Mono bit-crushed 1 minute 2000's music. It's HitClips.

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[@Wh1t3F4c3]

High Hopes being played through the tiny dingus radio attachment is spectacular stuff

[@AfterBurnerTeirusu]

I was thinking about Floyd, so this comment really confused me for a second.

[@zuluecho5886]

@@AfterBurnerTeirusu lol nope, though that would be neat

[@Jakepearl13]

Praise the radio card

[@ben2808]

Jesus Christ loves you ❤️

[@That_One_Guy_In_A_Band]

@@AfterBurnerTeirusu same. That's a great song, though. Probably one of my favourites.

[@kirbycarr2]

My older cousin gave me a Hitclip back in 2004 when we were going to Niagara Falls. It had one tape. Pink's Don't let me Get me. Got me through the trip there and back. Absolute unit. Dug it out of a *drawer a few months ago, it STILL works.

[@freeuploads4290]

Drawer*

[@kirbycarr2]

@@freeuploads4290 Thanks mate, been a long day of work

[@compitalc]

@@kirbycarr2 cool

[@tuerry]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo you are as bad as spam giveaway comments and I hope KZbin does away with the likes of you

[@radiodxer]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo I won’t

[@SaltExarch]

I now unironically want a full rendition "The Ballad of Mum's Corolla" that's just an unapologetically scuffed 6 minute tragic tale of an impoverished lad and his misadventures with his mother's borrowed car.

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

So do I.

[@dustinbrueggemann1875]

It would quite possibly be the most indie rock thing in the history of music

[@ScoutSunset]

I want a bitcrashed remix of the song only for the hitclip

[@AmethystRebellion]

It's actually his mum's borrowed An Car 😎👍🏻

[@GGGuest11]

@@AmethystRebellionan car???

[@Heidegaff]

A modder here on KZbin, Guy Dupont, has reverse engineered the HitClip cartridges to put MicroSDs in it, with modern songs. DankPods, the PCBs are open source. Please get one and have your very own HitClip of Scarlet Fire.

[@thekingoffailure9967]

+

[@X3RNEA5]

biggest W for this piece of junk

[@TheDarkMatterESB]

+

[@Kitteh.B]

YESSSS

[@flamingogh_]

^^

[@Ollie_04]

I've always wanted a highly compressed 1 min clip of early 2000s music contained in a cartridge that goes into a nugget that clips to my ear, this is perfect.

[@GrumpyIan]

Techmoan goes into even more detail about these

[@greggv8]

It was Pocket Rockers that used tape. HitClips are digital.

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

That sweet 56kbs sound 👌 I miss audio-grabber.. back when it had a bloody hand cursor and maxed out at 56kbs. And had no skip protection, so any cd you ripped had these ticks.. man my shitty copy of toxicity had a mad intro

[@brightblackhole2442]

@peter your videos are so bad that youtube doesnt think this comment is in english

[@TehPuertoRicanSpartan]

@peter who are you

[@george8860]

I like the idea that Dank just has the MP3 Pen always within arm's reach

[@Wh1t3F4c3]

Never know when you might need it

[@richardwilliams877]

I like that it's not actually idea and is actually reality, lol

[@eekeey]

That's insane! Me too!

[@kiera1252]

The Shrek watch is probably right with it

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@eekeey cool icon!

[@nickhenderson3358]

My first and only experience with these was when my grandparents bought some of the song cartridges from a thrift store for pennies to extend the pull cord on their ceiling fan. Gotta love thrifty old people, and it honestly was probably a better use for them!

[@erickurquidez8944]

Lmao such a better use

[@WolfmanBrown]

I was excited about HitClips until I tried one out at a Zellers and discovered that it was LITERALLY a low-fi snippet of ONE song. Eleven year old me was having none of that.

[@DanTDMJace]

I see you're a canadian.

[@WolfmanBrown]

@@DanTDMJace That I am!

[@Nova.rose.]

Watching Frank pull back into the couch is the funniest thing I've seen all day

[@aronasmundurjonasson3175]

Not to mention that snakes are deaf, so kinda logical she isn’t interested in music x)

[@sparkclouding5302]

@@aronasmundurjonasson3175 huh. neet.

