Ironically, these made cars with a tape deck more future ready than a car with a CD player.

@caracaes

3 жыл бұрын

Not ironically, cars from the CD era are quite less likely to be kept as antiques than cars from the cassete era...

@caracaes

3 жыл бұрын

also, CD players are usually modular and can be easily replaced by cassete players or more modern equipment, whereas antique vehicles from the 70s and 80s had the cassette players integrated on the dashboard.

@xnamkcor

3 жыл бұрын

@@caracaes Can I have the CD Player replaced with an Aux input or tape player for 5 dollars?

@xnamkcor

3 жыл бұрын

@@caracaes Cassette adapter is 1-5 dollars.

@xnamkcor

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigchungus7050 The 80s was well into the life of the audio cassette and by then they were about as good as they were gonna get. A direct line of audio is much better than transmitting over FM, especially if you don't own a 500 dollar(or more) broadcaster.

"It's not groovy, it's particular" .... you've outdone yourself, sir.

@88porpoise

3 жыл бұрын

I had to rewatch a portion of the video after I stopped laughing at that one.

@zarlus8

3 жыл бұрын

Write! the puns were top notch in this one 😆

@johnrose879

3 жыл бұрын

Have to agree, that one was pure gold! Or maybe Chrome. Ferric Oxide? Cobalt? Well, either way, 10/10 on that one.

@odisclemons9700

3 жыл бұрын

Of course only the type of people who subscribe to this channel would get that lol

@JohnWells2014

3 жыл бұрын

Dad joke, pun lvl...over 9000!

I made one of these as a kid. I saw one in the store, and could see through the package that it was just a read/write head. So I took a read/write head out of a broken tape recorder, and wired it to the chord from a pair of broken headphones. Took the ribbon out of a cassette, crammed the head into it, and ran the wire through it. Worked perfectly.

@aaskiee

Жыл бұрын

Did same thing couple years ago

@SonsOfLorgar

Жыл бұрын

A rubber band directly between the winding wheels too and it's perfected

@mechanomics2649

Жыл бұрын

I'll take things that didn't happen for $500, Alex.

@Peregrine57

Жыл бұрын

@@mechanomics2649 Not only did it happen, it was so simple, anyone with a basic understanding of wiring could do it with just basic instructions. The hardest part these days would be finding the parts.

@garrysekelli6776

Жыл бұрын

The two coils coupled together function like a miniature transformer.

One of my first 'hacks' was when I lost my own adapter as a child. I ripped the head out of an old walkman, did some surgery on a set of headphones, and glued it all into a real cassette. I never had any sort of feed spool mechanism or anything but it still worked perfectly! Totally forgot about my shenanigans until you reminded me today! Thank you!!

@josephjimorris

7 ай бұрын

Real Walkmans are worth a mint now 😢 I was looking around to get an original one recently.

"While this is completely and totally useless, it is at least mildly interesting." This sentence describes upwards of 50% of the things I spend my time thinking about or doing.

@thewolfin

3 жыл бұрын

For a nihilist, this sentence describes reality!

@CosmicCreatorCat

3 жыл бұрын

@@thewolfin Much like the concept of Nihilism itself

@11cylynt11

3 жыл бұрын

Spoken like a true nihilist.

@Falconite

3 жыл бұрын

it spoke to me too

@Yahriel

3 жыл бұрын

I was about to make this same comment

“Friggen tapes, how do they work? Magnets!” Best line

@ContentCalvin

3 жыл бұрын

It is. I can see him never missing a gathering of the Juggalos. I wanna hear a Woop Woop! 🤣

@vaguerant

3 жыл бұрын

I was already thinking "And I don't wanna talk to a scientist!" based on the thumbnail, so I was so happy to see it paid off.

@_SoBored

3 жыл бұрын

that was beautiful.

@grinningdino

3 жыл бұрын

Magnets and Tapes = Miracles

@sombrashibe

3 жыл бұрын

I was almost tempted to reply "Nanomachines son!" at that question. I play too many video games 🤣

Fascinating, I always assumed it had a small loop of tape that was continuously re-recorded, but that would probably wear out quickly and needs twice as many components.

@adog3129

Жыл бұрын

yeah i assumed that too. glad it's so simple in reality

@pan2aja

Жыл бұрын

It is but electronically as in recorded on electron

@diegosilang4823

9 ай бұрын

The meachanism have gears ro keep both reels rolling to prevent trigerring auto stop or auto reverse.

@fanusbogey

4 ай бұрын

I just picked one up from an op shop for a dollar, hoping there was tape inside, hoping to rig up some sort of cheap and easy tape echo. My dreams are slashed, but not dashed yet.

I hope I’m not the first person to notice the “international hand sign” for CD Walkman, deep-cut TechDiff reference. Makes me love this channel even MOAR.

@witerabid

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, I was looking for this comment! I see you're a person of culture as well. 😊

@justinmiller3396

2 жыл бұрын

Wite Rabid it made my day.

6:03 "While this is completely and totally useless it is at least mildy interesting." Well Sir you've unlocked the secret to my KZread recommendations

@MichaelEdwards-ef6pt

3 жыл бұрын

Nah fr kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKhhy7qoerTcgJs.html

@worldcomicsreview354

3 жыл бұрын

To KZread itself, mostly.

