Car Stereo Tape Adapters - 8-Track to Cassette to MP3

What do you do when new releases dry up for your car stereo's tape format but you don't want to install a whole new head unit? The answer is to buy an adapter*. In the video below you can see two adapters. One that ushered in the compact cassette age and the other that saw them out again 25 years later.
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[@anthonyrock-the-universal-one]

"I'll be damned if I am having my stupid dreams of doing something completely pointless dashed by a piece of plastic." Yes!

[@schlechte-schaltungen]

Still can't believe how he can churn out such gems without a script.

[@jayswarrow1196]

You have to be born in the land of quality approach, at the time when everyone have nothing to do but talk, and raised by people who don't like to waste their breath for a bad sentence.

[@checktheevidence]

Fab

[@tonyellen_]

He is truly the messiah!

[@drdysl3xia795]

I was so happy he held this opinion.

[@The8BitGuy]

Wow... I saw that first cassette player and thought.. "Wait a minute.. that's a CD player." Then he ejected the tray.. I've never seen a cassette player like that before.

[@TheStickCollector]

The 8-Bit Guy hi

[@Alpine_Wanderer]

I've never seen one like the pioneer that played one upright either.

[@oali2478]

hey, nice seeing you here, it was a thing people did at the end of the cassette player to make it seem more like a cd player, to my knowledge. most dcc decks used this kind of cassette loading system.

[@jonathansmith2168]

It's a TNT Player. Apparently they were pretty successful as a cheap portable 8-track player.

[@trulahn]

@@Alpine_Wanderer My dad had a Pioneer CT-F8282 Stereo Cassette Deck when I was a kid and it has this curved clear cover over the cassette that I thought was the coolest thing growing up. Found a KZbin video of someone showing one off. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWjTqqOoZcpoq9U

[@xalataf3365]

MicroSD-to-SD card adapter in a SD-to-cassette adapter in a cassette-to-8-track adapter. Adapter-ception!

[@DansuB4nsu03]

I'm afraid not.

[@superdingo9741]

@@CaveyMoth I'd like to see 8-track to vinyl adapter. There must exist something like that.

[@FIXTREME]

I cant wait for the floppy to cd adaptor for all my old dos games

[@Curlywhrly]

MicroSD-MiniSD-SD

[@Musicradio77Network]

Add Bluetooth to the cassette adapter, you need Arsvita.

[@Nostalgianerd]

Ingenious exploitation of those sensor contacts.

[@ASilentS]

Next up, the MP3 to cassette to 8-track to tefifon to wire recorder mega adapter.

[@ricarleite]

... and back to the Tefifon.

[@pgtmr2713]

because he can.

[@pgtmr2713]

Why stop there? Let's take it back to clay pots and straw.

[@ASilentS]

That whole archaeoacoustic pottery thing is a myth.

[@pgtmr2713]

You just need hi-fi straw.

[@jaredj631]

I'm 10 minutes in and I swear if he doesn't put the tape adapter into the 8 track adapter I'm going to lose it.

[@jaredj631]

Oh thank heaven.

[@wilkes85]

Try watching the whole video before clicking "Post".

[@jaredj631]

+wilkes85 ಠ_ಠ

[@sporehux8344]

unnecessary experiments are the best kind.

[@bemorewantless]

This is the best comment.

[@Freako]

You need to go deeper, find a way to get the longest train of converters you can think of.

[@Techmoan]

Some sort of audio centipede?

[@PauloOliveira-uq1yk]

That's the "true hacker" spirit. Do because you can.

[@tod4y]

Choosing awful music enough might even lead to this [shit to each others input] phenomenon that allegedly is depicted in the movie.

[@ObersachseTV]

Yes, please!

[@JoshTatum]

Something like this: atomictoasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Adapter-Chain.jpg Except with audio equipment.

[@Syncopator]

You need to use an SD to mini-SD to micro-SD adapter here as well... :-)

[@TheHaviocdarkmoon]

if you noticed that thats what he did 8:11 at least i think he did

[@glitchingaming2343]

nah, he used an sd to micro-sd adapter

[@TheHaviocdarkmoon]

my mistake then

[@Musicradio77Network]

Syncopator It works with both SD and Mini SD cards. On the back, it says up to 8 GB, but if you use 16, 32 and 64 GB SD card, it will have more songs to go with it. Along with the earlier capacities like 256 MB, 1 GB and 2 GB will also used for box sets like a Reader's Digest or a Longines Symphonette boxsets from original instrumentals to compilations.