[@shiruvuiaanimak1485]

@@aronasmundurjonasson3175 snakes aren't deaf. They don't have an external ear structure or ear holes, but they can still recieve vibratons through bones in their heads. They can hear, but pretty poorly.

[@aronasmundurjonasson3175]

@@shiruvuiaanimak1485 Yeah I knew that, but for the sake of simplification, I didn’t go through that much detail

[@turle8645]

There’s a version of this where you can record audio onto custom cartridges. You should definitely try to find that and tell one of your stories into it

[@garystinten9339]

Was wondering if you were able to do this along with how much memory each cart held.

[@Virginiafox21]

There’s also a karaoke machine! Mine still works, but I only ever had 2 songs. I also had the radio so I didn’t need any more lmao.

[@PendragonDaGreat]

And/Or Scarlet Fire

[@ianz9916]

There's one of those somewhere in my son's bedroom. He left home about 10 years ago but his stuff is still here. It is a bit more substantial unit than the little ear piece one too and you can plug in headphones.

[@person.w9780]

your profile picture has been ruined for me

[@sleepyfox7671]

5:19 As a fast food worker I can confirm. After wearing a headset on one ear for a few hours my hearing has to recalibrate.

[@viktordickinson7844]

Dang dude just get into a trade at that point. It's probably better for your health.

[@sleepyfox7671]

@@viktordickinson7844 I'm doing a traineeship so I can't, or at least it would be extremely difficult to

[@robertschnobert9090]

Are you a furry? Awooooo! Haha 🌈 ​@@sleepyfox7671

[@DanielTGaming]

Absolutely loved this video, and I'm so happy you talked about the HitClips. Thought I'd mention the McDonald's Tie-In story & that it's actually a misunderstanding, and that it had always been a standalone toy, it was just first _promoted_ by McDonald's. Techmoan did a video about the HitClips & also debunked some other tales about them.

[@ComfyCherry]

I watched techmoans video where at the start he explains that there's a misunderstanding about that, so when he said it started as a maccas toy I was a little disappointed he was spreading misinformation.

[@EdotJdotOriginal]

His name is Daniel T. Gaming Full name proper James Brown

[@DanielTGaming]

@@KKHell Yeah babbyyyu

[@weegie3343]

yes

[@17R3W]

Came here to say this. You can even see in the commercial that he plays, thatbit clearly says the price is $4.99 and not "free in each happy meal"

[@kuonumberone]

this is surprisingly nostalgic for something i never experienced in my life

[@peanutthelion815]

I did experience it. They sucked so much. Imagine paying $5 for A song. I did get the radio clip and it did kind of rock though. But only because I didn't have to buy more of the stupid clips after it. 😂😂 Edit: the one he shows is the one I had. That's so crazy. I might actually be able to find THAT hit clip 🤣🤣🤣

[@kuonumberone]

@@peanutthelion815 do you still have it? that's pretty neat tbh

[@ben2808]

Jesus Christ loves you ❤️

[@ben2808]

@@kuonumberone Jesus Christ loves you ❤️

[@ben2808]

@@peanutthelion815 Jesus Christ loves you ❤️

[@GotInterest]

man HITCLIPS this is a blast from the past. When you smacked down that earpiece player I lost it. That was the exact one I owned when I was a kid. I have a vivid memory of being curled up in my bed with that on my ear, listening to a specific Britney Spears hitclip on repeat absolutely weeping because I was so moved by the music. I think I was 8 at the time.

[@blissfuldj7627]

i still have mine, and a sugar ray song

[@will2316]

Man no lie, using one with the radio adapter actually woulda been pretty baller at the time. That’s essentially a wireless ‘bluetooth headset’ that plays songs on the radio. As a kids toy. That would have been my absolute favorite as a kid

[@djentlover]

I would give anything to get back to that time when you heard good music for the first time

[@noreenvillacorte6688]

DankPods beatboxing at 5:10 is an absolute gem, I had to repeat multiple times

[@kouhai2456]

My older sister used to have a HitClip with a bunch of songs in the early 2000s and I was so freaking jealous!! I wanted one sooo bad. My mom got me a knockoff CD Walkman player instead and I listened to Disney princess music on it, wishing I had a collection of awfully compressed 1 minute clips instead (little did I know that I got the better end of the deal).

