Correct! USB was the only "hot swappable" interface before other connections became hot swappable! Anything before USB, you had to turn off the computer, connect it, turn on the computer, maybe check the BIOS, then install the software and drivers, then reboot again, and pray it worked.
I love Wade's videos but I dont know how he doesnt know stuff like this and/or do five mins of research. I see these kind of errors in his videos a lot.
Parallel ports need to be populated before booting the PC. If you disconnect or reconnect, you have to restart the system. If anything screws up with the device, you have to restart the system. If a transfer fails, you usually have to restart the system.
@@DigitalJedi I would've never dealt with a headache like parallel if it wasn't for my external Iomega Zip drive. As soon as USB was an option, I picked up a USB Zip 250 and never looked back.
This was my first MP3 thing. Not transparent, just black. Re-encoded all my songs to 96kbs, because every kilobyte mattered, and the dirtybuds didn't know the difference. There was a format/initialise routine you needed to do, probably why it couldn't see it. Took multiple reboots. If the transfer of files got interrupted, it would brick it, required quite a chore to make work again. You jest at a whole 32mb storage, mine was maxxed out with a 64mb card. It took hours to load that thing up via LPT. And if you looked at it funny, it would corrupt, and need a full wipe, start again. But it shat all over my mates discman, it could fit in a pocket. And ran for weeks on the same battery. Went everywhere with me thru the first years of high school. Not good hardware, but I loved it dearly. Definition of a nugget right there.
This was also my first MP3 player, and I can echo most of this. I didn't have as many connection issues as I remember many people having with them, but the SmartMedia card I had was very problematic; The player was much more reliable without it, but the built-in storage was limiting.
LPT referred to the old thick long parallel port usually used by printers. It was slightly faster than serial. In other words, slow as heck by today's standards. They used them before USB came out to connect all kinds of other devices. Since they were not really designed to be plug and pray, you often had to manually adjust interrupt settings. And yes, I said plug and pray. Windows 95 was infamous for rather janky device support though, to be fair, a lot of it stemmed from the need to support legacy hardware and DOS drivers
Those classic Durasmells are the good stuff, I've found ones that expired in 2002 still going and not leaking in remotes, alarm clocks, etc. as recently as 2 years ago. Pretty sure I've still got a pack hanging out in the back of my grandma's freezer too.
Dank thank you a ton for uploading these. I was stumbling bored through your channel looking for things i hadnt watched and now there are loads more :)
The PSP-1000 was my whole media station in high school. Games music movies pictures it did it all. I loved that thing to death but I don't have it anymore. Should probably pick one up.
Ive got some kirkland batteries that expired pre 9/11 in an old kids toy of mine that atill work lol with that expiration date they're older than i am and still work right unlike me
@@seamusclarke2366 yeah especially cause they've been in a product the entire time and Kirkland batteries are known to explode even more than other brands, based on what I found online they're old enough they still have mercury in them which helps prevent the explosion by absorbing hydrogen which is what ends up causing batteries to leak once there's too much pressure built up inside
I have some Kirkland Costco batteries in my tv remote right now that expired in April 2002… found them in my camera dads stuff a couple years ago and they somehow still work and aren’t corroded it’s shocking
That's a very zoomer thing to expect a connected device to just show up as a new drive. Nah, mate, you have to start the app, and sync your files! It will be very slow too, you are looking at about an hour of syncing to fill that 32 MB! Alternatively you could put the MP3 on a 32MB XD card it you had one, that way you could transfer music even from a current system with a card reader.
Hint:LPT means Printer Port or Parallel Port. There was software to move stuff between computers without a network and the COM port was Slower than the now infamous LapLink Paralell Port connection between them. Now we have USB that 8s even faster.
Man I have MP3 player from 2007 and child me love it to death, sadly I destroy it when I accidentally drop it from a shopping mall like 2 floors above I still don’t know how my MP3 player dropped from the 2nd floor
For reference on planned obsolescence... the Bean was good for the time but died on multiple fronts, but the 35(¿) year old RIO's still work(even though it holds 8mb without the(liar) expansion card, and everything was proprietary.