Bluetooth cassette adapters are the most Cyberpunk bits of tech I didn't know existed. Rad.

@paco3346

3 жыл бұрын

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mixxtape/mixxtape-the-cassette-reinvented Here's the cherry on top

@LouisSubearth

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe we didn't get all the neon lights, unnecessary Japanese signage or widespread use of makeshift prosthetics, but hey, cassette adapters.

3 жыл бұрын

If they added a small generator to power the thing from the rotation from the cassette deck, that would be rad.

@MrGregory777

3 жыл бұрын

I want it and i don't even have a cassette deck

@Epinardscaramel

3 жыл бұрын

Was there ever a full MP3 player in a cassette? EDIT: Ah, he mentionned it 😅

When 2 heads touch each other, urban dictionary calls that "docking"

That unit provided the best sound per dollar than any other device I ever purchased. From the 70s to today. Sweet analogue signal. Thanks for keeping it concise.

I very vividly remember the dark period of cars between ~2006 and ~2010 where they’d mostly gotten rid of their tape decks but hadn’t yet added aux jacks. Stuck with CDs for the life of the car.

@brandoncurnutte8235

3 жыл бұрын

I had a 2004 Explorer with lullaby renditions of Christian songs stuck in the CD deck when i bought it. Never got the CD out

@Microfrost

3 жыл бұрын

I added an aux jack to my 2006 Nissan Altima head unit by splicing into the connection from the CD player assembly to the main board. I used a switched jack so the CD player still worked when the aux cable was unplugged, but I was thrilled to be able to use a tiny MP3 player instead of rotating through burned CDs.

@TheOtherBill

3 жыл бұрын

My 1995 Ford was like that, AM/FM/CD. That's it.

@Chewi_

3 жыл бұрын

Even my dad's like 2013 car doesn't have an aux jack, it has blue tooth, and a usb and freaking composite inputs for the tiny little screen. I mean the bluetooth works fine but I rather just use an aux cord so I don't have to fumble with setting up or connecting to bluetooth. I wonder if cars will start ditching the aux jack now phones are getting rid of them, hopefully not haha.

@anatolyFct

3 жыл бұрын

Time made even darker by the fact that that's when they started using their own non-replaceable non-DIN conforming head units.

- What are device you using to handless calls? Earphones? Speakers? - No, I'm using a *cassette player*

@mrmaniac3

3 жыл бұрын

*_80s internally_*

@robertporter2447

3 жыл бұрын

I have done this ! Z.K.

@chrisbailey7384

3 жыл бұрын

Blending old school with new school technology!

@Robo-xk4jm

3 жыл бұрын

This is way too funny

@theneondarkness1579

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrmaniac3 new retrowave. The 80's that never existed! 😂😂😂

The audio quality with this is absolutely indistinguishable from any other medium. Maybe an audiophile could nitpick in some fashion but it’s extremely crisp, especially in the controlled acoustic environment of your vehicle. My Acura has a stereo that is notoriously difficult to replace, so I just use one of these.

@westelaudio943

6 ай бұрын

Not really, because of the deemphasis EQ in the tape preamp and the heads are most likely never properly aligned. Good enough for a simple car stereo, though.

I remember when i was looking to buy my first car, I specifically chose a car with a tape deck over a cd player just so i could use one of these. The devices work surprisingly great as long as you played with the volumes on the device and the car.

"Freakin' tapes, how do they work?! ...Magnets!" Well, that just raises further questions!

@MrWombatty

3 жыл бұрын

More correct to use the term 'induction', rather than 'magnets'!

@cujoedaman

3 жыл бұрын

Eh, the answer is always '42' anyway.

@KaityKat117

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrWombatty yes, but then the joke doesn't work

@dooplon5083

3 жыл бұрын

@@KaityKat117 Jokes, how do they work?

@michaelgangnath2642

3 жыл бұрын

ICP reference?

It's ironic that something like this actually makes having a cassette deck in your car more viable than a CD player.

@1337Shockwav3

3 жыл бұрын

Second that ... he's one of the very few youtubers who manages to walk the extremely fine line between science and entertainment without one getting into the way of another.

@MPRiley-rb6lj

3 жыл бұрын

Added bonus: just like a stick-shift or manual transmission it can act as a millenial antitheft device.

@JordyValentine

3 жыл бұрын

How so? Most car CD players post 2000 have some form of aux input, through either the front or rear or in the case of factory radios, wired directly or patched into the cars loom somewhere. Not to mention that almost all CD players have better amps/output power etc.

@benbe9165

3 жыл бұрын

@@JordyValentine I had a 2005 honda accord, it was even the higher end one and it did not have an aux cable, had to spend $100 for an adapter that plugs into the stereo and I also had to take apart the entire center console to add my own aux cable. so yeah I'd have to agree with Kova.

