I've seen that happen like three times this month. People making videos about the same, super specific topic, obviously unrelated to each other. like, releasing a couple days apart, meaning one basically couldn't have stolen the kdea from the other. what's going on? is the matrix breaking down? xD
@@L0op I wonder if it's like news feed algorithms giving people similar suggestions or the same article that sparks the same memory and inspiration. I've seen it happen too many times to be 100% comfortable with it just being pure coincidence. At the same time though, I have a super obscure machine (Intel Dot Station) I wanted to make a video about after not making videos in years and then in LGR's latest video about his house being hurricaned, he showed the SAME machine in the same box and said he was going to make a video about it. That one could have only been a coincidence so maybe things are just wacky and the RNG on the universe is running out of combinations. Who knows?
@@L0op it is kind of weird honestly! I’m a slow editor so each video takes me 1-2 weeks to script / shoot / edit, especially with all the rotoscoping and effects. So I really do think at least SOME of these “duplicates” are just weird Matrix shenanigans 😆
@@mmpg34 i remember the files I found on some sketchy angelfire site sounding like this haha: ruclips.net/video/hHkhzNLHC4g/видео.htmlsi=KBdFnXsuKj4utrqi Maybe it was a different format, hard to remember from 20 years ago.
@@TruckerBigJohnha, used to have one of these, blue and white, when the AAA battery died partway through a song it blasted really loud digital noise for half a second and scared the crap out of me.
@@TruckerBigJohn No, it was definitely an offbrand one. I wish I could find it. I’ve searched all the terms I could think of and can’t find it. It was a small rectangle, took one AA, and had a very short usb on a still wire that
My first music device was the living room CD player. I learned all the tricks about it, including its ability to take a video game CD and play the tracks from it directly. I love you, your content, and this video, and how it brings a unique perspective from Technology Connections. TC focuses more on the technical side of things, while you bring the full retro experience of what it was like using it to create, pirate and use this impressive feat of engineering. I wonder where the desktop cleanup wizard went...
I sense your channel is about to really blow up if you keep this up! (It has already grown a lot since the first video I saw a few weeks ago). My first music player device was a cheap portable cassette player of some kind, I dimly remember it being bright red, and I had a small carrying bag for it, some spare batteries and a few chosen cassettes. All those things are lost to time. But I still have my first mp3 player, it was a JazPiper MV32P. It had 32 MB of storage, but you could extend it with a SmartMedia storage card. It cost me the equivalent of $400 back in 1999 (1700 Norwegian kroner in 1999, which would have been around $212).
Although I did see Technology Connections video about this the other day, I still clicked on this out of curiosity. Love the editing style and vibe of this! Thank you ! You have a new subscriber!
Thank you so much! I started my video two weeks ago, and so it was crazy to upload this and get all the comments about Technology Connections! I guess the retro tech world is all on the same wavelength right now 😄💾
I got started with iPods, I had a couple but the one I used most through my high school years I recently fixed up and upgraded and have been using it again every opportunity I'm able to while out and about! I missed having a portable device that only does music, like you said it brings such a special personal feeling and being intentional with what I put on it, I've felt so much more connected to my music and the listening experience and I feel my deeper passion for it returning after all the years of streaming services, it can't compare!! what a timely video, and I love your cozy production and editing I'm an instant fan, I hope you get every bit of channel growth you deserve!
I love you and hate you at the same time... 😅 You make me feel so old and nostalgic when you talk and teach about this old retro technology that I used, and in my mind I feel like, "How? That was just like 10 years ago!" 😂 But seriously, I love your channel and the editing is fantastic!
I was still doing the required childhood fiddling with cassettes when early MP3 players were happening, but I remember my friend showing me his sandisk sansa and having my mind blown. I asked my parents for "an MP3 player" for my next birthday and they flashbanged me with the 5.5g ipod video that I use to this day
“required childhood fiddling with cassettes” is so true 😂 I used to carry around one of those handheld cassette recorders to record songs off the radio.
I miss my old discman. Walking around with that huge, clunky thing in my pocket listening to the same album on repeat throught the day without skipping a song. I still have some of my old cds and no player to listen to them anymore.
I ripped so many of my CDs only to discover random pops and other noises. I had a deep love for my minidisc players and remember those more fondly. I had the Sony MZ-R37, and later the game changing MZ-N505.
I love your content! It's so tactile and relaxing. Very informative as well! I believe that you can make it in this weird, cold world of today's RUclips!
My _first_ mp3 player was a Creative Nomad that was a USB stick with buttons that plugged into a one-AAA battery bank. I loved that it doubled as a jump drive, and made use of all of its 64MB capacity for both songs and school documents. My _best_ mp3 player was a Sandisk Sansa e250 which had 2GB of storage plus a microSD slot on the side. The rechargeable battery was a big deal for me at the time because we didn't always have AAAs lying around. I put Rockbox on it and used it for games and a morse code notepad, and more recently as a white noise machine.
Used a Sandisk Sansa Fuze, that thing took a beating... Before that, I'm pretty sure it was that exact same RCA player. Both got *a lot* of miles listening to a lot of the same music on your play list, I still listen to pretty much all of it to this day. lol
@@harkeofficial And I thought I was being clever, hahaha... I actually just wanted to write some nonsense to boost your engagement. Never heard of that book, but based on its description, it sounds like it's right up my alley, so thanks, I'll check it out!
Back in the day, my buddy had that Sandisk in the 1gb capacity, while I was still using a 64mb RCA Lyra I was so jealous since I had to mow lawns in order to afford that thing and his grandad just bought that Sandisk for him. I didn't have a portable MP3 CD Player, but I sure as heck put one in my first car.
A 1gb sandisk…. I would have been jealous as well! My dad bought the 512mb version for me as payment for helping sand and refinish all of the wood floors in our house 😮💨
I'm still using both formats today since the early 2000's. I have an MP3 player from 2005 with 512mb of memory that i use daily to hear music when i bring my dog out for a walk (four times a day). And i still use cd's on my old BOOM-BOX 😎
Why did this make me weirdly emotional? So many memories and feelings came rushing back all of a sudden. BTW I can’t believe how good you are at making RUclips videos. It already feels like I’ve been watching your nostalgia technology deep dives for years! PS The Bill Nye-style sound effects really tie it all together 😂
Bill Nye is one of my inspirations, I keep “studying” the show for ideas (plus I use it as an aid for teaching my 1st grader about science, so I have an excuse haha). I’ve been making videos for fun for over 20 years, but never really decided to start a channel until… now lol. Thank you so much for stopping by!!
