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Video: An MP3 Jukebox For Everyone (Including the RIAA) (Patreon)

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2022-12-12 05:08:27
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2026-06
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https://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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In the year 2000 you couldn't buy an iPod - but even if you could, they weren't very good for use in your home. What if you could buy something that was? Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cathoderaydude Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/cathoderaydude Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:00 The Problem With MP3 00:10:20 DigMedia / Unboxing 00:14:12 The System 00:17:45 MusicStore overview 00:21:10 Using the MusicStore 00:41:05 PC Interface 00:47:00 Complaints vs Reality #1 00:51:30 Soulmate overview 00:56:50 Soulmate + MusicStore 01:00:00 The Speed Mystery 01:03:38 Soulmate teardown 01:11:56 MusicStore teardown 01:20:30 Conclusion 01:23:45 Outro

Comments

Matt Falcon

HOW. HOW did you end up finding this in EXACTLY the same month I did? I had one of these as a kid, and I struggled for a while with the bug of "remembering that it existed, but have no evidence of it, and can't remember what it was called", before I found exactly one reference in a Maximum PC issue (I think) and found what it was called. I bought one, and proceeded to document how to restore it if anyone ever finds a broken one: https://twitter.com/FalconFour/status/1597794327400710144 - and https://www.ifixit.com/Device/DigMedia_MusicStore and https://archive.org/details/MUSICSTORE If you have any questions/want to dive deeper onto making every part of it work (I haven't seen the video - sorry, commenting before watching), hit me up! I can make it all work and I even have two SoulMates (want one? lol).

Sophie Altair

I apologize as I'm doing the anathematic thing of commenting before fully watching the video, but this looks like an even CLOSER analog of Frank Zappa's hypothetical music store than iTunes originally was (because of the phone). If you're not familiar, here is the excerpt: https://www.techdirt.com/2009/04/08/did-frank-zappa-come-up-with-a-business-plan-for-file-sharing-in-1983/ If you end up mentioning this excerpt in the video, I will come back and apologize again 😅

Nick R

Have you considered chromakey painting the plant?

Funkmon

Regarding blue screen... What if you just shot wider? Hur dürr I know. But does that not work?

VCSMaster

I know I'm a new patron video here but I've been watching since the "Dialing up at home" video a little while ago. Now that I have a bit more stable footing myself I feel like I should be giving you money for the insanely high quality content you put out. Also I was really excited to mention I found the datasheet for those SDRAM chips and that those were supercapacitors to mitigate the "battery removal" thing but turns out other people figured that out before me. FPGAs of that era didn't have the gate count to really "do" MPEG coding of any kind, so that is definitely offloaded to the DSP. Other people are probably right, it's probably handling bus arbitration, but I think it is probably also handling DMA and communications with the ATA bus. Looks like it has replaceable firmware and mostly off the shelf components other than that FPGA, which could probably dumped without a bunch of trouble. I see no reason this couldn't be some hacker's delight with a little bit of effort, had they become more popular.

zephyrmo

Another wonderful video that makes me so happy that Youtube exists. Without it (or a similar service) there is no way something like this would ever get produced and distributed.

scheeseman

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.

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 :)