Passenger Seat Radio Episode 2012-07-09 Now Available!

[Shane R. Monroe]

Topics:

• Google I/O Wrapup
• Jelly Bean on the Nexus
• Verizon vs S3
• Nexus 7's Future
• Nexus Q
• Google Now Demo
• Shane's Juvenille Tickets
• The Early Days of MP3

[WorknMan]

That mp3 bit was a cool trip down memory lane. Not only was encoding a pain in the ass, but playing them was too. IRIC, the very first program (Winplay I think?) didn't have any kind of resume feature, or the ability to skip around in a track. I don't even recall if it had playlist support. But then Winamp came along, and all was right with the world

But as bad as audio was, video was even worse. Do you remember those vivo files? I recall a friend and I hunched over a monitor, watching Titanic (this was before it came out on video) in a little window that was probably a quarter of the size of the whole screen, and the quality was terrible. We're talking worse than Sega CD And then it would lock up at random points, and we would have to start it all over, because you couldn't jump to a random point in the movie. But hey, downloading a movie and watching it on your computer was brand new to us, so that made it worth it. Now I can download a near-DVD quality movie in about 20 minutes.

As for games, I'm sure most of you have earlier memories than spending 3 days downloading Quake 1 over a 28.8 connection.

[TripHamer]

My first encounter with an MP3 was when I had a 386 sx-16 PC and I found a song I liked somewhere in a strange format and I couldn't play it cause my PC wasn't powerful enough. I managed to find a program that converted it to a .wav file. I guess it probably was that program you talked about.