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I feel so bad for the Eee PC. It screams so often just asking for the display resolution to be fixed but Dank just closes all the popups instead of fixing the problem the popups are trying to help him to solve.
And that’s just cos he’s busy. He knows the things really. But the scary thing is most people really do approach computers that way. A message is the problem, closing it makes the problem go away.
I feel good about that. My dad had an Eee PC, and it was an awful piece of shit, the fucker had to be formatted multiple times because it thought the volume button was always pressed, so there was a messy pop-up with the volume that appeared all of the time, and the volume had to be on max all the time. It was also laggy as hell, actually unusable. I had to use it for school for a week and it was awful, do not know how my dad resisted throwing the fucker out of the window.
I found myself a bean at goodwill a while ago, and the little boi works great, the screen is super bright and the USB ejection gimmick works perfectly. I apologize that your beaniness was not up to the standard lmao
@@joestevenson5568 When I saw the disk error message, I thought I was dead. I had one computer that did the exact same thing and it took forever to boot into Windows.
This Bean was one of my very first MP3 players, so hearing all the frustration made it hurt just a little bit. The ATRAC junk was pretty awful, but I couldn't help but love that switchblade USB. Now if you ever get a Sansa Clip or C200 in your nugget pulls and hate those, I'll have words!
I think all the beans' screens are so dim are because of the OLED screens having severely degraded after a decade and a half, no matter in the package unopened or out in use.
I was under the impression they only degraded during use, but yeah, I think you're right. My dad had a Sony "MP3" player from the same era with a blue OLED screen (same garbage software, but his wasn't a bean…it looked more like a chonky thumb drive) and I remember the screen being very vivid and easy to see.
Yeah, OLED was known for that - especially the early version of the tech. Is why I never cared about the new OLED revolution. Why do I want a screen that will fad in a few years?
Makes me think of the MZ-RH1, a super fancy hi-md minidisc player, goes for over a thousand dollars on the internet, and is guaranteed to have either a dead OLED screen or one that will die soon.
The Bean was, in fact, my first MP3 player (and my mom's too). For listening to some Bon Jovi and AC/DC on the school bus in middle school or walking around the neighborhood for exercise (her use), it was perfect. The software wasn't that bad, all things considered. The problem is that the rail pin (for lack of a better term) was held in with glue and that glue wore down. I was a kid and didn't have super glue, so I couldn't fix mine. Also that CHKDSK thing could be turned off via a command line string.
i love this once you got to the software part. what you forgot is in this era we were like, Jedi masters of knowing what parts to do and what parts to skip. if you bothered to read all the boring shit you could have saved some pain but truly it's just that we've lost the skills from that time
It being so dim is a problem of the old OLED screen tech, it was such an early iteration of them, that a lot of them from that period degraded to being unusable in about 10 years.
I like how he kept the crumbs under the protective plastic of the CD drive from the previous episode when he used it. I’m simultaneously impressed by your dedication and disgusted. Never change, Dank!
@@spqr528 can't say I've ever had an ex cheat on me (that I know of anyway), but you don't get over your feelings just because someone does something bad to you, you have that duality of hate and love at the same time
6:10 Hey man the Eee PC was really meant as a bottom of the barrel total bargain bin netbook of a laptop, just because it was made in 2007 doesn't mean it's any faster than the average desktop from 1997. Windows is only running Scandisk because it was shut down improperly, you probably held the power button or something last time and it's just making sure it hasn't lost any data. It keeps complaining about your resolution because it's set super low and Windows is pretty sure that is useless... Windows XP is perfectly safe to put on the internet. Where you start getting into trouble is if you have personal information on it.
@@FlappyPoosay Yeah, it's lucky for the bean because if you watch other videos with low quality music players like the batman one, the "biggest companies make the worst junk", the legopod you can hear him explaining how wasteful it is just to manufacture these music players that no one bought them.
ATRAC3plus was the SONY-designed format for later models of MiniDisc, and all the SonicStage stuff was also used for MiniDisc stuff, in case anyone was wondering :)
It was actually a good codec, far better than MP3. Too bad it was proprietary, and until the FFMPEG devs reverse engineered it you couldn't even decode it without Sony's SonicStage shitware. It was used in far more products than minidisc, I had a discman with Atrac3plus support and you could put hours of music on one CD at crazy low bitrates and it sounded really good.
@@irtbmtind89 good thing OGG vorbis and now Opus have done just that whilst also being open standards. I wish we now had an open form of something like DSD. Sony's audio codecs are really good but it sucks that they're so paranoid of bootleging they lock them down to high hell
@@ronsis2002 Very typical Sony, they had some of the best R&D and engineering capabilities in the world (in the early 00s arguably better than apple) and pissed it away with bad management decisions.
I think the volume controls being 'left/right' was a deliberate design choice - if you hold the bean in one hand, it actually turns the volume into 'up/down'.
@@HappyBeezerStudios When it's stuffed in your pocket, you won't need to. Just read it once and you won't even need to remember because the design it totally intuitive. The 'top' of the device is where your thumb would naturally rest, and the intuitive 'up/down' rocking position makes total sense. Basically doesn't need any explanation. It's ergonomically genius.
I can’t believe you didn’t find a way to connect the beans earbuds to the bean. I know it doesn’t have Bluetooth but there are Bluetooth dongles for TV’s that would make it work 😂
I'd kill for a premium version of this sweet bean with like a oled screen, gold plated type-c usb, brushed aluminium body and all. It would be a true piece of art.
Man, those headphones are a walk down memory lane. I bought those style of headphones separately for my iPod and they were my headphones for university for quite some time. Always despised the white colour scheme, they ran into the exact same problem Apple did with their stock headphones in that they turned greasy and dirty within _days_ of using them. I think I still have the Atrac3Plus software CD too! (came with my Discman). Ended up redeeming the code (it was for just one song at the time) for "Save Tonight" by Eagle-Eye Cherry.
