@@mmpg34 i remember the files I found on some sketchy angelfire site sounding like this haha: th-cam.com/video/hHkhzNLHC4g/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KBdFnXsuKj4utrqi Maybe it was a different format, hard to remember from 20 years ago.
I've seen that happen like three times this month. People making videos about the same, super specific topic, obviously unrelated to each other. like, releasing a couple days apart, meaning one basically couldn't have stolen the kdea from the other. what's going on? is the matrix breaking down? xD
@@L0op I wonder if it's like news feed algorithms giving people similar suggestions or the same article that sparks the same memory and inspiration. I've seen it happen too many times to be 100% comfortable with it just being pure coincidence. At the same time though, I have a super obscure machine (Intel Dot Station) I wanted to make a video about after not making videos in years and then in LGR's latest video about his house being hurricaned, he showed the SAME machine in the same box and said he was going to make a video about it. That one could have only been a coincidence so maybe things are just wacky and the RNG on the universe is running out of combinations. Who knows?
@@L0op it is kind of weird honestly! I’m a slow editor so each video takes me 1-2 weeks to script / shoot / edit, especially with all the rotoscoping and effects. So I really do think at least SOME of these “duplicates” are just weird Matrix shenanigans 😆
@@TruckerBigJohnha, used to have one of these, blue and white, when the AAA battery died partway through a song it blasted really loud digital noise for half a second and scared the crap out of me.
@@TruckerBigJohn No, it was definitely an offbrand one. I wish I could find it. I’ve searched all the terms I could think of and can’t find it. It was a small rectangle, took one AA, and had a very short usb on a still wire that
@@InsolentTech I am trying to have fun with it, and it makes me so happy to hear that you enjoy it! I am currently starting on the next video for November 1st, and I have so many topics rattling around in my head that it's hard to pick one 😆
I love you and hate you at the same time... 😅 You make me feel so old and nostalgic when you talk and teach about this old retro technology that I used, and in my mind I feel like, "How? That was just like 10 years ago!" 😂 But seriously, I love your channel and the editing is fantastic!
I got started with iPods, I had a couple but the one I used most through my high school years I recently fixed up and upgraded and have been using it again every opportunity I'm able to while out and about! I missed having a portable device that only does music, like you said it brings such a special personal feeling and being intentional with what I put on it, I've felt so much more connected to my music and the listening experience and I feel my deeper passion for it returning after all the years of streaming services, it can't compare!! what a timely video, and I love your cozy production and editing I'm an instant fan, I hope you get every bit of channel growth you deserve!
My first music device was the living room CD player. I learned all the tricks about it, including its ability to take a video game CD and play the tracks from it directly. I love you, your content, and this video, and how it brings a unique perspective from Technology Connections. TC focuses more on the technical side of things, while you bring the full retro experience of what it was like using it to create, pirate and use this impressive feat of engineering. I wonder where the desktop cleanup wizard went...
Although I did see Technology Connections video about this the other day, I still clicked on this out of curiosity. Love the editing style and vibe of this! Thank you ! You have a new subscriber!
Thank you so much! I started my video two weeks ago, and so it was crazy to upload this and get all the comments about Technology Connections! I guess the retro tech world is all on the same wavelength right now 😄💾
@@harkeofficial And I thought I was being clever, hahaha... I actually just wanted to write some nonsense to boost your engagement. Never heard of that book, but based on its description, it sounds like it's right up my alley, so thanks, I'll check it out!
As a nostalgic person, I'm so happy to have found this gem of a channel-it brings back so many wonderful memories! Now I'm addicted to your videos! Greetings from Argentina!
I love your content! It's so tactile and relaxing. Very informative as well! I believe that you can make it in this weird, cold world of today's TH-cam!
I still rock out with my discman and minidisc portables (still have a few from when I was a teen but started collecting many more models when I was in college). There's just something magical in picking out your mix to fit onto the limited space and burning a disc.
My first music listen device was an RCA AM transistor radio my Aunt Janet bought me at a garage sale in the late 70’s. It was amazing. I couldn’t believe the magic of listening to WLS in Chicago IL when I lived in southwest Wisconsin.
The MP3 CD players were amazing. I could travel with a huge music collection on a flight back in 2004 and only had to carry one CD-R in it which was cheap! Even a 512 MB MP3 player was impressive in that day given the cost. In 2005 I upgraded to a PSP as an MP3 player but those memory sticks weren’t cheap and I settled for 512 MB in 2005 and 1 GB in 2006.
My _first_ mp3 player was a Creative Nomad that was a USB stick with buttons that plugged into a one-AAA battery bank. I loved that it doubled as a jump drive, and made use of all of its 64MB capacity for both songs and school documents. My _best_ mp3 player was a Sandisk Sansa e250 which had 2GB of storage plus a microSD slot on the side. The rechargeable battery was a big deal for me at the time because we didn't always have AAAs lying around. I put Rockbox on it and used it for games and a morse code notepad, and more recently as a white noise machine.
Used a Sandisk Sansa Fuze, that thing took a beating... Before that, I'm pretty sure it was that exact same RCA player. Both got *a lot* of miles listening to a lot of the same music on your play list, I still listen to pretty much all of it to this day. lol
I sense your channel is about to really blow up if you keep this up! (It has already grown a lot since the first video I saw a few weeks ago). My first music player device was a cheap portable cassette player of some kind, I dimly remember it being bright red, and I had a small carrying bag for it, some spare batteries and a few chosen cassettes. All those things are lost to time. But I still have my first mp3 player, it was a JazPiper MV32P. It had 32 MB of storage, but you could extend it with a SmartMedia storage card. It cost me the equivalent of $400 back in 1999 (1700 Norwegian kroner in 1999, which would have been around $212).
I miss my old discman. Walking around with that huge, clunky thing in my pocket listening to the same album on repeat throught the day without skipping a song. I still have some of my old cds and no player to listen to them anymore.