[@campbellrocksagain]

get a 128gb in there. played for days

[@aprofondir]

This is the kind of content only Techmoan can provide.

[@3DMegadoodoo]

Actually, I've seen at least two other youtubes previously that did the same thing.

[@contriturate5375]

databits did it first...

[@triestelondon]

This is the kind of content only Techmoan (and at least two other youtubers) can provide.

[@Core2lee91]

To be honest there aren't many people on KZbin who are the only people doing it, that's what happens when you have 1,000,000's of people using the same thing. What sets @Techmoan apart is the way he delivers the content, works very well for me being from the UK. Thanks for yet another informative video, keep them coming!

[@RazorBeamz]

Pretty sure Databits did a video of the same thing.

[@ThatSkynyrdKid70]

"Well I'll be damned if I have my stupid dreams of doing something completely pointless dashed by a piece of plastic." XD

[@John_Ridley]

We need to get a device to allow playing of 8 tracks in grammophones. A voice coil driving the needle should do it. Also at the other end, a wifi card to go into the SD card slot and play from a streaming music service. Then we can have Spotify playing into an MP3 player pretending to be an 8 track driving a grammophone.

[@Natalie-ez1zc]

...nigga wot

[@BillAnt]

Better yet an adapter to play blue-ray disks on a gramophone ;)

[@maryantish2160]

Phonographs do play MP3

[@OAleathaO]

1:58 - "Unsurprisingly, I don't have an 8-track player in my car..." Maybe not but did you ask the dealer when you bought it if you could get it with that option? LOL Whenever I buy a new car I always ask that question just to see the "deer in the headlights" look from the salesperson. LOL

[@cosminogloocosy1154]

Pure comedy XD

[@mazzalnx]

I always threaten my car dealers that if they don't include a plush toy I'm walking out. I've waited over 30 minutes for a Peugeot dealer into including a stupid plush Peugeot lion plush into my last purchase, he was probably just idly chatting away with his manager all that time but I don't care. I got the plush. It's cute. Retails for about $40... absolute ripoff.

[@SportyMabamba]

I got the Toyota 2020 Olympic plush (some robot masco thing) with my car just before lockdown. The salesman was saying Toyota has millions of these it can’t do anything with cos the Olympics were looking like being postponed.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I have my 1972 Panasonic RS-802US 8-track player/recorder where it plays and records music on 8-track. So I use my Sparkomatic 8-track cassette adapter to play MP3’s on them, and it plays regular cassettes where it plays way too fast.

[@danz409]

now if i want to play vinyl in my modern car, have a solution for that?

[@MisterLumpkin]

John Lennon had a floating turntable installed in his Rolls Royce back in the '60s.

[@jabbahammahummus2887]

just imagine the vibrations xD

[@krass76]

you could measure "vinyl records eaten by the scratchy vibrato-stylus per minute". also imagine the vibrations of the stylus (mainly because of the motor, but also the road) amplified by your car stereo. you might just go deaf from that by listening to the music at conversation-volume.

[@mbirth]

There's a Victrola player for motorcars … called Motorola.

[@macnerd93]

they actually have car record players. I saw a DeSoto Firedome at a show with a record player installed in it. Slid in like a CD, It plays the record upside down in a gyroscopic type springed enclosure, the owner of the car said it never skipped.

[@Larry]

You just needed a CD player to complete the set :D

[@gregalss]

what about a record player

[@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386]

Ey Larry!

[@philosuperstar]

Hello you~

[@m2pt5]

Use an MP3 CD player and you've covered all the bases.

[@sped6954]

@minibikemafia I wish I could remember which car of mine it was that had an 8-track player, but if I still had that car today, that's exactly what I'd be doing. Or using the setup with my Bluetooth cassette adapter to stream wirelessly from my phone to the 8-track. For some reason I want to say it was my '69 El Camino that had an 8-track deck. I know it wasn't a factory player, but I left it alone and never replaced it with a cassette deck even though it was the late 80s and by all rights I should have replaced it.

[@allwynpushparaj1461]

It would be awesome if the cogs in that Mp3 device spins a generator to charge its battery while being played in a cassette deck!.

[@VisibleReality]

Or if it detects the speed of the cogs to automatically play, stop, fast forward, etc...

