zod000

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, there wasn't really much "gaming news" in existence back then. One only heard about game flops when it became so notable that regular news picked it up as was the case when E.T. and well the whole existing console industry when Atari imploded.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

No, we shouldn't remove it ffs.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

I think we are living in the Star Trek universe, but we're just getting to the Bell Riots shown in DS9. No word on if we get much past it.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, as I said, it is a wacky gimmick, and it does work. My teen kid got a big kick out of it and at the insane price some of the new artists have been charging to get their music in cassette form, it pays for itself in less than three albums if I already had them digitally.

I will say again that it is a $60-ish portable music player, don't expect $1000 Sony gear build quality or interface. I specifically didn't want some sort of Franken-Android DAP, which most newer dedicated music players are, so it worked out.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's not particularly high end, but I fairly recently bought a Mixxtape MP3 player for $60 new and it works well and can play as a cassette. The gimmick is wacky (but does work), but I mostly got it because I had to switch to a phone without a headphone jack and I wanted something small and inexpensive.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Just throwing it in there that none of my Fiio DACs or amps help up over time, especially with the more portable models. Maybe the build quality is better on their higher end models, but I'm definitely not buying any more of their stuff.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Awesome, glad you like it so far. Also take a look at the plugins from the main menu. it comes with a bunch and most are disabled by default. It is also, if you are so technically inclined, relatively easy to write new plugins in Python.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not the person you responded to, but on Linux, i think quod libet is the best for me. On Windows, (still) foobar2000.