if these came back with full albums in each clip with a skip and play and volume button then I'd LOVE to carry one around, it would be like a throwback year in music! I wouldn't mind carrying a small pouch full of my favorite albums neatly organized and popping one in to jam. that'd be kinda cool
yeah it would. they better hurry up and make it happen. I can get an entire HDD full of music on a microSD card that turns my phone that I'm typing this comment on into two iPods and a video player as well as a game machine and an internet device. still if they put a full album onto a chip like the hit clips or the MCD keychains, back in 2000 that would be ahead of it's time. I have an x-cuse box that can hold five minutes of reasonable quality audio so the technology is there.
+coondogtheman1234 you know how record players are considered cool to own? because they're retro, and classical not to mention have better sound quality than cds...well why not bring these little thingys back? haha they'd fit in perfectly with a retro style person, since a lot of people like wearing back packs I could only imagine having a small pouch to put my mini albums in and jamming the hell out-of them. it may be a little pointless cause we have phones now and mp3 players or anything of that sort are pretty much obsolete nowadays, but I wouldn't mind the little hassle of having to insert a clip inside onenof these. take me back to the days where everything wasn't so easy!
+Alex Medina I wouldn't mind having something like that because I'm a gadgets guy. something like that would fit me well. they should make recordable ones where you can put your own albums on them. I'd take my marky mark and the funky bunch and my new kids on the block CDs and put those two on those chips and all my 50 cent cds. all my good cds would go on those. now that's an idea.
Oh my god, Hit Clips randomly popped into my head today for the first time in ages and I had to look it up. I had the little disk player one and I LOVED it. Ahh nostalgia... :)
The skip-free portable CD player happened. I remember back in the early 2000s when everyone started getting the Sony walkman ones and the rich kids were already getting mp3 players. I never had any hit clips of my own, but I remember a few of my classmates having them and seeing them on TV and at the store.
the clips were like $3 each and the players were like $7-8 each and some players went up to $14.99 each but it was worth it. I really wanted the FM cartridge Yes there is an FM cartridge that turns any hitclips player into an auto scan radio. and there is a downloader that lets you record up to 2 minutes of audio and play it back on any hitclips player. pretty neat.
Can you please link a video of which game crumps video mentioned these. When I looked up Game Crumps hit clips a ton of their videos came up but were for full albums. Thanks.
Ah, man. Brings back so many memories of my naive years. They were so cute. We were poor so I was only able to squeeze 3 out of my moms wallet. I swear these little things will be worth a lot in the future.
My sister had one and I was so jealous of her! One day I took it (secretly) to school and during a bathroom break me and one of my friends listened to the clips! HAH! x) She had the one that hooked on your ear. I loved those Hit Clips. xD
Awesome video!! I vaguely remember these. I was about 12 when they emerged... they were so cool. :) Never had any, though. I came across your video after doing a Google search on Hit Clips, trying to remember exactly how they worked. They really were a neat idea. It amazes me to see how far we've come since these were popular. Kids have iPods that size with whole albums on them, now. Thanks for sharing your collection, and helping me take a trip down memory lane! :)
omg i remember those it took for ever for me and my cousin to find the name of them im so glad some one keep them so the youth of today will see what we had for music at that time. lol what we have to remember. and i know james brown when you played i started to sing. love the memories
I wish you could digitally extract the audio files from these but all it is, is power, ground and audio and control for the play button. No data points. everything is embedded in a black blob.
i loved these things my mommy got them for us every chrismas but my fave on is the first one you showed my cousin had the same exact one u had i loved tht thing it was so fun
Even though I wasn't old enough to enjoy hit clips my sister had one and I snuck into her room and tried to get into her password journal and killed all her tamagotchis then later I would get on my videonow and binge for hours
I had one when I was five years old in 2002 I got it with my McDonald's happy meal when I lived in Rome New York it played the way you love me faith hill and a moment like this by cher
Yes, I've been searching for them for years as I remember getting a player from McDonalds, a Pop Idol one! I was born in 2004 so I didn't remember the name of it.
Have you tried the AM Radio trick? I know it probably sounds stupid and pointless but many devices emit RF interference as do hitclips but it's small. just put your radio to AM and hit play on your player and put the radio near the chip of the hitclip and tune your radio around the AM band if you hear what sounds like muffled music and if it stops and starts when you press play on the hitclip then it might be that your player's speaker is blown.