[@Templarfreak]

There is not a generator in existence small enough to fit in a cassette that would generate any meaningful energy at the comparatively slow speeds a cassette plays at, nor do I think it would be possible to make a generator so small in the first place, but it would be a cool idea.

[@stephanschmidt2334]

@@Templarfreak It's probably not about the speed but the torque.

[@Templarfreak]

@@stephanschmidt2334 im not really a mechanical engineer, but i dont think torque would be a factor in this case. energy generated in an electric motor comes from magnetic fields rotating around copper wiring, moving the fields faster moves electrons through the copper wiring faster. you want torque in a motor for something like a drill, where you need to apply more rotational force, not faster rotational force but that's just from my knowledge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@jetison333]

@@Templarfreak the speed doesn't matter that much, its trivial to design a gearbox to make it spin fast enough, the problem comes when the motor spinning the cassette doesn't have enough torque to spin it up.

[@zetecfiesta]

That's actually really impressive inside, them full solder tracks are insane and will last a life time. Nice big flywheel too

[@GreenLinzerd]

You mean I can have an MP3 player that looks like a cassette?! Forget the adapter part, I just want that!

[@johncate9541]

You can find them on eBay or Amazon for about $15.

[@Musicradio77Network]

John Cate The shipping will be from China, and it can take two to three weeks before delivery.

[@Musicradio77Network]

John Cate The shipping will be from China, and it can take two to three weeks before delivery.

[@aevangel1]

Question is; do they make one that is *not* cheap chinese junk...

[@MyckelJay]

"Yo dawg, I heard you like adapters."

[@nazhif1]

I have no idea why I laughed when he pressed play @ 12:09 lol

[@jusper2000]

Sudden loudness distortion?

[@Camelotsmoon]

I laughed a bit because it sounded so horrendous, then he hit play and I was like oh, must not be totally in the player to play correctly.

[@djmips]

Just some signal leakage before he activated the amp in the adapter

[@Michael0697]

I laughed because I imagine he was super frustrated when he did it, he smushed that button with such emotion.

[@XXSomeDudeXX]

Two reasons why I chuckled: 1) He's visibly struggling with the button 2) and once he succeeds, it lets out a horrible noise that only later begins to sound like a guitar

[@electronicsNmore]

I remember those 8 track cassettes when I was a kid, and the betamax.

[@ejcmoorhouse]

MP3 to cassette to 8 track. That is what I call backwards compatibility. Although something tells me it can't be taken all the way back to records.

[@emilcarr7190]

Probably not, since records use physical grooves rather than magnetic pulses, although maybe with some very fancy and expensive technology you could create those grooves...

[@emilcarr7190]

Actually, you might be able to create some kind of device which pushes the needle up and down to simulate the grooves.

[@nrdesign1991]

a small speaker or piezo element should do fine.

[@emilcarr7190]

nrdesign1991 Do records work just like that? The needle moves at the same frequency as the sound? Interesting. Definitely doable if so.

[@vilislacis3337]

Sounds like a challenge! Anyone up for it?

[@ZipplyZane]

Instead of taking off the piece of plastic, you should have made an even bigger monstrosity by plugging one of those headphone-to cassette-adapters into the device and put that in the 8-track player.

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

Or a simple nail file would have solved it I bet

[@ruthlessadmin]

The mp3 cassette would have been more clever if they used the tape deck motors to recharge the battery.

[@punker4Real]

or skip the middle man and have it self powered

[@abigguitar]

12:09 You can actually hear it playing before you even pressed play. It must be close enough to the play heads to actually pick up the audio without even being engaged?

[@TheBrickson98]

abigguitar I noticed that too. I was surprised he didn’t mention it in the video

[@symonf1966]

Dear Mr Techmoan. Could you please review an adaptor to play my 78 shellac disks on my car mini disk player?

[@JerryEricsson]

Sort of makes a person wonder, could a person load a .tap file for the Commodore C=64 or VIC=20 data files on a SD card and use that to boot up a game on the old Commodore computers?

[@jtp336]

Thank you, this was actually very helpful, I plan on using these adapters in my 1970 Dodge Charger, which has an 8 track player.

[@carlosapiang8256]

So Carl, How do you listen to music? Me: Well, I download it off the internet onto my micro sd card. Then I put that into a micro to standard SD card translator, then I put that into an SD to cassette player. I then put that into my cassette-to-8 Track adapter, which I put into my 8 Track player. How odd. Me: Well how else would one listen to music?

