Comment by bitwize
1 day ago
The concept is super cute, and it'd be nice if there were content actually on the cards. But it's 2026 and the rightsholders would never actually allow that. As soon as Yoto's servers go dark, there goes any content not already cached on your machine. (And maybe the stuff that is, due to licensing arrangements.) Fuck that shit so hard.
If I had kids, they're getting a cassette player. Bonus: it'll double as data storage for the C64 I'd buy them.
I wonder if minidisc can be used as a tape drive on a c64... ATRAC doesn't mess with audio fidelity much at all, and c64 tape bitrate has to be real low, right?
There are unofficial ways:
https://github.com/earchibald/yoto-smart-stream
https://github.com/cdnninja/yoto_api
https://github.com/tmcinerney/yoto-mcp