I bought mine b/c I collected them, And it was cool hearing modern songs on a crappy chip. I really wish they kept these going especially the keychain MCD things which did play the whole song and had better quality. I only briefly heard one play but it wasn't enough to tell.
Ask him to, if enough people request that he do a video on these then maybe he might. Make sure he includes this link: ch00ftech.com/2013/12/31/reverse-engineering-a-hit-clip/
The good old days, i remember i had 2 of the hitclips players, the small headphone one, and hte one that looked like a mini boombox i hate getting old =(
I'm pretty I had the ones from McDonalds and a couple others. I remember thinking that this was like top of the line future tech. But mp3 players and iPod quickly swallowed this idea and birthed a new revolution of portable music players.
Haha man those were the days when my parents got me this and I've always wanted one so I was stocked. That I got one and this was in 2001 I miss my childhood 😱😭😭😭
Ha man i was cleaning today and found mine that have been hidden away from sight for about 8 years. i totally forgot those things existed until today.. really takes me back. back before apple ruled the world
I've seen the commercials on TV and saw these in record stores but I didn't know what they were. Then my cousin gave me a player and like 3 clips and from then on I started collecting. Everytime I hit walmart i'd buy hitclips stuff. I just wish I could get those MCD keychains which hold a full song.
To Everyone who watches this video: Please post video responses of your hit clips collections onto this video. I would LOVE to see everyone's collections and what songs/accessories you have.
OMG!! I had a hecka lot of these. I remember my fav ones were Nsnyc, Destiny's Child, and BackStreet Boys! :D lol I had a small pink one and I listened to it all day everyday! I totally want another one!
These are ROM chips and not possible to record over. They are only good for about a minute and a half of audio. They have a hitclips downloader but all of this stuff was a flop. You are better off just putting your album onto an SD card and having ppl stick that in their mp3 players. Check out the link in the description. They have the MCD keychains which play the full song and are about 2/3 of the size of a deck of cards. Those flopped worse than the hitclips so I never found any.
They play a slightly longer version of the songs with better audio quality but they sound the same as the clips except for maybe a little more bass. the hitclips "CD" players could also play the regular clips as well.
look up Reverse engineering a Hit Clip on google someone took the time to document how these things work. While it's technically a digital output, it's encoded in such a way that it can be fed directly into an analog circuit.
how much did these retail at? the players and the clips themselves? ive never heard of these i bought an original ipod back in 2000 so im oblivious to these!
Ewwwww. If i ever bought one of these used i'd change out the earbud. I've replaced a few earbuds on some of my players using cheap earbuds that sound like crap on my phone but are fine for a hitclips player. some of my players have the volume limiting resistor removed so they are louder.
I remember buying 20 minute film clip on 8mm reel of the movie COMA and playing it on the basement wall that was as close to having a home theater size effect as you could get and VHS machines were not even sold for commercial use yet. Man how times have changed. Now I have a palm sized HD projector that can look just a good and big as a movie screen for only 200 bucks. Oh the humanity of it all LMAO
RID COMICS Do you still have that? I'd like to see it. They have tiny projectors you hold up to your eye and press a button or turn a crank and they play maybe 30 seconds of video on cartridges.
No I don't have it anymore it ended up being sold in a lawn sale for 15 bucks it was old but I wished now i would have kept it because its kind of a part of history in early movie technology.
RID COMICS I like the newer video technology but i can respect the vintage equipment b/c it was better built than today's technology. I have a 35 year old bug zapper it's the lantern ones with the high voltage grid. It still works to this day. Had to do a couple repairs on it but other than that it works great.
RID COMICS Everything is SMD (Surface mount) and way too tiny to fix. Tear down an old cell phone and you'll see what I mean. But cellphones are reliable b/c they are moneymakers. Anything built reliable today makes people money. Like slot machines.
you mean the pocket rockers? I loved those things I want one and all the tapes ever sold for it. They actually sounded better than these. Maybe we can all start something to get these back in production.
the clips play about a minute of music and the discs a little longer maybe 2 minutes. They have the rare MCD keychains that play either half the song or the full song. I never actually used one just seen it and briefly heard one. I'd like to find some of those
@suvivor10 well they came out with those MCD things and it was basically a box on a keychain with the guts that play back audio and it played either half the song or the whole song. I have never heard one up close but it did sound better than the hitclips.