@RefriedBeing

3 жыл бұрын

@@JordyValentine I want you to name me 5 cars in the early 2000s that came with an aux jack stock, obv cant be a parts bin head unit. Also most standard audio equipped vehicles have a factory amp capable of about 25w, it does not take much to drive 4 paper cones

One thing he didn't mention was that the tape contains 4 separate audio channels. Two for left and right audio channels when the tape is on side A, and the other two for when you flip the tape around to side B. The head only aligns with two of the channels, allowing you to flip the tape around to hear different music.

Believe it or not, I actually WAS wondering how these things worked. Kind of mindblown that they make Bluetooth ones now. Very interesting video!

With a 1/4 adapter you could play an electric guitar through your car stero with these. Pretty cool back in the day.

@legoking99gb1

9 ай бұрын

I’ve never thought of that! That’s awesome!

@oyora

9 ай бұрын

then record it with a nokia for 100% trve kvlt effect 🤘

@jamesvespucci5527

8 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh because it's analogue.. don't make em like they used to.. genius

@AGTR98

7 ай бұрын

Add a line 6 pocket pod and you are on

@oyora

7 ай бұрын

But add some real pedals (doesn't matter what effect) before it. Adds to the kvlt. @@AGTR98 (I like that we're brainstorming black metal toan on a 2 year old comment).

4:26. That got personal real quick. I have a 96 Honda Accord. And yes the cassette player still works!!

@Deepblueshadows

3 жыл бұрын

JD's Variety Channel , I have a ‘96 Accord too. Great cars. Got 275k on mine, how about yours?

@drewsey5733

3 жыл бұрын

i use one in my 98 impreza. mainly for podcasts since i dont use my phone for normal music, i usually use casette tapes or just listen to the radio

@thewolfin

3 жыл бұрын

I miss my Accord. That thing controlled so smoothly! I hope it's a standard transmission. Take good care of it.

@bleack8701

3 жыл бұрын

2008 Renault Espace, has a working cassette player.

@djmajiktuch82

3 жыл бұрын

2001 Ford Ranger with am fm stereo cassette and cd player.

0:37 Ah yes, the international gesture for CD-Walkman, I'm familiar. Fantastic reference.

The sheer meme and pun density at around 1:00 makes me so glad I subscribed and decided to go through some back videos. I want to hate the groovy/particular pun but it's just so beautiful.

"not groovy" and "particular". I see what you did there. I also LOLed.

@bagnome

3 жыл бұрын

Those are Professor Utonium level dad jokes.

@aji_jacobson

3 жыл бұрын

I literally had to pause the video for a laugh break

@blazetownsend8785

3 жыл бұрын

I laughed pretty hard at hearing this.

@_Mr.Tuvok_

3 жыл бұрын

Paused, came for this comment. Was not disappointed

@uNpOpuLArOpInION69

3 жыл бұрын

This is why i watch this channel

technology connections: video is 9:31 mins long tom scott: video is 1:19 hours long yep thats 2020

@mychemicalbromance97

3 жыл бұрын

I know and to tie it all together we have an obscure Tom Scott reference in here too

@cpufreak101

3 жыл бұрын

There's a Vsauce3 video that's 18 hours long

@ksarnaszek4436

3 жыл бұрын

@@mychemicalbromance97 Ah yes, the International sing for the CD Walkman. I see you are a man of culture as well.

@crashmatrix

3 жыл бұрын

@@cpufreak101 I did feel Jake got a bit repetitive near the 14 hour mark though.

@Pieh0

3 жыл бұрын

Hell world

I could watch your outtakes on a compilation for hours. The most interesting person to watch complain

@the_undead

2 жыл бұрын

It really helps that that's actually a nice soothing song for the outro. But even without that yeah I could easily watch a compilation for hours. Could also make a fun guess the video game

I was always so baffled about how these worked (but to be fair, I didnt know how casette tapes in general worked). I'm so surprised by how simple it is. Awesome video idea and great explanation.

So back in the day when we were listening to our favorite music on cassette tape, no matter the genre we were always listening to metal lol. I'm so glad everyone likes my corny joke.

@anmolpanna3909

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@ejthenobody

3 жыл бұрын

Heheheheh, nice.

@aliathif7778

3 жыл бұрын

Goddamit 😂

@Arizona9001

3 жыл бұрын

Omgahhhh dad level 3000. I’m borrowing this one.

@TopazTK

3 жыл бұрын

Not gonna like this. Because 420.

So. Many. Jokes at start! 😂 But, seriously, as a person who still uses one of these regularly because I'm the proud owner of a 20-year-old truck that I maintain and keep running... May I ask how many people have ever tried the Bluetooth versions of these? Perhaps a future video could solve the mystery as to why EVERY SINGLE BLUETOOTH CASSETTE ADAPTER THAT HAS EVER EXISTED IS HORRIBLE AND UTTERLY NON-FUNCTIONAL. 😠 I realize one appears in the video (before I started typing this comment) but I've now tried at least 5 of these and every one has sounded like an Emerson stereo playing inside of a college dorm bathroom. It's quite the boggle.

@TechnologyConnections

3 жыл бұрын

I have experience with only the one in this video which came from the exotic lands of Walmart and... it's been fine? Though I've not used it much at all, frankly (if you hadn't guessed I bought it for the Figaro) but when I have it sounds totally fine to me! (edit): I should add that the Figaro's right speaker is dead, so I haven't heard what the right channel sounds like yet! But the left seems totally fine!