[@m3rdpwr]

Big seller in the 80's when I worked for Radio Shack. Just made sure they bought the extended warranty.

[@cpufreak101]

Now what we need now is a way to convert from iPhones to hand-cranked phonograph, that will get you from oldest to newest lol

[@cpufreak101]

Daniel Daniels oh but that's too easy now, isn't it?

[@KingBlonde]

I suppose you could wire iphone sound through a piezo piece, and have the steel needle sit on that :P

[@bmhater1283]

Bruh, if Apple themselves make that, they'll make it expensive as hell lol

[@OscarInAsia]

OMG! This is something I've dreamed of doing years ago. Glad to see someone finally did! Fantastic!

[@molosomari]

Adapterception...

[@t33s]

Spoiler: the sound quality is going to be crap.

[@Xiefux]

Spoiler: your fucking wrong

[@An.Individual]

the music is from the you tube library anyway which means it's mp3 and not the devices shown

[@jdod64]

+Chainsaw Dude you do realise its possible to record it onto a casette right? this isnt rocket surgery

[@GeoNeilUK]

Spoiler, it's a microphone recording that has been compressed recompressed and processed multiple times before it plays through your laptop speakers. You are dumb.

[@t33s]

GeoNeilUK Right, the cheap mp3 player sound converted into casette signal, through a cheap casette deck's head, into 8-track signal and to 8-track player's head is fantastic. That's all the microphone, editing software and youtube's fault.

[@MegiddoTheImmaculate]

16gb is probably the limit of what it can read. Once you get into 32gb you're talking about SDHC. More than likely 8gb was the most widely available size at the time.

[@MegiddoTheImmaculate]

Oops, I meant SDXC. My numbers were wrong anyway. 32gb would be max. 🤐

[@kelli217]

I was going to post something about card sizes, but +Techmoan really hates redundant comments. I sure am glad I found yours on the first page.

[@rich1051414]

Yeah, they glitch out. Songs get cut off halfway through, some are completely corrupt, others play perfectly.

[@okaro6595]

One can format a 64 GB card into FAT32, one just needs a special program for it.

[@RikuKawai]

The only difference between SDHC and SDXC is that SDXC comes formatted as exFAT. You can just reformat it to FAT32. I use a 128GB card in my 3DS this way, even though Nintendo lists the maximum card size as 32GB.

[@WiggysanWiggysan]

I'm so happy I found your channel. Have you taken your retro hifi apart just for this video?

[@Techmoan]

No - I've been doing some re-organising.

[@micahbdev]

OMG it's micro SD to SD to cassette to 8 track

[@Musicradio77Network]

Or the Micro SD, to SD to cassette in a Superscope Storyteller kiddie cassette player.

[@AttilaTheHun333333]

"Finally we can play mp3 in an 8-track player"...all the 8-track users will be really happy now. Great video as always Mat! Thank You! Also really smooth ending with the music and credits...

[@BludBubbles]

Wow. MP3 on an 8-track. Now I've seen everything.

[@Shreddah]

Hah, that tape mp3 adapter was pretty cool actually, never knew they existed. And putting it into the 8-track cassette adapter was some Inception level material.

[@Zarf42]

The intro you use to your videos is immensely satisfying. Short and sweet, sounds wonderful, and the LEDs are a great visual touch. I think it's way better than the generic After Effects Tech Demo intro used by so many channels.

[@reezdog]

a new problem now is having a car stereo with only a CD player and radio. how can I play my music from my cell phone. if it had a tape deck I could use the wired tape audio adapter that was shown in this video. the car is from 2008 so there is no audio in jack or blue tooth. new cars come with these options now. I am better off changing the while deck.

[@Techmoan]

I have the same thing in my car - I just listen to the radio. Those personal FM transmitters are generally a bit rubbish...and I have enough things plugged in.

[@Mspikes]

I had that same problem with a car I used to own as well. My solution was to purchase an aux in jack that I wired into the car stereo. At the time, the solution was kind of crude, being that I had to splice a few of my radio cables and also use a power switch to turn the thing on and off, but it worked great, and sounded MUCH better than an FM transmitter. I did a quick search on Amazon for "aux in adapters", and it seems that they've gotten better, as you no longer have to splice them in. Instead, you can just plug them in. They cost around $25-$30US. Hope that helps!

