This.

Just do it

420 likes!

I'd do this for the lulz.

They're already giving me their ads before and after this video haha

Today it's the "I have 1000 subs" or "I have 1000 twitter followers" enthusiasm.

@@enlightendbel Lately I've been frequently falling in to the "subs" camp (not even 1000, or 100 for that matter) and I have to remind myself of what an absolute marvel of technology it is that anyone would find anything I do interesting enough to WANT to see it. Even if that person is one in a million, I can reach over 6000 people. It's mind boggling when you think about it.

In 1997 that was a sizable percentage of the number of people on AOL UK... and as an online only deal, 1000 is remarkable.

@@TheBrokenLife That's exactly the kind of mindset you need to reach all those people, everyone starts from 0.

@@kittycoma Thanks! I started my channel for myself as a mechanism to motivate myself to get more work done, and in that regard it's worked well, but everyone likes to be successful too. I'm sure it will come in time!

*N O S T A L G I A*

"Steve's Website!!!" *in awesome flashy glowing text*

VideoToaster damn Those nostalgia days

Rotating skulls, little explosion animations the rotating yellow light with "under construction" written next to it.

Wyatt R. inb4 burn all gifs

As a kid I used to have a microphone that broadcast over AM radio. I'm surprised to see this stuff continue into later years when audio jacks are a better option.

My dad once had a battery powered AM/FM radio shaped just like a pair of headphones... Imagine using that with this

ShadowWing Tronix I suppose it’s to cater to cheaper car stereos that do not have a line-in and tape deck.

@@RAMChYLD In the years before I had a car with a Bluetooth connectable audio system, I used this transmitter that broadcast locally in the FM band. You could plug in an Mp3 player or a USB stick and play things on it so you could listen on your radio. I always set it to a frequency that didn't have a station, though I always wondered if anyone next to me in traffic ever picked up on me listening to my favorite podcasts.

@@Girder3 I still do that, having no connectivity between my phone and car stereo.

Odd Tales.

that blew my mind too. i have always complained about how jaring that is at the end. but knowing its the Dead founder .. its kinda sweet

kebabgud Don Katz is still alive, it was the CEO Andrew Huffman who died.

Amazon isn't exactly original. As part of the Corpo species, it's main form of existence is oppression and the classic "buying themselves out of mediocrity".

why...it defines them...it's awesome.

Well to be fair, the tag line is clever. So why not use it :)

JT LovesCodeLyoko someday... ;)

I wouldn't hold my breath. Audiobooks are just a fad, I assure you.

After seeing THIS device, i highly doubt it

Nah, they're doomed to fail. And what's this Amazon website I keep hearing about? I doubt they'll make it past 2002.

Next you'll tell me AOL will merge with Time Warner and that will fail!

Holy decibels Audible Man! The Penguin is attacking, quick! to the AudioCave!

Seriously just seems like lost money. Unless they just weren't interested.

They sponsor anyone with a pulse so this means LGR has no pulse and instead runs on old PC hardware? Makes sense.

I am glad it is not sponsored to be honest

Eh. Felt weird to be paid by the same company as the subject of the video. Besides, I know KZfaq's ad algorithm will do its job and display Audible ads anyways. So I get indirectly paid by them but without signing a contract with Amazon. Win-win!

LGR, Fair enough!

For real? :o I mean, phone calls dont exactly sound great (especially when someone uses a car's builtin mic...) but I always thought it was 16-something...

You mean land line phones.

Also the same quality of old samplers from the 80s (think Linn LM-1, Oberheim DMX, E-mu Emulator II)

I was definitely getting hold music vibes from the 8-bit u-Law at 8kHz smooth jazz.

@@terinjokes yeah man it was pretty cool sounding

That's just what happens on Oddware, every episode :)

@@LGR On a related note, Company Man just did a video on Napster this week - you can find it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q-CSpbmhrJ-UqZc.html

Thought the same. The "wind-down" version actually would work well in an elevator, where nobody pays big attention to detail of the clip, or as a shop BGM. I actually liked it...kinda. o.o Was relaxing to a weird degree, since a lot of other parts of the music was cut out.

@@IngwiePhoenix Totally agree

why does that music make me want to play The Sims?

I felt like I got put on hold

If you want to listen to it more, it's called The Years We Had by Magnus Ringblom

Oh. They still do that? I never used Audible myself so I don't really know.

Yes, every Audible title ends with that same voice saying "Audible hopes you've enjoyed this program." in glorious retro 8-bit, 8khz quality.

This makes me appreciate audible for holding onto their humble beginnings and remembering what got them to where they are now, from the extensive legacy support to keeping their old tagline and beginning and end messages, great to see a company care about their past.

@@kirbysuperstaruhh3769 What's even more interesting is that they can do all that despite being owned by Amazon.

@@kbhasi I wonder how much longer they'll be able to do all that, before they're being ... smoothed

Audible hopes you've enjoyed this program

Me too! I was hoping he'd find ' Audible hopes you have enjoyed this program'

Still the exact same audio quality 🤣 I love it

Reminds me of a radio in Fallout for some reason?

reminds me of hold music without the violent sound clipping

StCerberusEngel I have nightmares over the times I’ve had to uninstall RealPlayer.

RealPlayer has always been awful. We were just willing to put up with it because there wasn't really anything better :P

Real player! yeesh that is old school. Remember DIVX player?!

True fact: their original plan was to make a system to stream liberal propaganda. That's where the original name of the company, Progressive Networks came from.