I was not expecting the Aly & AJ throwback, Rush is my favorite from their debut! I met them this year at a convention, they're so down to earth! Cool video :)
Great channel! 👍 I was born in the '80s in the former Yugoslavia, and when I was in high school, the cool kids still had Walkmans with cassette tapes. The smaller your Walkman was, the cooler you were. Some really fancy Walkmans were almost as small as the cassettes themselves. I had a few Walkmans, but they were bulky, and I didn't like bringing them to school. I was pretty geeky back then and started using the internet early, including listening to MP3s. However, most other kids didn't get into it until the late '90s and early 2000s when wearable MP3 players became popular. I find it strange that those old computers still work today (except for the 386s; they're indestructible). All my old PCs died on me. The one I bought in the 2000s, an Intel Pentium 4, broke in 2-3 years, I believe, just after the warranty expired. 🙄 I got so annoyed and bummed that I haven't bought a desktop computer since then. 😤😒
Aaaah man, that era was incredibly magical. As a music teacher, I have very conflicted feelings about digital streaming. In the pre limewire era, you had to exchange cash for your media, and I heard from other teachers that most students had a deep connection with the artists and knew all the players on the songs. Makes sense if you had to part with a limited resource, especially if you worked for it. I'm more familiar with the mp3 era, people at least knew the songs and artists. These days, most of my students don't even listen to music. Recently, I had a student surprise me by asking if we could do a specific song, but when I asked the artist I got a blank stare and "i dunno". Unlimited access seems to devalue art.
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the sweater is amazing. also I love the "in period modifications" vans sticker is like the perfect size. it seems the mp3 players were this short era between mix tapes and playlists on a streaming app. Even though it was digital, you needed a bunch of hardware, software, private internet access, knowledge, to make it work, which makes it closer to the analog mix tapes.
Back in about 2006, I had an iPod, and my family went on a trip with my PowerBook G3, but since my iTunes library didn't yet have all the music my family had purchased from iTunes (or enough space on the computer, probably), my dad burned a backup MP3 CD with the entire purchased collection on it. I used that CD that week and listened to songs from the hundreds available to me. It really did feel like the future!
Imagine growing up from ground zero with cassette and experiencing all tech upgrades throughout the years. I still miss minidisk a little, Apple killed it though.
My first Mp3 Player in high school was the Sandisk Sansa e260 Mp3 Player, I had a lot of fun memories with it 😊 I remember in high school burning and selling burned CDs to people in my high school for $5 a piece, lol.
Fascinating video - this stuff is from the era I grew up in, and I am still a fan of physical media, owning both a personal CD player and a radio with one built-in. (Also, saw the thumbnail, did a double-take as I got major mid-2000's Hayley Williams vibe from that pic!)
My first MP3 player was a Diva MP3 Player bought in 2002. It came with 128 mb of memory. I still have one of those Sansa SDMX1s with 256 mb and a couple of the follow on Sansa M230s with 512 mb. I still use the M230 for the FM radio and occasionally music. They're so small and run on a single AAA battery.
I think we had one of those Sandisk MP3 players, also an iRiver and a couple of others. Great for podcasts while I had a part-time security job at night. Also, red hair, tech knowledge, and a great singing voice, this makes Harke a Tech Goddess. Well, at least for me.
@@harkeofficial Yeah. I used to listen to the Used and AFI when I lived in Salt Lake City. I actually worked with a guy whose brother-in-law was one of their early drummers. He even got back stage passes to one of the Warped Tours!
I'm glad you're making this type of content. Doesn't really seem too far in the past, but I guess 20-25 years is quite a chunk of time, and younger generations might not have ways of getting to know about this otherwise. Especially as the tech will slowly disappear, like how that MP3 player almost croaked on ya 😅 The struggles of downloading a Bloodhound Gang MP3 via HTTP on 56k modem.. Even with good ol' "Download Accelerator" it took 15 minutes!
I honestly had no idea that’s what they meant by MP3 CD…. I’ve been burning my discs as audio discs for a while and I guess I just never stopped to question it lol. Love your vids pls keep it up‼️‼️
Thanks for the playlist :) It's essentially my playlist of the early 2000's as well. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. My 1st mp3 player was a BenQ Joybee 110 with a whopping 128mb of storage, i used to compress the Mp3 or wma's to like 32 or 64kbps so i could fit close to 100 songs on that bad boy. I was probably listening to it on cheap headphones so I couldn't tell the difference in audio quality or even cared. (Which is funny as I am now an audio engineer) but it was a game changer and beat carrying around my chunky Discman and CD wallet everywhere. I eventually upgraded to a Creative Zen V plus with like 4gb of storage, so hopefully I at least upped the bitrate a bit by then...
I didn't have an MP3 player in high school, but I really wanted one. So in the early 2000s I was still burning regular audio CDs from songs downloaded off Kazaa/Soulseek. Then around 2006 or 2007 a friend gave me his old gen 2 iPod and I used that until I got a brand new 80GB iPod in 2009. I still have the gen 2 and it hasn't been updated since 2009 so it's like a little time capsule of the music I was listening to back then. 😎
oooh this is awesome, I wish RUclips still had video replies. I started out with the Nextar MA566-1BL, eventually upgrading to a Sansa Clip. I currently own, and still use, a Sony Walkman NWZ-S545! It came with internal speakers that were way better than anything offered in 2009...but not so much now lol
I remember seeing the Sansa clips! I had a Sansa e280 that I won by filling out a flavored milk survey in my high school lunch room. I didn’t even know there was a raffle happening for doing the survey, and a few days later I walked in and was told I won it 😂
My first official mp3 player was an aftermarket car radio, a Sony CDX-GT61UI, around 2005. Whenever I played CDs on my old radio, it would skip whenever the bass hit too hard but with the USB storage I had almost unlimited amount of music and skip free music. I bought all the available add-on accessories: HD Radio and XM satellite radio. Honestly, there is more functionality in this old radio than there is on my newer truck's radio.