[@Frankfurtdabezzzt]

I have the same problem. 2007 Astra only has radio or CD. I now have a huge stack of burned CDs in the car since empty discs are cheap as dirt nowadays.

[@subbookkeeper]

Usually there is a port on the backside of car stereo unit to connect the cd changer. I have Yatour mp3 player that simulates the changer and it works perfectly in this situation. Sometimes you need a special Y adapter cable to put inbetween. Everything depends on the stereo model.

[@reezdog]

Benisteinzimmer I have actually done that too. I feel like I am in the 1990s! I guess we could add a CD changer lol

[@Musicradio77Network]

Bad news: MP3 Cassette Adapter is no longer available. How sad?! And now, it’s Bluetooth cassette adapter to an 8-track player.

[@dijohnson7]

Very disappointing, where is the green Muppet man at the end, the review was great, as per usual but the end was lacking that certain aplomb, ;-)

[@MarkTheMorose]

Maybe Techmoan has exorcised idiocy from YT, and Muppet-man is no longer needed?

[@MarkTheMorose]

Maybe Techmoan has exorcised idiocy from YT, and Muppet-man is no longer needed?

[@dijohnson7]

Your name fits you well but let's hope you are wrong & muppet man was on holiday or at his psychiatrist or something, :-)

[@dijohnson7]

Your name fits you well but let's hope you are wrong & muppet man was on holiday or at his psychiatrist or something, :-)

[@cateatsushi3008]

+David Johnson I think he is. We'll just have to see

[@waynemegaman]

I'm at a point now where I've watched so many of your videos, I cant remember for sure if I have already seen one or commented on it before. A testament to how good your videos are. In any case its pretty interesting the way the cassette mechanism was powered in the Cassette to 8 Track adapter. If I hadnt watched this, I never would have known, lol.

[@YensR]

Talking about cheap power adapters: Could you tell us which car cigarette to usb adapter is worthwhile? i found many create a lot of HF noise and my radio reception drops.

[@Techmoan]

Just pay a decent amount from a recognisable brand - or a company you trust. E.g. Belkin, Griffin - perhaps pick one up in a proper electronics or phone store, even an Apple store.... just avoid unbranded or cheapo devices from a market stall or a random ebay seller. Too many people buy a dash cam or action cam for £100+, then cheap-out on the SD card and charger and blame the device.

[@YensR]

Thank you, will do!

[@ZachsVlog]

Have you ever heard of Databits? He does content similar to yours.

[@dannosaur7]

Anker. Hands down, the best USB charging solutions (including cables) I've ever come across. Readily available on Amazon. Maybe slightly more than some of the alternatives, but you get what you pay for...

[@cybersholt]

Tronsmart has HF noise like crazy on their car (samsung compat fast charge) adaptors fwiw, good and cheap though

[@eddievhfan1984]

Wot, no puppet? I missed that dude. Your banter with him was quite cheeky.

[@zanytobbs]

I would love to jam out in public holding only a cassette tape haha. Imagine how Starlord would react to that.

[@tapehead3832]

I use a walkman on a daily basis and, to be honest, it doesn't sound bad at all, but most people don't really pay it much attention.

[@JAYFEATHERBOONDOCKS]

This brought back memories from high school when I was driving a 1979 pickup with an 8-track player. I found one of these 8 track to cassette adapters at a rummage sale, got the cassette to 1/8" jack and plugged into a discman so I could listen to cd's in my old truck. Worked well if I held the CD player, but having to shift gears and hold a disc man didn't work too well. Good times.

[@chistinelane]

8 track to tape to micro tape to aux to Bluetooth dongle then back to aux to chromecast to smart TV to external speakers to a wire voice recorder. Do you accept the challenge?

[@nightisright1873]

Everybody replace this

[@Helladamnleet]

You should have gotten one of those bluetooth cassette adapters they have now. Thanks for doing 8 Track > Tape > MP3 though. I had anxiety thinking you might not do it.

[@IsaacNewtongue]

Please, don't throw your crappy power adapters out, recycle them

[@goldenstarmusic1689]

there's so much useful parts on those worth saving, but for sure creating ewaste is not the move.

[@x--.]

Where do you live where you can recycle such complex pieces of electronics? I can't even recycle broken glass here, forget about electronics.

[@munkpuppy]

@@x--. Canada, where we actually care about the environment

[@x--.]

@@munkpuppy Count yourself lucky. Were I King, I'd gladly impose a fee for companies and the waste they create, that'd motivate more recycling options. Here, though, the list of "cannot be recycled" is long.

