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posted by martyb on Friday July 05 2019, @08:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the next-up-will-be-a-Bluetooth-8-Track-player dept.

The cassette player finally goes Bluetooth

This month marks the 40th anniversary of Sony's first Walkman, the portable music player that would forever change the way we consume music. And while the audio cassette long ago fell out of favor for the CD and later digital music, the format's certainly not forgotten. It may not have the same audiophile cache as the vinyl LP, but a a small and passionate contingent of music listeners are keeping the fire burning.

NINM Lab's latest project occupies that same sort of fuzzy technological limbo as past products like the I'm Fine single use camera. It's also got a name to match: It's OK. In this age of political unrest and global disasters, maybe that's exactly the message we need right now. As for a bluetooth cassette player, it's probably true that nobody needs such a thing, hyper specific products are one of the nice byproducts of late capitalism.

A Bluetooth 5.0 cassette player? Aight.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 05 2019, @07:13PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday July 05 2019, @07:13PM (#863586) Journal

    You might be able to accept/enter pairing with just a button press. No screen needed.

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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday July 05 2019, @07:24PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Friday July 05 2019, @07:24PM (#863590) Journal

    You might be able to accept/enter pairing with just a button press. No screen needed.

    That's how one of my headphone sets work. It's no big deal to pair such a thing.

    There's also the default bluetooth pin...

    The most common PIN is four zeroes in a row, 0000. Two others you may encounter on some devices are 1111 and 1234. Try entering those when you're prompted for a PIN, starting with 0000, and most of the time, the pairing finishes successfully.

    ...if the device uses such a pin, then it can be automatically paired without any particular fanfare. When these things are set up to only broadcast "pair with me / available for pairing" when prodded by a button or similar, the user has semi-decent physical control over the process. I've never had it fail... but I do live in a rural environment.

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