DIR) Post #9kuhV0hxwhOVE0J8AC by SirMathieu@noagendasocial.com
2019-07-16T17:00:22Z
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@maxeddy I used to have one of those! Maybe not ideal audio quality but it did the trick!
(DIR) Post #9kuj94hkbdD19osJNI by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2019-07-16T17:18:50Z
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@phenokage I think there are actually a few of those around! But I don't know if the RWD/FF actually do anything.
(DIR) Post #9kukBLNJhFgHOQxlHU by phenokage@snouts.online
2019-07-16T17:30:26Z
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@maxeddy fascinating! The "256MB" says a lot about what sort of portable memory was available when this device was on the market, haha.
(DIR) Post #A0anBvEc6xlkNa1y76 by feld@bikeshed.party
2020-10-27T16:23:33.978711Z
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@maxeddy fucking better than those short range FM transmitters
(DIR) Post #A0anqb2Q6gXlc5iqFU by shebang@pleroma.freespeech.host
2020-10-27T16:30:55.755883Z
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@maxeddy I used one of these for years! They actually worked pretty well. Later on, I replaced it with one that used bluetooth instead of a cable lol
(DIR) Post #A84B58lHJ8fBecxSBU by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2021-06-08T05:42:35.776908Z
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@maxeddy Meanwhile recent cars do not have a cassette reader and instead of all providing an AUX port often rely on things like USB-A (which is getting deprecated right?) or Bluetooth.
(DIR) Post #A86krbUHh5YXMFm1fU by koakuma@uwu.social
2021-06-09T11:32:57Z
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@maxeddy Aaaaaah I used to have one, it's a very convenient thing :02smile:
(DIR) Post #A88WxRmNgvFpwb3B2W by Rasp@raru.re
2021-06-10T08:06:30Z
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@maxeddy This guy sure doeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4n8fUjtLQ
(DIR) Post #APBPkUR0wdGkFWvFj6 by thor@berserker.town
2022-11-02T05:14:51Z
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@maxeddy "we refuse to put an aux jack in our stereo system""well, we refuse to care"
(DIR) Post #APBPyfykovXo6iT6qu by realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
2022-11-02T05:18:11.254369Z
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Well, I do think that #SamsungPay was brilliantI don’t think I’ve seen true tech innovation sincehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDyHeQ–USQ
(DIR) Post #APCB8KIOzKLVbFlJVQ by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2022-11-02T14:06:30Z
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@maxeddy Is there a USB-C version of that?
(DIR) Post #APCBFCukpY96jYyxQe by maxeddy@infosec.exchange
2022-11-02T14:07:47Z
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@mansr I don't know but it blew my mind that this existshttps://www.plusbuyer.com/retro-style-cassette-mp3-player-with-remote-control-stand-alone-or-car-cassette-player-p-2674.html