I ripped so many of my CDs only to discover random pops and other noises. I had a deep love for my minidisc players and remember those more fondly. I had the Sony MZ-R37, and later the game changing MZ-N505.
Why did this make me weirdly emotional? So many memories and feelings came rushing back all of a sudden. BTW I can’t believe how good you are at making TH-cam videos. It already feels like I’ve been watching your nostalgia technology deep dives for years! PS The Bill Nye-style sound effects really tie it all together 😂
Bill Nye is one of my inspirations, I keep “studying” the show for ideas (plus I use it as an aid for teaching my 1st grader about science, so I have an excuse haha). I’ve been making videos for fun for over 20 years, but never really decided to start a channel until… now lol. Thank you so much for stopping by!!
I really enjoyed having an MP3 CD compatible head unit for my car. Having to have a roadtrips worth of music on one CD, with some level of labelling, and no skipping like with a standard audio cd, was genius at the time.
I had that same SDMX1 and LOVED it. It had a few quirks when song titles had weird characters, but converting everything to 56kbps made that 512MB last forever!
You sound and look so wholesome, and it was such a nice trip down memory lane, instant subscribe! I remember my first MP3 player, I was 6 years old, it was my sisters and it no longer connected to the PC so it had 70 or so songs on it that I would just listen to on repeat and dance too, I miss those days ...
I was still doing the required childhood fiddling with cassettes when early MP3 players were happening, but I remember my friend showing me his sandisk sansa and having my mind blown. I asked my parents for "an MP3 player" for my next birthday and they flashbanged me with the 5.5g ipod video that I use to this day
“required childhood fiddling with cassettes” is so true 😂 I used to carry around one of those handheld cassette recorders to record songs off the radio.
@@harkeofficial Back in the days when no cassette player (other than a personal stereo) ever had just *ONE* cassette player, they had to have two... and high speed dubbing - the ultimate form of not only music piracy but also video game piracy when it came to 8 bit micros!
I ~think~ i had that same cd player back in the day. It was mind-blowing at the time that i could carry that much music on a single disc. Got me through many a bus ride to my summer job.
@@harkeofficial I think mine had about ten songs on it to have any room left for documents lol! Any smaller and I would've needed a playlist of Hit Clips!
I coincidentally enough just re-purchased my first MP3 Player (RCA RD1071A) and re-loaded it with songs I listed to from that device! Really appreciate the algorithm recommending this vid. Here's to a sub!
Great vibes on the video! Love the editing style you have on this - really brings back that excitement that late 90s/early 2000s tech gave. My first MP3 player was a second gen iPod, and man did I love that thing. Being able to listen to whatever I wanted without having to juggle CDs was fantastic, whilst still needing me to pick exactly what my choices were. It was a fun time where everything was exciting. With things like Spotify, we now have unlimited amounts of music to listen to, but it all feels less exciting somehow. Almost an expectation that of course there will be music on tap. I guess it just feels less tangible, and we quickly take it for granted.
i'm so in as a new fan. i haven't thought about mp3 CDs in forever. i forgot. i'll have to dig some of my old CDs out and boot up an old PC now. you rock !
Imagine growing up from ground zero with cassette and experiencing all tech upgrades throughout the years. I still miss minidisk a little, Apple killed it though.
It’s weird I came across this video now without searching for it. Just a few hours ago I randomly remembered MP3 CDs being a thing. I had completely forgotten about them for so many years.
Back in the day, my buddy had that Sandisk in the 1gb capacity, while I was still using a 64mb RCA Lyra I was so jealous since I had to mow lawns in order to afford that thing and his grandad just bought that Sandisk for him. I didn't have a portable MP3 CD Player, but I sure as heck put one in my first car.
A 1gb sandisk…. I would have been jealous as well! My dad bought the 512mb version for me as payment for helping sand and refinish all of the wood floors in our house 😮💨
I'm still using both formats today since the early 2000's. I have an MP3 player from 2005 with 512mb of memory that i use daily to hear music when i bring my dog out for a walk (four times a day). And i still use cd's on my old BOOM-BOX 😎
I love the video, the production was incredible, I love the low sample rate audio recordings for the different segments. I hung onto MP3 CDs for quite some time, my favourite MP3 CD player was my Panasonic SL-CT800, mainly because it had amazing sound quality, the batteries lasted forever and the buttons on the front of it would light up different colours depending on the type of audio media you played in it.
My first MP3 player was a Diva MP3 Player bought in 2002. It came with 128 mb of memory. I still have one of those Sansa SDMX1s with 256 mb and a couple of the follow on Sansa M230s with 512 mb. I still use the M230 for the FM radio and occasionally music. They're so small and run on a single AAA battery.
Back in about 2006, I had an iPod, and my family went on a trip with my PowerBook G3, but since my iTunes library didn't yet have all the music my family had purchased from iTunes (or enough space on the computer, probably), my dad burned a backup MP3 CD with the entire purchased collection on it. I used that CD that week and listened to songs from the hundreds available to me. It really did feel like the future!
Thanks for the playlist :) It's essentially my playlist of the early 2000's as well. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. My 1st mp3 player was a BenQ Joybee 110 with a whopping 128mb of storage, i used to compress the Mp3 or wma's to like 32 or 64kbps so i could fit close to 100 songs on that bad boy. I was probably listening to it on cheap headphones so I couldn't tell the difference in audio quality or even cared. (Which is funny as I am now an audio engineer) but it was a game changer and beat carrying around my chunky Discman and CD wallet everywhere. I eventually upgraded to a Creative Zen V plus with like 4gb of storage, so hopefully I at least upped the bitrate a bit by then...
I still use my MP3 player. Everytime I sit in the train... almost everybody is looking at me like "this dude is stuck in early 2000s" :D Yes I am... yes I am... :')
I remember my first non cd drive MP3 player was a Nomad Jukebox, I then got a Nomad Jukebox 2. I gave my buddy dan the old Nomad Jukebox and he still has it, it has a bunch of old local bands on it and our early attempts of recording in late highschool early college days.
