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The kids should use the IA WinAmp player by clicking that llama :)

Thank you for pointing this feature out. IA never cease to amaze me.

That's just amazing. Last year I realized you can still download winamp (they ... freed it??) and it has that bizarrely good milkdrop 2 visualizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO2YkCvOhNE - it's mindblowingly interesting.

Thank you! Has one of the best renditions of 'drunken sailor.'

Thank you for this!

I had a TON of classic Jazz 78s from my grandfather - unfortunately I couldnt find a 78 player at the time for the life of me - and I gave them to a friend who was a really accomplished Jazz drummer in SF - one of my biggest regrets - but they were so heavy and I didnt have space for them when I moved...

They can be recorded as a .WAV file at 33 rpm, which is then easy to write a program to speed up to 78.

It's my understanding that it's more than just the speed. 78's will destroy the needle of a regular record player because they're made of very hard shellac, and not vinyl.

Yep - they are very dense, heavy and brittle.