Mine was full of power metal. I don’t know if it’s just my brain deleting all the bad stuff, but it feels these times were so much better idk …
You’re not wrong, they were better times for sure. The wild west of the internet days full of questionable clicks to sites and downloads. We were so young. We had so much to learn!
Must have been nice to afford an mp3 player back then. I bet you unironically Grey Pouponed people too.
Dongle mp3 players were super cheap, you could get one for basically free in the early aughts.
But the file names were not as ordered and consistent like this, they were all over the place. Most of them did not even have proper meta data so I had lots of songs by “unknown artist”. Creating playlists within a music player was a mess, you basically had to sort and play songs via the file system
Meanwhile today we have songs with much saner metadata such as https://m.soundcloud.com/laughing-mantis/x5o-p-ap-4-pzx54-p-7cc-7-eicar
I have one almost exactly like that (different brand, but looks exactly the same besides that). Would anyone know how to recover data from it (some text files, and potentially some recordings made with the built-in microphone)? Whenever I plug it into a computer the loading screen comes up on the player but nothing happens (computer can’t mount it), and turning it on also just gets me to the loading screen where it stays without moving forward.
Might have a file system your OS can’t handle, there was some proprietary shenanigans back then or its memory is just toast.
I had that EXACT same red one. Man that rubber got really nasty feeling once a year in
Pro tip: rub the plastic with corn starch to get rid of the sticky residue
It’s in landfill now but good to know with dealing with items with old nasty rubber