[@itselfbookshelf8472]

One of my friends in school thought these were the coolest thing ever, he seriously had near every song available on the format. It was 2016. He wasn’t even born when they started selling these. Yes he had a proper music player.

[@dreamscape9295]

He was just ahead of his time; now we all possess such great admiration for this venerable format

[@qwertyferix]

It's the future of music consumption.

[@doefarris2189]

Modern Day Archeologist

[@Brian-jv8iy]

It is a collectible after all, I think the fact your friend devoted himself to collecting these is cool in itself.

[@typingcat]

Damn, I thought the story was from 2005 or something... until I saw the number 2016. He didn't have a smartphone or something?

[@theshadowdirector]

I had the FM radio adaptor, literally the only means you had to listen to full songs! At better quality most of the time too.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

They actually had a 2 minute version that came out in 2004 right before the line died. They could actually hold a full (very short) song, but they were still terrible.

[@Suileron]

I had the FM adapter too! The only thing that made the hitclip make some kind of sense...barely

[@katethegoat7507]

How did you change frequencies on that thing? Was it stuck to one station?

[@jokuemt]

@@katethegoat7507 it has buttons on the fm cart thing

[@theshadowdirector]

@@katethegoat7507 there were a couple of buttons on it. One would auto scan.

[@MarbleFox162]

I remember a bunch of my friends in school had these, and even as a kid, I never wanted one. In 2002 I found my dads old Walkman with 2 tapes. Kansas Leftoverture, and Kansas Point of Know Return. (He had a bunch of tapes but those were the only two I could find) I loved it. I was 7 at the time. Everyone made fun of me, but at least I had two entire albums of MORE than a minute per song.

[@Liggliluff]

You had an entire album worth of music on one cartridge at great quality? Get a load of this guy, having full songs.

[@MarbleFox162]

@@Liggliluff I mean, it was a cassette. Not the greatest quality.

[@Liggliluff]

@@MarbleFox162 Compared to HitClips, if was great quality

[@fresanegra77]

Similar experience, same product, different version and era. Found my mom's sony walkman with 7gb has over 600 songs and battery lasts 4-5 hours some years ago and use it on a regular basis I love it!!! Specially since I can load music onto it from my laptop!

[@brentfisher902]

@@Liggliluff I would think micro cassette tape at the 1.2 speed would even sound better, and you could fit most of an 1800 foot 2 direction 3-3/4 ips reel to reel on one tape.

[@wardenshepard6229]

Oh my God I remember having a Faith Hill "This Kiss" hit clip like in 2004. Drove my sister crazy listening to it over and over. We were just talking about them last week, I'm so excited you made a video on this treasure.

[@heyitsevan758]

As a 5 year old in the early 2000s, HitClips were so cool. You should do a video on tooth tunes next. Similar in the sense that they are low quality micro mixes, but they are two minutes to make sure the kids brush their teeth long enough.

[@kenpachizaraki7028]

holy fuck i aint thought of one of them things in years ☠️☠️☠️

[@Emolgun]

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO REMEMBERED IT

[@ExpandDong420]

1:07 truly the voice of an angel

[@dingusboi7045]

we need a full song

[@T3H_C0SM1C_SP4RT4N]

"cause bouy naow im stronger"

[@mariuskaesser]

Holy dingus it is my first time seeing these and I really love it. It gives me 80s Cyberpunk vibes. Like when they put chips in their head in neuromancer or something. First you listen to some juicy NSYNC and then you use the Radio Adapter to hack corpo drones and send them after the FOOLS WHO WRONGED YOU tm. I am not kidding this is some retro future stuff and I am all in for it.

[@JDHGaming]

I had the boombox with the radio. It was pretty good. Also "tell me whhhyyyyy!" And "Baby bye bye byyyeee" seared for all time into my brain. Thanks hit clips 😄!

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

"Mum's Corolla" You know it's great when this line appears.