@DeviantOllam

3 жыл бұрын

@@TechnologyConnections maybe I'll have to give this another shot then. :-) I tried all of mine maybe seven years ago I think. Here's to old cars!

@SaphireLattice

3 жыл бұрын

@@DeviantOllam 7 years is quite a while for Bluetooth and mobile things. Especially in terms of getting it to work at all. Probably. Some stuff is still just as painful, but some is actually better than a while ago.

@griffin8062

3 жыл бұрын

@@TechnologyConnections I have one of these adapters in my 92 Corvette ZR1, but it only seems to play out of the left speaker. Is this adapter mono?

@itsburnsie

3 жыл бұрын

"Frickin' Tapes - how do they work? Magnets!" I uhhh... I understood that reference!

Wow, i recently bought an old car and love watching your videos. I happened upon this not realizing you had covered this topic! Super insightful as someone who had no idea how these work I feel much more comfortable getting one for my car!

I just found this despite having subscribed to this channel for years. As a proud owner of a 2004 Buick where the stereo system has a CD player and a Cassette deck, The CD player now has become a phone holder and I am about to order a Bluetooth cassette adapter to replace my physical auxiliary cord. Love the channel and I love now having discovered a life upgrade to a car I spend wayyy to much time in.

When he said: "the two heads get real personal with one another" I sort expected him to continue: "And this is how tape-recorder heads are made." I'll see myself out.

@ragdolltrucking

3 жыл бұрын

Please do.

@AfonsodelCB

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think docking makes babies, just saying

@sailaab

3 жыл бұрын

so long as the use masks and santize their **ahem** cootchie-coo'ing parts.. they CAN get personal. SARS-Cov-2 doesn't pass on in -seminal fluid- electromagnetic currents.

@FernieCanto

3 жыл бұрын

Electromagnetic frotting.

I remember when I was like 15 I built one of these from a set of old headphones, a cassette and a tape player just to prove to my brother it was that simple...

@felipesancho

3 жыл бұрын

My brother made one of these to prove to me that it was that simple!

@W00lveR1ne

3 жыл бұрын

@@felipesancho Plot twist: you are brothers!

@b1shybob

2 жыл бұрын

I made one too but could never get it to sound clear enough for regular use.

@FordBoi302

2 жыл бұрын

When I was about 14 I used an old cassette player head, a stick, some hot glue, and some magic to make an adapter to fit my 8-track player to play CDs from a Discman.

I LOVE THIS PERSON AND THIS CHANNEL! The gags are great you should keep doing spectacularly fascinating things

The fact that you can "record" to these is beautiful. That's incredible.

“Short video!” The next day: “The CED part 6!” *37mins*

@HumanlyRobotic

3 жыл бұрын

sounds like a solid video, everyone knows the CED is a bottomless pit full of content

@LmgWarThunder

3 жыл бұрын

I forgot about the CED series, did he finish it or is there more? I can't remember lol

@7636kei

3 жыл бұрын

It was finished in a Part Five.

@FreedHellFire

3 жыл бұрын

This aged like milk

“While this completely and TOTALLY useless, it is at least MILDLY interesting!” 😂

@sadmac356

3 жыл бұрын

I found it *very* interesting, personally.

@ingenfestbrems

3 жыл бұрын

Personally I’m not. A short look at this thing makes this video pointless

@Jpp-iy4km

3 жыл бұрын

@@ingenfestbrems Lol you aren't very interesting?

@stonedsavage7814

3 жыл бұрын

@@ingenfestbrems I CaN tElL yOu ArE fUn At PaRtIeS

@leoherzog

3 жыл бұрын

The motto of this channel.

"And this gag isn't helping with that" "Indeed" I love these videos

Very interesting! I have never heard of these before, but this seems like a great alternative to changing the radio on an old car. Thanks a lot for this video!

hey! i was just explaining to someone how these work yesterday! people don't believe me when i tell them my favorite feature of my car is the tape deck, but with a small investment of $5, i can play just about any song i want through my car's stereo system. not bad for a car that's almost old enough to rent a car itself!

For those who want cassette MP3 player/adapter. Google: "cassette sd mmc".

@AeroQC

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this, it was too interesting of a concept to not look into.

@KeithJewell

3 жыл бұрын

There is a fancy version called the Mixxtape that even has a little display inside the clear cassette shell.

@jakershaker13

3 жыл бұрын

@@KeithJewell I got my dad's original kickstarter model and it is really cool!

@bmhater1283

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakershaker13 Woah hold up, he support it?