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

You might be the first person on the planet to play an MP3 on an old 8-track player. Of course, you might be the first person who's actually wanted to, but still...

[@TheRosemontag]

11:57 - 12:35 sd card in cassette in 8 track. Musiception.

[@tommyb.6064]

Thinked to this video when recently in a garage sale, I found an Automatic car 8 track player with a "cassette" Fm tuner. Yes, the tuner is inside a 8 track cartridge.

[@onlyonewhyphy]

MP3 on an 8 Track... what madness IS THIS!?!?

[@jointhefist1016]

You know what is interesting. that you can get electronics that lasted from the 80's. And now you can get a phone and it will last you 2 years

[@treestandsafety3996]

Possibly the most perverted amalgam of electro mechanical sound formats..that I have ever observed, online..!

[@treestandsafety3996]

Only equalled by Lazygamereviews playing hdmi out games thu a old black and white UHF tv...

[@TheChipmunk2008]

now if they'd taken the LCD module from an LCD UHF tv and put it in a slide projector...

[@treestandsafety3996]

An lcd uhf tv..what manner of electronic perversion was that!? I used to put lcd monitor screens in overhead projectors, so I'm just as much an offender, I guess!!

[@treestandsafety3996]

The worst "offense" that I could imagine would be, trying to play doom thru a Baird televisor, someones gotta try that, one day!!

[@jensrobot]

"I used to put lcd monitor screens in overhead projectors" Thats.... i mean.... eehm.... WHY THE HELL DID I NEVER THINK OF THAT :D

[@HarmyDespecialized]

Is this a reupload or am I getting a deja vu? Because I feel like I've seen this exact video before.

[@rlevitta]

You missed the opportunity to use a Micro SD in a MicroSD to SD Adapter

[@RikuKawai]

But he did though

[@untrust2033]

2:24 Is that some sort of amplifier to the right or what?

[@RRW359]

Obviously ignoring the first thing you mentioned (the cassette to 8-track converter), do you know if I could use any of these on an old computer like an apple ii or c64 with a cassette drive? I'm beginning to collect older computers and while I eventually want to get authentic software for them, I want to be able to get programs from "alternate" sources first to see if I like them.

[@Techmoan]

I suppose it should work - play an mp3 recording of a copy of a tape. Getting the original recording would be the issue though.

[@RRW359]

Techmoan Thanks. I recently saw a video from 8bitguy that made it sound like it wasn't hard to find the MP3's, but I haven't searched them out yet, so you may be right about them being difficult to find. Also, with the SD card one, what if I just put the programs on the card without using the MP3 method? Is there a chance that could work?

[@lammy1234567890]

No chance! The MP3 player has no idea how to convert computer programs into the correct audio format.

[@rjhelms]

That should work, but is more complicated than needed. Most people do is just hook up the audio out jack of their PC/smartphone/MP3 player into the cassette in jack on their retro computer - no need for an actual cassette deck.

[@RRW359]

rjhelms Well I do want authentic cassettes eventually, and a 3.5mm-cassette is about the same price as a male-male cable, and the former is much more noticable in stores.

[@mastergx1]

I love the second one, the sd card to audio cassette adapter. Great bit of kit, I might get one for my old Honda. The only disappointment is I was hoping it used something like a small dyno to draw power from the turning of the spool motors. I wonder if there was ever one made to do that.

[@linksbro1]

omfg. Look at the picture of the "Car Audio Cassette Adapter" at 6:08 "Mini-Disc" "DCC Digital Compact Cassette" "Compact Disc Digital Audio" "Auto Reverse" Wtf. That's a lot of logos. "Made in China" Oh, that explains it.

[@rzeka]

Yo Techmoan, I just gotta say, when I first watched this video and saw the device at 6:00, I bought one off Amazon right away - my car only has CD and Cassette players, but I listen to a lot of things straight off of KZbin. About a year later I'm still using it every time I drive, and my friends use it too whenever they're in my car. I was a little skeptical at first, but as far as I can tell it sounds about the same quality as a CD. So thanks a lot for the info!

[@MrXavierRose]

38 dislikes from iPhone 7 users triggered by no headphone jack...

