Hi Audioguru, Hi Nigel,
Oh, i don't want to do it.
I was trying to think of the easiest way to use an old hard drive to
play music.
Using it as a form of cassette player would not be easy, but it would
probably be easier than building a dedicated MP3 system to do it.
Although there are lots of things i dont know about hard drives.
It may not be possible to have the head(s) move evenly across the
unit, they may only move in little jerks, this i don't know.
I don't know how long you could get in minutes by using it in such
a wasteful way, but you could switch between heads, like changing
tracks on an 8-track.
And the heads are quite tiny, they would certainly need a bit of a
pre-amp.
Just contemplating possibilities ....
John