MP3 Players und MP3-CDs. I remeber those MP3 players. I had two of those. The 1st one was pretty basic and was a thumb drive with a AAA battery. The 2nd one was fancier, had a decent display with something you could call a resolution, was rechargeable and had a M icro USB connector. Both were of TrekStor brand, here in Germany. It must have been around 2003, I guess. That was also the time of USB 2.0 entering the PC world. I remeber a 128 MB USB 2.0 thumb drive beeing quite expensive. And then came external HDDs, opening a whole new word of moving big ammounts of data. I remeber getting the first DSL internet connection at home just a few years prior. 1 or 2 Mbit/s internet speed was considered pretty fast for private customers back in those days. And a gigantic improovenent to the dial-up days bot so many years beforde that. MP3 CDs... the "user interface" of many MP3 capable CD players wasn't great. The "modern" internet, LCD / TFT monitors and LCD TVs, DVDs, external USB HDDs, USB devices of all kinds and quite a lot of other things gaining a foothold in households back in those days. Phone booths started disappearing on a large scale, as everyone had some sort of mobile phone. Mentioning 2007... the 1st iPhone came out and with it the era of the smart phone began. I remeber the 1st iPod touch. The iPhone and it's successors used to be way too expensive back then. I think my first smart phone was a Samsung Galaxy S II.
Great video. Still love my MP3-CDs (over 100 and counting), and like making 7-8 hour mix-CD's for the car. Not so much for listening at home (use an HD jukebox normally) or out walking, but still have a few Sony portables: DF-NF430 & 600, D-NE900 which work fine.
Mine was a 128MB (yes, mega)byte Creative mp3 player.. It ran on a single AA battery. I bout it in kabul afghanistan. We had one computer in camp that everyone dumped all their MP3's on so I could plug it in and download roughly an album or two in 44kb/s. That little mp3 player helped me keep my sanity!
Always had something that could play media. I had a Goodmans CD mp3 player whilst at college. (1990's). I could put dozens of CD's at 128Kbps on a disc. Quality was fine for having a bit of music to listen to at Lunch or on the Bus. I still have the discs but now stick with FLAC and HD as I have a Sony HD player and HD headhones.
The best thing is that no company can remove your legally purchased music, stored as mp3, from an offline mp3 player. No de-listing due to license or someone wanting more monetære for the music.
I still have my creative muvo 32mb that I occasionally use to flash the bios on my gaming pc. recently it came in handy with softmoding my original xbox because it was the only drive that it would read. i't s miracle it still works
I remember back in the day getting one of the early mp3cd players. Might've been an iriver. It would skip a little so I'd hang it vertically in a pouch from my car's ash tray as a shock absorber. That thing had my car music for the next four or five years until Sony released the NW-HD3. I only upgraded from that because there was a 160GB iPod, but sadly the sound quality was definitely inferior. Found a few of my 00s car mp3 cds the other day while unpacking from moving house. Brought back all the memories of places I drove :D
My first music device was a Sony Walkman CD player (not the earlier Discman) with a translucent blue top shell powered by a single AA battery. I didn't have very many audio CDs (or even burnable ones) as a youth so it didn't get as much use as it would in the modern day, but I upgraded to a very similar SanDisk (I think) MP3 player as you had. Also AA sized with 512MB of storage (or was it 256MB), but it had a neat USB cable that split into both a typical Type A port as well as a 3.5mm audio jack. It could record from the microphone but it could also record anything you plugged it into as well as from the radio. It ended up in pretty poor condition from wear. Not damage from dropping so much as the buttons just becoming detached from being pressed too much. Switched over to an 8GB Samsung that died too soon and ended up with my current MP3 Walkman. Still have my original Walkman around too and it still works great.
My very first MP3 player was a 2GB RCA Pearl with a flip-out USB connection. From there I went to the SanDisk Sansa Clip series (it was all about the FM radio recording feature for me). After that I grabbed a Zune HD that I still own (thanks for killing off a great product line and leaving us with e-waste, Microsoft), and I finally settled on a 5.5 gen iPod classic that I really need to restomod. What I really want today is an m.2 SSD based portable audio player!
@@harkeofficial, Yes, I waited a bit to get into the MP3 player game and stuck with CD's for well into the digital music era. Even today, I still prefer to purchase the physical CD when I can, and MP3 players have always been about two things for me: 1. Getting my CD library onto a smaller, more efficient device and, 2., having a device to listen to my beloved full-length opera live broadcasts from around the world.
Back in the day, I had a Creative Lab Nomad Jukebox mp3 player it had a whopping 4 Gb it looked like a big discman and ran off 4 AA batteries. I forget what happened to it, but it was great for the napster limewire days.
I don't think I ever owned an MP3 player The first devices I had that could play them were my PSP (2005) or my first smartphone, the Sony-Ericsson s710a, which was an awesome phone at the time. I still have both of them. I had a PDA before that but it didn't have a ton of storage for music.
Funny, Technology connections did a video on these a few days ago. I had the RIO PMP300 and it had 32MB of memory, so it was always the fight of quality vs how many songs I wanted.
I had the creative labs nomad muvo with a whopping 128mb. It didn’t have a screen and you had to use their software to bring your files over. It was basically a thumb drive you disconnect from the main unit and plug directly into your computer with no cables needed.
I did not have an MP3 player until I was given a 2gb ipod nano free in 2006. Prior to then I used a 20$ cd player that played MP3s. In just 1 CD I could fit a respective sized library for one setting at an ok 192kbps bit rate. I generally kept with 2-3 disks with me in total and it was all I really need at the time.
I was there when they came out and owned a few "mp3 cd" players, but I never called the disks "mp3 cds" nor did I ever hear anyone call them that. They were always "CD-R's with MP3s on it." Gotta say though, those 10 fps 11khz clips of you look like they're right out of the CD-ROM "Magazine" Blender (no relation).
