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

    • mkhopper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      30 days ago

      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.

  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    30 days ago

    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.

    • Feddinat0r@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      5·
      30 days ago

      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

  • rose56@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    30 days ago

    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.

  • reptar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    30 days ago

    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.

  • AxExRx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    29 days ago

    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.

  • blackris@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    30 days ago

    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.

    • Feddinat0r@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      30 days ago

      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

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    30 days ago

    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.

    • kata1yst@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      30 days ago

      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.

      • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        30 days ago

        I’ve never interacted with one, but I choose to believe you about their excellence.

  • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    29 days ago

    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.