Being an early adopter of MP3 players and having the first Rio MP3 player as a kid, I facepalmed when I saw these on TV. Now that it's 2013 these have become very hilarious and I kinda wish I had bought some.
My first portable MP3 player was the RCA K@zoo which at the time it was ok but $80 for a player that the only way you could use it is with crappy MusicMatch Jukebox. The software was a pain to install but I got it working and the files on the player are encrypted. Do yourself a favor and just get one of the many MP3 players available that you just plug into USB and then drag and drop songs in explorer. Much easier.
Oh haha. Now I am using a 64GB iPhone which so far is the best MP3 player I have ever used and even has professional grade audio output and easily drives my 8ohm impedance Sony XBA-40 headphones. I could not be happier with my portable setup currently.
Jerry Sun I have yet to get one of those but I don't like using iTunes to put music on it, I have a 30GB iPod video. I wish you can drag and drop files straight to the iPod's storage. I have another MP3 that you can do that and it organizes everything like an iPod.
This is true 90's audio equipment for kids xD. Didn't know about this. I live in german and was a 90's kid too oO. No one in my classroom ever had such devices. Portable CD players or walkmans were used. I had a walkman then. But I learned programming as I was 12 and I cobbled together a piece of software running under ms-dos to overdub music from CDs to diskettes and play it through the internal speaker many times xD. It was around 1995 and worked very similar to this. The sound quality was the same (because the speaker was crappy) xD. I think, I was the almost only one who had audio-diskettes xD. I still have it and still use it sometimes for fun. Bit rate was approx. 40kbps. Today, MP3 at same bitrate still not reach the same level of audio quality using hifi-level loudspeakers. But OGG does since a couple of years.
I'd like to see that in action. Putting music from CDs onto diskettes and playing it through a PC's internal speaker. Mostly the playing of music through a computer's internal speaker. I sort of saw this because at an office that my mom worked at, their computers were set up so you don't need external speakers and I emailed her a song ripped to a wav file and it played and I thought it was the coolest to hear a PC playing music with no external speakers attached. I put music onto a diskette in the late 90s with mp3 compressed wav files. you could compress a song to 32kbps 22,050hz mono and it will sound decent enough and it will fit on a standard 1.44Mb diskette. You could maybe fit two songs depending on the length of the song and the compression settings. These audio files were used with AOL back in the late 90s in the chatrooms. Do you have a video on here of you doing that CD to Diskette dub and playing of music through internal speaker?
Sorry. I don't have any old original hardware anymore. I only have the application itself. I don't know how to present it here. I need to run it through a DOS emulator and that works very bad. The PC speaker interface is emulated, but the music comes from the regular speakers. My computer doesn't even have that internal speaker. The emulated sound is pitched down for some reason. The dubbing was done through an line-in of an early sound blaster (Stereo plugged into that port and recording with the computer what is played). This must be done on different computer if you didn't have sound blaster. Today, it can be done using a regular CD ripping tool instead. This is nothing special today. The encoder only wants a regular WAV file like others do. The audio codec was actually some custom ADPCM similar to the IMA one. But with Pre-emphasis to reduce the crackle artifacts. Sample rate was 7350-22050Hz mono. 11025Hz is very dull but nearmost to the PC speaker internal sample rate (actually, the speaker was tricky pwm modulation). It was the rate I mostly used. Higher frequencies are added during playback the way many PC games did then, if played using a sound blaster card. I recently made a windows version for that audio format which works exact same way (but I dropped internal speaker support and added an optional stereo mode). It replaces the old player well. These audio files also contain pixel art animation I drew as I was kid (The resolution was limited to 80x50). Similar to GIF. You cannot transform them to video files without loss. Furthermore, the songs itself are protected by copyright laws. I'm not a musician so I can't create my own song to present that system here using that. The sound quality is a bit crackling (ADPCM^^) but no anoying gargling like poor MP3. It sounds more a bit like a nasty vinyl record than a phone line like MP3 does in that quality (22050Hz 48kbps MP3 is still very poor quality.).
