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Turning to the #mastodonHiveMind. #HelpMeFind the name of an #mp3player I had back in the late 90s (maybe early 00s?).

I've looked through pages of image search results. Poured through eBay. Toured the #vintageTech & #portableSound articles & forums.

I mocked up what I remember. Device was this rounded, pear-ish shape. That soft matte black plastic. Screen on the top. Had buttons on the top edges. I think there was an SD slot at the bottom. Maybe buttons on front below screen?

Any insight?

A rough 3D representation of an mp3 player on a grid background. The device is a rounded, pear-ish shape, with the wider end at the top. That soft matte black plastic. Screen on the top. Had buttons on the top edges. I think there was an SD slot at the bottom.

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Sony SRS-XG300 X-Series Wireless Portable-Bluetooth Party-Speaker IP67 Waterproof and Dustproof with 25 Hour-Battery and Retractable Handle, Light Gray- New
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#BluetoothSpeakers
#WirelessAudio
#PortableSound
#SpeakerLife
#MusicOnTheMove
#PartyVibes
#SoundSystem
#AudioExperience
#TechTrends
#MusicEverywhere
#SoundQuality
#BassBoosted
#OutdoorAudio
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Sony SRS-XG300 X-Series Wireless Portable-Bluetooth Party-Speaker IP67 Waterproof and Dustproof with 25 Hour-Battery and Retractable Handle, Light Gray- New
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#BluetoothSpeakers
#WirelessAudio
#PortableSound
#SpeakerLife
#MusicOnTheMove
#PartyVibes
#SoundSystem
#AudioExperience
#TechTrends
#MusicEverywhere
#SoundQuality
#BassBoosted
#OutdoorAudio
#SpeakerLove
#TechEnthusiast
#WirelessMusic
#SpeakerReview
#AudioJunkie
#SpeakerUpgrades
#SoundIsLife
#SpeakerAddict
#MusicLovers
#SoundOnDemand
#SpeakerLifeStyle
#MusicToGo

The prompt: "An Apple Walkman" - #StableDiffusion versus #DallE2

#AIart #Apple #Walkman #ProductDesign #PortableSound

Screenshot of four AI-rendered images using the text prompt "An Apple Walkman" made by Stable Diffusion. The devices pictured look mostly like 1960s portable reel to reel tape machines or microcassette players. Altho they have wires coming out of them, none of them seem to have headphones. They are mostly grey in colour. One of them almost looks like an iPod Classic if it was drawn in the sand and squished down to about 2/3 its normal height. A bizarre 1950s-looking microphone sits next to it.

Screenshot of four AI-generated images based on the prompt "An Apple Walkman" as generated by Dall-E. They all look like iPhones attached to parts of actual apples. One of the phones seems to have bisected its apple and the apple's stem is now growing out the side of the iPhone. One of the iPhones has a pair of earbuds attached to it, along with a third earbud that isn't connected to a wire, but definitely is not a wireless earbud. Three of the apples are red; one appears to be a sickly Granny Smith, a pale green.

Donna (Tori Spelling) discovers that leaving a tape in the glove compartment of a car in southern California causes it to melt while Kelly (Jennie Garth) looks on in Season 4 Episode 3 of Beverly Hills 90120 (22 Sept 1993)

#cassettes #tape #ReelToReel #MagneticTape #ToriSpelling #BeverlyHills90210 #PortableSoundOnTelevision #PortableSound #JennieGarth #90sTV #90s

Three generations of the Sony Walkman as represented in our Physical Objects Collection:

• Compact Cassette Sports Walkman WM-AF54 (1989)
• MiniDisc MZ-R30 (1996)
• MP3 + AAC Mobile Phone Walkman W800 (2005)

#SonyWalkman #Walkman #Sony #CompactCassette #MiniDisc #MP3 #mobile #PortableSound

Three handheld electronic devices lying on a white backdrop. From the top, a yellow and black plastic cassette tape player from the 1980s; a silver metal MiniDisc player with an LCD screen from the 1990s; an orange and white plastic mobile phone with a colour TFT display from the 2000s.

"...Parametric acoustic arrays — also referred to as directional loudspeakers or acoustic lasers — are the most plausible technology, although other ultrasound technology may be at play."

Download the full (redacted) report from https://salon.com/2023/03/29/exclusive-declassified-report-suggests-havana-syndrome-could-result-from-energy-weapon/
(4/4)

#HavanaSyndrome #SonicWeapon #PortableSound #ultrasound #infrasound #acousticlaser #ParametricAcousticArrays #DirectionalLoudspeakers #report #declassified #FOIA #redacted #SonicWarfare #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound

Big News! We're #digitizing our Physical Objects Collection & now you can follow our work in realtime – visit 👉https://museumofportablesound.com/collections/physicalobjects to see our up-to-date Object List + our in-progress photo archive with 100 of our objects already posted!