I had a Diamond Rio PMP300, with an insane 32MB of space. I ordered it in 1998 from China - after seeing an ad in a PC magazine somewhere... As I had an ADSL connection in the place I was working, it ended up being quicker to download the files from Napster/Kazaa than it was to encode them! When I left to work as a DJ, I went from CD audio to MP3 for my playback sources. I didn't know about Suzanne Vega!
Aaaah man, that era was incredibly magical. As a music teacher, I have very conflicted feelings about digital streaming. In the pre limewire era, you had to exchange cash for your media, and I heard from other teachers that most students had a deep connection with the artists and knew all the players on the songs. Makes sense if you had to part with a limited resource, especially if you worked for it. I'm more familiar with the mp3 era, people at least knew the songs and artists. These days, most of my students don't even listen to music. Recently, I had a student surprise me by asking if we could do a specific song, but when I asked the artist I got a blank stare and "i dunno". Unlimited access seems to devalue art.
Don't remember having an MP3 player other than an iPod Classic and later on various mobile phones that had SD-card slots and could play MP3 files. Before that it was either regular portable CD-players and a short-lived MiniDisc that I absolutely loved. It was a blast to hunt and discover new bands through either friends or hubs on DC.. or friends who had access to better hubs. T'was a blast!
I think we had one of those Sandisk MP3 players, also an iRiver and a couple of others. Great for podcasts while I had a part-time security job at night. Also, red hair, tech knowledge, and a great singing voice, this makes Harke a Tech Goddess. Well, at least for me.
ooooo man I had one of them blue sandisk players in high school!! I had the red one too at some point. I think red was only 256 MB. Honestly, a pretty good little nugget, I "modded" both of them to accept AA batteries and they lasted sooo much longer on one charge. lol i know this vid is about mp3 CDs, but you're hitting my nostalgia nerve only 30 seconds in!
My first mp3 player was a 3rd gen iPod that I bought used off eBay. It was 40GB and I barely filled half of it. I really liked it because it had the row of 4 buttons above the wheel. I like dedicated buttons on a device.
Always had something that could play media. I had a Goodmans CD mp3 player whilst at college. (1990's). I could put dozens of CD's at 128Kbps on a disc. Quality was fine for having a bit of music to listen to at Lunch or on the Bus. I still have the discs but now stick with FLAC and HD as I have a Sony HD player and HD headhones.
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the sweater is amazing. also I love the "in period modifications" vans sticker is like the perfect size. it seems the mp3 players were this short era between mix tapes and playlists on a streaming app. Even though it was digital, you needed a bunch of hardware, software, private internet access, knowledge, to make it work, which makes it closer to the analog mix tapes.
I loved my mp3 cd player back in the day. Being able to fit so many albums on one disc felt like a super power. But only downside was this particular model made an ear-splitting beep every time a button was pressed!
I still have an MP3 player and update it with new music from time to time. Yes my phone still has a headphone jack, and I have a dedicated MP3 app in there, but the convenience of listening to music without any notification pop up is just priceless
The playlist link was a nice touch. I love your mini-me impatiently waiting for the transfer to finish! 😊❤ I still listen to cassettes and CD’s now and then and there really is something special about intentionally curating your music on physical media. It brings an extra spark of enjoyment because you had to go through the process of making it, it wasn’t just there for you to click on. I still like streaming for discovery though. You’re making me want to load some mp3 music to a CD-RW walk around work with my portable. Wonder what kind of reactions I’ll get?
I found the whole experience more refreshing than I expected. Even those it’s still a “device”, it was nice to disconnect from my phone, and I think I’ll be doing it more often. I have a collection of cassettes I can take for a walk too 😁 Thanks for stopping by!!
I was not expecting the Aly & AJ throwback, Rush is my favorite from their debut! I met them this year at a convention, they're so down to earth! Cool video :)
I'm glad you're making this type of content. Doesn't really seem too far in the past, but I guess 20-25 years is quite a chunk of time, and younger generations might not have ways of getting to know about this otherwise. Especially as the tech will slowly disappear, like how that MP3 player almost croaked on ya 😅 The struggles of downloading a Bloodhound Gang MP3 via HTTP on 56k modem.. Even with good ol' "Download Accelerator" it took 15 minutes!
Great video! I had very similar mp3 players :) Anyway, mp3 was already a common thing for nerds long before Napster came along. I mean, all those mp3s that people shared had to come from somewhere. I remember ripping audio CDs as early as 1997, even though I was exposed to the format in 1996 for the first time. Interestingly enough, Napster's rise coincided with CD-burners becoming cheap enough to purchase even for teenagers, allowing them to store their collections on reasonably cheap CD-Rs. We've come a long way since then, but MP3 was one of the few occurrences when technology basically reached perfection for the use case it was going for.
My actual first MP3 player was the creative Zen Muvo in red with 512MB of storage. It actually worked like a USB flash drive as the drive was removed from the body where it housed the battery and plugged right into your PC.
As much as I'd love to use CD's on the go they're a bit of a space compromise. So what I use instead is MiniDisc! Also, this is my new favorite channel.
Fascinating video - this stuff is from the era I grew up in, and I am still a fan of physical media, owning both a personal CD player and a radio with one built-in. (Also, saw the thumbnail, did a double-take as I got major mid-2000's Hayley Williams vibe from that pic!)
I honestly had no idea that’s what they meant by MP3 CD…. I’ve been burning my discs as audio discs for a while and I guess I just never stopped to question it lol. Love your vids pls keep it up‼️‼️
Great video. Still love my MP3-CDs (over 100 and counting), and like making 7-8 hour mix-CD's for the car. Not so much for listening at home (use an HD jukebox normally) or out walking, but still have a few Sony portables: DF-NF430 & 600, D-NE900 which work fine.