[@xXmlgamingXx355]

It actually seems cool to have, as a kid. I don’t think kids really care about the sound quality, the fact that it’s tradable is more than enough, for them.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Having grown up with these things, no one ever actually traded them. My friends would share them, but none ever exchanged ownership.

[@kw9849]

I was around when these were at their height, and never saw or heard of anyone trading them. Sharing, maybe. These occupied a weird niche because they weren't cheap, so the poor kids didn't have them and the rich kids just bought discmans (or MP3 players if they were really flush.)

[@Liggliluff]

_> "I don’t think kids really care about the sound quality"_ The thing is, a lot of people don't care about quality. I fully understand people aren't audiophiles and won't pick up on the difference of 320 kbit/s MP3 vs FLAC. But people don't see to even be able to tell the difference between 64 and 320 kbit/s MP3s.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@Liggliluff I's a bit of a learned skill. Even then, it can be pretty amusing seeing how an audiophile can't tell the difference in quality between $3000 HDMI cables and coat hangers when blind tested.

[@LeeDee5]

I wanted some HitClips so badly as a kid, but like we were poor and so my dream was never fulfilled because they were kind of expensive. Well I didn't think they were expensive but my parents did... and now looking back they were right lol. I just thought they were the coolest thing ever.

[@strawberryfields9762]

So did I😂

[@oOignignoktOo1]

I never had one but remember wanting one the format aged like milk but it's a cool piece of nostalgia reminding of simpler times before a post 9/11 world.

[@ryanhuang8498]

When I was in elementary school back in 2002. Knew Hit Clips are one of those throw away items. Instead bought a $12 portable radio that used 2 AA batteries which were Panasonic batteries from the dollar store. Even that sounded better than those Hit Clips by classmates were listening to and much cheaper. One set of batteries lasted a few months for 4 hours a day listening to it. Wear some earbuds and could listen on my own. When one of my classmates complained about having more Hit Clips. I told him that I just had to spend $1 every four months. He was jealous of me.

[@caitlinirelan5641]

I have the FONDEST memories of my best friend in elementary school having one of these but not the ear piece version. I don't remember what music she had for it, but I LOVED it. From what I can tell, I think she had the groove machine one

[@tristanraine]

Me who watches Techmoan: "Hey I've seen this before, this is a classic!"

[@ram89572]

And before that, Pocket Rockers!!!!

[@g4mmalotus937]

6:28 Was not expecting to hear bitcrushed PATD playing on an Australian radio station in a KZbin video, lol.

[@inrainbowsfan94]

I thought that was Fall Out Boy

[@g4mmalotus937]

@@inrainbowsfan94 nope. The song is High Hopes by PATD

[@st1220]

2:13 eeey

[@honblb100]

Dog

[@MLDeS100]

I loved these when I was a kid. Damn I was stupid but oh boy that nostalgia, had no idea there was a radio version and if I did when I was a kid I would've never put it down.

[@JaysTrain08]

As a 4-5 year old in 2002, these things were amazing to me. And hey, Atleast they were an original idea compared to every corporate entity slapping their name and logo on the cheapest Chinese MP3 player they could and charging 10x their true value. This was super nostalgic for me

[@NafanyaZX]

An old meme with a bent fork comes to mind. "Just because you're unique, doesn't mean you're useful." The only unique thing about it is the proprietary format. This is not the word's first headphone with a memory card slot, or built-in radio. And are you seriously implying this item was a great value? Any overpriced and shitty beyond belief mp3 player is still much better value than this spectacular garbage.

