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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:
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Oct 15, 2015 04:11
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it always made me chuckle that people would buy anything that wasn't an iPod after the iPod 3rd gen everything else was such hot poo poo and bad
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Oct 15, 2015 05:24
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Heresiarch posted:i had a sansa clip for a long time as my doing-housework player and it was a surprisingly solid little guy. good ui too, and if you really wanted to they even ported rockbox to it When I first bought my Clip, I wondered which would fail first -- the battery or the flash. Naturally, it was the clip the broke first and then the solder connecting the headphone jack to the system board. Running Doom on Rockbox was pretty LOL, though, but not LOL enough to suffer through the garbage Rockbox UI. I flashed the original firmware about an hour into the Rockbox experiment.
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Oct 15, 2015 06:23
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:im the calm in the turd 
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Oct 15, 2015 06:33
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Locker Room Zubaz posted:it always made me chuckle that people would buy anything that wasn't an iPod after the iPod 3rd gen everything else was such hot poo poo and bad
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Oct 15, 2015 06:33
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I had a diamond rio mp3 player in like 1999. I even got a 128mb SmartMedia card and was the coolest dude in junior high until the battery door broke and the drat thing wouldn't stay powered on. Then later I got a nomad zen xtra, which I still have in a drawer somewhere. I might dig it out, the battery is poo poo now but if plugged in it still works.
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Oct 15, 2015 06:55
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The best mp3 player: Nokia E52 paired with a large MicroSD card with oggplay installed is hands down the best mp3/ogg/flac player there has ever been. if it hadn't broken down a while ago, I'd still use it. oggplay works on any symbian s60-device, so I also used it on a Nokia E51, a Samsung SGH-i450 and a Samsung D500C. now I use one of these:  A Ruizu X02. It kinda works with ogg/flac/m4a, but it's picky. And it sorts files after the sequence they were copied over, so you need to run fatsort on it after copying if you want it sorted lexically. in other words, a top notch player. battery lasts forever though.
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Oct 15, 2015 10:42
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Oct 15, 2015 12:09
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 rca lyra that I got back in early 2001 or so. it was loaded with such features as 128 mb of flash memory, fm tuner with 10 presets, and required you to convert all files to rca's proprietary mpy format before transferring them onto the player.
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Oct 15, 2015 13:29
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pseudorandom name posted:When I first bought my Clip, I wondered which would fail first -- the battery or the flash. Naturally, it was the clip the broke first and then the solder connecting the headphone jack to the system board. i guess i was pretty patient, i gave rockbox a few days. ultimately the stock sansa ui was better in every regard, with only a couple oversights so minor i dont even recall what they were. unlike rockbox, whereas i recall perfectly how awful rockbox was 
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Oct 15, 2015 13:34
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my first mp3 player was this thing with like 64 MB of memory that couldn't play mp3s with a bitrate higher than 128 kb/s. didn't pay a cent because I won it at stone-paper-scissors with my train compartment buddy after a third traveler had forgotten it on the seats. avidly used it for years, even wrote a batch file that would wipe it, take a random selection of mp3s from my music folder, resampled them to 128 kbps and copied them to the device, so that every day I had a new random playlist. it had no screen, and the only control was a nub that you could click or rotate in two directions: click to play/pause, long-click to on/off, rotate left for previous track, right for next. it was a terrible discount store brand and I wish I could remember which when I actually bought a mp3 player in 2010, I went to the big electronics store, and based on features and price I got this:  I used it as my workout music player, my FM radio, and I used the sound recorder a lot too. I don't use it anymore because
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hackbunny posted:I won it at stone-paper-scissors *record scratch*
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Oct 15, 2015 15:13
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How many hands tall was this mystery travelleur?
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long-distance train travel has that certain je ne sais quoi that other modes of travel lack other highlights of the trip:
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Oct 15, 2015 15:30
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that sounds like a legit awesome trip, trains own. also, what song
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ibeat blaxx
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Wild EEPROM posted:ibeat blaxx Wow, nice bigotry. Mods???
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Oct 15, 2015 19:54
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NyetscapeNavigator posted:Checking in...
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For a while I used an iRiver T30 after someone stole my ipod nano. It didn't hold very much, but it was well-designed and ran off 1 rechargable AAA. it owned.
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Oct 15, 2015 23:37
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Mr. Apollo posted:
man late 90s/early aughts consumer electronics were ugly as gently caress
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hackbunny posted:my first mp3 player was this thing with like 64 MB of memory that couldn't play mp3s with a bitrate higher than 128 kb/s. didn't pay a cent because I won it at stone-paper-scissors with my train compartment buddy after a third traveler had forgotten it on the seats. avidly used it for years, even wrote a batch file that would wipe it, take a random selection of mp3s from my music folder, resampled them to 128 kbps and copied them to the device, so that every day I had a new random playlist. it had no screen, and the only control was a nub that you could click or rotate in two directions: click to play/pause, long-click to on/off, rotate left for previous track, right for next. it was a terrible discount store brand and I wish I could remember which who the gently caress listens to the radio at home, are you from the 40's?
