Bluetooth cassette tape

[ExMagic]

Just wondering if anyone has ever used a Bluetooth cassette tape receiver?

I was looking for some blank cassette’s today and stumbled into these and was pretty surprised to see it
And was interested to know what the tone might sound like

[SLOfizz]

That must be some hipster way of playing Spotify… jk. Im sure it would work, but the tape must be really short… meaning it will loop way more that a actual tape with a constant read and write cycle. Not sure how long it would last. Can you replace the tape?

I would use it as an interesting delay.

[diophantine]

It is probably just like the old car cassette adapters from the 90s and early 2000s. Empty cassette shell with a record head that points at your tape player's read head. For when your car had a tape deck but you want to use your discman.

Bluetooth one is surely the same concept. Play music in your old car from your phone.

[SLOfizz]

It is probably just like the old car cassette adapters from the 90s and early 2000s. Empty cassette shell with a record head that points at your tape player's read head. For when your car had a tape deck but you want to use your discman.

Bluetooth one is surely the same concept. Play music in your old car from your phone.

Yah, Duh… haven’t use one of those if a long long time. Not sure why I thought tape would even be in there…. Oh, was probably the wine.

[ExMagic]

It is probably just like the old car cassette adapters from the 90s and early 2000s. Empty cassette shell with a record head that points at your tape player's read head. For when your car had a tape deck but you want to use your discman.

Bluetooth one is surely the same concept. Play music in your old car from your phone.

Yeah I wasn’t sure as the old tape ones usually had a cable that was attached that plugged to the headphone out of a device

The ‘Bluetooth tape’ gadgets I seen didn’t have any cable

I just didn’t understand how a cassette tape picked up a Bluetooth signal ? Or how the gadget turned the cassette tape mode into BT receiver mode

And was just wondering how that affected any tone

Like one would get interfacing a cassette adapter in the path results in

[diophantine]

They probably have a cable (maybe removable) to power/recharge the Bluetooth audio receiver inside.

Probably nothing interesting sound-wise. The old ones would be more effective (i.e. normal jack, no external power) if you want to try to vary distance between the tape heads, put materials between them, etc. but I don't know if any of that would yield interesting results.

[JayEm]

I just didn’t understand how a cassette tape picked up a Bluetooth signal ? Or how the gadget turned the cassette tape mode into BT receiver mode

And was just wondering how that affected any tone

A typical cassette adapter uses a single-sided writing tape head (similar to the recording head on a traditional tape deck) connected to a stereo minijack connector with a cord. The cord is connected to the device's output (or headphones) port and the electrical signal is converted into a magnetic signal by the head.

Basically the difference between this and the Bluetooth version is that the BT adapter has a receiver inside connected to a Digtal to Analog Converter that replaces the cable used in the standard type.
I've also seen full mp3 player types that could function as the adapter or just as a cassette shaped DAP.
The Bluetooth type will surely have a battery built in and require charging.

As for tone, that'll depend more on the read head I believe.