[@PsycheTrance65]

@@NafanyaZX I don't know about you but back in 2002 portable music wasn't as accessible to some people. It might be trash in hindsight. But it had its use back in the day. Plus the target audience were children/early teens, not adults who obviously would prefer better audio quality :P

[@JaysTrain08]

@@NafanyaZX bruh I was 4 I didn’t give a fuck about the value of this thing. All I know is that it was one of my childhood toys that really stands out to me to this day

[@NafanyaZX]

@@PsycheTrance65 *ghem* portable cassete players and radios have been around for a while by then. In fact, I have fond memories of arguing with my friends over whose earphones were better (as in moar dirty bass was preferrable. Today's trebble is yesterday's bass 🥲). That's as an 11 yo, in Ukraine, in 1996, or something. (Are you telling me Americans were lagging behind? Bruh...) Of course, the device had to be shared with my 4 years older brother, who was the main user. But I got the benefit of him acquiring the music, aside from recording from the radio. I simply can't imagime any teen being satisfied with the hit clip. Up to 6 yo tops, otherwise it becomes too pitiful. Plus make no mistake. Terrible audio quality and limited music choice are bad enough already, but you're forgetting about something crucial. The one-ear-listening-experience. It's only use has always been landfill. Small enough kids being entertained by garbage doesn't make it any less garbage. Today we entrust our far more fragile smartphones to toddlers. So nothing was stopping you from giving your by then old and tired walkman to your child.

[@NafanyaZX]

@@JaysTrain08 Dood, I have no doubt it was THE SHIT to you back then. Just like an actual log of shit and a stick to poke it with would have been. Toddlers being entertained by garbage doesn't make it any less trash. If anything, it's a testament to an underdeveloped brain. Which is normal at that age.

[@DawsonsMemes]

It is actually a common misconception about the Hit Clips being sold in Maccas. There has been no proof that they were in Happy meals but instead were sold in the stores. There’s a more in depth video about it on Techmoans channel. Watch it after this one though.

[@aqua-bery]

Technomoan 😩

[@kellypg]

@@aqua-bery why the sad face? Did something happen? Edit. I'm really high and squinting. I thought it was a sad face.

[@guigs4467]

@@kellypg fr?

[@xpszgamingtool7524]

@@kellypg That's the moaning emoji bro, channel name just hits hard

[@Muxeroth]

@@kellypg that ain't no sad face...

[@IWantATimeMachine0000]

I remember wanting these for Christmas when I was 6. But I got a red boombox that played CDs and cassettes and had AM/FM radio instead. What a save. But it still shows how sad I was that I wanted HitClips. 😪

[@AshtonScorpius]

I've never felt so envious yet so angry for a fad I was too young to participate in. I just can imagine the constant clinking from daisy-chaining these to my backpack zippers and cutting my finger opening half a dozen of these I begged my grandparents to buy for my 10th birthday.

[@billygoatguy3960]

It's fascinating how Frank can be found so many places, yet be completely stone still each time we see her.

[@timlooijen7721]

As a non-Australian I just love how you have a casual snake pet on your couch lol

[@crabbosenior8686]

I've honestly been waiting for this specific video since I first started watching your channel a little over a year ago. Keep up man

[@theretrogeek789]

Thank you so much for getting me into iPods, I just completed my iPod 4th gen, iFlash 128GB SD-Card mod!

[@masterplusmargarita]

I don't know what it says about me that out of everything on this channel this is the thing that gave me the most pure, unadulterated nostalgia. I've never even heard of these things, but they're such a distilled essence of what the early 2000s felt like that I completely felt like I was 8 again.

[@eyes0fender]

finally, something I can watch after coming home from work

[@111paolo2]

Fatherless pfp

[@kai_444]

same

[@eyes0fender]

@@111paolo2 ???? dont know what gave you reason to say that but ok, sure. lol

[@freeuploads4290]

@@111paolo2 Loser who hasn't customized their channel pfp.

[@tiqsoo]

I'm watching from work

[@jttnc]

I had the same exact one, and I absolutely loved. It’s at my grandmothers house, and it still works without the batteries ever having been changed

[@user-ni2rs9zu1h]

We need a full version of the ad song let's call it moms corolla

[@CorgiButtOnWheels]

I actually had the red "boombox" player with N*Sync's "Bye Bye Bye" as a kid and I wore the hell outta that thing lol! Crappy for sure, but for a kid in the early 00's? It was a lot of fun.

[@OriginalContent89]

I remember Hit Clips. I really wanted some so when I got a player for Christmas I was so stoked... until I realized that you only get like 45 seconds of each song. I think they would have been way more popular and lasted way longer if they could have played a full single

[@Zark-Muckerberg]

Apparently there were later ones could play an entire song.