Moist Butt Flaps Some say 1 minute but the longest one I have is 1 min 20 seconds. The disc versions ran almost 2 minutes. I have the yahoo downloader coming from amazon and you can record up to 2 minutes of audio on the provided chip. and LOL at your name.
However in I think the mid to late 90s some company (Tiger maybe) came out with a keychain like device called a MCD and Yes it did play a full version of a song. There are EXTREMELY rare I've only seen 1 in person but never used one. I'd love to add every one made to my collection.
No I haven't but I googled it when I read your comment. Those are pretty cute little CDs. Too bad they flopped. I saw something like this in the first men in black movie.
Yes, they played 60 seconds of songs. They were like the caveman version of the iPod.
My god, this was my childhood. I was only 7 or so when I had one of these. It was incredible.
if these came back with full albums in each clip with a skip and play and volume button then I'd LOVE to carry one around, it would be like a throwback year in music! I wouldn't mind carrying a small pouch full of my favorite albums neatly organized and popping one in to jam. that'd be kinda cool
yeah it would. they better hurry up and make it happen. I can get an entire HDD full of music on a microSD card that turns my phone that I'm typing this comment on into two iPods and a video player as well as a game machine and an internet device. still if they put a full album onto a chip like the hit clips or the MCD keychains, back in 2000 that would be ahead of it's time. I have an x-cuse box that can hold five minutes of reasonable quality audio so the technology is there.
+coondogtheman1234 you know how record players are considered cool to own? because they're retro, and classical not to mention have better sound quality than cds...well why not bring these little thingys back? haha they'd fit in perfectly with a retro style person, since a lot of people like wearing back packs I could only imagine having a small pouch to put my mini albums in and jamming the hell out-of them. it may be a little pointless cause we have phones now and mp3 players or anything of that sort are pretty much obsolete nowadays, but I wouldn't mind the little hassle of having to insert a clip inside onenof these. take me back to the days where everything wasn't so easy!
+Alex Medina I wouldn't mind having something like that because I'm a gadgets guy. something like that would fit me well. they should make recordable ones where you can put your own albums on them. I'd take my marky mark and the funky bunch and my new kids on the block CDs and put those two on those chips and all my 50 cent cds. all my good cds would go on those. now that's an idea.
+coondogtheman1234 hell yeah man totally agree!! 👌👌
I'll actually buy albums if that happen. $10 my limit per album though.
Oh my god, Hit Clips randomly popped into my head today for the first time in ages and I had to look it up. I had the little disk player one and I LOVED it. Ahh nostalgia... :)
And if you lost that damn disc your life was over for that moment lol
the only one i remember having on my hitclip was avril lavigne- complicated
let it sink in that this video itself is 7 years old
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Banditino e let it sink in that YOUR comment is TWO MONTHS OLD OMG!!
Let it sink in that your comment is 2 days old!
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The skip-free portable CD player happened. I remember back in the early 2000s when everyone started getting the Sony walkman ones and the rich kids were already getting mp3 players. I never had any hit clips of my own, but I remember a few of my classmates having them and seeing them on TV and at the store.
When he pulled out all of the micro chip thingys i was like holy fuck thats alot
haha same
Marco Longoria lol
OMG i totally remember these. they were the coolest things back in the day.
My hit clip was my life xD
I guess these are useless now with iPhones & MP3 players, but they're still kind of cool. I'll see if I can find one at a garage sale or something. :)
stfu
AC FireWriter I found one at the end of a driveway.
Did you keep it and did it work?
They cost $44 on Amazon rn!
@@chrisbates823 Hey there, Did that Hitclip chip you found at the end of a driveway work?
Only 90's kids will remember this xD
so people born in the 90s would remember having these as 2000s kids would be 1-3 years old.
I was born in 2004 and remember having one of these when I was 5 or 6 years old.
@@kelceyfirth same
I used to have hit clips. Its funny because it never played the whole song.
the clips were like $3 each and the players were like $7-8 each and some players went up to $14.99 each but it was worth it. I really wanted the FM cartridge Yes there is an FM cartridge that turns any hitclips player into an auto scan radio. and there is a downloader that lets you record up to 2 minutes of audio and play it back on any hitclips player. pretty neat.