@filminginportland1654

3 жыл бұрын

It’s so funny that there was even a Kickstarter for this. Most of us slightly older people were glad to be done with those things once and for all. I _was_ a cassette fan, back when I could obtain good (used) decks but couldn’t afford CD players, but I never saw a car cassette deck that was all that great and once I moved to CD changers in the car, I didn’t look back. Now I just stream from my phone in whatever format I want with my subscription account to listen to what I want. No desire to go back for nostalgic purposes. Not in my car, anyway. Though I never gave up tube radios and turntables at home. Not that I’m old enough for tube radios to have been “in” during my lifetime, they were just some of the first things I repaired as a kid (my grandparents’ old console tube radio) and I always thought they were neat. But never gave up vinyl as I already had a lot of it and some things I like were never released on anything but 8-track, cassette and/or vinyl and given the choice, I stuck with vinyl for those recordings. Many of which still have never been digitized by anyone except end users. Was always able to pick up neat tabletop tube radios cheaply that I kept around and used as they always sound great. I have a radio alarm clock one that still works fine. Had an early stereo FM tube radio from the 50’s that paid my rent one time when I was hard-up for money. Current projects are an eeeearly 1926 Bosch Cruiser tabletop tube radio (six massive tubes in a large wooden case that requires “A” and “B” batteries - “farm” batteries as many people didn’t have electricity yet; still need to build a custom power supply and speaker converter for it) and a 1947 New Zealand radio in a nice wooden tabletop case that doesn’t work at the moment. Both are shortwave / broadcast (AM) radios that I’m anxious to get working and utilize. Anxious to see the “magic eye” tuning indicator tube working on the 1947 radio. So maybe I am the same as the millennials that like playing with cassettes and things, just slightly older lol. But I do actually utilize these things for primary listening, those that work. Only modern thing I have is a Sonos Play:3 speaker and my iPhone. I work in IT and hate most modern tech, especially those creepy things that talk to you and spy on everything you say. Get them out of your home! lol And for goodness sake, disable Siri!

I used these to load/save or stream data off/to the Commodore Datasette. I love the mechanical-analog-digital essence of this data transfer method :-)

this is amazing i did always wonder about this!!! thank you so much btw loved the second camera angle gag and i REALLY appreciate your captions 🥰

1:05 the pun muscle is strong in _this one._ "Not groovy, but particular..."

@MichaelEdwards-ef6pt

3 жыл бұрын

Yurrr kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKhhy7qoerTcgJs.html

@maximecollet30

3 жыл бұрын

Can someone explain the pun to me ?

@ironcito1101

3 жыл бұрын

@@maximecollet30 Magnetic tape is not _groovy_ because it doesn't have _grooves_ like a record; it's _particular_ because it has _particles_ of iron oxide. At least that's how I understood it! (In case you're not familiar with the words, "groovy" means great, exciting; "particular" means special, distinctive.)

@maximecollet30

3 жыл бұрын

Diego C. I knew about grooves but not about groovy. Didn’t make the **connections** with records and the particular either. Thanks !

@likebot.

3 жыл бұрын

@@maximecollet30 The pun is more easily caught by a boomer. Alex is quite young to use "groovy" instead of "noice" which makes it just a little bit funnier. I've seen enough of his videos to know that he's steeped in the culture grandfather's era - which is approximately my age.

"While this is completely and totally useless, it is at least mildly interesting." Hilarious, and kind of a great mission statement for the channel. I just discovered your channel, and I love it so much.

@skylined5534

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly while the first part is a pertinent statement for my life the second part isn't.

@Musicmaddnes

2 жыл бұрын

That statement made me laugh

@megazukakabum

Жыл бұрын

I could use that knowledge to digitize any cassette with only a cassette recorder and a smartphone. Not saying it's the best way, but now I can do it with the resources I already have.

@OgdenM

Жыл бұрын

My first car had a CD player with no Aux jack in the era of Ipods... I hated the thing because I had tons of music on my Ipod and could not use it. I always wished the car had the original tape deck so I could use one of these. The radio station things just suck in cities.

I came back to this one because it showed up on my feed and i only just now noticed all the different shirts on TCC2! Also, the editing between the two shots is perfection

Just found your channel for the first time, and let me just compliment, sold in first 20 seconds. And I am HARSH on youtube personalities. But dig your humor/approach. Thanks for an interesting and actually entertaining video. As the kids say... "subbed"

Re: The MP3 cassette player thingy. It was called the romeMP3. I remembered it too and about a year ago went on a Google binge to look for it. It's a full regular MP3 player. But you can put it into a cassette player and it will actually play. Even rewind and FF will perform as expected.

@MPMaikGame

3 жыл бұрын

i found the same but named "auvisio MP3-Player for cassette steros" in german ebay.

@HHog

3 жыл бұрын

I backed one on Kickstarter named "Mixxtape".

@crushnkill

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I got one close to 20 years ago, and to this day I still think it's the coolest gadget I ever got, hence why I still have it. It amazed me how you could use the controls on your cassette player or car stereo to pause/RW/FF just like it was a normal cassette or just hit FF/RW for 1 second to switch tracks. At school I just plugged in ear phones to use it as a normal mp3 player and after school I had my favourite tunes playing on the car stereo with it. I can't describe how awesome that was at a time before portable music was commonplace. Here's the one I got at the top (and still have). I think it was around $200 at the time. Best money I ever spent. www.stereo2go.com/topic/index.php?content_oid=304301014311174157&board_oid=193392314111653483

@paradoxzee6834

3 жыл бұрын

Ages ago like 2002/2003 someone used cassette like that to connect a discman to a tape player. I remerber starting at it like it was magic

@zootsuitpenguin

3 жыл бұрын

I had one back in the day and it used a very particular kind of external media card.. still have the card, but i cant seem to find the player :( it was indeed awesome tho!