We wait for new dank pods every week. My kid and I love your enthusiasm. You should totally release your phrases as cellphone tones! I want “I found it at cashies” or “oh my pkcell” I’d pay for those!! Also you should be on cameo because as a patreon my son would love a birthday message, pretty please?! ❤️ thank you for being awesome.
That conflict of being a music publisher and wanting to lock everything down really ruined the potential of making a properly good product. Were it not for that, I feel like Sony had the capability of making something that was actually better than any iPod.
I still shudder thinking back to "MagicGate" and the length Sony went trying to make their memory stick the next flash storage after CF. Hint: They were the only ones using it, and the card from your sony camera only worked in sony cameras and nothing else
My old Walkman I had was that, you could just drag and drop music onto it, and it was an awesome little player, like tiny, really thin, the only drawback was it was 8Gb and you couldn't put an SD card in it. But actually a decent player audio quality wise, and it had a 5 band EQ which was nice
@@Booba-Fett I don't mean the format itself just that everyone else was using compact flash, or at that time mostly SD cards, but Sony had to do their own thing
This was my first mp3 player, so I kinda got emotional watching the video hahahaha I loved it so much. Simpler times when most of my friends only had access to those USB looking ones. I was the cool kid thanks to a relative bringing me this as a gift from the US. My bean was a total trooper, surviving half of his life without the main button. Since most kids in my school didn't have mp3 players, mine kinda became communal, going around my friends between classes.
I'd love to see like 20 fold out tables in the warehouse with all the official nuggets all lined up in chronological order on a big long time line! I think it'd be quite a feat just to see the nugget realm all laid out like that, and to watch the evolution of nuggets over the years
@@atomnater those are mostly the ugg nuggs, the Chinese knockoffs and stuff. If you're a patreon supporter, he has a video about his "nugget realm", which has hundreds of pods in it, and he even has it sorted by brand. Sony, Apple, Philips, Craig, ect.
i love the solid half-second every time you start playing the drums that i forget it's actually you on the drums and think we're just getting an energetic interlude before something abysmal happens
I liked that Sony did that. It always felt more grown-up or refined than some of the weird names other companies used. Not much different than how many luxury automakers don't use 'names' for their models. Probably why Sony did it.
The names of planets are like your address, the astronomers sectors the pictures that telescopes take, and then separate star system with different sets of numbers and letters, and then use - plus a letter to represent the location of the planets in that star system.
The funny part is that they actually still make an "evolved" version of those earbuds (although they have smaller stems), they are called the Sony MDR-E9LP and judging from how you described the ones included here they should be basically the same considering they seem to have the same driver diffusers, have the same specifications and they are quite midsy just like you described these. Interestingly it also seems to be the only pair of wired earphones (So, not IEMs) Sony still sells today.
@@eypfrkoksz Those were the earbuds of my childhood pretty much, I wouldn't say I loved them even at the time since they are definitely in the "midsy" category.
I swear the original PSP ones were similar, if not the same (but branded for the PSP), and I also swear they were better then that era Apple buds. I'm guessing they're just a generic Sony parts bin thing.
I had the black/grey bean and I freaking loved that thing. The headphones were actually pretty solid. As for the usb, I actually truly never had an issue with mine. The software was a pain in the butt, however, there was an easier workaround than Apple for sure to download pirated files.
SonicStage needs an internet connection in order to access the Gracenote database - it also converts the files into a format that is readable by Sony - but are incomprehensible gibberish - hexadecimal numbers, rather than names! My first ever MP3 player was a Sony - pretty good tech, I thought, at the time - you can even play the music files in SonicStage and create playlists!
I used to watch Mr.Bean's Holiday on my Sony PSP a lot back in 2009. So yeah, seeing Sony AND bean in the thumbnail kinda unlocks a fond chuckle worthy memory in my head there a bit.
We want a video on the best of ChiFi and what they have to offer you've spoke about the KZ ZSN Pro X, & The KBear KS2 but we want a proper auzzie, Western shoot out on ChiFi Audio the good the bad and the ugly....
Let's be honest. The eeepc was NEVER good, even when it came out it was sold as "portable" not as "fast". That being said, the Sony software is absolutely trash.
I swear to god that Dank Pods is literally a god looking after us by uploading the right videos for when we are feeling like absolute shit and i cant thank him enough.
You should do a video on the split in half speaker I believe it’s called the commuter 2 by kove I would love to get a review on it by someone I trust plus it’s on sale right now like 67% off usually it’s 250 freedom eagles right now it’s like 70
And the companies wondered why everyone turned to piracy at the time. The simple fact was that there were so many bits of rubbish proprietary software like this that no one could work it all out - make something complicated and people won't use it, make them pay for such rubbish and they will instead find something else, legal or not. Great and funny video as ever.
Blame Shawn Fanning. If it weren't for him, history would have turned out VERY different. Where is he now? Who knows. Just a throw away joke in The Italian Job.
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates" - Gabe Newell And he was right. Just look at how it went with video streaming. The time services came around that gave easy subscriptions to their entire catalog 24/7 at high quality, people used that, because it was better than some low quality rips elsewhere. Well until everyone thought it would be great to make their own streaming service to fragment the market. Now it's back to the seas
I remember having one of these nuggets as a kid and it was the best thing ever, but I lost it and I could never find it. But last year I found it in my parent’s couch while cleaning, and I charged it and turned it on. Oh boy it was absolute garbage😂
@@williamg209two well they split up their divisions ages ago, that’s how come the AUS one can still exist. But they all started together, the British, the American, and the Australian.
