If you have a thin cell phone, the cassette slot is a perfect place to hold your phone or Ipod!

 

pix? lol what if it fell in?

 

Wouldn't the device get scratched in there? I think it's a bad idea.

 

I use it everyday for my ipod. Too cheap to buy the ipod connection kit. -=X

 

lol! that's what i used my maximas tape deck for.. to hold my iphone.. did the job pretty well!

 

whats a cassette player?? ha

 

Yesterday I had a friend of mine say "Damn this thing has a cassette player? My 2001 Explorer doesn't even have one!" I told him it must of been the base model then

 

Me too.... the 6-Disk changer pretty much doesn't work at all anymore in my car and it's not worth replacing it just to hear CD's because I don't buy or burn those anymore anyways, and the '04 Coupes don't come with an IPOD connection from the factory. I just use an MP3 player and connect it to the stock system through one of those tape deck to audio jack converter things. $8 for the converter, and like $65 for an 8 Gb Sansa Fuze MP3 player buys you a lot of song playing ability. Plus, if I'm ever waiting for someone, I can just put a video onto the MP3 player and watch that with the audio being played over the car radio.

One time a buddy and I were bored when we had to evacuate our building due to a power failure, so we hopped into my car and plugged his IPHONE into the tape-deck converter, and went to one of those police scanner websites on his IPHONE and listened for the local scanner channel, and then drove around checking out police activity for like an hour or so.

Sure... it might look a little ridiculous in this day and age, but it's a lot of bang-for-the-buck mod and works great on the stock system... plus the sound quality is just as good as a CD from that tape deck(surprisingly) if you have high bitrate MP3's and do a little research to make sure you buy a converter that isn't a POS.

 

+1. I have a Zune HD and I don't use CDs anymore. I use the cassette adapter to play from my Zune. The quality could be better because I burned the same MP3 to CD and when I played it back the CD had better quality then the tape adapter. CDs are 44,100 hertz and tapes are 22,050 hertz so the quality will be a lower than CDs.

I'm just waiting for my stereo system to die so I can get a touch screen dual-din system.

 

+1 on using a MP3 cassette adapter in the cassette deck.

 

The MP3 cassette adapter has pretty decent sound too.. way better than those FM frequency adapters

 

the tape player is tha ****, 3rd cd player broke again ( I swear they make these things to break on all cars ) so hookup my blackberry stream music (winamp remote, pandora) I make calls using the speakers. I don't what I would do if I didn't have tape player.