Not gonna lie, when i saw that thumbnail i thought it was a bathroom scale

weird how this one seems to still be a solid and not just turned into oil like some of those old mp3 players. :D

I remember getting my first mp3 player in the early 2000s. The leap from carrying a CD player that jumped and skipped to a tiny little thing that slipped into my pocket and never skipped was amazing.

I highly suspect you needed to connect the device BEFORE turning on the PC. I remember that problem from the Zip drive Paralell port versions. Also, there are drivers required for the paralell port interface. Were you able to get the device appear in the Device Manager?

i remember a show called beyond 2000 doing a piece on mp3. the presenter smacked the player on his knee and presented it as music that doesn't skip when jostled. i instantly wanted one.

I love how the nugget instantly says "stop" once you get it working. Almost like it wanted to stay buried in its grave. Incredible

My god this video brought back my Win95 trauma. Back when they first came out; MP3s were the new kid and were still trying to usurp WAV, VOC, and AIFF formats. Just to play it on Windows 95 initially you had to use a propriety player called "WinPlay3". And remember, you were HIGH-TECH with an Intel Pentium 120MHz (that's not a typo) and 16MB of RAM. Common hard drive size at the time was less than 1GB. An audio CD, uncompressed (DAT files), ran about 650MB to 700MB (depending on album length). I remember having to delete all the games from my hard drive at the time just to rip a single CD. Just to get the files on the hard drive. Then, I had a batch fiile RUN OVERNIGHT to re-encode them from WAV files to MP3. Man, I do NOT miss those days. You can now rip and encode an entire album to MP3 format in less than 10 minutes. And then there were those that argued about variable bitrate encoding sounding better than constant bitrate...

Let’s be thankful that this channel exists and that we don’t have to touch these nuggets ourselves to know how good or bad they are.

“A twinkle in the milkman’s eye” had me dying!

I love that ripping software says "This meter is now used by the codec for no particular reason"

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if anyone's wondering what the songs were at

Dude...... this is the most nostalgic video you have released. Audio catalyst.... windows 98.... this was my late teen years, the best times ever. Thank you for this trip down memory lane.

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I had a discman, my buddy had one of these. I used to give him so much crap about how long it took him to change his music while I could carry around

I had one of these, bought it second hand sometime in 98. Absolute sorcery at the time, had to encode at 96kbps to fit your average length album on it. Transfer speed over the parallel port was soooooo sloooooow.

Parallel ports actually have multiple modes of operation, for example ECP/EPP. You might need to take a look into your BIOS/CMOS setup to change those settings.

I remember being in art class when I was in high school and my teacher telling me and my friend about mp3 technology. I think she had an article and we were reading about it and it was totally blowing our minds. Here we are about 25 years later and streaming uncompressed huge digital files wirelessly to our portable super computers.

i was born in 97, and looking at this compared to the mp3 player i had as a kid that was in the shape of a usb drive... I can count my lucky stars!

BTW The parallel port is probably in SPP (Standard) mode. You need to jump into BIOS/CMOS on the lappy and switch to ECP (Extended Capability) or EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port) mode.