D-Link was always something you buy only if you are reeeeeeally broke (otherwise there's tp-link) or need something asap and the other stores are closed. The ethernet switches are good tho
I got enlightened a while ago and started buying mikrotik products for networking stuff, love them. My router runs openwrt though as I like the customizability more
I can't tell you how many small businesses I've seen running their entire operations with D-Link routers and switches. It's a major difference when they finally get into something more serious like Mikrotik or Ubiquiti.
I pulled a kids keyboard out of a cupboard and the batts expired in 1999, but still worked! Ran for like 30 mins before passing into the great batt bin in the sky
This is what I see as the captions at 5:16. Oh! Woah! Woah! What's happening? What? Is-Is it recording? Ah! What! Wait! No, I don't understand! Wait, what's happening?! Wha!? WAHAHAHA-
I have just found my Grundig MPAxx player with its homemade (by me of course 😊) serial cable. It needs proprietary software, too. But it works even now, with my old Toshiba Libretto 50CT.
I swear to god, every single MP3 manufacturer gets exactly one thing right with their devices, only to bork everything else. D-Link managed to make one of the least convoluted button layouts with this thing, but with only 32MB (64 with expansion), a really weird UI, a completely useless software and then ditched the market entirely afterwards...
I don’t even know if we can give D-Link that much credit. I’ve seen this exact chassis show up under different company names over the years. It’s possible this is a D-Link original design that they licensed out. But I think it’s far more likely they, along with a bunch of other brands, licensed the player from a foreign manufacturer and slapped their name on it.
I bought similar MP3 player on a yard sale. At this time i want to have mp3 player so bad and im only maybe 12 YO and i dont have much money. It was branded as Universum. The problem was that i was unable to find any drivers for this dingus. I was so mad at this time.
so... I bought one. new in box. and it's not able to connect to a PC. I tried the MP3 manager software it came with and a newer version some random website had... it wasnt a good time. it connects for a few seconds then quits, then tries again, then quits. It wont even format the memory.
so theres actually a post from 2001 suggesting this is a computer specific problem. *fires up high school Celeron 300A* I was using a toshiba laptop I got from the resale shop for $20
So... like this one time... I hooked up this mp3 player from when I went to college to a computer I had when I was in highschool and it loaded mp3's just fine. So I was able to load freak on a leash using an Asus p2b motherboard with win 98SE default configuration on the Parallel port. I love my old Celery, just damn dependable.
@gugubope21 yeah ive seen it but its more of x brand has this quality and price range compared to y brand im looking for something more precise thank you for your suggestion
It will not show up as a drive. You have to use the software you installed to transfer files. Try to have everything plugged in and powered up then reboot the computer.
Yeah I had one of these when I was 12 and I could never get it to work either. So I ended up just taking it apart taking the microphone out wiring it to the hot wire of a speaker to a radio, then wired a resistor and wired it to the microphone port. Then I would just record songs off of the radio. It was really easy. And the song sounded better than anything you could get back then.
Top tip, you have to connect the MP3 player before the PC boots. That’s how parallel ports worked back in the day.
Correct! USB was the only "hot swappable" interface before other connections became hot swappable! Anything before USB, you had to turn off the computer, connect it, turn on the computer, maybe check the BIOS, then install the software and drivers, then reboot again, and pray it worked.
Good old days. :D@@graphicsgod
Along with this, the device likely won't show up as storage to windows and will require it's software to transfer files.
@@graphicsgod Not entirely correct but close enough. Firewire predates usb for example pci can technically support hotswap just to name a few.
I love Wade's videos but I dont know how he doesnt know stuff like this and/or do five mins of research. I see these kind of errors in his videos a lot.
5:14 "I simply hate it"
*Proceeds to leave this reality*
_Directed By Andrei Tarkovsky_
I liked the part where the portal opened up briefly and Wade had to close it before it was too late.
Lmao fr
Dank opened a rip in time and space powered by batts that should’ve borked the month and year I was born, those batts are the real deal
Those batteries are older than a non-insignificant chunk of people watching this XD. I was born barely 2 months before they expired XD
Im shocked how well those buds stood up to the Scarlet Firing squad 😂
Parallel ports need to be populated before booting the PC. If you disconnect or reconnect, you have to restart the system. If anything screws up with the device, you have to restart the system. If a transfer fails, you usually have to restart the system.