I'm sure it's probably a regional thing but I was tickled by the way you said root like "rut" and not like "boot". Great video, I still have a ton of MP3 cd's kicking around in the old CD binders.
I had that MP3 CD player and I used it to death with the plastic all scratched up and the broken hinge reattached with duct tape. Mostly listened to nu-metal at the time. Also had a 64mb RCA Lyra that was for podcasts when those wera a thing you had to download manually. Everything changed with an iPod Nano in 2008.
I had a blue RCA Lyra, possibly the 1028 model. Must have gotten it for Christmas in... 2004? I remember it had the Anchorman cast version of Afternoon Delight, and also Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional on it. I'm pretty sure it had an SD Card slot in the top because I'm remembering dropping it and the spring loaded mechanism launching my SD card across the bus 😅
Not technically an MP3 player I think, but I had a Hasbro Play It Now. Egg-shaped doodad with a built-in stereo plug that would flip out of the side. You could plug it into any stereo jack, and it would record whatever was being played from that device.
I can't remember the model, but my first MP3 player used those mini CDs instead of the full sized ones. I really liked how compact it was compared to a full-sized CD player, and you could fit two or three albums on the discs, which was good enough for me at the time. Unfortunately it did eventually break, I vaguely remember one day it just refused to read discs, so that was the end of that.
@@harkeofficial I figured out the model, it was a Compaq iPaq PM-1, although I'm not sure I'd necessarily recommend it considering it randomly died on me. The discs are very cute, and the ones I had came with different colours printed on the labels and matching translucent CD cases, so that was fun.
My first mp3 player was a RCA 128mb with a port to fit an SD card. Poor thing died after I got caught in a downpour while walking home from work :( I still have my old 4gb Sandisk I bought late 2000s I think. Still works and I still use it often because I want to listen to music and I love leaving my phone at home so no one can bug me
I found these amongst the years and thought they were meant for listening on laptops that came standard with audio CD capabilities since it worked even whilst powered off, didn’t realize there was an entire “psuedo-format” if you could so call it speculating the notion of burning MP3s downloaded direct from Napster & Bearshare rather than caring to use actual mastering software.
There was a time in the early 2000s while I was attending university where I wanted an MP3 player but couldn't really afford one. What I did have was an old Compaq 486 laptop that could just barely play MP3s with a big enough hard drive in it to drop a bunch of albums onto and a battery in it that would last maybe hour or so while playing said MP3s with the screen closed. I'd have it running in my backpack with the headphones plugged in while commuting back and forth from campus. World's bulkiest, jankiest "portable MP3 player" ever LOL
Technology connections did a video about mp3 cd a couple of days ago
Great minds think alike
really??? That's crazy!
I've seen that happen like three times this month. People making videos about the same, super specific topic, obviously unrelated to each other. like, releasing a couple days apart, meaning one basically couldn't have stolen the kdea from the other. what's going on? is the matrix breaking down? xD
@@L0op I wonder if it's like news feed algorithms giving people similar suggestions or the same article that sparks the same memory and inspiration. I've seen it happen too many times to be 100% comfortable with it just being pure coincidence.
At the same time though, I have a super obscure machine (Intel Dot Station) I wanted to make a video about after not making videos in years and then in LGR's latest video about his house being hurricaned, he showed the SAME machine in the same box and said he was going to make a video about it. That one could have only been a coincidence so maybe things are just wacky and the RNG on the universe is running out of combinations. Who knows?
@@L0op it is kind of weird honestly! I’m a slow editor so each video takes me 1-2 weeks to script / shoot / edit, especially with all the rotoscoping and effects. So I really do think at least SOME of these “duplicates” are just weird Matrix shenanigans 😆
And Harke did a way better job of explaining what an mp3 cd is, simply. *clap*
Slowly upgrading my music collection from WAV to MP3 through dial-up back in the day was an epic journey of audio discovery. The CLARITY.
on DIAL-UP?? That’s dedication. I remember it taking forever just to download 5 second quotes from tv shows to use in AIM with my friends 😂
The irony is quality on WAV (1,411 kbps) is better than mp3 (320kbps). If anything you actually lost clarity
@@mmpg34 i remember the files I found on some sketchy angelfire site sounding like this haha:
ruclips.net/video/hHkhzNLHC4g/видео.htmlsi=KBdFnXsuKj4utrqi
Maybe it was a different format, hard to remember from 20 years ago.
Wave? Couldn't you just encode them to mp3 yourself?
WAV is higher quality. But with dial up I can see why you’d want to download MP3s.
I was expecting at least 500k views on this! The production quality is magnificent! What a find!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate it! 😄
Oh that SanDisk is a proper Nugget! My first MP3 player I got was in 2005, and it had a whopping 128mb! But it had a pull out USB, so I felt so cool!
ooooo pull out USB… nice 👌🏼
Was it a Creative Labs nomad MuVo?
@@TruckerBigJohnha, used to have one of these, blue and white, when the AAA battery died partway through a song it blasted really loud digital noise for half a second and scared the crap out of me.
@@TruckerBigJohn No, it was definitely an offbrand one. I wish I could find it. I’ve searched all the terms I could think of and can’t find it. It was a small rectangle, took one AA, and had a very short usb on a still wire that
Sweet nostalgic video! My first mp3-player iRiver iMP-700. Now playing mp3 on Cowon D2+, and I have two this device.
Thank you!! Ahhh, the glory days of our trusty ole’ mp3 players 🥹
I was a fancy kid who got an iPod 3rd Generation (15GB) at 11 years old in 2004. But I also had a Portable MP3 CD player that I used before that.
I would have been SO JEALOUS
I had a head unit that played mp3 cd's in my 1989 Volvo 245 Wagon, I bought in about 2002.... and drove for the next decade ... god I loved that car..
Wow, now I want to install an old mp3 cd player in my car 😆
My first music device was the living room CD player. I learned all the tricks about it, including its ability to take a video game CD and play the tracks from it directly. I love you, your content, and this video, and how it brings a unique perspective from Technology Connections. TC focuses more on the technical side of things, while you bring the full retro experience of what it was like using it to create, pirate and use this impressive feat of engineering. I wonder where the desktop cleanup wizard went...