[@storm_4659]

1:12 I'm dying 😂

[@21Whitefire]

This channel has been such a gift to be subscribed to. You are an amazingly funny and glorious Aussie Chad dear sir. Shout-out to Frank the queen btw

[@blazernitrox6329]

That genuinely sounds like a popular song smashed through the MIDI decoder on the GameBoy Advance. Well done.

[@Madison1676]

Me every week: Nothing can top last week's video!

[@grassulo]

Used to have a hit clips player but before that when I was like 5 I had a Pocket Rocker, the tiny endless loop cartridge which was like the daddy of hit clips (and was actually somewhat decent quality), also PKCELL makes good button bois, got quite a few packs of them in different sizes, great battery brand and wouldn't have known about them without this channel.

[@hauntingthegrave]

I have been waiting for these since finding this channel😁 I HATED these things the instant i saw them 😂 thank you for this

[@metroplexprime9901]

The little Frank clips at the end are just the cherry on top for the hot mess covered on this channel.

[@-Panna-]

The nostalgia hit _so_ dang hard with this. I had one of these as a kid and used it all the time. Quite possibly one of the most early-2000's things to exist.

[@plankera]

That commercial song you wrote is one of the funniest things I’ve seen on this channel. Keep it up!

[@dragoon1090]

I love hit clips. It reminds me of being a kid in the early 2000s.

[@BeastlyBones]

Oh gosh these remind me of those Tooth Tunes toothbrushes that conducted the freshest Disney hits right to your brain as you brushed. I remember begging mum for a Jonas Brothers one in a toy kingdom and being cruelly denied.

[@garystinten9339]

Must hunt one of these down.. having signals directed into the brain..

[@thasmin]

i had a hannah montana one. absolutely obliterated you with how cool i am

[@deathsyth8888]

HitClips, finally! What a nugget of a file format/system for an awkward time in tech music history.

[@EnsignLovell]

It's going to sound weird... But watching you and Frank has somewhat helped my phobia of snakes. I love Frank, such a good snake. :)

[@djentlover]

She's really cute

[@V1_The_Machine]

The slow slunk back into the couch is perfect. I love Frank. 🥰

[@Michael_Mirage]

God I love love hitclips, not because their good, but because it’s so quintessentially early 2000’s and that is always a one way ticket to my heart, even if it’s objective trash

[@StrandKMD]

Love seeing the patron list go by at light speed! Well deserved mate! ♥

[@WeirdlyNotDeadlyDisease]

So it was a ... McNugget?

[@jacobkuechenmeister9350]

frank wedged in the couch is the cutest thing I've ever seen

[@kiokartoons]

honestly taking the hitclip fm radio adapter and one of the hitclip boomboxes could work as a miniature radio. i imagine it's a bit too expensive for what it is, but i can see it being a thing, especially given how better the fm radio is compared to the actual hitclips cartridges. though idk if any of the devices have a headphone jack (aside from the actual hitclips player which has a single headphone hard-wired into it) so you'd be sharing the smells with everyone in earshot

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Can confirm I had one friend who did exactly that.

[@BeetleBuns]

back in those days you could still just pop down to the local radio shack and build your own radio lol... and probably for much cheaper

[@ianz9916]

The recordable unit with the Yahoo! advertising does have a headphone jack. Still sounds pants but at least only you will know.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@BeetleBuns The HitClips adapter was often marked for clearance as soon as it hit the shelf. It came out right around the time the product was on the decline. $14 for an FM adapter for the crappy toy your parents got you last Christmas was not a bad deal.

[@auraofazure]

True story, I got one of these back in 2000 (I have no idea where or how) with Britney Spears’ “Stronger” and it was with the standard “player” - with a hardwired single earbud for the finest in mono audio playing back at… 4 bits. I stuck with my growing CD collection instead.