I've been trying to find these forever !! I felt like a boss with my little yellow hit clip!
I had forgotten about these until Game Grumps mentioned them. I had like, 3. They don't even play a whole song omg. XD
Can you please link a video of which game crumps video mentioned these. When I looked up Game Crumps hit clips a ton of their videos came up but were for full albums. Thanks.
coondogtheman1234
They mention Hip Clips in their one-off play through of The 3-D Battles of WorldRunner (skip to about 3:47 in the video) :)
ArtEqualsLife
Ok thanks.
I had one. LOL
My brother had another but we never shared as kids and he has lost his along the years :P
Ah, man. Brings back so many memories of my naive years. They were so cute. We were poor so I was only able to squeeze 3 out of my moms wallet. I swear these little things will be worth a lot in the future.
you just made me cry in my nostalgic dispair...
My sister had one and I was so jealous of her! One day I took it (secretly) to school and during a bathroom break me and one of my friends listened to the clips! HAH! x)
She had the one that hooked on your ear.
I loved those Hit Clips. xD
It works!! Haha thanks so much OP
I started crying from nostalgia.
very nice collection btw
I love those sooo much!!!! I just found my old collection of them in my closet! i remember trading them in elementary school, good memories
This had completely left my memory... and then just like that it all comes back
3:56 "it's a shame Hasbro discontinued this, these were really cool"
Awesome video!!
I vaguely remember these. I was about 12 when they emerged... they were so cool. :) Never had any, though. I came across your video after doing a Google search on Hit Clips, trying to remember exactly how they worked. They really were a neat idea. It amazes me to see how far we've come since these were popular. Kids have iPods that size with whole albums on them, now.
Thanks for sharing your collection, and helping me take a trip down memory lane! :)
omg i remember those it took for ever for me and my cousin to find the name of them im so glad some one keep them so the youth of today will see what we had for music at that time. lol what we have to remember. and i know james brown when you played i started to sing. love the memories
I wish you could digitally extract the audio files from these but all it is, is power, ground and audio and control for the play button. No data points. everything is embedded in a black blob.
...And then you annoy your parents by pressing the 'play' button over and over and _over_ so it just repeats the first bit. e e;
i loved these things my mommy got them for us every chrismas but my fave on is the first one you showed my cousin had the same exact one u had i loved tht thing it was so fun
Even though I wasn't old enough to enjoy hit clips my sister had one and I snuck into her room and tried to get into her password journal and killed all her tamagotchis then later I would get on my videonow and binge for hours
I have a videonow, A B&W player and the two other players and a good number of discs. Trying to find a way to rip the videos to a PC.
Johncas416 LMAO
I have that same exact player. I love how it has a headphone jack and it's my favorite of all the ones I have.
Oh my goodness you should do another video on these and show which ones you have show your collection off 😍😍😍😍😍
I had one when I was five years old in 2002 I got it with my McDonald's happy meal when I lived in Rome New York it played the way you love me faith hill and a moment like this by cher
Does anyone remember when they gave these out at McDonald's?
+NoDeathforDinner
I never ate at McD's. my first hitclip was given to me by my cousin and then I started collecting.
NoDeathforDinner OMG, that's it. I know for sure I didn't have one but I knew I had seen them somewhere other than the store! Thank you 😃
Yes, I've been searching for them for years as I remember getting a player from McDonalds, a Pop Idol one! I was born in 2004 so I didn't remember the name of it.
I do!! Omg I miss the good old days.,,
I just found one at the beach right now backstreet boys...lol...wow never knew they existed...
moreno3662 Where at the beach did you find it? Please post a video thanks
I Remember these! I LOVED them! I still have mine they came out in 2002.
This shit was the jam! I blasted All Star 24/7 on mine lol
I have All Star on clip as well as the disc hitclips.
ahaha this made my morning. best part is the end.. "what happened man?"
If you had one of these you were automatically the coolest kid ever lol.
Have you tried the AM Radio trick? I know it probably sounds stupid and pointless but many devices emit RF interference as do hitclips but it's small. just put your radio to AM and hit play on your player and put the radio near the chip of the hitclip and tune your radio around the AM band if you hear what sounds like muffled music and if it stops and starts when you press play on the hitclip then it might be that your player's speaker is blown.