#sound #audio #PortableSound #gear #objects #artefacts #archive #collections #photography #CollectionsManagement

A screenshot of our website shows buttons for two new features: viewing our complete inventory of Physical Objects as a spreadsheet, and viewing our in-progress work photographing the physical objects in our collection! Visit the link in our post to access both of these new features.

In the year 2013 when most of the world had embraced the MP3 player, #Eminem was repeatedly spotted in public listening to a CD player.

#HeroesOfPortableSound #CDplayer #MarshallMathers #BeatsHeadphones #PortableCDPlayer #PortableSound #Heroes

Three photographs of hip hop artist Eminem from the year 2013. Altho dressed differently in each photo, he wears the same pair of black Beats wired headphones plugged into a black portable CD player. A headline at the top of the image, in gold chiseled type floating above a dark marble background, reads "HEROES OF PORTABLE SOUND".

Disgraced Detective Chief Inspector John Luther (Idris Elba) receives a disturbing message from a serial killer via a broadcast on a Grundig Party Boy 100 portable radio (1981) in "Luther: The Fallen Sun" (dir. Jamie Payne, 2023)

#Radio #Grundig #IdrisElba #LutherTheFallenSun #PortableRadio #PortableSound #Broadcasting

A charismatic, tough, but dejected looking early middle-aged black man stands in a prison cell holding a portable radio. He wears a blue longsleeve shirt buttoned only at the collar. He has short black hair and a goatee. A dirty fluorescent light shines above him to his left, and a small window with bars on it is behind him.

Closeup of a Grundig Party Boy 100 portable radio. It is primarily shades of grey and has a single large speaker on the left, a carrying handle on top, and a large analog readout for tuning stations that stretches from top to bottom and takes up the remaining side of the device to the right of the speaker. An orange physical tuning needle is tuned to FM frequency 65.8.

Revue non exhaustive de mes lecteurs de musique : 1985 / 2002 / 2009 / 2020.
2 sur 4 peuvent enregistrer
2 sur 4 ont une batterie non-amovible
3 sur 4 utilisent un média amovible
2 sur 4 peuvent être ouverts et réparés

#PortableSound #DigitalSound #AnalogSound
#Marantz #Archos #Fiio #Sandisk
And #Rockbox 🥰

Différents lecteurs de musique :
Marantz CP430 de 1985, Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 de 2002, Sansa Clip+ de 2009 et Fiio M6 de 2020.

Et TAC! un joli Walkman pour ma collection 🤘🤘
#Walkman #Sony #PortableSound
Un Sony WM-D6C parfaitement fonctionnel, une vraie petite merveille 💖
#Cassette #Tape

Un Walkman Sony WM-D6C en photo (un baladeur cassette quoi), c'est tout noir avec un petit label "AMORPHOUS HEAD CAPSTAN SERVO" (c'est classe), juste à droite il ya le slider pour le volume de la prise casque "HEADPHONE VOLUME" et au-dessous on lit tout juste "WALKMAN PROFESSIONAL DOLBY B.C NR".
je suis en amour avec ce genre d'électronique 💓

Le même walkman avec 3 petits dinosaures en plastique posés dessus parce que c'est super classe les magnétophones et les dinosaures 😍

Our #ObjectOfTheWeek is a #NewAcquisition: The 2nd MP3 Player in the World, the Diamond Rio PMP300 (Sept 1998, after S.Korea’s MPMan in March) – the 1st commercially successful MP3 player.

The Rio provoked the 1st RIAA lawsuit trying to kill MP3s (they lost bc their suit was based on the misunderstanding that the Rio was a recording device).

Even after 25 years, our Rio still plays the (terrible) files on its built-in 32MB storage.
#diamondrio #pmp300 #mp3player #mp3 #90s #portablesound

Our Diamond Rio PMP300 sits under a glass vitrine here at Museum of Portable Sound Laboratories. It is a black plastic device, with a small LCD screen above a circular control interface featuring nine separate buttons. A superfluous yet endearing label that simply says the word "DIGITAL" is at the top centre directly above the LCD screen; the word is written with a reflective metallic material that almost looks like rainbow-reflecting pixels when you tilt the device back and forth: a completely analog method of representing the concept "digital".

A closeup of the RIo under glass. You can't see them, but on the top of the device are three more buttons: MENU, MODE, and INTRO. The INTRO button plays the first 8 seconds of every track, since the LCD screen is unable to display any track title information, so this feature allows the user to quickly scan through everything to find their favourite track.

