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silverthorneOr just desperate!
Heh, anyway, so, I have an MP3 player--an RCA Opal, and of course I've fallen in love with it becauseit has more than enough room to make it possible for me to carry my entire Bon Jovi collection around with me I can take my music with me. Anywhere.
Which is great, up to a point. Like...wearing headphones in a car? Not so bright. And although I am allowed headphones at my job, sometimes, I'd just like to be able to hear things around me a little easier. Like, you know, my boss yelling at me from across the warehouse (sort of an important job survival skill, yanno?).
Anyhow, so...several months ago, before the MP3, I had bought a CD player with a car cassette player adapter. The player died a relatively quick death. The adapter, which looks like a cassette player with a wire hanging out of it, did not.
Well, one day, stuck in the car when they'd been messing with my rock station and there was nothing good on the radio...I got a bright idea. The cassette thingy hooked into the earphone jack on the CD player, right?
So why not the MP3 player? Wouldn't that be the same concept?
...Well, to make a long story short, it worked. Happy days had by all!I could finally serenade the neighborhood with all the Bon Jovi I could muster whenever I wanted!
So....several months down the road, and after I moved, I finally took my CD collection home from work. Which of course, left me with the radio and just the radio at work if I didn't want to deal with the MP3 headphones. Which is often.
So, you guessed it, I tried the trick with the tape deck on the radio.
And yep, it works! So now I haveMore Bon Jovi, WOOT! an endless, non-commercial, non-repeating (unless I set it up for that) playlist for my workshift.
Yay!Jon and the boys would be so proud. Or not
So, there you go, a cheap way to play your MP3 player anywhere, and without a fancy hook-up.
ETA: For those of you interested in trying it; the car tape decks tend to 'autoplay' when you put the cassette adapter in, so all you have to do is adjust your volumn.
Note: The player has to be set pretty high if you don't want to turn the knob all the way up on the car/home radio--the only down side to this whole thing. Be sure to turn everything back down when you unhook, or you'll get an unpleasant surprise from whichever device got the honors of being the 'loudmouth' in the partnership. (I recommend turning the MP3 player up. It'll kill your charge or batteries faster, but it's better than getting that annoying 'background snow' noise you get when you have a bad quality tape or speakers.)
On a radio cassette player, you still have to remember to press 'play' after you turn on the MP3 player.
But I bet you guys could figure that one out on your own, right? *g*
Heh, anyway, so, I have an MP3 player--an RCA Opal, and of course I've fallen in love with it because
Which is great, up to a point. Like...wearing headphones in a car? Not so bright. And although I am allowed headphones at my job, sometimes, I'd just like to be able to hear things around me a little easier. Like, you know, my boss yelling at me from across the warehouse (sort of an important job survival skill, yanno?).
Anyhow, so...several months ago, before the MP3, I had bought a CD player with a car cassette player adapter. The player died a relatively quick death. The adapter, which looks like a cassette player with a wire hanging out of it, did not.
Well, one day, stuck in the car when they'd been messing with my rock station and there was nothing good on the radio...I got a bright idea. The cassette thingy hooked into the earphone jack on the CD player, right?
So why not the MP3 player? Wouldn't that be the same concept?
...Well, to make a long story short, it worked. Happy days had by all!
So....several months down the road, and after I moved, I finally took my CD collection home from work. Which of course, left me with the radio and just the radio at work if I didn't want to deal with the MP3 headphones. Which is often.
So, you guessed it, I tried the trick with the tape deck on the radio.
And yep, it works! So now I have
Yay!
So, there you go, a cheap way to play your MP3 player anywhere, and without a fancy hook-up.
ETA: For those of you interested in trying it; the car tape decks tend to 'autoplay' when you put the cassette adapter in, so all you have to do is adjust your volumn.
Note: The player has to be set pretty high if you don't want to turn the knob all the way up on the car/home radio--the only down side to this whole thing. Be sure to turn everything back down when you unhook, or you'll get an unpleasant surprise from whichever device got the honors of being the 'loudmouth' in the partnership. (I recommend turning the MP3 player up. It'll kill your charge or batteries faster, but it's better than getting that annoying 'background snow' noise you get when you have a bad quality tape or speakers.)
On a radio cassette player, you still have to remember to press 'play' after you turn on the MP3 player.
But I bet you guys could figure that one out on your own, right? *g*
