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Love this thing, it immediatly turned on after charging.
Archos Jukebox 6000
6gb Storage with a laptop hdd
You can feel it and hear it when it starts spinning.
Sadly no flac and a pain to navigate..
Maybe i need a new musicplayer...
Thinking about the hybi r1
I listen to my music on ArchOS, by the way.
But can you install Arch on it? And will it run Doom?
You can install rockbox, and rockbox can play doom, but not on the archos
This isn't the future we were promised.
I remember that one. It was the first thing Rockbox ran on (IIRC) and that was a breath of fresh air.
Rockbox, uh, rocks.
My Archos (Recorder) device is still going strong because of it.
I don't actually use it much nowadays, but I keep it updated.
When the world goes to shit and takes the Internet with it, I'll still have tunes, at least for a few hours.
Those gigantic bumpers seem to have done their duty. Cool that the hard disk still works.
OMG! I so wanted one of those, but they were too expensive to justify. What a blast from the past!
It was really nice.
At that time the only alternative would be an mp3 discman i think
Um. A) I wanted one of these. Went with the Zen. No regrets. B) I wanted to buy a new MP3 player and couldn't find anything good. Thank you for the inadvertent recommendation. Looks like exactly what I want.
I dont know if i would buy it in 2025...
Maybe have a look around and buy something like hybi r1 or other cheap ones
Noice! I have the same problem with but with CD's and an old Sony CD player. You will find lots of HiFi music players, but don't go crazy, cause prizes are nuts IMO.
Oh man. I had a Creative Nomad, which was very similar internally/functionally, but shaped like a big portable CD player. I remember spending a lot of time debating whether to get the Archos one or the Creative one.
Used to love my iPad mini. Even had some script kiddie bulshit on it that bypassed all of our school computer network lock down. (They had some program in all the labs that let the teacher lock computers or mirror screens, and plugging it in auto ran a script that blocked that, and I had another that I had found that elevated my account to admin then reset it.
I plugged it in on my new computer 6 months ago and was able to retrieve some songs written by a friend that I think may ne the last surviving copies.
Its realy good, that you conected it and rescued those songs, those are memories :)
Those headphones look comfy AF
Beyerdynamic dt770 pro
And they are comfy, even as a person with glasses
Man, that thing is pretty cool, even if it is ugly as hell. Had a not so different device back in the day, from Creative, I think.
The Hiby R1 is pretty great. It has one annoying quirk, though: it has no button lock. But you can deactivate waking up the touch screen and I never had a button pressed by my pocket by accident. So there is that.
Thanks for the info about the r1.
Ill try to use the archos now daily, and if its too annoying i will buy something new.
Flac is also a big point
My wife still swears on her Zune.
Zunes were unexpectedly excellent devices. My wife and I still have our Zunes, though we haven't powered them on in a decade or so.
I've never interacted with one, but I choose to believe you about their excellence.
I managed to fix my old Dell Digital Jukebox that had a failed drive. Replaced the drive with a CF card, found the firmware on the Internet, created a Windows XP virtual machine to do all the configuration and music loading. Worth it
Edit: FYI a CF flash card with an IDE adapter is just about the same size as these mini laptop drives. If you can image the existing drive you can image the cf card and swap it. Much lighter, faster, and lower power draw not to mention 64GB vs 6.
I still have mine! I swapped the drive a bunch of times. I thing it has a 512gb in it now. IIRC, the batteries are also replaceable.
Yes they are, normal AA rechargeables
What a machine for an MP3 player 😮
Do you remember how much it had cost back in 2001?
Not really to be honest. I looked up on geizhals.de and it was between 219 and 320 €