@vaporeon_ they were a joke in their time but apparently they've been getting a positive reappraisal. they were so unpopular ive never even seen one before lol

@wallhackio MP3 player shouldn't need any "wireless" stuff at all, it should do one thing and that is play audio files (MP3, maybe also OGG, OPUS, whatever else is popular nowadays)

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio FLAC

@The_T @wallhackio But they're huge compared to lossily compressed files...

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio huh. I've been noticing people using FLAC a lot more often, and I've been downloading it willingly a lot more often

and yeah it's because I have some ridiculous hard drives

but true, I do still prefer to find a good MP3 (especially when it's a huge discography that I only probably want a couple songs from)

@wallhackio Who is giving them a positive reappraisal? Are they saying that wireless stuff and "shopping" on an MP3 player are good thigns?

@vaporeon_ i mean, the ipod had already become a cultural phenomenon at the time so most people didn't see it as a bad thing

@wallhackio Can the iPod do those things? Never had an iPod

@wallhackio Excluding that "iPod Touch" or whatever they call it that's just an evil rectangle but without actual phone functionality and therefore extremely pointless

@vaporeon_ yeah ipods could do those things

@wallhackio Has Clodsire used an iPod?

@vaporeon_ yup ​​

@wallhackio Does Clodsire still have it? Is it a model that contains a tiny hard drive?

@vaporeon_ i do not have it any more, this would have been sometime during 2012-2016 when I still lived with my parents

@wallhackio :(
Should've taken MP3 player with you when you moved out

@vaporeon_ I really regret not taking some TI-84s with me as well

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ I'm 84 what

@vaporeon_ now Im thinking about the old mp3 player my parents bought me in high school. This would have probably been 2009/2010

it was this cheap plastic little thing. could barely hold 100 songs on it. it had an lcd screen that could only display black and white. this is the closest thing I could find that looked like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afb-foPTLiA

@vaporeon_ from my memory it looked something like this:

@vaporeon_ apparently this style was called a "stick mp3 player"

@vaporeon_ https://www.ebay.com/itm/287258709879?chn=ps&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1Z7uf5vUlQTyS3QAlnS_stg24&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-173151-913341-5&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=287258709879&targetid=2451667593817&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9007473&poi=&campaignid=21222258394&mkgroupid=188586412957&rlsatarget=pla-2451667593817&abcId=9408285&merchantid=5731497973&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21222258394&gbraid=0AAAAAD_QDh-ZLV7vdtHQyJvDszsHv4rmA&gclid=Cj0KCQjwm8bTBhDWARIsAC9Hi8lVek4w3HPdJkakQMSHM5N73Y7va4pGgny4cvd7Urv8ouKfaQde4RgaAsYzEALw_wcB

holy shit i think i found it!!!!!!

@vaporeon_ if you want to avoid ebay:

@wallhackio Sadly, I do use eBay because it's sometimes the easiest way to acquire parts for retrocomputing like SCSI cables or SCSI terminators or 5.25-inch floppy drives (cost me too much, though)

You should've removed everything after the ?, though, these are probably just tracking parameters and the link works without htem

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ it looks like the thing attached to a hospital bed that makes the bed lean up or down

@The_T @wallhackio @vaporeon_ lmao

@vaporeon_ this image is... not quite accurate lol

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ well the iPod Touch could, idk about the rest of the purroduct line

@vaporeon_ @wallhackio I'm going to go out on a limb and say it had very few games available (because no one bought one) and the shopping features are probably long dead

but also yeah, when you can have literally anything else, get anything else

@wallhackio Why did you ask for Vaporeon's opinion about the Microsoft Zune, anyway?

@vaporeon_ i was just curious since you like older things if you had any opinions on it

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ I mean, on the flipside, fish is also known for hating microsoft, so