I remember when real-player was the standard for audio and video streaming online with a 56k modem. Now they have blended into obscurity and are no longer a major player. I used to love that thing before it became a bloated piece of crap. That and quick time, ahhhh memories from back in the day.

What's up check mark

The Kombinator was it the one made by Sony that had the controls on its integrated lanyard?

My first MP3 player was 10mb, clear see through case. I still have it

My first MP3 player was the Creative Zen Touch 2, it had 20gb of harddrive space (Yes, it used a very small HDD). These days I have a Sony Walkman nw-a45.

"If you want to safe space, 64kbits mp3's are more then enough for good sound." Thanks, packaging...yeah... good enough. Let's talk about that.

I had a Rio 600 32 MB. It was rad. I thought the amount of mp3s I could stick in there was mind blowing back when I was a kid.

jazz audiophiles triggered

Vaporwave

@@etan838 Yeah it evokes trippy vaporwave imagery

Also, "Opus No. 1"... it almost feels sacrilegious to hear it at high quality. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZODfLCS09PDgaM.html

That wasn't jazz And anyway if anything jazz musicians are the most anal of any genre about recording quality The stories of Steely Dan's recording sessions are legendary, infamous. Like how Steely Dan literally invented the drum machine, in the *70s!* It took up two rooms because computers were enormous at the time, and took days to synthesize drum beats. But yeah on their album Gaucho they tried literally hundreds of drummers and spent months on just one song trying to find the perfect sounding drum part, rejected them all, and invented the drum machine so they could make everything exactly how they want. And they were complete assholes to all the drummers and sound engineers they brought in. For the song Babylon Sisters that they took months recording with all these hundreds of drummers, they eventually brought in Bernard Purdie who then managed to nail it in 2 takes. Bernard Purdie for those who don't know (he's not well known to rock fans) is basically the reason John Bonham sounded so good, because he stole from Purdie pretty liberally. Check out Fool In The Rain by Led Zeppelin for example, that drum beat is called the Purdie Shuffle, and is the same beat Purdie did on the Steely Dan song Babylon Sisters. Purdie is arguably the best jazz and R&B and funk drummer ever, and definitely arguable as the best drummer of all genres, but yeah unless you listen to jazz and all that you probably don't know who he is which is a shame.

Which is the exact episode he plays the clip from? I want to listen to the full thing.

Underrated pun

Auld-ware?

No more puns please!

I approve of this comment!

In my experience, hold music sounds like 2 bits at 16Khz at best, with the audio cutting out below a certain threshold.

Ah yes, I love poor quality voice audio in 90s videogames. It adds to the experience

Gordon, start the rotor arms!

It sounds worse. But it's still... Audible.

Did you submit your status report to the administrator today?

simio1337 My god! What are you doing?

6.5 kbps according to that leaflet

@@JonnyInfinite Interesting. Maybe it's more than 4MB (or less than 2 hours) of storage.

Might be VBR peaking at 6.5 kbps, and being targeted at spoken word Audible accounted for all the silence when determining recording time.

Yes...the Kodak gold..

It's been 22 years and that CD still works. LGR should consider himself lucky he could have ended up with bit rot with a cheap CD.

I got an advert for audible before the video started, so yeah.

My local NPR stopped playing them completely as of this year. Sad times.

@@tylereifert2211 They still release a new podcast "best of" episode every week

@@tylereifert2211 if you search CarTalk on your favourite podcast app you'll get the best of episodes each week if you're into that. Depending on your computer skills you may be able to download an entire archive of Click n' Clack!

Wonder if Scotty Kilmer ever starred on there

@@adventureoflinkmk2 like a cross over or maybe a guest spot if one of the tappet bros is out sick. Good question!

Pedro Silva everything is possible on zombo.com

Omg this is so true !

The mines from the game (and the movie) were based on/modeled from the base of an old PC Commander/Saitek joystick model.

Wanted to say the same thing :)

Thank you!

me: laughs in cliché meme format

Gameboy: Laughs in 1bit 16Khz Yes, this is irrelevant, but it must have been amazing at the time to hear sampled audio coming from a Gameboy.

i agree

Honestly it kinda felt like a conflict of interest. Besides, I know the KZfaq advertising algorithm will pair this episode with Audible prerolls anyway, so I make money off of them without the need to sign a contract with Amazon and compromise the content. Win-win 👍

MrKornnugget I bought this brand new audio book device youngin you better help me set it up sunny

I wonder if they'd offer a discounted Kindle or something.

Keiya Too bad a kindle doesn’t have audio books

@@EddieBurke did they take that feature out? My old first gen Kindle touch supported audible

@@keiyakins I have the newest Paperwhite and you can listed to Audible books through bluetooth headphones.

And afterwards!

Somebody’s getting paid!

Audible -- not a sponsor -- Eric O.

Red 32, red 32, set, set HIKE!!!

that should sort itself out relatively quickly.

I clicked so fast, I travelled to the 1790's!

@@garethfairclough8715 I clicked so fast, I traveled to 1899BC.

Quick buy Google stock before you jump back to the present!

That's a fast click, 88MPH!

@@TheDeeplyCynical I wonder what would happen if you surpass 88mph?

Wait ..really ? You've never heard of audible?

This looks much more interesting though. :P

@@Arjay82 How so? They both quit hardware after their hardware devices failed miserably. Now they both produce only software, unless I am mistaken. Does Audible still produce hardware?