@@shadowthefurryscientist Windows 8 is literally just Windows 7 with some tablet snazz stuck on it. OpenShell will get rid of it and turn it into an actually good and usable OS
3:49 Fun fact: Sony also placed rootkits into millions of music cds published under their BMG label to prevent people from ripping mp3 files off of the discs. This was back in the early 2000s when people were using Napster and Kazaa to share music.
Sony really has a twisted gift in naming their stuff. I mean, some of their products carry the same exact name since 1995 and others are like a Word Twister session gone horribly awry.
Well, if you make as many products as they do, you don't exactly have the luxury of naming everything with what part of the year it was made and confusing the hell out of people when you should just be using a damn model number. I much prefer Sony's specific names to Apple's mushy generic nonsense which requires you to type a serial number in a website to know what you REALLY have on your hands. Much better. Yeah.
@@User0000000000000004 to me they just lack creativity. that's not really an excuse to name something with a friggin social security number. if I say, "EeePC", people immediately know what I'm talking about. M1 is another example. I know what it is. I used 5 letters in the first example (3 of which were the same, and one after the other) and in the second I used a letter and a number. if you can't see what's behind the name, because the name took all your mental effort to be processed, then you're going to forget what the thing does more easily, or hate it because the name was abysmally created.
Sony naming scheme has probably saved them billions at this point. No need to keep meeting/discussing/reviewing potential marketable names, just slap the internal naming system on it and call it a day.
I actually have a couple of retro pc’s with Windows 98 and XP, they’re connected to the internet and have zero issues lol if you don’t download crap you’ll be alright
Oh. My. Fucking. GOD! How the fuck come, this doesn't have more likes than it does now? A lot of people don't get it. You only get threats if you download something stupid. Microsoft claims that if you don't upgrade, you fall more susceptible to threats, when really, they have been using their end of support as a scare tactic.
I run a workstation with a modified Windows 8.1 Pro install with zero updates applied to it. Also have a Windows 7 Pro laptop that I use once in a while. No problems with either, and I think it's been over 8 years since I got ANY kind of malware. (BIG CAVEAT: IF YOU'RE RUNNING AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM, IT MUST BE KEPT SECURE AND FULLY UPDATED AT ALL TIMES) Keep regular backups, always be suspicious of links in emails, and scan every shady executable using VirusTotal. And finally, just don't be stupid. Even with a Windows 10 PC fully updated, it can still be compromised if you're a dumbass. Microsoft tries to make everyone think nowadays that if you don't get the latest updates for every single one of your Windows PCs, they'll explode. Oh, and finally, the ironic thing is, really old Windows OSes like XP and 98 SE are technically more secure than later versions because barely anyone's running that OS anymore so malware writers are not gonna target it nearly as much and are instead gonna focus on OSes with lots of marketshare.
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting you could when these were new too. The N96 screens are also all dim today. I’d be surprised if the New Switch doesn’t go the same way in 15 years.
@@captinsparklezremix Video spammers/self advertisers have really taken off these last few weeks havent they? ... Dont remember it being THIS bad a few months ago but now you just see at least one on ANY (semi-)popular video on almost every single comment...
ATRAC3 was Sony's own codec used for a short time, it never took off, and it's so obscure it can be used by just *one* 3rd party program afaik. and i checked because the PSP uses it in its games' preview jingles. making one was a pain.
I know the Famous Toledo scissors are deeply beloved by everyone, but if you want reduced agony with dealing with the packaging everyone hates... TIN SNIPS! they go though that crap like it was used bum wipe! I buy friends tin snips as gifts so their lives can be improved by having tin snips too hand when things need opening!
I’m waiting for someone to tell him to use a can opener for it. That’s what I used to use since a walk to the kitchen is faster than a walk to the garage and can openers work just as good/preserve the packaging better
I never had actual info they could steam nor i cared if my pc was a zombie for ddos attacks or whatever so security was irrelevant for me, thats why i can see it with nostalgia
XP had the benefit of being supported during a long time in which hardware advanced substantially but the OS wasn't destroyed by trying to look hip and modern. In some way it just worked.
I used a different Sony player back in the day and, yep, SonicStage was like that all along. Slightly less inscrutable with a higher resolution though. And it was alright at ripping CDs. But when I used iTunes I was like “oh this is what it’s trying to be”. I never ever touched the online music store, nor its transcoding capabilities (ATRAC is what MDs used, so of course Sony utilised it in their players even though they knew they had to have MP3 and WMA and AAC support as well), nor any of that stuff. It was just a puffed-up file browser I had to use and which made the players unusable on Macs.
it's actually really annoying to me that he refuses to read the instructions, it literally says on the popup and he instantly jumps to conclusions, just like come on dude it's the same as apple with the instructions
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WHY does Sony insist on naming all their stuff like it’s Armored Core parts.
Now that's a classic game :) I never played it myself but enjoyed watching my siblings have at it.
LMAOOOOO
Drives me mad
Who needs a name when you have a sku lmao.
Underrated comment.
I feel so bad for the Eee PC. It screams so often just asking for the display resolution to be fixed but Dank just closes all the popups instead of fixing the problem the popups are trying to help him to solve.
Windows XP is the real OG.
Screaming at the popups is part of his schtick.
And that’s just cos he’s busy. He knows the things really.
But the scary thing is most people really do approach computers that way. A message is the problem, closing it makes the problem go away.
I feel good about that. My dad had an Eee PC, and it was an awful piece of shit, the fucker had to be formatted multiple times because it thought the volume button was always pressed, so there was a messy pop-up with the volume that appeared all of the time, and the volume had to be on max all the time. It was also laggy as hell, actually unusable. I had to use it for school for a week and it was awful, do not know how my dad resisted throwing the fucker out of the window.