I bought mine b/c I collected them, And it was cool hearing modern songs on a crappy chip. I really wish they kept these going especially the keychain MCD things which did play the whole song and had better quality. I only briefly heard one play but it wasn't enough to tell.
I just found mine today!!! Lol this thing was literally my life..
You... Are... Subscriberworthy... So... I... SUBSCRIBED. Really, I did, not lying.
dude when you first brought that keychain out i almost spit my drink out
Somebody should get Techmoan to do a video on one of these
Ask him to, if enough people request that he do a video on these then maybe he might. Make sure he includes this link: ch00ftech.com/2013/12/31/reverse-engineering-a-hit-clip/
He did!
ruclips.net/video/X8568_3amO4/видео.html
I couldn't stop laughing at Homer's voice
OMG!! I just found mine today am so happy I had it when I was a little kid
I don't own one, but I remember them very well. My couple of my friends went crazy for them.
The good old days, i remember i had 2 of the hitclips players, the small headphone one, and hte one that looked like a mini boombox
i hate getting old =(
I'm pretty I had the ones from McDonalds and a couple others. I remember thinking that this was like top of the line future tech. But mp3 players and iPod quickly swallowed this idea and birthed a new revolution of portable music players.
Haha man those were the days when my parents got me this and I've always wanted one so I was stocked. That I got one and this was in 2001
I miss my childhood 😱😭😭😭
Omg I love those!!! I lost mine years ago though I had nowhere near as much as you
Ha man i was cleaning today and found mine that have been hidden away from sight for about 8 years. i totally forgot those things existed until today.. really takes me back. back before apple ruled the world
I've seen the commercials on TV and saw these in record stores but I didn't know what they were. Then my cousin gave me a player and like 3 clips and from then on I started collecting. Everytime I hit walmart i'd buy hitclips stuff. I just wish I could get those MCD keychains which hold a full song.
I remember there was some radio attachment chip that i had a while back that let you listen to the radio through it
omg i completely forgot about this!! must have been only a few years before the first mp3. i feel old.
Haha! :P I thought I was da bomb walkin' around with these when I was little. xp THANKS FOR POSTIN!
Never heard of these before. So I take it each disc or card is just a clip of a song and not a full one?
To Everyone who watches this video:
Please post video responses of your hit clips collections onto this video. I would LOVE to see everyone's collections and what songs/accessories you have.
OMG!! I had a hecka lot of these. I remember my fav ones were Nsnyc, Destiny's Child, and BackStreet Boys! :D lol I had a small pink one and I listened to it all day everyday! I totally want another one!
Do you think it'd be possible to record over them somehow with my own music? I want to put my next album on a few hit clips lol
These are ROM chips and not possible to record over. They are only good for about a minute and a half of audio. They have a hitclips downloader but all of this stuff was a flop. You are better off just putting your album onto an SD card and having ppl stick that in their mp3 players. Check out the link in the description. They have the MCD keychains which play the full song and are about 2/3 of the size of a deck of cards. Those flopped worse than the hitclips so I never found any.
I never knew about the cds! Did they play the whole song or were those also just samples like the cards?
They play a slightly longer version of the songs with better audio quality but they sound the same as the clips except for maybe a little more bass. the hitclips "CD" players could also play the regular clips as well.
coondogtheman1234 That's rad 😲
coondogtheman1234 I'm gonna get me one!
look up Reverse engineering a Hit Clip on google someone took the time to document how these things work. While it's technically a digital output, it's encoded in such a way that it can be fed directly into an analog circuit.
don't remember seeing these in the UK, must of been a US thing only I would of def had one of those players back in the day :P
madmax01992 I had one in the UK
madmax01992 loads of people had them in uk
I had one in the UK lol you got the little cartridges from Poundstretcher
They existed in the UK but maybe more popular in America?
before ipods. wow
i always wanted these till i read the description that it was only half of the song. still amazed
What songs do you have on the hit clips discs I am getting Complicated and Sk8ter Boi
I have most of the releases. Once these discs came out I got all of them.
coondogtheman1234 do you have the raven songs and 60s songs like The Beach Boys, I Want You Back, My Girl. excluding I Got You I feel good.