One of the biggest revelations for me was the cassette to aux adapter. When most of my friends were buying head units for their cars I was plugging my mp3 cd player into mine via the tape deck. (note: of course CD players in cars was a thing at the time but those cars were out of my price range)
As an 80's kid I rocked the behemoth Sony WM-35 Yellow Sports walkman ... The first walkman to float :D. The first mp3 player I had, was a nifty little Sony NWE505 ... I think with 512 megs of glorious storage.
I still have my creative muvo 32mb that I occasionally use to flash the bios on my gaming pc. recently it came in handy with softmoding my original xbox because it was the only drive that it would read. i't s miracle it still works
The best thing is that no company can remove your legally purchased music, stored as mp3, from an offline mp3 player. No de-listing due to license or someone wanting more monetære for the music.
My first official mp3 player was an aftermarket car radio, a Sony CDX-GT61UI, around 2005. Whenever I played CDs on my old radio, it would skip whenever the bass hit too hard but with the USB storage I had almost unlimited amount of music and skip free music. I bought all the available add-on accessories: HD Radio and XM satellite radio. Honestly, there is more functionality in this old radio than there is on my newer truck's radio.
My first mp3 player was a creative zen nano back in 2006 or so. I loved that little guy. I eventually upgraded to a creative zen mozaic 2008-2009ish. I still have both, somewhere at my parents' house (or possibly in my house somewhere). My parents never really get rid of old tech, except our old windows 98 and xp... still bummed about that. I recently found some kooky rectangular camcorders while spelunking in their basement. I should try to fire them all up and see what relics I can find.
As a general gen-xer I am still collecting physical cds (at a used physical media outlet that sells books, records, tapes, cds, video games, dvds, blu rays, comics, etc) and one of my greatest joys was ripping the cds on my computer to put on to my 120GB iPod. I had carefully curated playlists for every situation- road trips, nostalgia, specific time range, sub genres, etc. then I lost my iPod. Then the computer that all my iTunes stuff bit the dust. For the last year I have tried to recreate my collection through Spotify, but it is not the same. Not by a long shot.
It really isn’t the same, is it. I’ve been visiting a lot of used media stores lately and stocking up on dvds/blu-rays/cds/etc because I’ve become disenchanted with streaming. So I definitely feel you there.
MP3 was unreal. I remember maybe 1996-1997 discovering it via IRC and my mind was blown, 5-10 minutes per song was totally OK with me on a modem, we made it work. By 1999 I was leeching constantly... and burning over 100 CD's a month easily, I remember buying CD-R media in bulk cartons from computer fairs.
The production quality alone suggests this channel has a bright future ahead 🙂
Thanks so much!!
Slowly upgrading my music collection from WAV to MP3 through dial-up back in the day was an epic journey of audio discovery. The CLARITY.
on DIAL-UP?? That’s dedication. I remember it taking forever just to download 5 second quotes from tv shows to use in AIM with my friends 😂
The irony is quality on WAV (1,411 kbps) is better than mp3 (320kbps). If anything you actually lost clarity
@@mmpg34 i remember the files I found on some sketchy angelfire site sounding like this haha:
th-cam.com/video/hHkhzNLHC4g/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KBdFnXsuKj4utrqi
Maybe it was a different format, hard to remember from 20 years ago.
Wave? Couldn't you just encode them to mp3 yourself?
WAV is higher quality. But with dial up I can see why you’d want to download MP3s.
Technology connections did a video about mp3 cd a couple of days ago
Great minds think alike
really??? That's crazy!
I've seen that happen like three times this month. People making videos about the same, super specific topic, obviously unrelated to each other. like, releasing a couple days apart, meaning one basically couldn't have stolen the kdea from the other. what's going on? is the matrix breaking down? xD
@@L0op I wonder if it's like news feed algorithms giving people similar suggestions or the same article that sparks the same memory and inspiration. I've seen it happen too many times to be 100% comfortable with it just being pure coincidence.
At the same time though, I have a super obscure machine (Intel Dot Station) I wanted to make a video about after not making videos in years and then in LGR's latest video about his house being hurricaned, he showed the SAME machine in the same box and said he was going to make a video about it. That one could have only been a coincidence so maybe things are just wacky and the RNG on the universe is running out of combinations. Who knows?
@@L0op it is kind of weird honestly! I’m a slow editor so each video takes me 1-2 weeks to script / shoot / edit, especially with all the rotoscoping and effects. So I really do think at least SOME of these “duplicates” are just weird Matrix shenanigans 😆
And Harke did a way better job of explaining what an mp3 cd is, simply. *clap*
I was expecting at least 500k views on this! The production quality is magnificent! What a find!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate it! 😄
Oh that SanDisk is a proper Nugget! My first MP3 player I got was in 2005, and it had a whopping 128mb! But it had a pull out USB, so I felt so cool!
ooooo pull out USB… nice 👌🏼
Was it a Creative Labs nomad MuVo?
@@TruckerBigJohnha, used to have one of these, blue and white, when the AAA battery died partway through a song it blasted really loud digital noise for half a second and scared the crap out of me.
@@TruckerBigJohn No, it was definitely an offbrand one. I wish I could find it. I’ve searched all the terms I could think of and can’t find it. It was a small rectangle, took one AA, and had a very short usb on a still wire that
@@toypaj I remember having the maroon and silver one. And having to deal with one battery was lame.
I remember the first full MP3 album I downloaded was Beautiful Garbage, back before Napster. Over dial up it took 3 days to download.
I had a head unit that played mp3 cd's in my 1989 Volvo 245 Wagon, I bought in about 2002.... and drove for the next decade ... god I loved that car..
Wow, now I want to install an old mp3 cd player in my car 😆
I also had a 245 wagon, but with a tape player so I used a portable cd player with a tape adapter. Agree, awesome car!