[@100percentSNAFU]

I had a neat little device in the early 90s called a "Sound Sender". My first car just had an AM/FM stereo with no cassette deck, and certainly no CD player, and this was before MP3s existed. With this device, you plugged it into the cigarette lighter, tuned the radio to a specific frequency, and plugged it into a portable cassette player or portable CD player, and the sound came over the radio. It actually worked pretty well. I don't know alot about the specifics with electronics, but it seemed kind of like a similar concept to an R/F adapter for a VCR or video game console for a TV, where you selected channel 3 or 4 and the signal of the device went over that channel. Similar concept, but with audio rather than video.

[@thehylianloach9473]

I hate to be 'that guy', but there is a lesser known channel called Databits that did this a couple of months ago.

[@Techmoan]

See the info in the video description - the origin of the video was this tweet twitter.com/techfinnell/status/715530074028699648

[@jaaasgoed]

Ow no, someone on youtube doing the same thing as someone else! How dare they!

[@ryanbwags]

Similar? Maybe. Our boy Techmoan went much further in depth as to how it worked. As per always. He improved upon the video without ever seeing it. Bravo!

[@RcNerd]

you for real. he's a very good guys. data bits is snotty

[@ronjenkins3956]

Valentina Farrugia, that’s a bit much.

[@zilogz8042]

@Techmoan is it possible to do the same with a VHS PLAYER? i mean, to read with a vhs player from a vhs writer head placed in a dumb vhs cassette ? if so you do a video showing how to send digital videos from a computer or a dvd/cd player separate channels (audio video) through a writer head to a vhs player.

[@xSnakeBerryx]

Review the Bluetooth cassette adapter

[@Wflash00]

If I had to guess, the 8gb card limit could be because the people who made it tried an off brand 16gb card, possibly for cost reasons, and it didn't work. I say that because I have a few devices (namely a Sansa clip MP3 player and an EverDrive GB) that get fussy with off brand ones. SanDisk, Samsung, Sony ones work fine but other ones no. The actual limit it might have is 32gb. That's the limit for SDHC, and I have oh too much experience with that problem

[@d_vibe-swe]

As always, thanks for making splendid videos :)

[@hobbified]

Support for 8GB SD cards puts the device sometime after the introduction of SDHC in 2006. Prior to that the limit was 4GB, and support for 4GB was iffy (it wasn't *quite* in spec) so 2GB was dominant.

[@stevesloan7132]

I do recall the radio announcement when the very last vehicle produced in North America rolled off of the assembly line with an 8- track player as standard equipment. It was a Ford pickup truck. I was just a boy. My generation grew up with transister radios, record albums, and cassettes. I have never owned an 8-track but saw some and thought that their continuous play was neat! Or "neato," as we used to say.

[@jimbob036]

I used to have one of these, in fact this exact model. It had terrible wow & flutter, even when it was new. I also had a variant of this, an FM tuner/8-track adaptor. This had a tiny socket on the front to plug in an external aerial.

[@alankozak288]

Somebody gave me a cassette adapter.Are these things worth saving??It works great.I shoved it into my 8 Track player and bingo! It played the cassette so nice.🙂

[@lfraser7128]

I've got the opposite problem, I've got a CD player in my car but I want to play cassettes

[@TaberBucknell]

That was a lot of fun ... thanks! The mp3 music playing via cassette adapter via 8-track player made me smile.

[@kayttamatonnimi]

It's always nice to see a lot of adapters. micro SD to SD to casette to 8 track!

[@Gucek001]

you even forgot to mention microSD to SD adaptor. ;) (I know - it became so obvious to us nowadays) :)

[@jamestoney9338]

You would think that mp3 cassette would have a sensor in the weels so the cassette player controls could control the player.

[@The8BitDuke]

I actually just got a cassette adaptor with bluetooth to use in my car since I always wound up breaking the older, cheaper adaptors with the headphone connection. Even has a little microphone you can pull out of it to dangle from the car's tape deck to use all the fancy hands free stuff, and the quality seems identical. I've been using cassette adaptors for years, even in the early 2000s for a CD player and my first mp3 player and always assumed they never got any better. Had no idea this MP3 reader version existed, but I would have sprung for it super quick back 12 years ago since I only ever used my MP3 player in the car with my silly wired adaptor. Great video!

[@SuperCookieGaming_]

ok why doesn't 8-track to cassette not keep triggering the program switch in the 8-track player? if the player is waiting for the circuit to be completed then drawing power from it would cause the player to switch programs continuously? or does it just switch once. Also in the adapter is the head that simulates tape a record head from an 8-track recorder or is it just a play head. and if it just a play head how does it make sure that is on the same track as the player?