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Oct 16, 2015 08:31
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indigi posted:*record scratch* "Other names for the game in the English-speaking world include roshambo" 
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:who the gently caress listens to the radio at home, are you from the 40's? i do
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Oct 16, 2015 08:34
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"wow, i love curated content." "lol, you listen to the radio? wtf??" -the same guy
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Oct 16, 2015 08:35
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:"Other names for the game in the English-speaking world include roshambo" you must be a loving moron
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Oct 16, 2015 08:35
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Smythe posted:"wow, i love curated content." internet radio sure but FM radio? that's just weird man
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Oct 16, 2015 08:39
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:internet radio sure but FM radio? that's just weird man shocked that someone too loving dumb to know the name of rock paper scissors is stupefied by the concept of an FM radio
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Oct 16, 2015 08:42
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imagine a radio station but... get this... people are on there and they talk about local events and news...
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Oct 16, 2015 09:21
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sorry I got the name wrong! I had a brain fart and wasn't even sure of the order of rock-paper-scissors (now that I think about it, it's paper-rock-scissors in Italian)Parallel Paraplegic posted:who the gently caress listens to the radio at home, are you from the 40's?
only downside I can think of is that it's the umpteenth device with a digital clock that I will never set e: it has an aux in too hackbunny fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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Oct 16, 2015 09:26
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echinopsis posted:imagine a radio station but... get this... people are on there and they talk about local events and news... and it's prone to interference during moderate storms and you can get the same thing streaming online in higher quality from a device you keep in your pocket or the device sitting on your desk showing this webpage. i mean all the radio stations around me worth listening to stream their poo poo online at the same time these days so if there's a particular program I want to listen to I can just do that, is that not the case everywhere? hackbunny posted:sorry I got the name wrong! I had a brain fart and wasn't even sure of the order of rock-paper-scissors (now that I think about it, it's paper-rock-scissors in Italian) Genuine question: do you live in the UK or some other place that has TV "licenses" and don't want to buy a TV license? is that like "a thing" people do there, get a radio instead of a TV license? i'm actually curious and not trying to be argumentative or anything on that point 
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Genuine question: do you live in the UK or some other place that has TV "licenses" and don't want to buy a TV license? is that like "a thing" people do there, get a radio instead of a TV license? i'm actually curious and not trying to be argumentative or anything on that point Italy, we have a TV license too. I got rid of the TV (gave it back to my parents) because I never watched it, didn't want to buy a decoder/new TV for the DTV switchover and yes, didn't want to pay for the license "a thing" people do in Italy to get out of paying the TV license is simply not paying the TV license, because it's opt-in and because they can't or won't send law enforcement to see if you have a TV (not in households at least, but they will go after TVs in e.g. sports bars). from next year it's going to be opt-out  it simply never occurred to me to stream at home, no idea how I would even do that. my only smartphone is my work iphone 4 and I'm not going to buy a dock for that. listen from my laptop's crappy mono speaker maybe? some kind of wireless speaker system? I have no idea honestly. the lovely little stereo works so great, push button for music, push again for silence seriously. I swear I tried, listening to music on my commute, it never became a habit. it turns out I have no use for a portable media player. like, I used to think it would be ~romantic~ to share your earbuds with a girlfriend but it's actually just awkward, because you can neither listen to the music properly nor have a conversation. maybe if they ever block youtube at work? (yeah I stream from youtube, I'm lazy. youtube gives terrible music recommendations btw) I think portable media players are overrated. my parents bought this portable CD player a long time ago, and I don't think it's ever been "ported" anywhere. it's been serving duty as the aux input for their 70s hi-fi deck for like ten years now hackbunny fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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Oct 16, 2015 10:10
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:and it's prone to interference during moderate storms and you can get the same thing streaming online in higher quality from a device you keep in your pocket or the device sitting on your desk showing this webpage. FM radio is not prone to storm interference, , you swine,
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Oct 16, 2015 10:19
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 In the pic the display looks rather large but one third of it features some dancing figures that change at random, so despite the large-ish display there'd still only be two lines of text on it.
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Oct 16, 2015 12:48
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podcasts > radio
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Oct 16, 2015 13:17
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atomicthumbs posted:FM radio is not prone to storm interference, i mean i guess i'm biased because i live in the supposed lightning capital of the world but a storm way off on the horizon on an otherwise sunny day makes enough electrical interference for even a crystal clear FM signal to be interspersed with bssht bsh bsh bhshhhtttt constantly.
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i mean yeah it's not AM where a light rain suddenly takes you from "acceptably fuzzy" to "inaudibly fuzzy" but it's not like FM can beat streaming as far as clarity, alsoindigi posted:podcasts > radio
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