@@kuba__ prolly thought that was as good as technology gets
I found myself a bean at goodwill a while ago, and the little boi works great, the screen is super bright and the USB ejection gimmick works perfectly. I apologize that your beaniness was not up to the standard lmao
gay
@@AR15andGOD seems your beaniness isnt up to standard
@@AR15andGODhow
@@AR15andGOD gay is good
Good to know Sony has always kept on point with their catchy names for so long.
@@AnonymousGentooman I can see that, actual
At least for the cameras they use the “Alpha” name instead of “ILCE-7M3” in their marketing.
Except for the Playstation, what a boring name /s
Sony wh1000xm4 is shivering in the corner after all this
@Al the Hippie Dude people always ask me what headphones I recommend as the audio friend and it pains me whenever I have to verbalize thier name
I remember when Dankpods first pulled the bean out during the Nugget Lucky Dip 2, ah such good memories
The bean
A true classic
Fun fact:
In the 90s sony actually released a product they called a bean, It was a cassette walkman.
Samsung:
Sony: It's bean done, mate.
a real human bean
It's bean too long since I've laughed
What is the name of Samsung's bean shaped audio thingamajig?
@@user-nd7rg5er5g Galaxy Buds Live
I hate you but love it at the same time
Windows: desperately trying to tell Wade his screen resolution is wrong
Wade: NO STOP WITH THE POPUPS
For real. Also it desperately running chkdsk every time it boots in what is probably a heroic effort to keep the Eee PC alive
@@joestevenson5568 When I saw the disk error message, I thought I was dead. I had one computer that did the exact same thing and it took forever to boot into Windows.
Imagine using a 14-year-old laptop and having everything go wrong and think it's Windows' fault
@@riponrip4574 can't you write one comment
@@riponrip4574 at least I can copy shit in the background.
This Bean was one of my very first MP3 players, so hearing all the frustration made it hurt just a little bit. The ATRAC junk was pretty awful, but I couldn't help but love that switchblade USB. Now if you ever get a Sansa Clip or C200 in your nugget pulls and hate those, I'll have words!
“A BRAND NEW BEAN”- my favourite line
Same, and now anytime I buy anything new, I sing his version as well.
Yes
@Lotus bruh 😂
-Kurt Cobain 92
I'm your 1000th like
I think all the beans' screens are so dim are because of the OLED screens having severely degraded after a decade and a half, no matter in the package unopened or out in use.
I was under the impression they only degraded during use, but yeah, I think you're right.
My dad had a Sony "MP3" player from the same era with a blue OLED screen (same garbage software, but his wasn't a bean…it looked more like a chonky thumb drive) and I remember the screen being very vivid and easy to see.
Yeah, OLED was known for that - especially the early version of the tech. Is why I never cared about the new OLED revolution. Why do I want a screen that will fad in a few years?
My silver Sansa Clip V1 screen is still alive and kicking bright. I'm guessing the varying quality is from where Sony sourced their screen.
Makes me think of the MZ-RH1, a super fancy hi-md minidisc player, goes for over a thousand dollars on the internet, and is guaranteed to have either a dead OLED screen or one that will die soon.
@@Poorgeniu5 yes, like the "varying quality" from,,, say,,, every single other part of the god damn dingus. Big companies make bigger trash
The Bean was, in fact, my first MP3 player (and my mom's too). For listening to some Bon Jovi and AC/DC on the school bus in middle school or walking around the neighborhood for exercise (her use), it was perfect. The software wasn't that bad, all things considered. The problem is that the rail pin (for lack of a better term) was held in with glue and that glue wore down. I was a kid and didn't have super glue, so I couldn't fix mine.
Also that CHKDSK thing could be turned off via a command line string.
"SHE WOKE UP FROM HER COMA! JUST IN TIME FOR THE BEAN"
That's a sentence I never thought I'd hear someone say
Maybe you’d hear it from someone on May 15th, 2006 in Chicago
@@asamyers4572 wait what
@Josh the Joshey Boii no
@@Ludwig_Perpenhente you'd here it from someone on May 15th, 2006 in Chicago
Sony Walkman is bombed already
I love how the bag has a recycling sign. Probably should happen to most of these players.
@Lotus respect
probably before they all melt back into the goop they all were made from
that's just all the new Woolies bags. I'm not sure if any still use the non recyclable bags, haven't seen them in a long time.
@Lotus holy shit there are even link spammers on this fucking channel???
First they get the 1 grit, then they get recycled.
i love this once you got to the software part. what you forgot is in this era we were like, Jedi masters of knowing what parts to do and what parts to skip. if you bothered to read all the boring shit you could have saved some pain but truly it's just that we've lost the skills from that time
It being so dim is a problem of the old OLED screen tech, it was such an early iteration of them, that a lot of them from that period degraded to being unusable in about 10 years.
It's so organic it died of old age
Yes i remember mine being quite bright and vivid.
@@umersalman1 Exactly! When I got my Sony bean back then, the screen was really bright and clear.
@@RiderLeangle2 Good joke.
I’m still using one, and it hasn’t dimmed at all.
I like how he kept the crumbs under the protective plastic of the CD drive from the previous episode when he used it. I’m simultaneously impressed by your dedication and disgusted. Never change, Dank!
that's why it's dankpods not rankpods
Endless dedication to the Dank Cinematic Universe
4:34 perfectly cut scream
*4:40
@@gabe_itch640**4:41
'SHE WOKE UP FROM A COMA, just in time for the bean' I will only die happy if I end up in a situation that requires this sentence.
Brand new sentence
“shut up” “it’s nice to hear you again”… it’s like talking to an old girlfriend that cheated on you…
What? Like, why?
