streaming music to ...... cassette?

So my car is old and the audio options are limited. There's no great way to hook up the smartphone but it does have a cassette player. It has occurred to me that I could stream about any album I want from my streaming service to a cassette deck for recording and personal playback in the car. A little bit of the old and a little bit of the new. Audio quality should be fine for motoring about. It's probably in violation of some agreement that I never read though.

 

How retro-futuristic of you!

 

There used to be at least and adapter for cassette players that you had a mini-jack that you could plug any type of player into as long as it had a small headphone out. Not the zenith of audio quality but it worked.

 

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Love cassette threads

 

I've gone thru a lot of cassette adapters. They are very inconsistent. They seem to sound good one minute then lousy the next. I go get a new one but it's the same. Also I'm old enough that fiddling around with my phone while I'm driving could be dangerous.

Or maybe I'm just looking for a good excuse to buy a cassette deck.

 

Could always try one of these.. ..


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So let me get this straight. You want to record your streaming service to a cassette, then play in the car. Or, do you want to play your digital lossy files from your digital device through one of those awful sounding cassette "adapters?"

Are you looking for the best way to record streaming to a cassette at home to then play in your car? There are some pretty good ways to do that, cheaply.

If you don't have digital in your car, stick with cassettes. And some cassette car players are much better sounding than the "adapters" from digital sources.

 

Definitely record your streamed music onto cassette at home and simply use the cassettes in the car. Far better in term of minimising distraction whilst driving, will sound loads better, and you won't have cords hanging down the dashboard.

 

I'm thinking of recording to an actual cassette tape. I think you may be right about quality.

 

I've done that, put my Squeezebox on shuffle and recorded 90 minutes of music on cassette for car rides. Works fine. And it's fun.

 

Should be easy enough. Headphone or phono out from your digital device, to phono in on your cassette deck, set recording level, bias, and away you go.....

 

Go to your local thrift shop and buy a bunch of cassettes... Done