Man i love this channel, so happy i stumbled upon it youre killing it
thank you!
Same!!! I feel like I'm on the ground floor of a Tech RUclips superstar in the making. Her videos are incredibly inventive.
I remember the first full MP3 album I downloaded was Beautiful Garbage, back before Napster. Over dial up it took 3 days to download.
I sense your channel is about to really blow up if you keep this up! (It has already grown a lot since the first video I saw a few weeks ago). My first music player device was a cheap portable cassette player of some kind, I dimly remember it being bright red, and I had a small carrying bag for it, some spare batteries and a few chosen cassettes. All those things are lost to time. But I still have my first mp3 player, it was a JazPiper MV32P. It had 32 MB of storage, but you could extend it with a SmartMedia storage card. It cost me the equivalent of $400 back in 1999 (1700 Norwegian kroner in 1999, which would have been around $212).
Although I did see Technology Connections video about this the other day, I still clicked on this out of curiosity. Love the editing style and vibe of this! Thank you ! You have a new subscriber!
Thank you so much! I started my video two weeks ago, and so it was crazy to upload this and get all the comments about Technology Connections! I guess the retro tech world is all on the same wavelength right now 😄💾
That is indeed, a cool sweater. Also literally burning CDs while watching this video.
I got started with iPods, I had a couple but the one I used most through my high school years I recently fixed up and upgraded and have been using it again every opportunity I'm able to while out and about! I missed having a portable device that only does music, like you said it brings such a special personal feeling and being intentional with what I put on it, I've felt so much more connected to my music and the listening experience and I feel my deeper passion for it returning after all the years of streaming services, it can't compare!! what a timely video, and I love your cozy production and editing I'm an instant fan, I hope you get every bit of channel growth you deserve!
Thank you so much!!
I love you and hate you at the same time... 😅
You make me feel so old and nostalgic when you talk and teach about this old retro technology that I used, and in my mind I feel like, "How? That was just like 10 years ago!" 😂
But seriously, I love your channel and the editing is fantastic!
Thank you so much! And it really does feel like only 10 years ago 🥲
I love being a metalhead, this genre is never boring and there's always new stuff to listen to.
I was still doing the required childhood fiddling with cassettes when early MP3 players were happening, but I remember my friend showing me his sandisk sansa and having my mind blown. I asked my parents for "an MP3 player" for my next birthday and they flashbanged me with the 5.5g ipod video that I use to this day
“required childhood fiddling with cassettes” is so true 😂 I used to carry around one of those handheld cassette recorders to record songs off the radio.
I miss my old discman. Walking around with that huge, clunky thing in my pocket listening to the same album on repeat throught the day without skipping a song. I still have some of my old cds and no player to listen to them anymore.
The one I have is really good it never skipped even when I dropped it while it was playing.
Well go get a CD player then.
i love everything about this video. Thank you for the memories of that era. greetings from Chile! 🇨🇱
I Fken LOVE mp3s and cds. I been collecting audio cds all year long while everyone is distracted with record vinyls 🖤💿🎵
Look at you rocking the fancy 512mb MP3 player while the rest of us were roughing it with 128mb nuggets!
You had 128? Mine was 64MB!
My first MP3 player was a white 128MB USB stick style one. I loved it!
this was sort of a tutorial for me! my new old car from 2007 supports mp3 cds and i was looking them up and came across this video! love the editing!
I ripped so many of my CDs only to discover random pops and other noises. I had a deep love for my minidisc players and remember those more fondly. I had the Sony MZ-R37, and later the game changing MZ-N505.
I love your content! It's so tactile and relaxing. Very informative as well! I believe that you can make it in this weird, cold world of today's RUclips!
Thank you so much! That means a lot to hear 😁
My _first_ mp3 player was a Creative Nomad that was a USB stick with buttons that plugged into a one-AAA battery bank. I loved that it doubled as a jump drive, and made use of all of its 64MB capacity for both songs and school documents.
My _best_ mp3 player was a Sandisk Sansa e250 which had 2GB of storage plus a microSD slot on the side. The rechargeable battery was a big deal for me at the time because we didn't always have AAAs lying around. I put Rockbox on it and used it for games and a morse code notepad, and more recently as a white noise machine.
Great video! Love the editing style and I 100% know your struggle with tech deciding not to work while filming!
It’s so frustrating 😂
love the nostalgia, as i stare at my Sony PSP and NOMAD Zen Micro 8GB
Used a Sandisk Sansa Fuze, that thing took a beating... Before that, I'm pretty sure it was that exact same RCA player.
Both got *a lot* of miles listening to a lot of the same music on your play list, I still listen to pretty much all of it to this day. lol
I still listen to most of it to this day as well… it’s not a phase 😤😤😤
@@harkeofficial 🤣
Man, this sure HARKEns back to a different time!
Haha that’s literally when I chose the name. From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows 😆
@@harkeofficial And I thought I was being clever, hahaha... I actually just wanted to write some nonsense to boost your engagement.
Never heard of that book, but based on its description, it sounds like it's right up my alley, so thanks, I'll check it out!
@@norbicsekI hope you enjoy it! It’s a fun one to have on your shelf 😊
The rut folder 💀
But I do love your videos ❤
I would like to say it’s a regional accent, but when my mom watched my video, she said “Why did you say ‘root’ like that?” 💀
Back in the day, my buddy had that Sandisk in the 1gb capacity, while I was still using a 64mb RCA Lyra I was so jealous since I had to mow lawns in order to afford that thing and his grandad just bought that Sandisk for him. I didn't have a portable MP3 CD Player, but I sure as heck put one in my first car.
A 1gb sandisk…. I would have been jealous as well! My dad bought the 512mb version for me as payment for helping sand and refinish all of the wood floors in our house 😮💨
I've never heard of mp3 CDs, those are dope.
Was a kid with portable CD players before mp3 players.
I'm still using both formats today since the early 2000's.
I have an MP3 player from 2005 with 512mb of memory that i use daily to hear music when i bring my dog out for a walk (four times a day).
