raweFeb 22

Just found my 2nd ever #MP3Player while checking/emptying "random old crap" boxes.

The first one was a 128MB unit that failed after an airplane flight to the UK after approx. 1/2 year of use.

This bad boy features a whopping 1GB of storage. At some point the battery compartment failed so I modded it to take a bigger AA battery. The USB cover features slots for a cable tie to route the headphone wires out of the pocket without a mess.

The soft touch paint turned into a horrible goo and collected a lot of dust.

This thing was in daily use for approx. 8 years.

Edit: just checked the online manual. No date, but it mentions Windows98SE. Do you remember installing drivers for USB mass storage devices? That was wild...

Show threadBorisFeb 22
@stereo4x4 ok, but what’s on it?
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@kviksilver ACDC
Amorphis
ASP
Babble
Black Tide
Blind Guardian
Blur
Boards Of Canada
Chuck Berry
Clapton, Santana, & Hendrix
Culcha Candela
Cumulo Nimbus
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Die Streuner
die toten hosen
Dining Rooms
Dire Straits
Dope
Drowning Pool
Eagles of Death Metal
Eluveitie
Everytime I Die
Ewigheim
Feuerschwanz
Fluke
Freestylers
Ghost in the Shell
Gigi
Groove Armada
In Extremo
Infinite Scale
Iron Maiden
JBO
Jefferson Airplane
Knorkator
Korpiklaani
Leggo Beast
Luna Luna
Lunatic Calm
Manowar
Manu Chao
Mellencamp, John
Mighty Math
Mike Milosh
Millenia Nova
Mindscape
Morcheeba
Nancy Sinatra
Nightwish
Nirvana
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Show threadraweFeb 22
@kviksilver P.O.D.
Porcupine Tree
Prodigy
Punk & Ska Covers
Qntal
Rammstein
Rob Zombie
Schandmaul
Scott McKenzie
Seeed
Sisters of Mercy & Ofra Haza
Sitd
Solitary Experiments
Sounds From The Ground
Steppenwolf
Subway To Sally
Tanzwut
The BossHoss
The Chemical Brothers
The Cure
Thievery Corporation
United Balls
Van Langen
Various Artists
WIZO
Wolfmother
Zero 7
Black Tide
Die Streuner
Dire Straits
Ewigheim
Feuerschwanz
In Extremo
J.B.O.
Korpiklaani
Manowar
P.O.D.
Porcupine Tree
Rob Zombie
Seeed
Sitd
Solitary Experiments
Subway to Sally
The Apocalyptic Riders
Wolfmother
Show threadraweFeb 22
@kviksilver and credentials to some long gone FTP server
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@kviksilver most of it is 128Kbps, but some tracks are 320Kbps and some are 32Kbps. File dates range from 2000...2008. Just dumped the contents at 1Mbps. I am surprised that there is no data corruption as this was not powered for ~18 years. Now I feel old 🙈

After 2009 I switched to a creative zen touch, modded with a big CF card instead of the smol hard drive. Putting the software back on it was a huge pain, involving some ancient Windows Media Player version and an old Windows ME machine. That one lived in my car until I got a head unit that could play from SD card.

Next player was a iPod with rockbox, again modded with huge CF card. That one is still in occational use.