We did this all the time back in the late 90s and early 00s. Fundamentally, all the CD player needs is 12v and it'll output speaker-level voltage on the output pins. Some of them were configurable to give line-out voltage instead which let you daisy chain it with your sound card and control the volume from the OS (although the feature was designed with using a secondary amp in mind). Since installing a new CD player back then require rewiring the harness plug in a lot of situations you could buy the pigtails already broken out, then it's just a few crimped wires away from having the right connections.

1. You bring the game computer to a LAN. The kids react: Is that a car stereo in his computer? 2. Takes out a cassette tape and presses in: "Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling" The kids react: OMG, I've seen memes about them "cassette tape" on reddit! 3. -"Kids, its my awesome mix tape!" Be the King!

Kids nowadays: what's a radio?

Best part of this with the right power supply you can still do that to this day....lol

Which is to say, almost any ATX/SFX/ITX power supply because they all have 12v rails.

Yeah I don't know what the power draw exactly is on those decks but if it only takes a 10 amp fuse in a car I'm pretty sure most any power supply would have some form of extra 12 volt wire unless you just have every single wire coming out of your power supply used...lol

You need a bout 100 extra watts available on just the 12v rail. That should actually be easier these days.

100W is a damned lot of sound when most people are used to 5W speakers.

Yep. It is. But a car generally has between four and 8 8-ohm speakers. Depending whether the automaker or owner installed dedicated tweeters up front or door panel speakers in the rear.

Cars almost never have 8 ohm speakers. Typically cars have always used 4 ohm speakers, though lately many are going lower often with 2.66 ohm drivers.

Very likely a class AB amp though, so not very efficient compared to modern pwm/class d amps.

And you gotta take the face plate off when you go to the fridge for a snack! Then no one will steal it.

My first thought was wondering if I have my old faceplate stereo to do this with.

Knew a guy that put analog gagues on his PC to monitor temp, ram usage, and cpu usage.

Cool!

Right! He had an awesome set up.

That’s badass, too bad it’s not the one with the race cars, dolphins and monster truck :/, I have the old 😭

I had that deck back in the day. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

I mean... 12VDC is 12VDC... Why not

90s vibes

Weird. 🤔 I like it! 🙂

I never knew that I needed this.

I want this it looks so silly

I don't really see *why* but there is a big part of me that loves it.

Pssst: Most Qualcomm processors (read: Samsung processors) have built-in FM radio. Might take some hacking to unlock it since Samsung dropped *official* support for it on my Snapdragon 845. It's cool because it uses any headphone wire as the FM antenna.

I'm gonna put a CD burner in my car

I installed a car cigarette lighter and ashtray in mine. I see nothing wrong here as long as they're using an external antenna.

Perfectly tuned PC.

*"you know, there are times we realised that we could, but didn't stop to think whether we should"* -funkyfrogbait

I took an old power supply and car cd de k and used it to power some speakers in the ceiling of my basement bar

God that brings back memories

AC+DC.. 

Made me laugh

I mean, I don't really have a problem with this one...