pancake101 wrote:
Her car does not even have a CD player - other ways to play music these days. The cassettes come up on ebay infrequently but then would I be able to transfer to a medium that she uses?
Does her car have an FM radio and a cigarette lighter socket?
If so, and if she's also got either an mp3 player or a blue-tooth enabled mobile phone, then you can use one of these to transmit the audio to the car radio using it's in-built FM transmitter -
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bluetooth-Ca ... 3453428045They are brilliant. You can plug in an mp3 player using the aux-socket, or you can insert a USB memory stick with songs on, or even put them onto a memory-card and put that in, or you can connect your mobile via blue-tooth and transmit the songs that way, playing anything that the phone will play at all.
The unit will convert the audio to a local FM signal, and then you simply tune the car radio to that FM station - which is displayed on the unit itself so you know where to tune it to.
For a fiver these things are incredibly versatile. You can even use them for hands-off voice calls, although this isn't something I currently use mine for, but I do play my music via one of these, using my mobile and it's blue-tooth as described above, and they are brilliant.
The audio quality isn't quite as good as plugging an mp3 player directly into a car radio's aux-in socket, so if your daughter's radio has one of those (it's likely to be a 2.5mm headphone socket on the radio unit somewhere), then that may be a better option for pure audio-quality, but then you can't use blue-tooth then to transmit the audio, and have to have something plugged in, so you win in some ways and lose some flexibility in others.
In terms of gaining access to the various songs you want, there are ways to download Youtube songs and save them as MP3 files, so that's perhaps a good option just to see if you can get something going. There are millions of songs available via Youtube, and I think it's likely that if you get a playlist for the cassette that you fondly remember, I think it's likely that you can compile your own MP3 version of the tape using this technique...
A couple of these Youtube-to-MP3 conversion websites are linked to below, and I've tested them both to check that they work OK -
https://vubey.yt/https://listenvid.com/Note that you can vary the quality of the mp3 download, so if file-size isn't too important then I'd recommend going with the highest 320kbps option if possible, although the 256kbps is likely to be fine too, and it will obviously depend on the quality of the original Youtube audio anyway...
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Itsallaguess