[@kaitlyn__L]

It’s actually 1-bit lol (albeit split across two channels muxed into one, so, kinda 2-bit? But not really). PWM for the best quantisation noise (like the Pikachu sample in Pokémon Yellow)

[@tdata545]

I'm legitimately impressed that in 2000 we had the tech to make a radio that small. I think I was too old for HitClips and it wasn't my style of music I liked. I was more a Q101 fan, in Chicago. They played the more edgy stuff and as I got older they started just being mostly alternative. They were Alt-Rock growing up, and had Mancow on it, he was a nationally syndicated shock jock. 105.9 had Steve Dahl which my father liked listening to, and later got Opie and Anthony on like an hour delay.

[@mattdavis9601]

My only real memory of Mancow is watching his History Channel reality show where he played a car salesman in the middle of nowhere working for his brother (?) and being a complete screwup. Surprisingly the show didn't last long.

[@blakksheep736]

I'm not surprised. Portable radios cost nothing by mid 1980s.

[@mybuttcheeks11]

Hi dank pods just wanted to say I love your videos and love your jokes keep up the good work:)

[@mjc0961]

... I am very glad that I somehow completely missed these when they were a thing. I was quite happy with my portable CD player that would play an MP3 disc loaded with multiple albums worth of songs.

[@Yoboydeez]

It’s always good when dank uploads

[@freeuploads4290]

It's every week, are you that impatient.

[@Yoboydeez]

@@freeuploads4290 no I’m just saying it’s nice to have another video to watch from him

[@Nightowl423]

“Frank it yours to keep”slowly puts head back in the couch.

[@greg_the_2nd507]

I had one of these growing up. I adored that thing, don't have the player anymore but I still have the cartridges.

[@SatanenPerkele]

As a swede, my heart skip a beat everytime I hear people use the term "smorgasbord" 😍

[@JasonZakrajsek]

*term

[@SatanenPerkele]

@@JasonZakrajsek Yes, I just noticed my typo.

[@robertpaulson8790]

As a fat guy with little self control; same

[@austroart]

DankPods is the embodiment of chaotic good

[@anonymouspersonthefake]

I agree

[@ThePapaja1996]

The Australia version of ashen

[@LeoRedFang]

THE DAY HAS COME! HIT-CLIPS!!!! Been waiting for this for a long time...

[@RayHikes]

6:27 I don't know why but I was AMAZED to hear patd on Aussie radio. You guys got some good music taste over there.

[@rossini138]

I never had these and I’ve watched a couple of people review them in modern times and say they’re terrible… but I still want them so bad

[@Axqu7227]

The nostalgia!! I had a bunch of these as a kid and was always bummed out I didn’t get the whole song!! Then as a teenager I fried my laptop getting equally bit crushed garbage mp3s off limewire

[@Tuxedoz]

7:45 NSNEK

[@Dadodaw]

I've been eagerly awaiting this day when Dank Pods would finally make a video about these.

[@rh.4ndu]

i havent thought about or seen these for YEARS, like an hour ago i saw a hitclip boombox in a reel on instagram, and now you put out a video about them. life surely is strange sometimes, loved the video despite the kinda creepy coincidence 😬

[@mandrincroxley9215]

Yesss, I'm so glad to see you cover Hitclips

[@SaucePan_McGee]

that list of names just keeps on goin, and i love it

[@diddleysquin]

I had these as a kid, remember buying them at the pond shop ad I loved em!

[@nicolassanchez3099]

Someone is going to digitalize the HitClip mixes of all those song to use on TikTok. It's gonna happen, it's just a matter of time. Also, i'm still intrigued by "Intoxication - Linkin Park"

[@Liggliluff]

Interesting use of "digitalize" since I'm pretty sure they're digital already

[@nicolassanchez3099]

@@Liggliluff sorry, i.meant to make them into mp3

[@anname7373]

@@nicolassanchez3099 did you mean pulling them off the hit clips player

[@F40M07]

THE GOD IS BACK :)

[@juukyuchan]

I friggin loved hit clips!

[@christophernoe5367]

I had the purple/silver boombox one with tons of clips when I was a little kid! I never would've iamgined that you would do a video on these things...then again...it's right up your alley.

[@juan.carlos.3]

I’m happy he’d finally covered this

[@stixc]

1:06 a god like song... you are the next frank zappa... a song to make the beatles and all other artists look primitive... i salute you...