Volvo 240 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Just swapped my CD player for a touchscreen CarPlay unit tho
Man i love this channel, so happy i stumbled upon it youre killing it
thank you!
Same!!! I feel like I'm on the ground floor of a Tech TH-cam superstar in the making. Her videos are incredibly inventive.
@@InsolentTech I am trying to have fun with it, and it makes me so happy to hear that you enjoy it! I am currently starting on the next video for November 1st, and I have so many topics rattling around in my head that it's hard to pick one 😆
10:03 bigfoot in back ! (Top left thing walking behind her)
That is indeed, a cool sweater. Also literally burning CDs while watching this video.
I love you and hate you at the same time... 😅
You make me feel so old and nostalgic when you talk and teach about this old retro technology that I used, and in my mind I feel like, "How? That was just like 10 years ago!" 😂
But seriously, I love your channel and the editing is fantastic!
Thank you so much! And it really does feel like only 10 years ago 🥲
I was a fancy kid who got an iPod 3rd Generation (15GB) at 11 years old in 2004. But I also had a Portable MP3 CD player that I used before that.
I would have been SO JEALOUS
I got started with iPods, I had a couple but the one I used most through my high school years I recently fixed up and upgraded and have been using it again every opportunity I'm able to while out and about! I missed having a portable device that only does music, like you said it brings such a special personal feeling and being intentional with what I put on it, I've felt so much more connected to my music and the listening experience and I feel my deeper passion for it returning after all the years of streaming services, it can't compare!! what a timely video, and I love your cozy production and editing I'm an instant fan, I hope you get every bit of channel growth you deserve!
Thank you so much!!
My first music device was the living room CD player. I learned all the tricks about it, including its ability to take a video game CD and play the tracks from it directly. I love you, your content, and this video, and how it brings a unique perspective from Technology Connections. TC focuses more on the technical side of things, while you bring the full retro experience of what it was like using it to create, pirate and use this impressive feat of engineering. I wonder where the desktop cleanup wizard went...
I love being a metalhead, this genre is never boring and there's always new stuff to listen to.
Although I did see Technology Connections video about this the other day, I still clicked on this out of curiosity. Love the editing style and vibe of this! Thank you ! You have a new subscriber!
Thank you so much! I started my video two weeks ago, and so it was crazy to upload this and get all the comments about Technology Connections! I guess the retro tech world is all on the same wavelength right now 😄💾
Man, this sure HARKEns back to a different time!
Haha that’s literally when I chose the name. From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows 😆
@@harkeofficial And I thought I was being clever, hahaha... I actually just wanted to write some nonsense to boost your engagement.
Never heard of that book, but based on its description, it sounds like it's right up my alley, so thanks, I'll check it out!
@@norbicsekI hope you enjoy it! It’s a fun one to have on your shelf 😊
Sweet nostalgic video! My first mp3-player iRiver iMP-700. Now playing mp3 on Cowon D2+, and I have two this device.
Thank you!! Ahhh, the glory days of our trusty ole’ mp3 players 🥹
These videos bring back some memories. Tech has advanced so much but this journey we went though makes us appreciate just how far we have come .
As a nostalgic person, I'm so happy to have found this gem of a channel-it brings back so many wonderful memories! Now I'm addicted to your videos! Greetings from Argentina!
I love your content! It's so tactile and relaxing. Very informative as well! I believe that you can make it in this weird, cold world of today's TH-cam!
Thank you so much! That means a lot to hear 😁
1:35 Questionable how illegal it was, since the DMCA hadn't been created yet, in fact this was the cause of it.
Good point!
I still rock out with my discman and minidisc portables (still have a few from when I was a teen but started collecting many more models when I was in college). There's just something magical in picking out your mix to fit onto the limited space and burning a disc.
My first music listen device was an RCA AM transistor radio my Aunt Janet bought me at a garage sale in the late 70’s. It was amazing. I couldn’t believe the magic of listening to WLS in Chicago IL when I lived in southwest Wisconsin.
The MP3 CD players were amazing. I could travel with a huge music collection on a flight back in 2004 and only had to carry one CD-R in it which was cheap! Even a 512 MB MP3 player was impressive in that day given the cost. In 2005 I upgraded to a PSP as an MP3 player but those memory sticks weren’t cheap and I settled for 512 MB in 2005 and 1 GB in 2006.
My _first_ mp3 player was a Creative Nomad that was a USB stick with buttons that plugged into a one-AAA battery bank. I loved that it doubled as a jump drive, and made use of all of its 64MB capacity for both songs and school documents.
My _best_ mp3 player was a Sandisk Sansa e250 which had 2GB of storage plus a microSD slot on the side. The rechargeable battery was a big deal for me at the time because we didn't always have AAAs lying around. I put Rockbox on it and used it for games and a morse code notepad, and more recently as a white noise machine.
Used a Sandisk Sansa Fuze, that thing took a beating... Before that, I'm pretty sure it was that exact same RCA player.
Both got *a lot* of miles listening to a lot of the same music on your play list, I still listen to pretty much all of it to this day. lol
I still listen to most of it to this day as well… it’s not a phase 😤😤😤
@@harkeofficial 🤣
I sense your channel is about to really blow up if you keep this up! (It has already grown a lot since the first video I saw a few weeks ago). My first music player device was a cheap portable cassette player of some kind, I dimly remember it being bright red, and I had a small carrying bag for it, some spare batteries and a few chosen cassettes. All those things are lost to time. But I still have my first mp3 player, it was a JazPiper MV32P. It had 32 MB of storage, but you could extend it with a SmartMedia storage card. It cost me the equivalent of $400 back in 1999 (1700 Norwegian kroner in 1999, which would have been around $212).
Testing the "skip protection" was amazing. Nostalgia overload. Love the production and editing style - you are killing it!
The skip protection actually worked pretty well (until I did an unplanned “drop test”… then it didn’t work so well) 😆
I miss my old discman. Walking around with that huge, clunky thing in my pocket listening to the same album on repeat throught the day without skipping a song. I still have some of my old cds and no player to listen to them anymore.
