Although discontinued, the Jukebox Recorder with USB 2.0 interface remains in some demand because of the enhanced speed of the USB 2.0 connection (in contrast to USB 1.1), the capability of the device to be flashed with the free and open source Rockbox firmware, the device's recording feature, easy to replace AA-sized NiMH batteries, and its use of easily upgradeable 2.5" standard laptop hard drives.
like, you have my attention in 2024 with those specs tbqh
@DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab Ooh that ain't bad. I've been looking at compact flash a bunch, putting one in a iPod right now, and buying a lot of old 64MB ones to put one audio book per card and then let the kids have an audiobook cartridge device.
@silverwizard and if you hook it up over usb, the cf drive will just mount as a removable drive on your compy anyway, so once it's installed it's just a weird ssd haha
compactflash is one of my favorite formats honestly - not too small so easy to lose, not too heavy, good speed, good capacity, lots of longevity and capacity diversity, big fan big fan
people carried walkmans and clones for years. Give us a commodity SSD, unlocked microcontroller, headphone jack (maybe a small speaker, but purely optional), and space for some rechargeable AAs. Don't try to build the new iPod, build the new personal tape deck.
@limebar I loved my Archos Jukeboxes.. I had both the original and the recorder and yes you needed Rockbox to really get the best out of it. I suspect I still have them somewhere in a box upstairs!
I had one of those in the day, I once accidentally dropped it down 6 flights of stairs and it was still playing when I plugged the headphones back in. The personal music player equivalent of the batmobile
The other day I was talking to @Wizkid_alex about his Zune, and I was telling him about my first digital audio player, a spinning-hard-drive-based model which wasn't any of the ones people talk about nostalgically nowadays. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was -- all I remember is that it was grayish-brown, about the size of a paperback book, with (I think) an amber screen.
I wonder how many other niche technological items have been thoroughly forgotten, even by the nerds on The Internet?
DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
in reply to DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab • • •was it less convenient to carry? yes
did the software suck? also yes
but it got an open-source replacement os that fixed the software, and I tend to have large pockets.
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in reply to DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab • •@DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab IDE fuuuuuuuuck I can't put a proper ssd in there.
IDE to M.2 adapter time????
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in reply to DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab • •@DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab Ooh that ain't bad. I've been looking at compact flash a bunch, putting one in a iPod right now, and buying a lot of old 64MB ones to put one audio book per card and then let the kids have an audiobook cartridge device.
I'd love this thing on CF cards!
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in reply to silverwizard • • •@silverwizard and if you hook it up over usb, the cf drive will just mount as a removable drive on your compy anyway, so once it's installed it's just a weird ssd haha
compactflash is one of my favorite formats honestly - not too small so easy to lose, not too heavy, good speed, good capacity, lots of longevity and capacity diversity, big fan big fan
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I wonder how many other niche technological items have been thoroughly forgotten, even by the nerds on The Internet?
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