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wolf-apparatus
@wolf-apparatus

this Turtle Beach AudioTron is an early (2001) network music player, similar to the one @cathoderaydude was talking about in a recent video. this model also came up on discord, where things like “$20 on ebay” and “works with a normal ass SMB server” (where my music already is) were mentioned so i figured i gotta try it

and, well, it does work. but setting it up was (and continues to be) a hell of a sysadmin job. details below


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

"damn," i said to myself last week, "if only id known the audiotron existed in time to include it in the video. it could have been so much b


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in reply to @wolf-apparatus's post:

The story you've told of your vintage digital audio playback deck and networkable broadcast device is wonderfully fascinating; I had no idea Turtle Beach's design and manufacturing breadth went into full digital audio playback decks of what would've been far more novel design twenty years ago, and that their chosen remit was not limited to audio accessories like headphones, microphones and headsets, and a range of gaming console and PC input devices and controllers.

I am presuming by your description of the Turtle Beach AudioTron playback deck as a functional relative of the iPods of its era, that it uses solid state or inert memory for music data storage rather than a mechanical hard drive of standard computer bay or smaller format, the latter of which would not have been used in most if any iPods or other beefier-memory portable MP3 or FLAC players until many years later.

May I ask what you understand the AudioTron's memory storage capacity to be, and ask it of you then, with the assumption that it does so with its own local hardware rather than external add-on storage?

-2Paw.

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

i feel like you could have just made the exact same video about the audiotron. it's an early hifi component MP3 player, still usable today if you wanna put up with the wacky software (ancient smb server / crappy web interface), networks over 10BASE-T or HPNA, uses a good-not-great LCD and spin/click knob interface with optional IR remote, only plays actual MP3s, sports a non-essential but useful alternate audio output (S/PDIF), uses a built-in power supply instead of a brick, and had many contemporary competitors like the various Rio Empeg-based systems before fading out a few years later with the rise of the iPod

The primary goal of our hobby seems to be to acquire Worse devices and make them even Worser at great cost to our sanity

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