The one I have is really good it never skipped even when I dropped it while it was playing.
Well go get a CD player then.
love the nostalgia, as i stare at my Sony PSP and NOMAD Zen Micro 8GB
PSP was my mp3 player. Love that thing.
Fire playlist 🔥🔥🔥
I Fken LOVE mp3s and cds. I been collecting audio cds all year long while everyone is distracted with record vinyls 🖤💿🎵
I ripped so many of my CDs only to discover random pops and other noises. I had a deep love for my minidisc players and remember those more fondly. I had the Sony MZ-R37, and later the game changing MZ-N505.
Why did this make me weirdly emotional? So many memories and feelings came rushing back all of a sudden. BTW I can’t believe how good you are at making TH-cam videos. It already feels like I’ve been watching your nostalgia technology deep dives for years!
PS The Bill Nye-style sound effects really tie it all together 😂
Bill Nye is one of my inspirations, I keep “studying” the show for ideas (plus I use it as an aid for teaching my 1st grader about science, so I have an excuse haha). I’ve been making videos for fun for over 20 years, but never really decided to start a channel until… now lol. Thank you so much for stopping by!!
I really enjoyed having an MP3 CD compatible head unit for my car. Having to have a roadtrips worth of music on one CD, with some level of labelling, and no skipping like with a standard audio cd, was genius at the time.
I had that same SDMX1 and LOVED it. It had a few quirks when song titles had weird characters, but converting everything to 56kbps made that 512MB last forever!
You sound and look so wholesome, and it was such a nice trip down memory lane, instant subscribe! I remember my first MP3 player, I was 6 years old, it was my sisters and it no longer connected to the PC so it had 70 or so songs on it that I would just listen to on repeat and dance too, I miss those days ...
I was still doing the required childhood fiddling with cassettes when early MP3 players were happening, but I remember my friend showing me his sandisk sansa and having my mind blown. I asked my parents for "an MP3 player" for my next birthday and they flashbanged me with the 5.5g ipod video that I use to this day
“required childhood fiddling with cassettes” is so true 😂 I used to carry around one of those handheld cassette recorders to record songs off the radio.
@@harkeofficial Back in the days when no cassette player (other than a personal stereo) ever had just *ONE* cassette player, they had to have two... and high speed dubbing - the ultimate form of not only music piracy but also video game piracy when it came to 8 bit micros!
I ~think~ i had that same cd player back in the day. It was mind-blowing at the time that i could carry that much music on a single disc. Got me through many a bus ride to my summer job.
I've never heard of mp3 CDs, those are dope.
Was a kid with portable CD players before mp3 players.
I had a Mp3 CD player my freshman year of college, circa 2002. Loved that thing. Had an inline controller, and I'd put it in my backpack.
Look at you rocking the fancy 512mb MP3 player while the rest of us were roughing it with 128mb nuggets!
You had 128? Mine was 64MB!
@@drewzero1 I feel bad for the commenters that started off with the 32MB micro-nuggets! How did they manage! 😆
@@harkeofficial I think mine had about ten songs on it to have any room left for documents lol! Any smaller and I would've needed a playlist of Hit Clips!
I coincidentally enough just re-purchased my first MP3 Player (RCA RD1071A) and re-loaded it with songs I listed to from that device! Really appreciate the algorithm recommending this vid. Here's to a sub!
Great vibes on the video! Love the editing style you have on this - really brings back that excitement that late 90s/early 2000s tech gave.
My first MP3 player was a second gen iPod, and man did I love that thing. Being able to listen to whatever I wanted without having to juggle CDs was fantastic, whilst still needing me to pick exactly what my choices were. It was a fun time where everything was exciting. With things like Spotify, we now have unlimited amounts of music to listen to, but it all feels less exciting somehow. Almost an expectation that of course there will be music on tap. I guess it just feels less tangible, and we quickly take it for granted.
i'm so in as a new fan. i haven't thought about mp3 CDs in forever. i forgot. i'll have to dig some of my old CDs out and boot up an old PC now. you rock !
Imagine growing up from ground zero with cassette and experiencing all tech upgrades throughout the years. I still miss minidisk a little, Apple killed it though.
It’s weird I came across this video now without searching for it. Just a few hours ago I randomly remembered MP3 CDs being a thing. I had completely forgotten about them for so many years.
My first MP3 player was a white 128MB USB stick style one. I loved it!
Still using mp3 CDs for my old crap car. I love the videos and the jumper/hoodie/sweater.
Back in the day, my buddy had that Sandisk in the 1gb capacity, while I was still using a 64mb RCA Lyra I was so jealous since I had to mow lawns in order to afford that thing and his grandad just bought that Sandisk for him. I didn't have a portable MP3 CD Player, but I sure as heck put one in my first car.
A 1gb sandisk…. I would have been jealous as well! My dad bought the 512mb version for me as payment for helping sand and refinish all of the wood floors in our house 😮💨
I'm still using both formats today since the early 2000's.
I have an MP3 player from 2005 with 512mb of memory that i use daily to hear music when i bring my dog out for a walk (four times a day).
And i still use cd's on my old BOOM-BOX 😎
NICE!! I’m thinking of installing an mp3 cd player in my old car, just to be extra 😂
you got scooped so hard by technology connections! i will still watch this video anyway though because you have an amazing voice
Thank you for watching!! Now I need to go watch Technology Connections’ video since he beat me to it 😁
Great video! Love the editing style and I 100% know your struggle with tech deciding not to work while filming!
It’s so frustrating 😂
I love the video, the production was incredible, I love the low sample rate audio recordings for the different segments. I hung onto MP3 CDs for quite some time, my favourite MP3 CD player was my Panasonic SL-CT800, mainly because it had amazing sound quality, the batteries lasted forever and the buttons on the front of it would light up different colours depending on the type of audio media you played in it.
