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Video: An MP3 Jukebox For Everyone (Including the RIAA)
🕑 Added 2022-12-12 05:08:27 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT_-1TOyifc
Hey everyone! I know it's late, and I'll be releasing this publicly in the morning so it won't be much of an early access, but phew - it has been nearly a month since I released a video, for reasons that are hard to encapsulate.
I can't believe this was just there at the junk store. I walked in and saw it and - I am not exaggerating here - I jumped for joy. I actually jumped, and I yelled something like "yeah!" I had, like, an Ash Ketchum moment. I can't really recall how I found out it existed to begin with, but I figured I was never going to find one because it's so... dorky? I had a hard time imagining that many people would have bought one, and I feel like the fossil record supports that.
This thing was a delight to figure out. I love Y2K stuff so much because you just never know what feature is going to just be completely missing, or where you'll find a UI concept that's just completely boneheaded - or much smarter than you expected. This had all of the above. Hope you enjoy.
re: the delay in releasing this - I spent two weeks trying to make part 2 of the SCSI Disc Tower video and just absolutely burned out on it. I had to give up, pivot, and start something from scratch, which ended up being this one - and then it ended up being an hour and a half long, so it was a total slog to edit.
The other thing - and hey, I know I'm just using my patreon to complain about my job, but I think I have that privilege - is that sometime in the last couple months I must have adjusted the height of my camera, or the layout of my set, because I used to have no trouble at all fitting graphics onto the screen, but over the last couple videos I've been feeling increasingly cramped, and with this one I finally hit a breaking point. About 60% of the bluescreen shenanigans I had planned for this one were impossible; there just wasn't enough space.
I will probably have to rework my set for the next video. Honestly I should probably have a little more of a shakeup anyway. The damned plant definitely needs to go, it's a menace. I thought I could get away with having some decor on the little bookcase behind me as well but even that seems to be real trouble.
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fredward
I don't often comment on here but after the follow up video I just wanted to say it honestly doesn't matter if everything you say isn't 100% accurate all the time. The videos are entertaining and enjoyable even if 1% of it turns out to be fiction. You can only make your best effort to research and fact check and that's enough. For every person that's gone away thinking something that might not be true you've got probably 10 more people who come away from a video intrigued and interested in something they might not have ever known about :)
The best version of this at the time (well, maybe widening the time period a little to cover the early 00s) was a modded Xbox with XBMC (or earlier on, XBMP) with a CD ripping plugin. The drive did rips all digital at high speed, encoding was pretty fast and you could access it all unencumbered via FTP over 100mbit/s Ethernet. No direct interface to portable MP3 players but I guess it might have been possible to connect it directly to the Xbox via USB 1.1 with a gameport to USB adapter. I didn't do that, but I did go with an esoteric route for portable music: GP32 with Smart Media Cards! I still have some of the rips from that era.
