Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️I should make a portable mp3 player that only plays them off floppy disks.
I mean, technically that already exists (at least twice) but nothing that uses 3.5" floppy disks
Juliet (Ryel), Rollerskating Elf 🏳️⚧️@foone Bonus points if you build it in a Mavica shell.
@julie oh that'd be fun. I'd have to destroy a Mavica to make it though, and I don't know if I could handle that, emotionally. They're my favorite brand of camera!
Andrew
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Paul Nicholls
Josh 
@foone cassette tapes!
Alex Roberts@foone the mavica of digital audio players
Spikyyn@foone I think a 2 minute 128 kbps mp3 can only fit in a floppy disk, assuming it is 2.88M. A couple 3 minute 64 or 48 kbps mp3s can fit in that.
It would be cool tho
@Spikyyn yeah there's a whole mini-industry of putting mp3s on floppies, that's not the hard part:
https://www.theverge.com/24034551/floppy-disk-music-scene-underground-diy
anna "earthshine" moss.💫@foone I've been eying one of those MIDI floppy players...it'd be cool if they were portable.
@ann3nova oh yeah they're nice. I've got one. I never considered it but it wouldn't be too hard to convert it to run off batteries, I'm sure!
ilmari@foone I thought you did already? or was that just a usb floppy drive connected to a car stereo or something?
@ilmari yeah. I regularly plug USB floppy drives into things to see if they'll support floppy disks
Min1123Parts list for the glue and software?
https://www.adafruit.com/product/6037
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5679
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1381
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4884
Torin Darkflight ΘΔ@foone Does a USB floppy drive plugged into the radio of a 2015 Kia Soul count? I mean, technically it is portable!
@torindarkflight it sure does!
QCATOPR 
@foone It's be awesome if it could also play MIDs and MODs.
Terence Eden@foone I built one 😄
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/a-floppy-disk-mp3-player-using-a-raspberry-pi/
It was impressively awful.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/a-floppy-disk-mp3-player-using-a-raspberry-pi/
It was impressively awful.
A floppy-disk Walkman - using a Raspberry Pi
I have built the most inconvenient way of playing music! It is lo-fi awfulness and cyberpunk grungy. Thanks! I hate it! Ingredients Raspberry Pi USB floppy drive Audio Cable / Headphones USB Battery WHY?!?! As I discussed yesterday, it's possible to fit half an hour of speech on a single floppy disk. The best band […]
Daniel Durrans@Edent very cool!
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