My first MP3 player was a Diva MP3 Player bought in 2002. It came with 128 mb of memory. I still have one of those Sansa SDMX1s with 256 mb and a couple of the follow on Sansa M230s with 512 mb. I still use the M230 for the FM radio and occasionally music. They're so small and run on a single AAA battery.
this was sort of a tutorial for me! my new old car from 2007 supports mp3 cds and i was looking them up and came across this video! love the editing!
100% It was an art to choose with songs to put on your CD, in a way it was like making playlists but with extra steps.
Your vid just popped up in my feed and o joy-o-joys, what a gem! Loved your style, so unique and poppy! the algo has spoken 😍
Back in about 2006, I had an iPod, and my family went on a trip with my PowerBook G3, but since my iTunes library didn't yet have all the music my family had purchased from iTunes (or enough space on the computer, probably), my dad burned a backup MP3 CD with the entire purchased collection on it. I used that CD that week and listened to songs from the hundreds available to me. It really did feel like the future!
Thanks for the playlist :) It's essentially my playlist of the early 2000's as well. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
My 1st mp3 player was a BenQ Joybee 110 with a whopping 128mb of storage, i used to compress the Mp3 or wma's to like 32 or 64kbps so i could fit close to 100 songs on that bad boy. I was probably listening to it on cheap headphones so I couldn't tell the difference in audio quality or even cared. (Which is funny as I am now an audio engineer) but it was a game changer and beat carrying around my chunky Discman and CD wallet everywhere. I eventually upgraded to a Creative Zen V plus with like 4gb of storage, so hopefully I at least upped the bitrate a bit by then...
i love everything about this video. Thank you for the memories of that era. greetings from Chile! 🇨🇱
I still use my MP3 player. Everytime I sit in the train... almost everybody is looking at me like "this dude is stuck in early 2000s" :D
Yes I am... yes I am... :')
I remember my first non cd drive MP3 player was a Nomad Jukebox, I then got a Nomad Jukebox 2. I gave my buddy dan the old Nomad Jukebox and he still has it, it has a bunch of old local bands on it and our early attempts of recording in late highschool early college days.
I had a Diamond Rio PMP300, with an insane 32MB of space. I ordered it in 1998 from China - after seeing an ad in a PC magazine somewhere... As I had an ADSL connection in the place I was working, it ended up being quicker to download the files from Napster/Kazaa than it was to encode them! When I left to work as a DJ, I went from CD audio to MP3 for my playback sources. I didn't know about Suzanne Vega!
Aaaah man, that era was incredibly magical. As a music teacher, I have very conflicted feelings about digital streaming. In the pre limewire era, you had to exchange cash for your media, and I heard from other teachers that most students had a deep connection with the artists and knew all the players on the songs. Makes sense if you had to part with a limited resource, especially if you worked for it. I'm more familiar with the mp3 era, people at least knew the songs and artists. These days, most of my students don't even listen to music. Recently, I had a student surprise me by asking if we could do a specific song, but when I asked the artist I got a blank stare and "i dunno". Unlimited access seems to devalue art.
Don't remember having an MP3 player other than an iPod Classic and later on various mobile phones that had SD-card slots and could play MP3 files. Before that it was either regular portable CD-players and a short-lived MiniDisc that I absolutely loved. It was a blast to hunt and discover new bands through either friends or hubs on DC.. or friends who had access to better hubs. T'was a blast!
Dang this playlist is hitting that nostalgia itch. I've been using my old iPod from 2005 recently and this playlist is making it on there
I think we had one of those Sandisk MP3 players, also an iRiver and a couple of others. Great for podcasts while I had a part-time security job at night. Also, red hair, tech knowledge, and a great singing voice, this makes Harke a Tech Goddess. Well, at least for me.
ooooo man I had one of them blue sandisk players in high school!! I had the red one too at some point. I think red was only 256 MB. Honestly, a pretty good little nugget, I "modded" both of them to accept AA batteries and they lasted sooo much longer on one charge. lol i know this vid is about mp3 CDs, but you're hitting my nostalgia nerve only 30 seconds in!
My first mp3-player had 32 MB of storage and could not play mp3s with higher than 128kbps. Loved it!
The rut folder 💀
But I do love your videos ❤
I would like to say it’s a regional accent, but when my mom watched my video, she said “Why did you say ‘root’ like that?” 💀
@@harkeofficial It is now a headcanon regional accent.
My first mp3 player was a 3rd gen iPod that I bought used off eBay. It was 40GB and I barely filled half of it. I really liked it because it had the row of 4 buttons above the wheel. I like dedicated buttons on a device.
Always had something that could play media. I had a Goodmans CD mp3 player whilst at college. (1990's). I could put dozens of CD's at 128Kbps on a disc. Quality was fine for having a bit of music to listen to at Lunch or on the Bus. I still have the discs but now stick with FLAC and HD as I have a Sony HD player and HD headhones.
the sweater is amazing. also I love the "in period modifications" vans sticker is like the perfect size.
it seems the mp3 players were this short era between mix tapes and playlists on a streaming app. Even though it was digital, you needed a bunch of hardware, software, private internet access, knowledge, to make it work, which makes it closer to the analog mix tapes.
HOLY CRAP - I HAVE THIS MP3 PLAYER - and just recently used it to jam out some yardwork lol - great video!
I loved my mp3 cd player back in the day. Being able to fit so many albums on one disc felt like a super power. But only downside was this particular model made an ear-splitting beep every time a button was pressed!
I still have an MP3 player and update it with new music from time to time. Yes my phone still has a headphone jack, and I have a dedicated MP3 app in there, but the convenience of listening to music without any notification pop up is just priceless
The playlist link was a nice touch.
I love your mini-me impatiently waiting for the transfer to finish! 😊❤
I still listen to cassettes and CD’s now and then and there really is something special about intentionally curating your music on physical media. It brings an extra spark of enjoyment because you had to go through the process of making it, it wasn’t just there for you to click on. I still like streaming for discovery though.