Makes sense, besides checking BIOS I wouldn't have guessed. I guess we take USB for granted with the vaunted Plug'n'Play
God I hated parallel back in the day. I'm so happy we can just causally have things like Thunderbolt 5 nowadays.
@@DigitalJedi I would've never dealt with a headache like parallel if it wasn't for my external Iomega Zip drive. As soon as USB was an option, I picked up a USB Zip 250 and never looked back.
"have you tried turning it off and back on again?" not a joke, a real and actual problem solving tool :D fixed like 90% of stuff back in the day
This was my first MP3 thing. Not transparent, just black. Re-encoded all my songs to 96kbs, because every kilobyte mattered, and the dirtybuds didn't know the difference. There was a format/initialise routine you needed to do, probably why it couldn't see it. Took multiple reboots. If the transfer of files got interrupted, it would brick it, required quite a chore to make work again. You jest at a whole 32mb storage, mine was maxxed out with a 64mb card. It took hours to load that thing up via LPT. And if you looked at it funny, it would corrupt, and need a full wipe, start again. But it shat all over my mates discman, it could fit in a pocket. And ran for weeks on the same battery. Went everywhere with me thru the first years of high school. Not good hardware, but I loved it dearly. Definition of a nugget right there.
how many tracks fitted on it
@@Mizaiprobly like 50ish with that sd card
@@xAlexZifkoSmartmedia, not SD card. Very fussy media to work with, prone to corruption.
This was also my first MP3 player, and I can echo most of this. I didn't have as many connection issues as I remember many people having with them, but the SmartMedia card I had was very problematic; The player was much more reliable without it, but the built-in storage was limiting.
I think the most 2000 thing ever is that the example screen in the manual shows "My Heart Will Go On" hahaha
Durasmell is truly the smell that lasts
That weird microphone bug was funny but scary
the wormhole
Portable karaoke microphone thing.
The mic was transmitting into space fr.
LPT referred to the old thick long parallel port usually used by printers. It was slightly faster than serial. In other words, slow as heck by today's standards. They used them before USB came out to connect all kinds of other devices. Since they were not really designed to be plug and pray, you often had to manually adjust interrupt settings. And yes, I said plug and pray. Windows 95 was infamous for rather janky device support though, to be fair, a lot of it stemmed from the need to support legacy hardware and DOS drivers
plug and pray 😂
@@MoisesCaster in those days, it definitely applied :) especially when a lot of the drivers were still of the legacy Windows 3.x variety
Those classic Durasmells are the good stuff, I've found ones that expired in 2002 still going and not leaking in remotes, alarm clocks, etc. as recently as 2 years ago. Pretty sure I've still got a pack hanging out in the back of my grandma's freezer too.
That mid recording surreal-out was great. Had me giggling :)
This was my first MP3 player and after more than 20 years I was able to find one, fully working and IN BOX, again :) The nostalgia
That feedback loop it was giving out sounded like something out of 1970s or 1980s Dr Who🤣
The AAA batteries got me.. i fucking dropped my drink laughing
AAAAAAA
Dank thank you a ton for uploading these. I was stumbling bored through your channel looking for things i hadnt watched and now there are loads more :)
My original PSP-1000 battery from 2005 still works flawlessly and holds a full charge, the thing refuses to die xD
The PSP-1000 was my whole media station in high school. Games music movies pictures it did it all. I loved that thing to death but I don't have it anymore. Should probably pick one up.
I converted my battery into a Pandora Battery and then it became a spicy pillow a few years later.
PSP are godtier hardware
3:35 best Duracell ad ever
The D-Link DMP-100 was actually the first MP3 player I ever bought. It cost me $100 back in 2000.
