mixtape2
My second iteration of a cassette-style mp3 player
Details
- External ID
- 1378804899
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- mixtape
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4914168588265437
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cassette-style mp3 player
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is a physical DIY electronics / hardware product involving custom PCB design, microcontrollers, casing fabrication, and embedded audio firmware.
What it would actually take: Building a cassette-style MP3 player requires designing custom hardware schematics and PCB layouts (e.g. in KiCad) paired with an MCU like an ESP32 or RP2040. It demands embedded firmware in C/C++ or Rust for I2S audio decoding (DAC integration), FAT/exFAT filesystem handling via SD/eMMC, power management with LiPo charging ICs, and physical button debouncing. Additionally, CAD modeling and 3D printing/injection molding are needed for the enclosure.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 477 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #256 of 478 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- I made a music player inspired by late 90s peer-to-peer sharing · hn · 2026-08-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- cassette · github · 2026-09-13 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- cf-mp3-player · github · 2026-09-27 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- kraken-player · github · 2026-09-16 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- chilpa · github · 2026-09-25 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Stable Audio 3 · hn · 2026-05-31 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Nuvia-Musics · github · 2026-09-20 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware · hn · 2026-05-09 · 123 upvotes · similarity 0.59
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a hardware & robotics tool for Horizontal yet.