@@spqr528 can't say I've ever had an ex cheat on me (that I know of anyway), but you don't get over your feelings just because someone does something bad to you, you have that duality of hate and love at the same time
I would like to go back to the times where that joke was not relatable to me please
Imagine being attractive enough to date
"I just like both of you" I don't understand women
6:10 Hey man the Eee PC was really meant as a bottom of the barrel total bargain bin netbook of a laptop, just because it was made in 2007 doesn't mean it's any faster than the average desktop from 1997.
Windows is only running Scandisk because it was shut down improperly, you probably held the power button or something last time and it's just making sure it hasn't lost any data.
It keeps complaining about your resolution because it's set super low and Windows is pretty sure that is useless...
Windows XP is perfectly safe to put on the internet. Where you start getting into trouble is if you have personal information on it.
Idk, windows, especially older windows is NOT safe on the web, also what are you gonna use Internet Explorer 5?
@@riponrip4574 Mypal is a firefox based browser that is fully updated in 2022 to work on XP
@@riponrip4574 Internet Explorer 6*
At least the package was full of things rather than just empty space.
@@FlappyPoosay Yeah, it's lucky for the bean because if you watch other videos with low quality music players like the batman one, the "biggest companies make the worst junk", the legopod you can hear him explaining how wasteful it is just to manufacture these music players that no one bought them.
ATRAC3plus was the SONY-designed format for later models of MiniDisc, and all the SonicStage stuff was also used for MiniDisc stuff, in case anyone was wondering :)
Wade needs to brush-up on his Techmoan lore, the mechanical nuggets came first
It was actually a good codec, far better than MP3. Too bad it was proprietary, and until the FFMPEG devs reverse engineered it you couldn't even decode it without Sony's SonicStage shitware. It was used in far more products than minidisc, I had a discman with Atrac3plus support and you could put hours of music on one CD at crazy low bitrates and it sounded really good.
@@irtbmtind89 good thing OGG vorbis and now Opus have done just that whilst also being open standards. I wish we now had an open form of something like DSD. Sony's audio codecs are really good but it sucks that they're so paranoid of bootleging they lock them down to high hell
@@irtbmtind89 It really is, I use it for my minidisc recordings and it sounds almost identical to Flac
@@ronsis2002 Very typical Sony, they had some of the best R&D and engineering capabilities in the world (in the early 00s arguably better than apple) and pissed it away with bad management decisions.
1:26 that's not a pop tart that's a Chord Mojo armed to blow up nugget phones
The mojo2
I think the volume controls being 'left/right' was a deliberate design choice - if you hold the bean in one hand, it actually turns the volume into 'up/down'.
But then you can't read the text
@@HappyBeezerStudios When it's stuffed in your pocket, you won't need to.
Just read it once and you won't even need to remember because the design it totally intuitive.
The 'top' of the device is where your thumb would naturally rest, and the intuitive 'up/down' rocking position makes total sense.
Basically doesn't need any explanation.
It's ergonomically genius.
truly genius design
I can’t believe you didn’t find a way to connect the beans earbuds to the bean. I know it doesn’t have Bluetooth but there are Bluetooth dongles for TV’s that would make it work 😂
7:03 that was the most ageessive "oh my pkcell" in the history
There will be more aggressive "OH MY PCKCELL!!" when Frank poos in his studio and the nuggets won't work 😂🐍💩
I've legit heard him say it in much more aggressive ways, and it's hilarious
I'd kill for a premium version of this sweet bean with like a oled screen, gold plated type-c usb, brushed aluminium body and all. It would be a true piece of art.
this, plus drag and drop
Usbean
that's an Ipod
@@Storemotor73 are ipods bean shaped? I think not
It already had an OLED screen, just black and white and low resolution and now faded to all heck :P
As A Malaysian, seeing "MADE IN MALAYSIA" in 8:40 makes me feel proud of my country 🤣
"Remember to use your head when you use your headset."
I'm ded. I've died.
Omg u dieded!
they dye ☹☹☹
The dead.
Rip kris
Are you still dead?
Remember when Sony thought rootkitting your PC was a valid sacrifice to Stop music piracy?
imagine putting malware in your pc to stop "Piracy"
Sure do, kept my PC bluescreening for months!
Man, those headphones are a walk down memory lane. I bought those style of headphones separately for my iPod and they were my headphones for university for quite some time. Always despised the white colour scheme, they ran into the exact same problem Apple did with their stock headphones in that they turned greasy and dirty within _days_ of using them.
I think I still have the Atrac3Plus software CD too! (came with my Discman). Ended up redeeming the code (it was for just one song at the time) for "Save Tonight" by Eagle-Eye Cherry.
We wait for new dank pods every week. My kid and I love your enthusiasm. You should totally release your phrases as cellphone tones! I want “I found it at cashies” or “oh my pkcell” I’d pay for those!! Also you should be on cameo because as a patreon my son would love a birthday message, pretty please?! ❤️ thank you for being awesome.
Thats so cute
I think you can just clip them and extract as audio (provided you can find the videos where they're from)
@@littleswansplaygrownd6817 it would have compression issues cause RUclips caps sound quality at 256kpbs
That conflict of being a music publisher and wanting to lock everything down really ruined the potential of making a properly good product. Were it not for that, I feel like Sony had the capability of making something that was actually better than any iPod.