And i still use cd's on my old BOOM-BOX 😎
NICE!! I’m thinking of installing an mp3 cd player in my old car, just to be extra 😂
1:35 Questionable how illegal it was, since the DMCA hadn't been created yet, in fact this was the cause of it.
Good point!
Why did this make me weirdly emotional? So many memories and feelings came rushing back all of a sudden. BTW I can’t believe how good you are at making RUclips videos. It already feels like I’ve been watching your nostalgia technology deep dives for years!
PS The Bill Nye-style sound effects really tie it all together 😂
Bill Nye is one of my inspirations, I keep “studying” the show for ideas (plus I use it as an aid for teaching my 1st grader about science, so I have an excuse haha). I’ve been making videos for fun for over 20 years, but never really decided to start a channel until… now lol. Thank you so much for stopping by!!
Ur my new fav RUclipsr this is gold
The playlist you made is SOOOO nostalgic! I love this ☺
I was not expecting the Aly & AJ throwback, Rush is my favorite from their debut! I met them this year at a convention, they're so down to earth! Cool video :)
you got scooped so hard by technology connections! i will still watch this video anyway though because you have an amazing voice
Thank you for watching!! Now I need to go watch Technology Connections’ video since he beat me to it 😁
Dang this playlist is hitting that nostalgia itch. I've been using my old iPod from 2005 recently and this playlist is making it on there
Great channel! 👍 I was born in the '80s in the former Yugoslavia, and when I was in high school, the cool kids still had Walkmans with cassette tapes. The smaller your Walkman was, the cooler you were. Some really fancy Walkmans were almost as small as the cassettes themselves. I had a few Walkmans, but they were bulky, and I didn't like bringing them to school. I was pretty geeky back then and started using the internet early, including listening to MP3s. However, most other kids didn't get into it until the late '90s and early 2000s when wearable MP3 players became popular.
I find it strange that those old computers still work today (except for the 386s; they're indestructible). All my old PCs died on me. The one I bought in the 2000s, an Intel Pentium 4, broke in 2-3 years, I believe, just after the warranty expired. 🙄 I got so annoyed and bummed that I haven't bought a desktop computer since then. 😤😒
You cooked with this one
Thanks so much for stopping by!! Much appreciated 🙏
Your vid just popped up in my feed and o joy-o-joys, what a gem! Loved your style, so unique and poppy! the algo has spoken 😍
Still using mp3 CDs for my old crap car. I love the videos and the jumper/hoodie/sweater.
Aaaah man, that era was incredibly magical. As a music teacher, I have very conflicted feelings about digital streaming. In the pre limewire era, you had to exchange cash for your media, and I heard from other teachers that most students had a deep connection with the artists and knew all the players on the songs. Makes sense if you had to part with a limited resource, especially if you worked for it. I'm more familiar with the mp3 era, people at least knew the songs and artists. These days, most of my students don't even listen to music. Recently, I had a student surprise me by asking if we could do a specific song, but when I asked the artist I got a blank stare and "i dunno". Unlimited access seems to devalue art.
the sweater is amazing. also I love the "in period modifications" vans sticker is like the perfect size.
it seems the mp3 players were this short era between mix tapes and playlists on a streaming app. Even though it was digital, you needed a bunch of hardware, software, private internet access, knowledge, to make it work, which makes it closer to the analog mix tapes.
Back in about 2006, I had an iPod, and my family went on a trip with my PowerBook G3, but since my iTunes library didn't yet have all the music my family had purchased from iTunes (or enough space on the computer, probably), my dad burned a backup MP3 CD with the entire purchased collection on it. I used that CD that week and listened to songs from the hundreds available to me. It really did feel like the future!
Imagine growing up from ground zero with cassette and experiencing all tech upgrades throughout the years. I still miss minidisk a little, Apple killed it though.
My first Mp3 Player in high school was the Sandisk Sansa e260 Mp3 Player, I had a lot of fun memories with it 😊
I remember in high school burning and selling burned CDs to people in my high school for $5 a piece, lol.
Fascinating video - this stuff is from the era I grew up in, and I am still a fan of physical media, owning both a personal CD player and a radio with one built-in. (Also, saw the thumbnail, did a double-take as I got major mid-2000's Hayley Williams vibe from that pic!)
My first MP3 player was a Diva MP3 Player bought in 2002. It came with 128 mb of memory. I still have one of those Sansa SDMX1s with 256 mb and a couple of the follow on Sansa M230s with 512 mb. I still use the M230 for the FM radio and occasionally music. They're so small and run on a single AAA battery.
I think we had one of those Sandisk MP3 players, also an iRiver and a couple of others. Great for podcasts while I had a part-time security job at night. Also, red hair, tech knowledge, and a great singing voice, this makes Harke a Tech Goddess. Well, at least for me.
Awesome video! Those were crazy times. Love your playlist. I love finding out about punk and emo bands that I haven’t heard of.
Thank you!! There are some tracks on there from local (to me) bands as well, so they’re pretty deep cuts 😄
@@harkeofficial Yeah. I used to listen to the Used and AFI when I lived in Salt Lake City. I actually worked with a guy whose brother-in-law was one of their early drummers. He even got back stage passes to one of the Warped Tours!
@@JeffTiberend that’s awesome!! I never got to go to Warped Tour 🥲
I'm glad you're making this type of content. Doesn't really seem too far in the past, but I guess 20-25 years is quite a chunk of time, and younger generations might not have ways of getting to know about this otherwise. Especially as the tech will slowly disappear, like how that MP3 player almost croaked on ya 😅
The struggles of downloading a Bloodhound Gang MP3 via HTTP on 56k modem.. Even with good ol' "Download Accelerator" it took 15 minutes!
I honestly had no idea that’s what they meant by MP3 CD…. I’ve been burning my discs as audio discs for a while and I guess I just never stopped to question it lol. Love your vids pls keep it up‼️‼️
Thanks for the playlist :) It's essentially my playlist of the early 2000's as well. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
My 1st mp3 player was a BenQ Joybee 110 with a whopping 128mb of storage, i used to compress the Mp3 or wma's to like 32 or 64kbps so i could fit close to 100 songs on that bad boy. I was probably listening to it on cheap headphones so I couldn't tell the difference in audio quality or even cared. (Which is funny as I am now an audio engineer) but it was a game changer and beat carrying around my chunky Discman and CD wallet everywhere. I eventually upgraded to a Creative Zen V plus with like 4gb of storage, so hopefully I at least upped the bitrate a bit by then...
