anyone used this cassette adapter? works well? .I use the casette adaptador whit cable. since I have no input line / phono.
Mp 3 casette adaptador
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Nice thing, works on the most boxes.
But a few ones with servo/electronic tapedeck makes troubles....
But a few ones with servo/electronic tapedeck makes troubles....
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bill said:
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Because when you make a short push on FF, the player jumps to the next song. :sin:
I'm testing the mp3 cassette and I can not make change tracks by pressing the FF, I think that maybe it's because the play does not work and the wheels are not moving.
I found a possible solution, described in a bloog, copied and pasted below.
The only delusion, at first, was that the fast forward-review buttons on the radio didn't work. Yes, the adapter do have internal wheels not only to "fool" the deck into thinking that a real cassette is inserted, but also to determine by its movement when to play and pause music. I was mislead by what I read on Internet, and thought that the same wheel's speed was used to identify FF/REW; so I couldn't resist opening the case and see if I could do something to make it work. After some try, I realized what really was wrong, and that the solution was easier than thought.
Here is a picture of the gadget's inside. As you can see, just under the SD/MMC slot there is a couple of optical sensors detecting wheels movement and its direction. But, on the picture, your attention is drawn on another optical sensor just behind the magnetic head. The head can move back and forth by loading a spring, having on its back a plastic pin that interrupts the optical sensor beam. This is what reaslly tells the adapter when FF/REW is pressed, not the wheel speed! Every normal cassette deck will push the magnetic head towards the tape when playing, but retract it during FF/REW to reduce its wear due to tape flow. A tape deck equipped with music search will retract it less, because the head will remain near the tape to detect the silence between sounds during the fast movement.
So, that was the problem; the solution was very easy: cut a bit of the plastic pin. Actually, I've cut less than 1mm; better too less than too much, as adding lenght later would be much more complicated. Closed the case I've tested it and... bingo! Now I've got FF/REW working! If I enable Music Search I can skip a song at a time, while disabling it I can skip several at once; in both cases, the skipping is way faster that with a real cassette. Mission complete with success.
Text and pic from http://www.sganawa.org/node/938
someone did before?.
I found a possible solution, described in a bloog, copied and pasted below.
The only delusion, at first, was that the fast forward-review buttons on the radio didn't work. Yes, the adapter do have internal wheels not only to "fool" the deck into thinking that a real cassette is inserted, but also to determine by its movement when to play and pause music. I was mislead by what I read on Internet, and thought that the same wheel's speed was used to identify FF/REW; so I couldn't resist opening the case and see if I could do something to make it work. After some try, I realized what really was wrong, and that the solution was easier than thought.
Here is a picture of the gadget's inside. As you can see, just under the SD/MMC slot there is a couple of optical sensors detecting wheels movement and its direction. But, on the picture, your attention is drawn on another optical sensor just behind the magnetic head. The head can move back and forth by loading a spring, having on its back a plastic pin that interrupts the optical sensor beam. This is what reaslly tells the adapter when FF/REW is pressed, not the wheel speed! Every normal cassette deck will push the magnetic head towards the tape when playing, but retract it during FF/REW to reduce its wear due to tape flow. A tape deck equipped with music search will retract it less, because the head will remain near the tape to detect the silence between sounds during the fast movement.
So, that was the problem; the solution was very easy: cut a bit of the plastic pin. Actually, I've cut less than 1mm; better too less than too much, as adding lenght later would be much more complicated. Closed the case I've tested it and... bingo! Now I've got FF/REW working! If I enable Music Search I can skip a song at a time, while disabling it I can skip several at once; in both cases, the skipping is way faster that with a real cassette. Mission complete with success.
Text and pic from http://www.sganawa.org/node/938
someone did before?.
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