I still shudder thinking back to "MagicGate" and the length Sony went trying to make their memory stick the next flash storage after CF. Hint: They were the only ones using it, and the card from your sony camera only worked in sony cameras and nothing else
My old Walkman I had was that, you could just drag and drop music onto it, and it was an awesome little player, like tiny, really thin, the only drawback was it was 8Gb and you couldn't put an SD card in it. But actually a decent player audio quality wise, and it had a 5 band EQ which was nice
@@HappyBeezerStudios PSP also had a proprietary memory card too, it wasnt a bad card but not a good thing
@@Booba-Fett I don't mean the format itself just that everyone else was using compact flash, or at that time mostly SD cards, but Sony had to do their own thing
@@HappyBeezerStudios Yeah PSP used magicgate cards too
This was my first mp3 player, so I kinda got emotional watching the video hahahaha
I loved it so much. Simpler times when most of my friends only had access to those USB looking ones. I was the cool kid thanks to a relative bringing me this as a gift from the US. My bean was a total trooper, surviving half of his life without the main button. Since most kids in my school didn't have mp3 players, mine kinda became communal, going around my friends between classes.
I'd love to see like 20 fold out tables in the warehouse with all the official nuggets all lined up in chronological order on a big long time line!
I think it'd be quite a feat just to see the nugget realm all laid out like that, and to watch the evolution of nuggets over the years
Yeah only problem is 90% of his leftover nugs have had a face off with mr grit
@@atomnater and lost
then he throws everything back to single bag without care
@@atomnater those are mostly the ugg nuggs, the Chinese knockoffs and stuff. If you're a patreon supporter, he has a video about his "nugget realm", which has hundreds of pods in it, and he even has it sorted by brand. Sony, Apple, Philips, Craig, ect.
@@g4mmalotus937 haha yeah I know it twas but a funny haha, I think he said he planned on doing a patreon video like that
Speaker: "Bluetooth mode"
Dank : "SHUT UP.......... Was nice hearing you again"
Tsundere
3:56 the hollow parts of the box showing the green ipad from underneath looks like a top view of a T-Posing Shrek 😂
i love the solid half-second every time you start playing the drums that i forget it's actually you on the drums and think we're just getting an energetic interlude before something abysmal happens
"ATRAC" was the compression algorithm used in Sony's digital cassette.
Oh hey Priz. It's Dalek from the c418 server lol.
And MiniDisc!
It stood for adaptive transform acoustic coding.
And PSP/PS3/PS4
i had a mini disc player that used it . could cram it FUUUULLLLL of stuff. think i got my entire cd library on one disc
The oled display burns out very quick, that's why the screen was dim
Sony really names all their stuff like freaking Planets
“if you look in the night sky at 11pm you’ll see 26W-Rex5, it’s near Mars.”
That sounds like Elon musk’s second child
And next to jupiter there is wf1000xm3
And right above Neptune you can say ie9skl38ials
I liked that Sony did that. It always felt more grown-up or refined than some of the weird names other companies used.
Not much different than how many luxury automakers don't use 'names' for their models. Probably why Sony did it.
The names of planets are like your address, the astronomers sectors the pictures that telescopes take, and then separate star system with different sets of numbers and letters, and then use - plus a letter to represent the location of the planets in that star system.
The funny part is that they actually still make an "evolved" version of those earbuds (although they have smaller stems), they are called the Sony MDR-E9LP and judging from how you described the ones included here they should be basically the same considering they seem to have the same driver diffusers, have the same specifications and they are quite midsy just like you described these.
Interestingly it also seems to be the only pair of wired earphones (So, not IEMs) Sony still sells today.
I actually had a pair of those and they are total wacks to be fair... can't believe I somehow got through for a year or so with those
I was using them for 4 years... I loved them, then they died.
@@eypfrkoksz Those were the earbuds of my childhood pretty much, I wouldn't say I loved them even at the time since they are definitely in the "midsy" category.
Love how the package says "Fashion Earbuds" lmao
I swear the original PSP ones were similar, if not the same (but branded for the PSP), and I also swear they were better then that era Apple buds. I'm guessing they're just a generic Sony parts bin thing.
The first time I saw Sony’s BEANS the first thing I thought was BEANS (:
" SHE WOKE UP FROMA COMA JUST FOR THE BEAN!" classic
Apple: We make our iPods perfectly engineered.
Sony: BEAN
Samsung: That idea's awful, but we're gonna steal it anyway...
@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 Samsung after seeing Apple remove the headphone jack and charger
I had the black/grey bean and I freaking loved that thing. The headphones were actually pretty solid. As for the usb, I actually truly never had an issue with mine. The software was a pain in the butt, however, there was an easier workaround than Apple for sure to download pirated files.
"She woke up from her coma just in time for the bean."
Am I allowed to watch this without my parents?
She woke up for deez nuts 😳
Fun fact: The ones you have are "Cotton candy" and "Licorice" flavored.
Source: Wikipedia
Atrac3Plus is that Format that Sony used for its Minidiscs. .ac3 for short, basically Sony's answer to the WMA format.
"Oma" is German for Granny. So those are granny-files.
You dont want to see those. :D
@@soundologe Meh, there's a market for everything!
SonicStage needs an internet connection in order to access the Gracenote database - it also converts the files into a format that is readable by Sony - but are incomprehensible gibberish - hexadecimal numbers, rather than names! My first ever MP3 player was a Sony - pretty good tech, I thought, at the time - you can even play the music files in SonicStage and create playlists!
@@drekipookiebear lol stfu man’s is just explaining how to access the ancient nug maybe dank wanted to access it just let him explain it without hate
fun fact: Oma might be a data format but its also German for "Granny"
I used to have the beans sony walkman when I was like 9 years old 😂 Ah... memories~
Was the screen that dimm?
I throwed my dad's Walkman from 2nd floor.
@@WarriorRev6300 omg really 😂😂
@@Plagolago64 yeah, to see whats inside😂😅
@@WarriorRev6300 THATS AWESOME LMAO
I used to watch Mr.Bean's Holiday on my Sony PSP a lot back in 2009. So yeah, seeing Sony AND bean in the thumbnail kinda unlocks a fond chuckle worthy memory in my head there a bit.
huh
Yoooo the PSP. Weirdly, the only movies i had on that were Labyrinth and Anaconda.
