{"id":20568,"date":"2020-09-13T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20568"},"modified":"2020-09-13T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T07:28:17","slug":"floppy-drive-used-for-storage-in-this-raspberry-pi-walkman-music-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20568","title":{"rendered":"Floppy drive used for storage in this Raspberry Pi walkman music player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=20569\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20569\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Floppy-Disk-Walkman.jpg?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Floppy-Disk-Walkman.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Floppy-Disk-Walkman.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Floppy-Disk-Walkman.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Floppy-Disk-Walkman.jpg?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Floppy-Disk-Walkman.jpg?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Floppy-Disk-Walkman.jpg?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terence Eden<\/a> has created a device which will allow you to play music in what he calls the most inconvenient way possible. Labelled as &#8220;lo-fi awfulness and cyberpunk grungy&#8221;, this portable music player is a Raspberry Pi hooked up to a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3lOd22D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USB floppy drive<\/a> and powered by a battery. Some command line operations allow him to squeeze a full album onto a 1.44MB floppy. Further commands allow him to read the floppy drive and pipe the music into his headphones. The audio quality is similar to a MW radio station and the audio will skip if the floppy drive buffers! It&#8217;s all very 1980s!<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/shkspr.mobi\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-floppy-disk-mp3-player-using-a-raspberry-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read more over on his blog<\/a> including his list of ideas of how to improve it, including taking it &#8220;on the road&#8221;. There are also some videos of the walkman in action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Eden has created a device which will allow you to play music in what he calls the most inconvenient way possible. Labelled as &#8220;lo-fi awfulness and cyberpunk grungy&#8221;, this portable music player is a Raspberry Pi hooked up to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20568\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,4,22,50,31,63],"tags":[940,941],"class_list":["post-20568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-audio","category-geeky-techiness","category-making","category-music","category-retro","tag-terence-eden","tag-walkman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Floppy drive used for storage in this Raspberry Pi walkman music player - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20568\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Floppy drive used for storage in this Raspberry Pi walkman music player - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Terence Eden has created a device which will allow you to play music in what he calls the most inconvenient way possible. 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