"they are not groovy, they are particular" I unsubbed then resubbed again. To send a message.

@averyalexander2528

3 жыл бұрын

I can't tell if it's a negative or positive message.

@The24thWight

3 жыл бұрын

Neither can OP.

@Rick-vm8bl

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel!

@FroyourFilms

3 жыл бұрын

This message fits your pfp

@NGabunchanumbers

3 жыл бұрын

I don't get it

Ah, these adapters saved my life from boredom back in my high school days with my old Accord.

Under 10 minutes!? Wow. I can view this in the toilet without getting hemorrhoids

The first time I saw this thing in a mail order catalog in the early 90s, I was totally sure it was a scam. Because how the hell would this work, it’s ridiculous! To make things even more confusing, those catalogs had a contest where you had to find the one hidden fake made up product hidden in it. I was sure this cassette thing was it.

“While this is completely and totally useless, it is at least mildly interesting.” Spoken like a true nihilist.

I bought a '74 Javelin over a year ago, and when I found out that I could use a bluetooth casette tape to listen to music from my phone I was super curious on how it must have worked. The radio/cassette deck ended up dying a few months later so I just bought a bluetooth enabled radio, but still it was such a cool concept.

I had one of those MP3 integrated ones you speak of, still do. Had to show off my oddware to a nonbeliever. Picked it up for about £10 on eBay for my old 90s car. Must have been about 15 years ago. I’m sure it still works. Man that SD card will be chock full of surprises 😂

I'm going to wait until Part 3 so I can find out the really technical details, and the backstories of the engineers involved.

When I was 12 years old - I had a cassette stereo with a broken tape drive and a walkman with only tiny headphones. But I wanted to hear my music loud. When I learned electromagnets from the encyclopedia - I just placed one headset unit over the head in the stereo, hit "play" both on walkman and stereo - and (surprise!) made the stereo play the music from the walkman without any cable connection between devices (I just had no appropriate cable those times). Of course, it was mono. But I was happy about this trick in my twenty)

@DFX2KX

3 жыл бұрын

this just makes me want to try making an adapter with a small fast-switching LCD and another laser motor just to follow the laser around, you know. Just because. The dumbest adapter ever, where you have to leave the door open on the player for it to work.

@stephanietanniss

3 жыл бұрын

I discovered a similar trick putting my phone speaker to the strings on my electric guitar. Back when phone speaker volumes were very low and most didn’t have earphone jacks

@zsin128

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephanietanniss how did it work?

@animeloveer97

3 жыл бұрын

@@DFX2KX I love this

@franciscobarrazasaavedra4754

3 жыл бұрын

@@zsin128 pick ups are basically microphones, but normally they are passive, they need another electric field to disturbe them aka the strings, i was wiring my guitar and if strings doesnt have a conection to groudn the passive pick ups will not pick up the vibrations, so when you make the strings vibrate to the speakers, the strings transfer the vibratiosn to the pick ups.. but theres also active pickups wich are microphones and can pick up all noise

Love your work man! Makes me smile after a bad day, superb viewing ;)

Oh man, I have been confused by magnetic tape for so long, thank you for explaining it so succinctly. And that bluetooth adapter, my god.

"Frikkin tapes! How do they work?" -Insane Technology Connections Posse

@bencharles4459

3 жыл бұрын

Magnets.

@Leightspeed_

3 жыл бұрын

"magnets!" I lost my shit to that one.

1:00 - "Tapes, how do they work?" "Mag--" I thought he was about to say "magic", lol

@rgiaco777

3 жыл бұрын

I think it was actually an Insane Clown Posse reference. Ingenious.

@jacobwebb8818

3 жыл бұрын

"F×××in magnets, how do those work?" "Frickin tapes, how do those work? Magnets!" That's the reference lol

@jacobwebb8818

3 жыл бұрын

"F×××in magnets, how do those work?" "Frickin tapes, how do those work? Magnets!" That's the reference lol

@roystonrichards3368

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

No joke these were awesome, they made my tape player more relevant than my CD player in older cars... at least back when smart phones still came with Aux ports! lol I'm grateful I've upgraded to a car with full bluetooth but man these little gadgets got me through a lot of commutes in the past!

Every time I reread the perks of being a wallflower I get almost a feeling of nostalgia but for a time when I wasn’t even alive. It’s so interesting that cassette tapes were how you listened to music and you couldn’t hop from one artist/genre to another.

You know, that cassette bluetooth adaptor actually makes having a car with a cassette player more useful than a more recent car with a CD player. If your car has a CD player you have to buy one of those bluetooth FM transmitter things, which kinda work but are also a pain in the rear, especially when you drive to a new city and have to find a new blank frequency.

@DFX2KX

3 жыл бұрын

The worst for me are cars that have these CD players, think to include an *Actual AUX* port, but don't actually put that port on the front of the panel. Looking at YOU, Ford and your 07 Focus head unit....