We want a video on the best of ChiFi and what they have to offer you've spoke about the KZ ZSN Pro X, & The KBear KS2 but we want a proper auzzie, Western shoot out on ChiFi Audio the good the bad and the ugly....
9:10 "She woke up from her coma just in time for the bean" This would be great out of context
Your inner Ashens is really showing thru in this video and I absolutely love it!
4:40 "When in danger, the" dankus australis" makes a loud and distinct noise, what a magnificent creature!"
Australis Dankpodius
Let's be honest. The eeepc was NEVER good, even when it came out it was sold as "portable" not as "fast". That being said, the Sony software is absolutely trash.
0:31 THE BEAN
I swear to god that Dank Pods is literally a god looking after us by uploading the right videos for when we are feeling like absolute shit and i cant thank him enough.
Yknow what actually true
Dankman: "WHY IS EVERYTHING BREAKING?!"
Also Dankman: 9:40
@DylanJ11 wade
You should do a video on the split in half speaker I believe it’s called the commuter 2 by kove I would love to get a review on it by someone I trust plus it’s on sale right now like 67% off usually it’s 250 freedom eagles right now it’s like 70
And the companies wondered why everyone turned to piracy at the time. The simple fact was that there were so many bits of rubbish proprietary software like this that no one could work it all out - make something complicated and people won't use it, make them pay for such rubbish and they will instead find something else, legal or not. Great and funny video as ever.
Blame Shawn Fanning. If it weren't for him, history would have turned out VERY different. Where is he now? Who knows. Just a throw away joke in The Italian Job.
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates" - Gabe Newell
And he was right. Just look at how it went with video streaming. The time services came around that gave easy subscriptions to their entire catalog 24/7 at high quality, people used that, because it was better than some low quality rips elsewhere.
Well until everyone thought it would be great to make their own streaming service to fragment the market. Now it's back to the seas
It’s my birthday and I literally put the party on hold to watch this
Happy birthday!! Hope it’s a good one!
@@jillrosenbaum tysm yeah it’s good so far
@@junoantaresofficial thank you!
I remember having one of these nuggets as a kid and it was the best thing ever, but I lost it and I could never find it. But last year I found it in my parent’s couch while cleaning, and I charged it and turned it on. Oh boy it was absolute garbage😂
As a Brit I miss Woolies everyday.
not the same bloody company as woolworths in uk
Are we talking about the same Woolworth's that released those furry Olympic mascots for 2020?
@@williamg209two well they split up their divisions ages ago, that’s how come the AUS one can still exist. But they all started together, the British, the American, and the Australian.
I feel like everytime Dankpods says he doesn't like windows I imagine him punching windows xp trying to make it work and that's why he hates it
He also had many issues with windows 10 being weird
he also hates windows 8, like every single person on the planet.
@@shadowthefurryscientist Windows 8 is literally just Windows 7 with some tablet snazz stuck on it. OpenShell will get rid of it and turn it into an actually good and usable OS
He hates everything not made by apple
I love going to a store and asking "hey do you guys have the Sony dfshz43245indfs773293;,d,k/CKK in stock?"
3:49 Fun fact: Sony also placed rootkits into millions of music cds published under their BMG label to prevent people from ripping mp3 files off of the discs. This was back in the early 2000s when people were using Napster and Kazaa to share music.
Now they include a free windows file with every torrent
but.... they BOUGHT it
Dank: I STARTED FILMING 30 MINUTES AGO.
Nilered: *laughs in 40 day project.*
noah caldwell gervais and Joseph Anderson would like to have a word... or 15,000
@@LoFi_Punk Joseph is still working on the W3 video.....It's been, uh, a while.
11:17 the "MIDI" thousands
Aw man, I'm super sick right now and this is exactly what I needed.
hey man get better
@@x2vx2v thx
Hope your feeling better soon!
Same man, I got sick from my mom, should be losing my taste and smell any day now.
Beana
Sony really has a twisted gift in naming their stuff. I mean, some of their products carry the same exact name since 1995 and others are like a Word Twister session gone horribly awry.
Well, if you make as many products as they do, you don't exactly have the luxury of naming everything with what part of the year it was made and confusing the hell out of people when you should just be using a damn model number. I much prefer Sony's specific names to Apple's mushy generic nonsense which requires you to type a serial number in a website to know what you REALLY have on your hands. Much better. Yeah.
@@User0000000000000004 to me they just lack creativity. that's not really an excuse to name something with a friggin social security number.
if I say, "EeePC", people immediately know what I'm talking about. M1 is another example. I know what it is. I used 5 letters in the first example (3 of which were the same, and one after the other) and in the second I used a letter and a number.
if you can't see what's behind the name, because the name took all your mental effort to be processed, then you're going to forget what the thing does more easily, or hate it because the name was abysmally created.
Sony naming scheme has probably saved them billions at this point. No need to keep meeting/discussing/reviewing potential marketable names, just slap the internal naming system on it and call it a day.
I actually have a couple of retro pc’s with Windows 98 and XP, they’re connected to the internet and have zero issues lol if you don’t download crap you’ll be alright
Oh. My. Fucking. GOD! How the fuck come, this doesn't have more likes than it does now? A lot of people don't get it. You only get threats if you download something stupid. Microsoft claims that if you don't upgrade, you fall more susceptible to threats, when really, they have been using their end of support as a scare tactic.