[@VisibleReality]

For your first question, maybe the resistance is high enough for it to not trigger the circuit.

[@fueledbymusic3]

I had one of those 7 track adaptors before. In 1984, I bought a brand Sparkomatic. My shelf stereo had a cassette and an 8 track player. I had the idea to use the 8 track player as a second cassette player, so I can dub cassettes!! Cool idea, right? BUT, I was disappointed to hear really bad humming noise. Not only that, the tapes played faster than it should. So it was not much use for original tape to tape recordings! :(

[@MagikGimp]

8-trck is so ghetto. It's cartridges strewn all over a car's interior. Grab one and shove it in.

[@simplexicated]

That mp3 to compact cassette player is brilliant. I would love to see a vhs version of it.

[@paulbucknall1064]

Love it! MP3 > Cassette > 8 Track playback! This had to be done, nice work!

[@bitterlemonboy]

Maybe the SD to cassette thing can use the rotation of the cassette player to charge the battery.

[@thomasgraf1986]

Something about playing mp3 files in an 8-track player is just amazing and warms my heart.

[@MarkyShaw]

Awesome video! I love that you do things like this. Meaningless? Hell no! Passion and beautiful infatuations with vintage and modern tech. Thank you for sharing!

[@nek0mancer_uwu]

This video was just beautiful. I totally would want to play mp3 music on 8 track player!

[@owboky102050]

Techmoan ....You have brought up a lot of bad memory's ... I've had psychotherapy to forget about 8-tracks,coming unraveled spitting out the front of my Craig 8-track with my Audiovox FM convertor,and GM WONDERBAR Radio .. all of this technology I put in my 63 Oldsmobile Starfire ( although it was a chick magnet) ..... ...

[@MegaBakerdude]

I had figured out how the power gets to the adapter decades ago, and as you covered it the cobwebs very slowly cleared from my mind. I remember buying a used car that had an 8-track and one of these adapters under the seat. Retrieving that cassette adapter and slamming it into the 8-track put a huge smile on my face.

[@chillinlikeaphilin]

I just couldn't help but laugh when he played the MP3 to cassette adapter into the cassette to 8-track adapter. It was just so funny!

[@PartisanGamer]

Yes, you can put in a 16gb or even bigger card into that MP3 converter, but there will be a point where the MP3 player will be unable to read out a adress on that SD card (same limitation of RAM you have with a 32bit system vs a 64bit system on your home computer) it will either crash or get stuck once that happens.

[@ZipplyZane]

The one my parents had was far less bulky. It was longer than a typical 8-track, but not by much. The compact cassette actually mostly fit inside the machine when you played it. I'm also pretty sure it has this small roller at the end. I don't know if it used it to power the cassette, but I do think it was what was used against the heads in the actual player.

[@LunarHermit]

Very cool! I actually had one of those MP3 cassette things several years ago, looked exactly the same but they actually tried something rather interesting in mine.... The spools had larger plastic cogs on it with a sticker that had a black and white stripe pattern. It had a little light sensor that would try and read the stripes so it would pause and start when your turned your car on and off. It would also try and detect if they were moving fast so you could skip tracks by fast forwarding. Of course, these features barely worked and it usually would just pause and play at random, leading me to remove the cog with the stripes on it. Kinda telling to see that yours didn't have that system implemented at all!

[@arthurdent8091]

Hi Mat. Interesting topic. The cassette to 8 track answered the power question that had been on my mind, as to how and where the converter got it's power. If you haven't already you might want to cover the topic of a radio show "cart machine" vs 8 track and the differences. Cheers.

[@jeylful]

Love thish channel! Glad I subscribed

[@gungaldin]

Very nice work. I was the proud owner of a car with an 8 track player in the 70s. In television production, anyone working outside the audio department always had great insults for these fine people. ie: "The worst problem in television is f***ing AUDIO!" The joke was and still is true as audio is complex in its marriage to video. So here comes my request. In all your videos you have not given us direct output. I know, for you to do that would be an enormous pain in the edit. I understand the extra work required on you part but the end result would be very nice. See, told you....... "The biggest problem with KZbin is f***ing audio..........." Cheers, Magnus

[@oscar3117]

Cool! I have this Hitachi too! I know which 8-track cassette is the most expensive now, but I don't know which cassette was the first in 1964. Can you help me?