I should make a portable mp3 player that only plays them off floppy disks.
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I should make a portable mp3 player that only plays them off floppy disks.
I mean, technically that already exists (at least twice) but nothing that uses 3.5" floppy disks
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@foone I think a 2 minute 128 kbps mp3 can only fit in a floppy disk, assuming it is 2.88M. A couple 3 minute 64 or 48 kbps mp3 can fit in that.
It would be cool tho
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@Spikyyn yeah there's a whole mini-industry of putting mp3s on floppies, that's not the hard part:
https://www.theverge.com/24034551/floppy-disk-music-scene-underground-diy
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@foone I've been eying one of those MIDI floppy players...it'd be cool if they were portable.
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@ann3nova oh yeah they're nice. I've got one. I never considered it but it wouldn't be too hard to convert it to run off batteries, I'm sure!
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@foone I thought you did already? or was that just a usb floppy drive connected to a car stereo or something?
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@ilmari yeah. I regularly plug USB floppy drives into things to see if they'll support floppy disks
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@foone I don't know if I have a single MP3 that would fit on a 3.5" floppy.
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@mathaetaes yeah but you can always encode them with worse kbit/s
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@foone True. But then do you really want to listen to them?
Maybe I'm a audio snob, but those low bitrate, lossy MP3 encodings drive me nuts.
Honestly, a chiptune/midi player that read from floppies would be quite a bit cooler IMO. You could fit a lot more on it, too. Bonus if you can get it to sound like a 6581/8580 SID.
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@mathaetaes I don't do things (like make a floppy-based mp3 player) because they make sense, I do them because they're awesome
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@foone I built one
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/a-floppy-disk-mp3-player-using-a-raspberry-pi/
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@Edent very cool!
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@foone can you fit a mp3 on a 3.5" floppy disk?
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@gkrnours easily. just not a very long one or one with a high quality bitrate
