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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: bloomington (🦬) 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: Emilio Estevez circa 2032 (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: You're right to push back on that. 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: Emilio Estevez circa 2032 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: bloomington (🦬) 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: You're right to push back on that. 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: bloomington (🦬) 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: You're right to push back on that. 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: bloomington (🦬) 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: You're right to push back on that. 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: bloomington (🦬) 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: You're right to push back on that. 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 2:38 PM Author: cucumbers I keep reading this thread title as "FtM trans..." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869470&forum_id=2:#49904047) |