Friday, September 18, 2020

Floppy Disc Walkman #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

via Terence Eden

As I discussed yesterday, it’s possible to fit half an hour of speech on a single floppy disk. The best band in the world are The Beatles, and their shortest album is A Hard Day’s Night – at 30 minutes, 45 seconds. Beatles audio was designed to be played over crappy AM radio in mono, so is well suited to being compressed using the latest audio codecs.
OK, I also got sent a USB floppy drive to review and wanted to do something interesting with it!

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