Loading from mp3 player to Zx Spectrum

lol, hall of the mountain king.

did you have to amplify the sound from the mp3 player? which type of spectrum are you using? on my 48k I was unable to load anything from the pocket mp3 player since the volume level was too low...

The loading of video was on a Spectrum+ with a cheap mp3-player and with no amplifier. But you are right,some mp3player has very low level. Solutions can be using amplifiers or edit wav file for increasing its volume level

I made something similar 10 years ago. With a discman, I recorded audio tracks from old spec games, and loaded the games through it. I guess I made the first CD-ROM drive for ZX-spectrum :D

You beat me to it! :)

great! to yukatanDX: make a .wav: x1 speed, this is 20 min cassete = 20 min capture. Compress to .mp3, about 5 min...

u would spend hours tio encode a mp3 if u had memory

I wish I still had my zx spectrum. I took it apart way back. :)

It's a brilliant utility. Would this have been possible back in the 80's? I'm amazed the Spectrum can accept data at such high bit rates. I assume the basic loader contains the code which overwrites the standard ROM loading routines?

I guess it could have been possible, but in the 80's you would have had to use either a record player (?!), a VHS or if you had the money for it, a CD player.