@Gkitchens1

3 жыл бұрын

@@DFX2KX lol, I had 2 ford freestyles. Both included an aux connection jn the back of the radio... but didn't use it for an aux port. One used it for the DVD player in the back, and the other just iddnt use it for anything at all.

@anSealgair

3 жыл бұрын

DFX2KX 07 Mazda3s are the same.

Upvote this so my dude will see it: "mixxtape" from "mixtapeboss" is the MP3 player-cassette tape. It's a modern version, but I had one that had a replaceable battery, 14 years ago.

@sammin101

3 жыл бұрын

Mixxtape looks pretty rad, tho sadly it falls victim to the tape movement sensor.

@MichaelEdwards-ef6pt

3 жыл бұрын

Fwm kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKhhy7qoerTcgJs.html

@BertGrink

3 жыл бұрын

There's also this one usb.brando.com/usb-cassette-mp3-player_p01122c035d15.html

@adamgordon9834

3 жыл бұрын

www.aliexpress.com/item/4000780210561.html

@VonOzbourne

3 жыл бұрын

@@BertGrink I actually had that one back in the day. Sadly my car stereo was too smart for the fake tape technology so i could only use it as an mp3 player. It was pretty neat, but be warned, it didn't work with SDHC cards and the battery was useless after a year of forgetting about it. I question whether they bothered to update the tech.

I have ALWAYS wondered how these things work. Thank you so much

The subtle ICP reference was 🔥

7:31 I've got one of the elusive "MP3 in a cassette case" audio devices. It was made by Hyun Won Inc, Model No. DAH-210M. It was a revolutionary item back in 2002.

I remember wondering this as a child... I remember imagining a loop of tape, somehow getting a perpetually updating and erasing the recording on the loop of tape, lol.

@FunBoysGaming

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! Who would have known it was _that_ simple, instead.

0:45 actually yes, not long ago I was wondering this exact thing so its kinda weird to see a video on it from you! I needed one for my old-ass car and I had always wondered how they worked. I cant believe how incredibly simple they are! I wouldve never guessed! Also awesome to know about the bluetooth version, Im definitely going to pick one of those up tomorrow.

Yesterday I was taking a shower and wondering about this. Today KZread recommended this.

'The cassette adapter doesn't have tape' 'Wait, do they?' 10/10 preparation for this video.😂😂😂😂

@dmanparazitu

3 жыл бұрын

The cassette adapter doesn't have tape' 'Or do they?" *Rise 1 eyebrow while cue music by Jake Chudnow starts playing*

@TroyKing777

3 жыл бұрын

I will gamble he wrote that joke

@vertyisprobablydead

3 жыл бұрын

I was obviously part of the script you idiot.

@adog3129

Жыл бұрын

@@vertyisprobablydead it*

I actually built one of these when I was in my early teens. Literally just wired a head from a broken walkman an glued it inside the tape. Worked perfectly

@cpufreak101

3 жыл бұрын

Well hey, when it's literally that simple you can do stuff like that

@jimsteele9261

3 жыл бұрын

I did the same thing.... GMTA. :-)

@cpufreak101

3 жыл бұрын

@starshipeleven as much as I love tech I can agree. There's a magic when you can visualize what's actually happening versus "this little blob does everything"

Just ran first time into your channel. Cool content! 🤘🏼

Imma be honest, I have no idea what he’s saying outside of the literal definition of the words yet I am still absolutely amazed by all the information I’m not learning.

me: "Huh, these would be cool with bluetooth." TC: "We now have bluetooth versions of these!"

0:04 - Me fail English? That's unpossible.

@frecio231

3 жыл бұрын

unheard + impossible ?

@Eleftheria_i_thanatos

3 жыл бұрын

@@frecio231 Ralph Wiggum, Simpsons

@barnabytack

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I also thought of Ralph right away.

@HimmelGanger

3 жыл бұрын

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unpossible

@duffman7674

3 жыл бұрын

Himmelganger I have the Ralph Wiggum association with the term unpossible regardless of whether it actually exists in the dictionary.

Fantastic video. Love this channel so much

Interesting. I'm surprised I never heard of these adapters, since I was heavily into cassettes up until I bought my current car in 2016. Now I can play all my music off a USB drive. The only downside is that I can't do a playlist -- the stereo in my car only plays the songs in alphabetical order, or random.

@samsniper2000

3 жыл бұрын

Rename your songs and prefix them with the alphabet, so if you want "song" do "A song", "B song" ect

@raydunakin

3 жыл бұрын

@@samsniper2000 Thanks, but I tried that and it didn't work.

@samsniper2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@raydunakin ah well sorry about that that sucks

@Beofware

3 жыл бұрын

You need an Android phone my man

@Axodus

3 жыл бұрын

What Tyler said.

That bluetooth adaptor is pretty damned cool. I wonder if its possible for the motor in the tape deck to turn a mini dynamo fitted in the casing, so you don't need to remove it to charge!

@solsol1624

Жыл бұрын

Great idea!

