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FM transmitters are now a lot more common than cassette adapters
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Date: May 27th, 2026 1:44 PM Author: red weed whacker resort Stands to reason I guess. The last car with a factory cassette deck was a 2010 model.
Feels a little weird though, I feel like cassette adapters were way more popular than FM transmitters back in the day. Cassette adapters were way cheaper & I think they sounded better too. |
Date: May 27th, 2026 1:45 PM Author: Translucent hateful gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869470&forum_id=2...#49903968) |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 1:47 PM Author: Hot Vivacious Spot Dingle Berry i have a lot of fond childhood memories of making my own "mixtapes" with cassettes and recording my favorite songs off the radio (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869470&forum_id=2...#49903980) |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 1:48 PM Author: Translucent hateful gas station 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869470&forum_id=2...#49903982) |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 2:11 PM Author: red weed whacker resort I was into Minidiscs in the late 90s/early 00s
The gear I had didn't have a computer interface. The amount of time I spent painstakingly titling each track... |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 2:17 PM Author: Hot Vivacious Spot Dingle Berry my sibling and i would play and hang out next to the radio-cassette player so that as soon as a song came on that we liked, we could jump over and immediately start recording it to cassette
it made the song mixes that much more meaningful and enjoyable |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 3:06 PM Author: red weed whacker resort I remember doing that from as soon as I had a radio/cassette setup until about 13.
At some point I didn't really like anything that was on the radio. That's when the Minidisc stuff started. |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 3:16 PM Author: Hot Vivacious Spot Dingle Berry i totally skipped the minidisc stage. don't remember interacting with them at all
probably because that was about the time that we got our first Computer. and that technology was far more fascinating to me than anything else |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 4:17 PM Author: red weed whacker resort The Minidisc stage was quite brief. There was a very tiny window from when portable MD recorders became affordable to the masses to when they were outclassed by mp3 players.
Most people went Discman > mp3 player. Personally, I never had a Discman, so I went from cassette Walkman > MD recorder. |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 5:28 PM Author: Hot Vivacious Spot Dingle Berry Do you mean...CDs? Like compact discs?
I've never heard them called minidiscs lol. Might be a regional thing |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 5:40 PM Author: red weed whacker resort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869470&forum_id=2...#49904282) |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 5:44 PM Author: Hot Vivacious Spot Dingle Berry Yeah I just totally missed these somehow. Maybe I was too young. Not sure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869470&forum_id=2...#49904287) |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 6:48 PM Author: red weed whacker resort The portable MD recorders started to become reasonably affordable in late 1999/early 2000. That's when I got mine.
Somewhere around late 2002/early 2003 people were shifting pretty heavily into MP3 players. From little while in there, MD gear was something of a neglected value play. You could get a MD recorder and blanks and carry around more music than you could with an equivalently priced MP3 player.
Then at some point, Apple achieved total iPod dominance. In 2007 I got a new job and they bought me a radio with an iPod dock because they just assumed I had an iPod (I didn't, I ran out and got an 80GB 5th gen so as to not embarrass them).
Wiki says Sony continued to keep MD in development until 2011 and kept selling players until 2013. That's baffling, I have no idea who was buying that stuff. I can only assume it was Japs. |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 2:38 PM Author: Canary curious forum juggernaut I keep reading this thread title as "FtM trans..." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869470&forum_id=2...#49904047) |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 6:52 PM Author: Green flatulent chapel liquid oxygen I had a Toyota that could read MP3 files burned onto a CD, with controlsl buttons on the steering wheel. That was the best setup to have, really. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869470&forum_id=2...#49904367) |
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Date: May 27th, 2026 7:16 PM Author: red weed whacker resort My Subaru has that. It is pretty nice.
In 2013 I burned a CD with every Deerhunter & LCD Soundsystem album. I haven't ejected it since. That disc has been in there 13 years.
I plugged a Bluetooth adapter into the aux input, so I do use my phone for any serious listening. But I've listened to a lot of those two artists for the last decade+. |