Sk8ter Boi and Complicated are on the discs instead of the original
Oh wow... blast from the past
To make it louder did you had to bypass a resistor in the output circuit?
I have like 15 mp3 playing devices. I no longer use these hitclips but they are part of my collection.
I HAVE THEM ALL. Cost my parents a bloody fortune, but I have them all.
how much did these retail at? the players and the clips themselves? ive never heard of these i bought an original ipod back in 2000 so im oblivious to these!
I have a hit clip of Aaron Carter from 2002 and it still works! Can't believe it!
I bought one at Goodwill today with 4 clips. The mono ear bud is hardwired to the player and the holes are impacted with earwax.
Ewwwww. If i ever bought one of these used i'd change out the earbud. I've replaced a few earbuds on some of my players using cheap earbuds that sound like crap on my phone but are fine for a hitclips player. some of my players have the volume limiting resistor removed so they are louder.
No way! i thought i was the only one that remembered these! Show and tell 2nd grade = me the coolest kid in class.
I vaguely remember these. So cool!
I remember buying 20 minute film clip on 8mm reel of the movie COMA and playing it on the basement wall that was as close to having a home theater size effect as you could get and VHS machines were not even sold for commercial use yet.
Man how times have changed.
Now I have a palm sized HD projector that can look just a good and big as a movie screen for only 200 bucks.
Oh the humanity of it all LMAO
RID COMICS Do you still have that? I'd like to see it. They have tiny projectors you hold up to your eye and press a button or turn a crank and they play maybe 30 seconds of video on cartridges.
No I don't have it anymore it ended up being sold in a lawn sale for 15 bucks it was old but I wished now i would have kept it because its kind of a part of history in early movie technology.
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I like the newer video technology but i can respect the vintage equipment b/c it was better built than today's technology. I have a 35 year old bug zapper it's the lantern ones with the high voltage grid. It still works to this day. Had to do a couple repairs on it but other than that it works great.
Ya they don't make Solid State anymore.
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Everything is SMD (Surface mount) and way too tiny to fix. Tear down an old cell phone and you'll see what I mean. But cellphones are reliable b/c they are moneymakers. Anything built reliable today makes people money. Like slot machines.
I had the disk version. That's why it got ruined. I remember listening to the smash mouth one.
you mean the pocket rockers? I loved those things I want one and all the tapes ever sold for it. They actually sounded better than these. Maybe we can all start something to get these back in production.
the clips play about a minute of music and the discs a little longer maybe 2 minutes. They have the rare MCD keychains that play either half the song or the full song. I never actually used one just seen it and briefly heard one. I'd like to find some of those
@krm3396
If you still have yours and can record a video please post it as a response to this video, Thanks.
hahahaha yup! i came here from the pic from reddit. nostalgia right in the face.
@suvivor10
well they came out with those MCD things and it was basically a box on a keychain with the guts that play back audio and it played either half the song or the whole song. I have never heard one up close but it did sound better than the hitclips.
yes i remember them and we still have the dancing robot and it still works it has backstreet boys larger than life still in it.
shittt all those clips... I only had one.
I remember those. I remember I had a music video maker that played them.
@JustForTheHell0fIt
Did you buy it? and what songs were with it?
I remember these! Effin awesome!
I miss my childhood.
oh god my childhood on a chain xD
Being an early adopter of MP3 players and having the first Rio MP3 player as a kid, I facepalmed when I saw these on TV. Now that it's 2013 these have become very hilarious and I kinda wish I had bought some.
My first portable MP3 player was the RCA K@zoo which at the time it was ok but $80 for a player that the only way you could use it is with crappy MusicMatch Jukebox. The software was a pain to install but I got it working and the files on the player are encrypted. Do yourself a favor and just get one of the many MP3 players available that you just plug into USB and then drag and drop songs in explorer. Much easier.
Oh haha. Now I am using a 64GB iPhone which so far is the best MP3 player I have ever used and even has professional grade audio output and easily drives my 8ohm impedance Sony XBA-40 headphones. I could not be happier with my portable setup currently.
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I have yet to get one of those but I don't like using iTunes to put music on it, I have a 30GB iPod video. I wish you can drag and drop files straight to the iPod's storage. I have another MP3 that you can do that and it organizes everything like an iPod.
