{"id":3537,"date":"2021-11-03T08:53:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.com\/?postname=modding-old-mp3-player"},"modified":"2021-11-03T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:53:23","slug":"modding-old-mp3-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/modding-old-mp3-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Modding old MP3 player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My wife recently found an old MP3 player from about 2008 and asked if I can get it working, knowing I love this kind of stuff. I said I&#8217;d give it a shot but no guarantees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having a look on the side I notice a weird 4 pin header and a label on back that says it&#8217;s actually a USB port. Kind of weird. So I open it up to see what&#8217;s it like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/atomsoft.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/img_20211103_084445__01.jpg?w=608\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4653\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/atomsoft.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/img_20211103_084551__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4654\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I find out I&#8217;m extremely lucky as a Micro USB connector not only fits but the pinout is almost aligned straight. So I rip apart a wire for a strand or 2 and get to soldering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/atomsoft.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/img_20211102_220603__01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4655\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After soldering and plugging it it it starts up. Yes! So now I plug it to my PC and once again it starts up and then loaded a storage device. How lucky is this woman.  It was fun and took about 20 minutes.  Need to test the music  but yeah it&#8217;s alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/atomsoft.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/img_20211102_221412.jpg?w=769\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4656\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife recently found an old MP3 player from about 2008 and asked if I can get it working, knowing I love this kind of stuff. I said I&#8217;d give it a shot but no guarantees. Having a look on the side I notice a weird 4 pin header and a label on back that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}