Retro Car Telecontrol Tape Audio Cassette Sd Mmc Mp3 Player Adapter Kit + Remote

I purchased this for my 1983 Cadillac so I could add some modern tunes with out replacing the existing deck and ruining the look. Had it about a month now and I am happy with it. the unit works as described and sounds as good (or slightly better) than a real cassette. I have not used the stand alone MP3 player part of it, so I can not vouch for that, but the tape player part works good. The remote is a nice touch also.

it does it job.

I like listening to the music in the car

Here's some detail for this handy little music adapter since I found very little about it on the web, and the user manual (paper leaflet) was extremely basic. I wanted to use the original stereo unit in my 1995 BMW to retain the classic look, but wanted to play MP3 music without having to use an iPhone or iPod. Having used MP3s from an SD card before, I had some reservations about this device, namely having to re-index the songs each time it starts up. However, this is not the case - it starts playing almost immediately after powering up. Playback quality is pretty good actually; I plugged a set of high quality headphones into the audio jack, and after changing the EQ setting, found the sound to be half-decent. My car's audio system is pretty basic, so can't say it's audiophile-type stuff, but definitely sounds better than listening to radio stations.There is a power slider on the "back" edge of the cassette; when active, there will be a blue LED on the front, which is a great indicator that the device is powered up. When charging, through the included USB cord, a red LED will light up, and extinguish when fully charged. Here's the rub: once powered up with the physical switch on the back, if you turn the player off using either the top push power button or the remote, it still seems to drain the battery. That means that each time you get into/out of the car, you must remove the cassette and switch on/off the power via the back slider button. Can't speak to battery life yet, but if I remember, I will come back and edit this post when I have some quantitative info. The way my cassette player ingests the cassette makes it impossible to use the USB charge cable while playing, so that isn't an option for me - perhaps your cassette deck is different, and the charge cable can be used during playback.When you power off/on with the slider, the device seems to lose the setting for EQ, but will start the last played track at the beginning. If only using the remote power button, the last song will start playing where you left off, and the EQ settings will be retained. Maybe if you are simply running into the store for a bit, use the remote to power on/off, but when finished for the day, eject the cassette and use the power slider switch. There seems to be 5 EQ settings, which I would call normal, flat, mid, bass and loudness (not sure if that is the right order); continuing to press the EQ setting will recycle through the settings.As indicated on the little slip of paper that is the rudimentary instructions, songs are played sequentially according to how they are filed on your SD card. So if you have your MP3 songs named like I do, "ABC - The Look of Love.mp3" will follow immediately after "ABC - Be Near Me.mp3", as they are ordered alphabetically on my SD card. Since I prefer a more random playback of music vs. listening to my entire song library from A to Z, I used a basic software program I found on the web that renamed my SD card song files with a random number. i.e. each song gets assigned a unique 3-digit name, like "785.mp3". As such, my playback is "shuffled", so I won't get the same artist's songs played contiguously. It isn't truly random, as skipping backwards or forwards on a given song will reveal the same song that was played before or after the last time. If you didn't want to use that method to shuffle your SD card library, you could use something like "Tagr" (Mac) to rename the files, removing the artist name; i.e. song titles would be suitably random to create a differently ordered playback. UPDATE: I *may* have inadvertently put mine into random playback mode - I was pressing the MODE button thinking it was EQ; but after a few presses noticed nothing was changing, but after that, my song order seems to be shuffling.I purchased mine on eBay, but it looks identical to the one pictured on this listing, and paid less than half of this price. If the power functions worked differently, and the playback was automatically random (like an iPod Shuffle), I'd probably give this 5-stars.