Ive got some kirkland batteries that expired pre 9/11 in an old kids toy of mine that atill work lol with that expiration date they're older than i am and still work right unlike me
That’s insane
@@seamusclarke2366 yeah especially cause they've been in a product the entire time and Kirkland batteries are known to explode even more than other brands, based on what I found online they're old enough they still have mercury in them which helps prevent the explosion by absorbing hydrogen which is what ends up causing batteries to leak once there's too much pressure built up inside
When the echoing started while he was recording, all I could think of was the second doctor regenerating
Wade has given dobby years worth of conent. Dobby is very happy.
what
harry potter is for bigots
I have some Kirkland Costco batteries in my tv remote right now that expired in April 2002… found them in my camera dads stuff a couple years ago and they somehow still work and aren’t corroded it’s shocking
That's a very zoomer thing to expect a connected device to just show up as a new drive. Nah, mate, you have to start the app, and sync your files! It will be very slow too, you are looking at about an hour of syncing to fill that 32 MB! Alternatively you could put the MP3 on a 32MB XD card it you had one, that way you could transfer music even from a current system with a card reader.
Wade still rolling that goose-egg on understanding the parallel ports of antiquity
5:18 rare footage of DankPods being sucked into the void of nuggets
Happy new year Dankpods!
Hint:LPT means Printer Port or Parallel Port. There was software to move stuff between computers without a network and the COM port was Slower than the now infamous LapLink Paralell Port connection between them. Now we have USB that 8s even faster.
5:28 We shall choose a new face for you, Doctor. And you shall be banished to Earth.
This is the more effective advertisement for duracell than any of thoae rabbit commercials
I have an Energizer 9-volt battery from the late-1980s that works
Did you put 3.3v memory card in it to make the usb work?
That D-Link was my first mp3 player! I loved it!
Those Duracells expired 7 months before I was born 💀
The voice recording is surprisingly good. Well up until the end anyway where you get obducted
I'm not gonna run out of DankPods content this week
0:46 hearing an Aussie say my country's slang brings me joy 😊😊😊
Man I have MP3 player from 2007 and child me love it to death, sadly I destroy it when I accidentally drop it from a shopping mall like 2 floors above
I still don’t know how my MP3 player dropped from the 2nd floor
I had a Dimond Rio original release, then a Sony Bean... you kids make me feel like a corpse.
For reference on planned obsolescence... the Bean was good for the time but died on multiple fronts, but the 35(¿) year old RIO's still work(even though it holds 8mb without the(liar) expansion card, and everything was proprietary.
@@nodorog448it should only be 25 years old since it came out the same year as me as long as it's the one I found online
D-Link was always something you buy only if you are reeeeeeally broke (otherwise there's tp-link) or need something asap and the other stores are closed. The ethernet switches are good tho
I got enlightened a while ago and started buying mikrotik products for networking stuff, love them. My router runs openwrt though as I like the customizability more
@@Xetarine yeah, mikrotik is great. Too bad they're big boys toys and "too expensive and ugly" for most of my clients.
I can't tell you how many small businesses I've seen running their entire operations with D-Link routers and switches. It's a major difference when they finally get into something more serious like Mikrotik or Ubiquiti.
So THE TRICK agaist Battery Leakage...
You need 24 year old Duracells, that don't leak... Rather than brand new ones which leak in like 9 months....
LPT1 is your printer port. You won’t have 2 or 3 on a laptop.
My goodness... those earbuds were CRONCHY!
Those batteries expired before I was born lmao
N64 funtastic type nug
One time I pulled out an old remote for a 1991 TV and it still had batteries in it. Surprisingly, they still worked!
I pulled a kids keyboard out of a cupboard and the batts expired in 1999, but still worked! Ran for like 30 mins before passing into the great batt bin in the sky
those batteries expired 2 months before I was born lmfao
One d-link item I had was a wi-fi usb adapter, and it took my mother a while to try and set it up, but then gave up on it!
5:20 listen as Wade gets possessed by fronk stonk
2:52 Eee-Pee-Cee Old Edition
For me it's the save battery in my Dad's Zelda 1 cartridge. Still goin.
The charging port looks like a charger for a Samsung from around 2006
Is it better than the eeee pc though?
I've got not one but TWO Armada 1750s (one from 1998, one from 1999) and both of their batteries hold about a 1 hr charge.
new year dankpods vid. Nice
This is what I see as the captions at 5:16.