@@companionsytalt6329 consumers yeah businesses no :)
Employees could open files they receive etc
I run a workstation with a modified Windows 8.1 Pro install with zero updates applied to it. Also have a Windows 7 Pro laptop that I use once in a while. No problems with either, and I think it's been over 8 years since I got ANY kind of malware. (BIG CAVEAT: IF YOU'RE RUNNING AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM, IT MUST BE KEPT SECURE AND FULLY UPDATED AT ALL TIMES)
Keep regular backups, always be suspicious of links in emails, and scan every shady executable using VirusTotal. And finally, just don't be stupid. Even with a Windows 10 PC fully updated, it can still be compromised if you're a dumbass. Microsoft tries to make everyone think nowadays that if you don't get the latest updates for every single one of your Windows PCs, they'll explode.
Oh, and finally, the ironic thing is, really old Windows OSes like XP and 98 SE are technically more secure than later versions because barely anyone's running that OS anymore so malware writers are not gonna target it nearly as much and are instead gonna focus on OSes with lots of marketshare.
This bean has the same display as a New Switch. What an incredible little nug.
Except you can actually see what you're looking at on a New Switch.
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting Would the display button above the screen not make it light up? The one with disp/FM on it?
@@Zeon01 cycles thru the display options (progress bar, digital time readout, track info, volume meter, etc)
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting you could when these were new too. The N96 screens are also all dim today. I’d be surprised if the New Switch doesn’t go the same way in 15 years.
@@kaitlyn__L thx
The funny part about Sony's product naming is that they clearly understand it's successful when it's simple, just look at the playstation
Depression has taken over, thank you wade 4 uploading stuff that makes me laugh. Hope your having a good day
@Lotus now that you posted that crap, I'm ten times worse, thanks RUclips
@@MvsG18 what is it? I’m sure as hell not clicking on that link lmao
@@captinsparklezremix Video spammers/self advertisers have really taken off these last few weeks havent they? ... Dont remember it being THIS bad a few months ago but now you just see at least one on ANY (semi-)popular video on almost every single comment...
ATRAC3 was Sony's own codec used for a short time, it never took off, and it's so obscure it can be used by just *one* 3rd party program afaik. and i checked because the PSP uses it in its games' preview jingles. making one was a pain.
The main use of ATRAC3 was MiniDisc
@@danieldaniels7571 minidisc gang rise up
@@samuelg7673 Hell yeah! I’m still using my MiniDiscs to this day. Most underrated physical media format ever!
Well your definition of a short time is not the same as mine as ATRAC was used in MiniDiscs for 20 years.
@@danieldaniels7571 It isn't a requirement to be proficient with a spudger to replace the batteries in a MiniDisc either.
9:45 the way he says "shut up" 🤣
If James can make a Bluetooth iPod, he can make a bean receiver so you can listen to your bean with your beans...
Samsung has the beans, Sony has the bean, all we need is for apple to make half a bean and it will be complete
Your video sent me on a rabbit hole of
Old mp3 players I remember seeing the bean from Chris browns yea music video and here you are again lol
Someone please send him a massive catering Heinz baked bean tin purely for his "bean" storage.
Keep up the amazing content 😀👍
beantage
I know the Famous Toledo scissors are deeply beloved by everyone, but if you want reduced agony with dealing with the packaging everyone hates... TIN SNIPS! they go though that crap like it was used bum wipe! I buy friends tin snips as gifts so their lives can be improved by having tin snips too hand when things need opening!
I’m waiting for someone to tell him to use a can opener for it. That’s what I used to use since a walk to the kitchen is faster than a walk to the garage and can openers work just as good/preserve the packaging better
I love how genuinely excited he is to see the text "Scarlet Fire" on a tiny, dim lit screen.
Anyone else love how the most replayed part is him getting jump scared by a bean?
Dank's relationship with the Sexy Speakers goes from fiery lovers to arguing couple on the edge of divorce in a sec.
As a computer security person, lol at all those people who (shockingly still) look back on the XP days with nostalgia.
I never had actual info they could steam nor i cared if my pc was a zombie for ddos attacks or whatever so security was irrelevant for me, thats why i can see it with nostalgia
Windows 98: "Hold my Beer".
Fuck man i loved XP 🤣😅
I still hold nostalgia for easily understood system requirements.
XP had the benefit of being supported during a long time in which hardware advanced substantially but the OS wasn't destroyed by trying to look hip and modern. In some way it just worked.
"With these dress-making scissors this is hard"
Yeah, because even though they're massive scissors, they're meant for cutting fabric, not plastic.
Nugget: 3 minutes screen time
Windows xp: 47 minutes screen time
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That's how you know a man makes good content
And apparently 1 like on this comment in less than 10 seconds. You are all insane.
@@KingofJ95 i mean I can just like my own comment as soon as I post it and call people insane
wow guys 1 like in 2 seconds ur all insane
If I had a nickel for every time I saw a bean-shaped music player, I'd have two nickels, which isn't alot but it's weird it happened twice
Sony - We like engineering so much that we replaced our marketing and legal departments with engineers. Now we have a trademark for Atrac3.
I’d rather have enginerds take over marketing than the other way round.
I used a different Sony player back in the day and, yep, SonicStage was like that all along. Slightly less inscrutable with a higher resolution though. And it was alright at ripping CDs. But when I used iTunes I was like “oh this is what it’s trying to be”. I never ever touched the online music store, nor its transcoding capabilities (ATRAC is what MDs used, so of course Sony utilised it in their players even though they knew they had to have MP3 and WMA and AAC support as well), nor any of that stuff. It was just a puffed-up file browser I had to use and which made the players unusable on Macs.
it's actually really annoying to me that he refuses to read the instructions, it literally says on the popup and he instantly jumps to conclusions, just like come on dude it's the same as apple with the instructions
Dank: I don't wanna use this ever again
Also Dank: It belongs in a museum
Those beans do be lookin like kidneys of some alchololic