I didn't have an MP3 player in high school, but I really wanted one. So in the early 2000s I was still burning regular audio CDs from songs downloaded off Kazaa/Soulseek. Then around 2006 or 2007 a friend gave me his old gen 2 iPod and I used that until I got a brand new 80GB iPod in 2009.
I still have the gen 2 and it hasn't been updated since 2009 so it's like a little time capsule of the music I was listening to back then. 😎
oooh this is awesome, I wish RUclips still had video replies.
I started out with the Nextar MA566-1BL, eventually upgrading to a Sansa Clip.
I currently own, and still use, a Sony Walkman NWZ-S545! It came with internal speakers that were way better than anything offered in 2009...but not so much now lol
I remember seeing the Sansa clips! I had a Sansa e280 that I won by filling out a flavored milk survey in my high school lunch room. I didn’t even know there was a raffle happening for doing the survey, and a few days later I walked in and was told I won it 😂
Good work.
Wonderful work. :)
My first official mp3 player was an aftermarket car radio, a Sony CDX-GT61UI, around 2005. Whenever I played CDs on my old radio, it would skip whenever the bass hit too hard but with the USB storage I had almost unlimited amount of music and skip free music. I bought all the available add-on accessories: HD Radio and XM satellite radio. Honestly, there is more functionality in this old radio than there is on my newer truck's radio.
MP3 Players und MP3-CDs.
I remeber those MP3 players. I had two of those. The 1st one was pretty basic and was a thumb drive with a AAA battery.
The 2nd one was fancier, had a decent display with something you could call a resolution, was rechargeable and had a M icro USB connector. Both were of TrekStor brand, here in Germany. It must have been around 2003, I guess. That was also the time of USB 2.0 entering the PC world. I remeber a 128 MB USB 2.0 thumb drive beeing quite expensive. And then came external HDDs, opening a whole new word of moving big ammounts of data.
I remeber getting the first DSL internet connection at home just a few years prior. 1 or 2 Mbit/s internet speed was considered pretty fast for private customers back in those days. And a gigantic improovenent to the dial-up days bot so many years beforde that.
MP3 CDs... the "user interface" of many MP3 capable CD players wasn't great.
The "modern" internet, LCD / TFT monitors and LCD TVs, DVDs, external USB HDDs, USB devices of all kinds and quite a lot of other things gaining a foothold in households back in those days. Phone booths started disappearing on a large scale, as everyone had some sort of mobile phone.
Mentioning 2007... the 1st iPhone came out and with it the era of the smart phone began. I remeber the 1st iPod touch. The iPhone and it's successors used to be way too expensive back then. I think my first smart phone was a Samsung Galaxy S II.
Great video. Still love my MP3-CDs (over 100 and counting), and like making 7-8 hour mix-CD's for the car. Not so much for listening at home (use an HD jukebox normally) or out walking, but still have a few Sony portables: DF-NF430 & 600, D-NE900 which work fine.
Oooo that’s a nice collection!! Thank you so much for stopping by!
Mine was a 128MB (yes, mega)byte Creative mp3 player.. It ran on a single AA battery. I bout it in kabul afghanistan. We had one computer in camp that everyone dumped all their MP3's on so I could plug it in and download roughly an album or two in 44kb/s.
That little mp3 player helped me keep my sanity!
Always had something that could play media. I had a Goodmans CD mp3 player whilst at college. (1990's). I could put dozens of CD's at 128Kbps on a disc. Quality was fine for having a bit of music to listen to at Lunch or on the Bus. I still have the discs but now stick with FLAC and HD as I have a Sony HD player and HD headhones.
Rio Volt SP100! MP3 disc player that got me thru the era!
And thanks for sharing the playlists!
Thanks for stopping by! 😁
I love this series
Thank you!!!
The best part about these flash and CD players? No annoying dancing silhouette ad campaign.
The best thing is that no company can remove your legally purchased music, stored as mp3, from an offline mp3 player. No de-listing due to license or someone wanting more monetære for the music.
Awesome video!
@4:20 what a playlist.. almost indistinguishable what u would have on mine in 8th grade lol
lol, i had the red SanDisk one in middle school. they're so dope.
THE CASE TOO NO WAYYYY
I still have my creative muvo 32mb that I occasionally use to flash the bios on my gaming pc. recently it came in handy with softmoding my original xbox because it was the only drive that it would read. i't s miracle it still works
That’s pretty awesome that you still get use out of it!
I remember back in the day getting one of the early mp3cd players. Might've been an iriver. It would skip a little so I'd hang it vertically in a pouch from my car's ash tray as a shock absorber. That thing had my car music for the next four or five years until Sony released the NW-HD3. I only upgraded from that because there was a 160GB iPod, but sadly the sound quality was definitely inferior.
Found a few of my 00s car mp3 cds the other day while unpacking from moving house. Brought back all the memories of places I drove :D
How is this SO relevant
I was just looking for an MP3 player the past two days.
Great minds think alike? 🤔
I had a SanDisk Sansa m230 512mb mp3 player. Oh the glory days.
ooooo, my first player was a 512gb iPod shuffle. No display but it still felt like stepping into the future compared to my old portable cd player.
I listen to my music on shuffle most of the time, so I think I would have liked the shuffle!
My first music device was a Sony Walkman CD player (not the earlier Discman) with a translucent blue top shell powered by a single AA battery. I didn't have very many audio CDs (or even burnable ones) as a youth so it didn't get as much use as it would in the modern day, but I upgraded to a very similar SanDisk (I think) MP3 player as you had. Also AA sized with 512MB of storage (or was it 256MB), but it had a neat USB cable that split into both a typical Type A port as well as a 3.5mm audio jack. It could record from the microphone but it could also record anything you plugged it into as well as from the radio.