It did had a limited life. Too bad it didnt come out say 1994.
So far, I've only purchased the square clips.
So I have a question, do the disc ones actually spin in the player?
Fuck yeah I was trying to find out what these were called for about an hour lol. Man you got just about all of them.
This is true 90's audio equipment for kids xD.
Didn't know about this. I live in german and was a 90's kid too oO. No one in my classroom ever had such devices. Portable CD players or walkmans were used. I had a walkman then.
But I learned programming as I was 12 and I cobbled together a piece of software running under ms-dos to overdub music from CDs to diskettes and play it through the internal speaker many times xD. It was around 1995 and worked very similar to this. The sound quality was the same (because the speaker was crappy) xD. I think, I was the almost only one who had audio-diskettes xD.
I still have it and still use it sometimes for fun. Bit rate was approx. 40kbps. Today, MP3 at same bitrate still not reach the same level of audio quality using hifi-level loudspeakers. But OGG does since a couple of years.
I'd like to see that in action. Putting music from CDs onto diskettes and playing it through a PC's internal speaker. Mostly the playing of music through a computer's internal speaker. I sort of saw this because at an office that my mom worked at, their computers were set up so you don't need external speakers and I emailed her a song ripped to a wav file and it played and I thought it was the coolest to hear a PC playing music with no external speakers attached.
I put music onto a diskette in the late 90s with mp3 compressed wav files. you could compress a song to 32kbps 22,050hz mono and it will sound decent enough and it will fit on a standard 1.44Mb diskette. You could maybe fit two songs depending on the length of the song and the compression settings. These audio files were used with AOL back in the late 90s in the chatrooms.
Do you have a video on here of you doing that CD to Diskette dub and playing of music through internal speaker?
Sorry. I don't have any old original hardware anymore. I only have the application itself. I don't know how to present it here.
I need to run it through a DOS emulator and that works very bad. The PC speaker interface is emulated, but the music comes from the regular speakers. My computer doesn't even have that internal speaker. The emulated sound is pitched down for some reason.
The dubbing was done through an line-in of an early sound blaster (Stereo plugged into that port and recording with the computer what is played). This must be done on different computer if you didn't have sound blaster.
Today, it can be done using a regular CD ripping tool instead. This is nothing special today. The encoder only wants a regular WAV file like others do.
The audio codec was actually some custom ADPCM similar to the IMA one. But with Pre-emphasis to reduce the crackle artifacts. Sample rate was 7350-22050Hz mono.
11025Hz is very dull but nearmost to the PC speaker internal sample rate (actually, the speaker was tricky pwm modulation). It was the rate I mostly used.
Higher frequencies are added during playback the way many PC games did then, if played using a sound blaster card.
I recently made a windows version for that audio format which works exact same way (but I dropped internal speaker support and added an optional stereo mode). It replaces the old player well.
These audio files also contain pixel art animation I drew as I was kid (The resolution was limited to 80x50). Similar to GIF. You cannot transform them to video files without loss.
Furthermore, the songs itself are protected by copyright laws. I'm not a musician so I can't create my own song to present that system here using that.
The sound quality is a bit crackling (ADPCM^^) but no anoying gargling like poor MP3. It sounds more a bit like a nasty vinyl record than a phone line like MP3 does in that quality (22050Hz 48kbps MP3 is still very poor quality.).
had a couple of the clips with the mini boombox player... lol. childhood!
How long did the song play for? like 30 seconds or something?
Moist Butt Flaps Some say 1 minute but the longest one I have is 1 min 20 seconds. The disc versions ran almost 2 minutes. I have the yahoo downloader coming from amazon and you can record up to 2 minutes of audio on the provided chip. and LOL at your name.
I remember playing WHO LET THE DOGS OUT WHO WHO WHO WHO nonstop my mom probably threw it in the trash
However in I think the mid to late 90s some company (Tiger maybe) came out with a keychain like device called a MCD and Yes it did play a full version of a song. There are EXTREMELY rare I've only seen 1 in person but never used one. I'd love to add every one made to my collection.
I remember having the hit clips but never the discs. I had only like 20 of them
No I haven't but I googled it when I read your comment. Those are pretty cute little CDs. Too bad they flopped. I saw something like this in the first men in black movie.