hipsdontlie.mp3
darude_sandstorm.mp3
toto_africa.mp3
scarlet_fire.mp3
I have one almost exactly like that (different brand, but looks exactly the same besides that). Would anyone know how to recover data from it (some text files, and potentially some recordings made with the built-in microphone)? Whenever I plug it into a computer the loading screen comes up on the player but nothing happens (computer can’t mount it), and turning it on also just gets me to the loading screen where it stays without moving forward.
Might have a file system your OS can’t handle, there was some proprietary shenanigans back then or its memory is just toast.
Those are usually just FATs. The left cap pops off and exposes a USB port. The player itself shows up as a thumb drive.
I always have good luck with gparted, testdisk on Linux
I don’t think it even gets assigned a file in /dev.
[26850.924530] usb 2-3.2: new high-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd [26851.024961] usb 2-3.2: New USB device found, idVendor=10d6, idProduct=10d6, bcdDevice= 1.00 [26851.024976] usb 2-3.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0This is all that dmesg displays when I connect it to my computer.
The memory is corrupt, that’s why it won’t load.
Do you mean volatile or non-volatile memory (ie. is it theoretically possible to recover the data)?
that weird fish heads song that was misattributed to TMBG
Fish Heads was by Barnes & Barnes, I think the short film was from SNL. Dr. Demento has a cameo in it.
I’m always reminded of the Gourds’ cover of Gin N Juice that was attributed to String Cheese Incident.
Remember downloading a couple gigs of MUGEN game in 2008… needing to swap files to fit in characters playable.
trancetrack17.mp3
Mine was full of power metal. I don’t know if it’s just my brain deleting all the bad stuff, but it feels these times were so much better idk …
I’ll join you in that (probable) delusion. Life was so much better, the internet was better, climate was better , TV was better.
Of course I was younger and not as cynical and fucking tired of everything so that might explain my feelings
TV: mainstream streaming services didn’t exist and you were forced to watch whatever was on cable, unless you were one of the early movie pirates.
Internet: dialup, shitty DSL, poorly designed web 1.0 sites. Need I say more?
Life: yes, you were young and not cynical yet. That’s why it seemed better. As a fully grown adult in the early 2000s, things were not that different. I had the Iraq invasion, Bush, and the “war on terrorism” to be angry about.
You got me on the climate thing though.
That all predates an algorithm that wants to make you angry. The internet was better before people got good at squeezing every cent out of it.
You’re not wrong, they were better times for sure. The wild west of the internet days full of questionable clicks to sites and downloads. We were so young. We had so much to learn!
I wouldn’t want to go back to that internet.
Today it has some problems, but nothing which can’t be solved, before you had to deal with too much bullshit
I have my old fat iPod classic in my car now. I found an iPod Jack in the arm rest and went searching through my old tech drawer to dust it off. It’s got so many bangers on it, but sometimes it just cuts out halfway through a song, waits for 30 seconds and starts the next one up, always when you’re just getting into it
Hard drive might need replacing
Crazy to put a hard drive in a portable device tbh cause that shit is gonna get shaken up and jostled while spinning
I use mine in my car as well, it still works fine though. My car is from that weird era where cars had Bluetooth connectivity with phones but it doesn’t work well enough to where I can just hop in my car and have it work, so if I’m in a rush and can’t set my phone up I’ll just throw on one of my iPod playlists and I’m all good!
03 track 3.mp3 03 track 3(1).mp3
You don’t know me. I’m not yelling. What is wrong with you people. Hit_me_baby1Mo_time.mp3
My favorite thing to download from Limewire was Limewire Pro.
Aaand you just lost your accounts
Hahaha I remember using LimeWire and Bearshare.
Man I’m old.
Did you have LimeWire on your computer? Or the family computer?
I was like 10 so I don’t remember lol
No dad i didn’t you’re not blaming me for the viruses nice try
Why is your homework folder 4 GB?
Oh yeah? Well why did RealPlayer try to open your “1994 Taxes” folder?
I’ll do you one better, WinMX
Morpheus, Kazaa, and hands down the best - SoulSeek. It had by far the best users and collections.
Forgot about Morpheus. And what’s this “had” business with slsk?
SLSK is still alive, well, and the best place for super rare music!
Haha, same. We had emule und kazaa 😄
mp3(.)com then ARES
Arm the nugget!
LimeWire was terrible. Quickly switched to Soulseek and have been using it ever since. Actually Nicotine+, but that’s besides the point.
Kazaa was my go-to back in the day.
I was old enough to have used Napster before it was terrible.
Ditto. You could find some weird stuff on there. I have a whole 4GB external SCSI drive sitting somewhere with a bunch of weird demos or bootlegs that I haven’t been able to find since because they were tagged by someone on acid
Ah, acid tagging. Such nostalgia
Soulseek was Amazing. What was cool is you could chat with people. I met a “Girl” from Israël and she made me discover a lot of cool rap bands like CunninLynguists. It was fun.