It ended up in pretty poor condition from wear. Not damage from dropping so much as the buttons just becoming detached from being pressed too much. Switched over to an 8GB Samsung that died too soon and ended up with my current MP3 Walkman. Still have my original Walkman around too and it still works great.
cool video :) u earned a sub!
My very first MP3 player was a 2GB RCA Pearl with a flip-out USB connection. From there I went to the SanDisk Sansa Clip series (it was all about the FM radio recording feature for me). After that I grabbed a Zune HD that I still own (thanks for killing off a great product line and leaving us with e-waste, Microsoft), and I finally settled on a 5.5 gen iPod classic that I really need to restomod. What I really want today is an m.2 SSD based portable audio player!
Starting off with a 2GB player… I’m jealous! 😄
@@harkeofficial, Yes, I waited a bit to get into the MP3 player game and stuck with CD's for well into the digital music era. Even today, I still prefer to purchase the physical CD when I can, and MP3 players have always been about two things for me: 1. Getting my CD library onto a smaller, more efficient device and, 2., having a device to listen to my beloved full-length opera live broadcasts from around the world.
I got reccomended this next to a technology connections video on them literally crazy lol
I can’t believe they covered the same topic only three days ago 🤦🏼♀️ So weird, after starting work on this one 2 weeks ago!!!
Back in the day, I had a Creative Lab Nomad Jukebox mp3 player it had a whopping 4 Gb it looked like a big discman and ran off 4 AA batteries. I forget what happened to it, but it was great for the napster limewire days.
I love how you've used a retro camera in the modern age, just to get a feeling for the time. Unless it's an amazing later edit 😂
Subscribing!
The footage of me singing is from 2005 (obviously haha), but I also do film certain sequences now with my old video camera, just for fun 😁
And thank you so much!!!
I don't think I ever owned an MP3 player The first devices I had that could play them were my PSP (2005) or my first smartphone, the Sony-Ericsson s710a, which was an awesome phone at the time. I still have both of them. I had a PDA before that but it didn't have a ton of storage for music.
Funny, Technology connections did a video on these a few days ago.
I had the RIO PMP300 and it had 32MB of memory, so it was always the fight of quality vs how many songs I wanted.
32mb… that must have been rough to balance quality vs quantity 😫
@@harkeofficial It was! but it's the best we had at the time, it was still an amazing device.
I had the creative labs nomad muvo with a whopping 128mb. It didn’t have a screen and you had to use their software to bring your files over. It was basically a thumb drive you disconnect from the main unit and plug directly into your computer with no cables needed.
I did not have an MP3 player until I was given a 2gb ipod nano free in 2006.
Prior to then I used a 20$ cd player that played MP3s. In just 1 CD I could fit a respective sized library for one setting at an ok 192kbps bit rate.
I generally kept with 2-3 disks with me in total and it was all I really need at the time.
I was there when they came out and owned a few "mp3 cd" players, but I never called the disks "mp3 cds" nor did I ever hear anyone call them that. They were always "CD-R's with MP3s on it."
Gotta say though, those 10 fps 11khz clips of you look like they're right out of the CD-ROM "Magazine" Blender (no relation).
I'm sure it's probably a regional thing but I was tickled by the way you said root like "rut" and not like "boot". Great video, I still have a ton of MP3 cd's kicking around in the old CD binders.
My family saw the video and asked why I said "root" weird, so I think it's just a me thing :') lol
I had that MP3 CD player and I used it to death with the plastic all scratched up and the broken hinge reattached with duct tape. Mostly listened to nu-metal at the time. Also had a 64mb RCA Lyra that was for podcasts when those wera a thing you had to download manually. Everything changed with an iPod Nano in 2008.
I had a blue RCA Lyra, possibly the 1028 model. Must have gotten it for Christmas in... 2004? I remember it had the Anchorman cast version of Afternoon Delight, and also Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional on it. I'm pretty sure it had an SD Card slot in the top because I'm remembering dropping it and the spring loaded mechanism launching my SD card across the bus 😅
I love those pants on retro harke
They’re actually from around 15~ years ago, and they BARELY fit now 😂
@@harkeofficial they looks fine
Not technically an MP3 player I think, but I had a Hasbro Play It Now. Egg-shaped doodad with a built-in stereo plug that would flip out of the side. You could plug it into any stereo jack, and it would record whatever was being played from that device.
I can't remember the model, but my first MP3 player used those mini CDs instead of the full sized ones. I really liked how compact it was compared to a full-sized CD player, and you could fit two or three albums on the discs, which was good enough for me at the time. Unfortunately it did eventually break, I vaguely remember one day it just refused to read discs, so that was the end of that.
I never actually used one of those minidisc players! I’ll have to find one to test it out 🤔
@@harkeofficial I figured out the model, it was a Compaq iPaq PM-1, although I'm not sure I'd necessarily recommend it considering it randomly died on me. The discs are very cute, and the ones I had came with different colours printed on the labels and matching translucent CD cases, so that was fun.
My first mp3 player was a RCA 128mb with a port to fit an SD card. Poor thing died after I got caught in a downpour while walking home from work :(
I still have my old 4gb Sandisk I bought late 2000s I think. Still works and I still use it often because I want to listen to music and I love leaving my phone at home so no one can bug me
Guaranteed the throw at the wall fixed it, these things need that sometimes, i think they like it.
I really do think that’s what did it 🙏
Current: Sony NWZ-S716F 4GB
First ever portable audio device: FM radio scanner with a light
I found these amongst the years and thought they were meant for listening on laptops that came standard with audio CD capabilities since it worked even whilst powered off, didn’t realize there was an entire “psuedo-format” if you could so call it speculating the notion of burning MP3s downloaded direct from Napster & Bearshare rather than caring to use actual mastering software.
great video!
Thanks so much!! 😄
There was a time in the early 2000s while I was attending university where I wanted an MP3 player but couldn't really afford one. What I did have was an old Compaq 486 laptop that could just barely play MP3s with a big enough hard drive in it to drop a bunch of albums onto and a battery in it that would last maybe hour or so while playing said MP3s with the screen closed. I'd have it running in my backpack with the headphones plugged in while commuting back and forth from campus. World's bulkiest, jankiest "portable MP3 player" ever LOL
I love this story 😂