Oh! Woah! Woah! What's happening? What? Is-Is it recording? Ah! What! Wait! No, I don't understand! Wait, what's happening?! Wha!? WAHAHAHA-
i just earlied all over the place HAPPY NEW YEARS DANKPODS
nOOOOO tHe DuRaCeLlS wOrK "tHaT's AmAzInG"😂
So happy you called it quid
I have just found my Grundig MPAxx player with its homemade (by me of course 😊) serial cable. It needs proprietary software, too. But it works even now, with my old Toshiba Libretto 50CT.
so, why does the laptop have a water faucet function key?
a hell of an ad for duracell
Lol why did the pattery indicator jump up one bar when the recording stopped and the mic didn't?
2:43 "Control Panyel"?
I have some Panasonic double a’s from 2001 and they still work
5:17 dankpods is a great actor!
I upgraded my network to WiFi 6E with the TP-Link Deco line and I'm quite happy with them.
TP-Link and D-Link are different companies. Though both make professional network gear (and cheap consumer gear)
I know@@canonip3000 was just making a suggestion if he wanted to buy different equipment
what's that faucet icon on the F2 key on the laptop's keyboard?
first video of the new years. anyone else?
I swear to god, every single MP3 manufacturer gets exactly one thing right with their devices, only to bork everything else. D-Link managed to make one of the least convoluted button layouts with this thing, but with only 32MB (64 with expansion), a really weird UI, a completely useless software and then ditched the market entirely afterwards...
I don’t even know if we can give D-Link that much credit.
I’ve seen this exact chassis show up under different company names over the years.
It’s possible this is a D-Link original design that they licensed out.
But I think it’s far more likely they, along with a bunch of other brands, licensed the player from a foreign manufacturer and slapped their name on it.
5:14 someone oughtta animate that
5:17 VOLUME WARNING
I bought similar MP3 player on a yard sale. At this time i want to have mp3 player so bad and im only maybe 12 YO and i dont have much money. It was branded as Universum. The problem was that i was unable to find any drivers for this dingus. I was so mad at this time.
the batteries expired before i was even born😂
I have working Energizer C cells that expired in 2014.
The clear one is the same one in the prison my dad works at
so... I bought one. new in box. and it's not able to connect to a PC. I tried the MP3 manager software it came with and a newer version some random website had... it wasnt a good time. it connects for a few seconds then quits, then tries again, then quits. It wont even format the memory.
so theres actually a post from 2001 suggesting this is a computer specific problem. *fires up high school Celeron 300A* I was using a toshiba laptop I got from the resale shop for $20
So... like this one time... I hooked up this mp3 player from when I went to college to a computer I had when I was in highschool and it loaded mp3's just fine.
So I was able to load freak on a leash using an Asus p2b motherboard with win 98SE default configuration on the Parallel port. I love my old Celery, just damn dependable.
dang impressive
My switch is see through. Damn trend setting gameboy advance....
£20 in 2000 were insane money
as a side note what headphones would you recommend for music production
Huh duh six hunge’o’s by good ol’ mate Senny are not a bad option.
He has a video with a bunch of recommendations on multiple price ranges, dont remember the name tho
@gugubope21 yeah ive seen it but its more of x brand has this quality and price range compared to y brand im looking for something more precise thank you for your suggestion
awesome
My cmos battery in my tandy 1000 still read good and its from 87
It will not show up as a drive. You have to use the software you installed to transfer files. Try to have everything plugged in and powered up then reboot the computer.
Cool
Strange hearing an ozzy use British slang properly
Bro got abducted
You forgot to put the video into unlisted.
he did this on purpose but it would stil be a complete dankpods thing to forget to do that XD
you have to turn off the computer then plug in the parallel port I still use my old 98 machine
0:47 you sounded like pac man then
No firewire :(
Wow, over 1k likes within seconds
1 watched 5:14 while high
I did NOT have a good time-
Please sell this to me so I can use it as a delay pedal
Yeah I had one of these when I was 12 and I could never get it to work either. So I ended up just taking it apart taking the microphone out wiring it to the hot wire of a speaker to a radio, then wired a resistor and wired it to the microphone port. Then I would just record songs off of the radio. It was really easy. And the song sounded better than anything you could get back then.
parallel port is not hot swappable :D
Parallel isn’t hot swappable
"If I can actually get it hooked up to a computer" sounds very close to "If f*ckan actually get it hooked up to a computer".
Wish you actually knew how to use the devices you feature lol