You’re making me want to load some mp3 music to a CD-RW walk around work with my portable. Wonder what kind of reactions I’ll get?
I found the whole experience more refreshing than I expected. Even those it’s still a “device”, it was nice to disconnect from my phone, and I think I’ll be doing it more often. I have a collection of cassettes I can take for a walk too 😁 Thanks for stopping by!!
I was not expecting the Aly & AJ throwback, Rush is my favorite from their debut! I met them this year at a convention, they're so down to earth! Cool video :)
That's awesome! I saw them a couple years ago in concert, and they were incredible! I was a big Aly & AJ fan in the mid 00's :)
I'm glad you're making this type of content. Doesn't really seem too far in the past, but I guess 20-25 years is quite a chunk of time, and younger generations might not have ways of getting to know about this otherwise. Especially as the tech will slowly disappear, like how that MP3 player almost croaked on ya 😅
The struggles of downloading a Bloodhound Gang MP3 via HTTP on 56k modem.. Even with good ol' "Download Accelerator" it took 15 minutes!
Your channel is about to explode. Congrats.
Great video! I had very similar mp3 players :)
Anyway, mp3 was already a common thing for nerds long before Napster came along. I mean, all those mp3s that people shared had to come from somewhere. I remember ripping audio CDs as early as 1997, even though I was exposed to the format in 1996 for the first time. Interestingly enough, Napster's rise coincided with CD-burners becoming cheap enough to purchase even for teenagers, allowing them to store their collections on reasonably cheap CD-Rs.
We've come a long way since then, but MP3 was one of the few occurrences when technology basically reached perfection for the use case it was going for.
My actual first MP3 player was the creative Zen Muvo in red with 512MB of storage. It actually worked like a USB flash drive as the drive was removed from the body where it housed the battery and plugged right into your PC.
As much as I'd love to use CD's on the go they're a bit of a space compromise. So what I use instead is MiniDisc! Also, this is my new favorite channel.
My first mp3 player was 64mb! I listened to those songs on repeat forever in 2001. Ahhhhh the days 😂
These are fantastic! please keep making episodes! would love one on Winamp/Winamp Visualizer
The best XP desktop image I’ve ever seen. I don’t know art, but I know what I like!
I was having fun in MS Paint 😅
@@harkeofficial absolute masterpiece 😆
Fascinating video - this stuff is from the era I grew up in, and I am still a fan of physical media, owning both a personal CD player and a radio with one built-in. (Also, saw the thumbnail, did a double-take as I got major mid-2000's Hayley Williams vibe from that pic!)
I honestly had no idea that’s what they meant by MP3 CD…. I’ve been burning my discs as audio discs for a while and I guess I just never stopped to question it lol. Love your vids pls keep it up‼️‼️
Great video. Still love my MP3-CDs (over 100 and counting), and like making 7-8 hour mix-CD's for the car. Not so much for listening at home (use an HD jukebox normally) or out walking, but still have a few Sony portables: DF-NF430 & 600, D-NE900 which work fine.
Oooo that’s a nice collection!! Thank you so much for stopping by!
One of the biggest revelations for me was the cassette to aux adapter. When most of my friends were buying head units for their cars I was plugging my mp3 cd player into mine via the tape deck. (note: of course CD players in cars was a thing at the time but those cars were out of my price range)
As an 80's kid I rocked the behemoth Sony WM-35 Yellow Sports walkman ... The first walkman to float :D.
The first mp3 player I had, was a nifty little Sony NWE505 ... I think with 512 megs of glorious storage.
I still have my creative muvo 32mb that I occasionally use to flash the bios on my gaming pc. recently it came in handy with softmoding my original xbox because it was the only drive that it would read. i't s miracle it still works
That’s pretty awesome that you still get use out of it!
The best part about these flash and CD players? No annoying dancing silhouette ad campaign.
The best thing is that no company can remove your legally purchased music, stored as mp3, from an offline mp3 player. No de-listing due to license or someone wanting more monetære for the music.
My first official mp3 player was an aftermarket car radio, a Sony CDX-GT61UI, around 2005. Whenever I played CDs on my old radio, it would skip whenever the bass hit too hard but with the USB storage I had almost unlimited amount of music and skip free music. I bought all the available add-on accessories: HD Radio and XM satellite radio. Honestly, there is more functionality in this old radio than there is on my newer truck's radio.
The playlist you made is SOOOO nostalgic! I love this ☺
My first mp3 player was a creative zen nano back in 2006 or so. I loved that little guy. I eventually upgraded to a creative zen mozaic 2008-2009ish. I still have both, somewhere at my parents' house (or possibly in my house somewhere). My parents never really get rid of old tech, except our old windows 98 and xp... still bummed about that. I recently found some kooky rectangular camcorders while spelunking in their basement. I should try to fire them all up and see what relics I can find.
As a general gen-xer I am still collecting physical cds (at a used physical media outlet that sells books, records, tapes, cds, video games, dvds, blu rays, comics, etc) and one of my greatest joys was ripping the cds on my computer to put on to my 120GB iPod. I had carefully curated playlists for every situation- road trips, nostalgia, specific time range, sub genres, etc. then I lost my iPod. Then the computer that all my iTunes stuff bit the dust. For the last year I have tried to recreate my collection through Spotify, but it is not the same. Not by a long shot.
It really isn’t the same, is it. I’ve been visiting a lot of used media stores lately and stocking up on dvds/blu-rays/cds/etc because I’ve become disenchanted with streaming. So I definitely feel you there.
MP3 was unreal.
I remember maybe 1996-1997 discovering it via IRC and my mind was blown, 5-10 minutes per song was totally OK with me on a modem, we made it work. By 1999 I was leeching constantly... and burning over 100 CD's a month easily, I remember buying CD-R media in bulk cartons from computer fairs.