Note to self: BUY THIS CASSETTE MP3!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:13 pm

http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info ... te-player/

I must own this. I have a cassette deck on my Subaru. I do own an MP3 player. This will solve all of this. All of this.

I'd need to get some flash memory, but that is fine, that is cheap these days, too.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:30 am

Honestly that's a fantastic idea, not only does it reek of indie cred, but removable media!. I love my PSP and it's SD cards. I've got an 8GB card and now I can catch up on stuff like FF8 during my commute.

Roody_Yogurt · Post by **Roody_Yogurt** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:20 am

I bought this from thinkgeek.com.

CONS:
- has to be turned on to charge (and doesn't seem to get the full promised six hours)
- the instruction pamphlet makes a mention about making playlists but I'm not sure if it's really possible. putting a playlist file on there definitely does nothing
- there is no shuffle
- the max sd card size is 2 GB (although given what I've already mentioned, I think 2 GB is plenty big for the task at hand)
- while I've used it in tape decks that work exactly as described (pushing fast forward goes to the next song, etc.), in the car I drive, though, I have to eject and re-insert the tape to get it to play after skipping ahead. it depends on how your tape deck is set up.

PROS:
- sounds good. better than a normal tape-to-headphone-jack adapter or the low end radio channel adapter thing I was using before (just be sure to have the volume up on the mp3 player so you don't have to crank your car volume too much)
- works well with headphones as a regular mp3 player
- has several equalizer settings (although many of them sound horrible and you'd never use them)

All in all, it definitely could be better, but I think it's worth the $40 if it meets your needs despite the failings, like it does for me.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:28 pm

In my mind the tape spinning powered it.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:59 pm

Let's ADDRESS your cons, my friend!

Roody_Yogurt wrote: - has to be turned on to charge (and doesn't seem to get the full promised six hours)

That's OK, I drive without pants. (And neither do I, sad face!)

- the instruction pamphlet makes a mention about making playlists but I'm not sure if it's really possible. putting a playlist file on there definitely does nothing

Truth be told, I am amazed they included instructions!

- there is no shuffle

Arrrrrgh!

- the max sd card size is 2 GB (although given what I've already mentioned, I think 2 GB is plenty big for the task at hand)

Yeah, on one hand, that's pretty low, on the other hand, I always listen to the same six songs for a given period of time, so that is OK.

- while I've used it in tape decks that work exactly as described (pushing fast forward goes to the next song, etc.), in the car I drive, though, I have to eject and re-insert the tape to get it to play after skipping ahead. it depends on how your tape deck is set up.

Arrrrrrgh! This is pretty much the clincher. I may hold off. Without the cassette deck (and car) attached to the thing, I have no way to use the device, except for my 4-track. By holding off, I realize I am only delaying finding out, but that's OK.... for now!

This has been... ICJ SORT OF MAKES A PURCHASE IN THE FUTURE, MAYBE