@mistersync100

Жыл бұрын

Oh you smart cokiie

@chazbennett7771

Жыл бұрын

One way to find out! if I stop being lazy and get around to finishing my projects lol

@techno1561

Жыл бұрын

I don't think so. It usually moves too slowly to be useful, and the motor doesn't have much torque, unless you're fast-forwarding.

@MudakTheMultiplier

Жыл бұрын

​@@techno1561putting some gearing on it would be a place to start, but torque could still be a limiting factor depending on the speeds necessary.

I love how you changed your shirt everytime you did a "side character" lmao this was hilarious.

@billkeithchannel

3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap. Nice catch.

@Emilpoika

3 жыл бұрын

I had to go back en check cx

@Blattacker

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't even notice until this comment. The transitions between shots are so smooth!

1:00 "frigging tapes. How do they work? *Magnets."* Ahh i see what you did there.

This is my favourite video, I even come back here from time to time to check it again

"This is completely useless, but midly interesting!" should be the slogan for consumer electronics in general

@myid9876543

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha dude love it

@dralionblackheart6643

3 жыл бұрын

It is quite useful, if you have a vintage car with the original cassette radio player. It doesn't mess with my dashboard :)

1:00 "Frickin' tapes. How do they work? Ma-" Me: Magic. "-gnets."

@HarunaNoJikan

3 жыл бұрын

makes me wonder how may people missed the joke

@edu-kt

3 жыл бұрын

"Magical Mysteries by Thrilla Killa Klownz" to be more accurate.

@StevieDrama

3 жыл бұрын

Eduardo Daniel Don’t disrespect the insane clowns like that

@edu-kt

3 жыл бұрын

@@StevieDrama I used to be a fan of them, not a juggalo but a fan since their wrestling days, but Shaggy said that scientis LIE... for me turned a song that was spiritual in to ignorant bs.

@playthefooldubs

3 жыл бұрын

@@HarunaNoJikan man I'm a juggalo and it always makes me smile hearing jokes in the wild :)

I remember when I was young and creative I made one of these out of an old tape recorder, I was so proud of myself. Could only use the fancy tapes that had screws to keep them together, but it was easy to make :D. I'm old and boring now lmao

that was really neat. this channel is wonderful

Ah the good ol cassette aux adapter! Back in the late 90's I installed an MP3 player in my car for a cross country road trip (this was back before most people even knew what MP3's were). I literally put a desktop PC tower, CRT monitor, and keyboard in the back floorboards of my car and wired it to my car stereo with a DC to AC inverter lol. At the time, it was one of the largest collections of music to ever be access in a vehicle.

@GeneralChangOfDanang

Жыл бұрын

lol, my friend and I did the same thing in my '92 Caprice. We even made a little GUI in Visual Basic to make it more user friendly on the go.

@RETIREDAMATUER

Жыл бұрын

Buddy this has been done since the 80s lol

@TroublesomeOwl

9 ай бұрын

@@RETIREDAMATUER considering mp3's were only conceptualized in 1987, and released to the general public in 1991. i call ballshit.

In my high school in the early 2000's someone figured you can break open a headphone earpiece and put the magnetic speaker on the cassette head in the boombox and do the exact same thing, amazing

@carlospc866

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing like a youngster investigating how things work. Nice!

Love how you explain stuff, man

I had one of these in a MK4 Golf GTi so I could keep the original radio and keep all the dash lighting the same red colour. Cost about £25 and worked way better than I expected. Hid the wires so everything looked neat and tidy.

"Ground up rust smeared all over it" I chuckled for a solid minute at that line.

@OGRE_HATES_NERDS

3 жыл бұрын

i dont get the joke thats just what it is

@r0bhumm

2 жыл бұрын

I remember a secret life of the machines episode, in which the presenter actually made some working audiotape using Sellotape and ground up rust.

@texasgonzo67

2 жыл бұрын

More like talcum powder fine particles on the backside of the tape... and technically, its Iron Oxide, or rust.

@texasgonzo67

2 жыл бұрын

@@r0bhumm that English bloke is pretty cool. Watch him all the time. Check the one on the secret life of switches.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104

Жыл бұрын

Iron is one of those elements that forms a range of different oxides. The one that predominantly makes up rust isn’t magnetic.

First video I've watched since the tumor in brain was just removed this past Friday. Thanks for brightening my day

@onldhes

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to hear you went through that. I hope you are OK overall and wish you the best.

@ps3master72

3 жыл бұрын

Keep your head up and get well soon! Stay strong and have a wonderful day

Thank you! I always learn a lot with your videos!

I had a friend who had one and I always wondered how it was working, this existential question is answered now. Thank you

Lol that "Magnets" ICP reference was so well placed I almost missed it 😂

I love the Techmoan reference when you use the same type of player he used in one of his recent videos.

@sswpp8908

3 жыл бұрын

That model is going to inflate in price on eBay.

Fun fact, I've watched so many TC videos, the ad before this was for an air conditioner-heater cold weather heat pump installation! ❤

this saved my life when i got my first car and it didnt have a cd player. i wasnt even googling for a "cassette to 3.5 adapter" because i couldnt imagine that something like that existed. you cant imagine how happy inwas when i randomly saw one of these at our local electronic store.