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jethro tull

On 2017-08-04, wrote:
Cutting to the chase - you want to be able to play cassettes in your truck at
the lowest possible cost. With that in mind, there are many (repeat, many)
outboard devices that will play your cassette and convert to a digital USB
output. Here is one:
[ ... ]
There are also remarkably inexpensive FM transmitter adapters that will
connect directly to the above and transmit right to your existing radio. One
such:
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Gonna be a lot easier than surgery with a dubious outcome, and will be
adaptable to any vehicle with an FM radio.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

I don't really understand why there's so much babbling around such a simple
question. The OP is only asking how to unlock his system for an upgraded radio
with cassette player. Plus one has given a link to a page showing the procedure
that seems to answer the OP question.

All side solutions like buying a cassette to mp3 encoder or external cassette
player and FM transmitter or some other adaptor to go through USB ... that's
mostly a matter of over-complicating, eating room, and also time. Think about
the time effort it will take to encode the music from cassette to mp3. You'll
have to input manually titles or they will all be only numbered.

For what I have understood around "my truck has one year left" sentence is that
its author assumes audio cassettes would wear out in about a year. I don't
think that's true and it depends on how often the same one is played. I've been
used to play cassettes from as far as the 70's in the 90's and afterwards
regularly without noticing any damage. Magnetic tapes naturally lose signal
quility over the time, that's all. Unless the player is not in good condition
there shouldn't be any noticeable damage if normally used.