Our Diamond Rio PMP300, out from under the glass and being held in the right hand of our Director and Chief Curator. There is a pair of headphones plugged into the Rio's headphone port, and the LCD screen displays information, showing that it is turned on and working. There is a volume indicator, an arrow indicating that sound is playing, a large '01' which means it is playing the first track on its storage, there are minutes and seconds indicated next, a battery strength indicator, and a readout of what fidelity the MP3 file has been ripped to – this one says 128kbps, which nowadays is considered low quality but back in 1998 this was allegedly "CD quality", which was a lie.

Solar Sun Visor Speaker Radio (manufacturer unknown, 1980)

#solar #SolarEnergy #SolarPower #radio #visor #headgear #80s #80sFashion #PortableSound #PortableSoundInFashion #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound

A bright yellow sun visor with a thick grey foam lining around the inside of the headband sits in a white space. The front of the head band portion of the visor reads "Solar Visor" in a VERY 80s typeface. The top of the visor portion has a large grey rectangular panel – a solar energy cell – which reads "Solar POWER" in what looks like an LCD readout. A radio antenna extends up from the visor just next to the solar panel. The product's original box sits behind the visor, with an awkward photo of a young girl wearing a red version of the same visor.

Closeup of the FM receiver built into the visor. It's built into a yellow plastic handle that hangs down over the wearer's right ear. There is a tuning knob on the outside of the handle, and a textured black dial (presumably for powering on/off and volume control) peeking up out of the top of the yellow handle.

A wide shot of the visor with its antenna retracted. It rests inside a sculpted groove inside the visor just above the solar panel for stowing the antenna when not in use.

A wide shot of the visor on its own, with its antenna fully extended. It looks more than a little ridiculous, and would have done even back in 1980.

The Toshiba RT-8710S Stereo Radio/Cassette #Boombox (1979) had a trick up its sleeve: you could pop the handle off, unlatch the speakers, and turn it into a spatial home stereo system (that could even be used as a receiver for your turntable)! This versatility, however, led to some design sacrifices – as the Radiomuseum.org photo of the device's rear end in the third image below testifies, it was pretty nice to look at as long as you didn't spin it around.

#PortableSound #1970s #Toshiba #Stereo

Two brochure-perfect photos of the front of the device. The top shows it fully formed, the bottom shows its speakers detached and a turntable plugged in.

A 1979 brochure in its entirety for the device. The text is in German. It shows four different configurations of the boombox's detachable speakers (one without them altogether, obviously intended to be listened to via headphones like a Walkman).

Top: a very impractical configuration, this shows the detachable speakers standing straight up on top of the horizontal receiver/cassette deck portion, with the handle attached to the top of the speakers – and a massive gap of nothing between the speakers, which looks like the handle will pop off the second you try to pick it up.

Bottom: a photo of the back of the device while the speakers are clipped onto the receiver at the bottom. It looks aesthetically awful and also flimsy. No wonder the brochures never showed the back.

Dan (Mark Ruffalo) and Greta (Keira Knightley) use a headphone splitter to listen to an #iPod together on the New York subway in Begin Again (2013, dir. John Carney) #ValentinesDay #PortableSound #PortableSoundInCinema #KeriaKnightley #MarkRuffalo

An attractive young white couple in casual 2010s clothing sit on a blue subway seat next to each other, each wearing a pair of headphones (she sports Apple earbuds, he's got over-the-ear cans) plugged into a gargantuan headphone splitter which is in turn plugged into a white Apple iPod. They both are smiling, but she's smiling more.

The first use of a #mobile phone in a #Bollywood film was in 1996's Tere Mere Sapne, also the first film produced by #AmitabhBachchan's ABCL company. In the story, it was used by Rahul (#ChandrachurSingh) to speak to his grandfather (#Pran) long distance in England.

#telephony #cinema #PortableSoundInCinema #PortableSound #movies #DesiCulture

Two screenshots from the film Tere Mere Sapne (1996). At the top, a young Desi man in a pearl/pink suit holds a mobile phone up to his left ear while standing outdoors. At the bottom, an older Desi man in a burgundy velvet jacket and white shirt holds a wireless telephone up to his left ear while sitting indoors.

Our #ObjectOfTheWeek is a Creative Zen Micro (2004), a 5GB hard drive- based portable audio player that also features a built-in FM radio tuner/recorder, voice recorder & microphone. Donated by @msmarypoppers.

#MP3Player #mp3 #creative #CreativeZen #CreativeZenMicro #MuseumObject #PortableSound #MuseumOfPortableSound