[@SMITESHSURESH]

I don't know man the idea of it seems so neat, I like the form factor. Just imagine a keychain full of your tracks in a loop 🤣

[@austinb.7744]

You roasted my childhood perfectly sir. Today you are in another level

[@GeneralNickles]

I've said it a dozen times on other hitclips videos, and I'll say it again: Hit clips COULD have been _the_ number one music format of its time, IF they had just done it right. Literally all they needed to do was have slightly better audio quality, and have FULL SONGS! It's wild to me that they only come with 1 minute clips. If they had full songs, and remotely tolerable quality, then these things would've been an absolute gold mine. They have all the hallmarks of wildly popular early 2000s collectables, AND they actually have a function.(playing music, of course.) They were legitimately cool, and they had so much potential, but Tiger Electronics just ruined the whole thing by being cheap.

[@EdotJdotOriginal]

How many times do people say that "well the mp3 was popular and players were cheap" to you, if you've said this a bunch of times I think it is possible this could have been the biggest hit for kids media during this time, but the cd was still being sold and used pretty heavily at this time too.

[@GeneralNickles]

@@EdotJdotOriginal you're thinking about this all wrong. The proliferation of MP3 players is irrelevant, because that's not what these are. These are collectables. They weren't meant to compete with the ipod. They were meant to compete with beanie babies. They were just cool. Plain and simple. They have the album art on them. The players are clear so you can see the album art while it's playing. They're small and portable, and literally come with lanyard clips. They're cheap enough that you could easily buy a bunch of them in a relatively short time frame. They could easily create artificial scarcity of certain chips for really popular songs. "Super rare chips! Share and trade with friends!" The marketing writes itself. And they play music. Which is literally all 90% of pre-teens care about. These had every bit of the potential needed to be as wildly popular back then as Funko pops are now. These are basically the early 2000s musical equivalent of Amiibos. They had SO MUCH potential, and they absolutely squandered it.

[@EdotJdotOriginal]

@@GeneralNickles While I did suggest the comparison and clearly I do think it would have not been the "#1 music format" literally, I do know that isn't what you are literally arguing, you're more looking at success regarding the hitclip and thinking it could've been way more successful for its market for a longer period of time with better production of the chips and such. I wasn't really interested in being told why it would've been popular as I could see it given what you had already said, I was more so curious as to how many people think you're overexaggerating; I didn't really make my comment clear, apologies on my end.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Any better quality would’ve needed better output circuitry - as you say, Tiger cheaping out. There’s only so good PWM in an audio frequency will sound, so they picked the music quality after making those hardware decisions. It really is the audio equivalent of those LCD games (which themselves could’ve been fun like Game & Watch if Tiger had put a bit more effort in, but they didn’t).

[@BlueJ484]

0:10 I used to have these but it was that 'slide to the left, slide to the right'

[@snoopyguy21]

I remember these around the turn of the millennium. Wanted them so bad. Still do. Coolest things ever

[@codynaccarato8960]

This video brought back memories. I loved these things. I still have it in the drawer somewhere

[@scrappypirate2268]

HITCLIPS! I didn't even read the title and I knew what you were talking about. I actually remember getting one of those in a happy meal! I also got a new one later. They were not great. MP3 players came on to the scene and made them irrelevant pretty quick

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

They didn't actually come in the Happy Meal, but they were sold at McDonald's.

[@ridleylegassy]

8:05 I thought he was gonna grit it after saying it was safe

[@rabbitsfoot_productions6958]

i have never wanted a product more

[@ArcheWhatzitGonnaB3]

That manual at 6:10 shows the radio adapter in the alarm clock they sold, the clock was designed to hold 6 different audio bricks that you would rotate to play the one you wanted. This radio being inserted not only stops you from rotating the device, but it hides the flimsy button behind it that needed to be depressed in order to pull pins back and allow the device to spin. This really takes me back to having the choice of getting a CD or a hitclip player for my birthday, wrong choices were made, even chose the horrible model that would only play music while you actively participated in some trash game, if you didn't play you'd lose and the song would stop.