You still have spinning things in your computers? You’re old!
No, I have a peripheral spinny thing that plugs into my PC so I can rip all the Boomer CDs I have form the 90’s-00’s and put htem onto a flash drive that plugs into my car. Plugging the spinny thing into my car seems way inconvenient.
20+ years to get rid of your CD’s? Congrats on not having to move much!
How many do you think I have? My collection would fit in a single box; I have tossed out quite a few unessential ones over the years. Am I supposed to toss them all out and pay Amazon $$$ for bullshit DRM versions that I don’t even own?
I still have a lot of CDs that I hardly ever listen to.
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We have about 1,000 CDs and we listen to maybe 30-40% of them a lot. 30% only occasionally. The rest never.
I keep meaning to burn most of them to a drive but I am an old man and it seems intimidating.
Hell I still buy CDs. Sometimes they’re cheaper than digital. My stereo guy tells me the CD sound quality is in most cases better than buying digitally through Amazon or wherever you buy them.
Yes I know I should just get Spotify. I’d probably have to buy an extra component to send it to my receiver.
Probably won’t hit the same, but I was looking at headphones for my 2yo to wear at an upcoming sporting event. One of the photos on the listing was this below. On the plus side… it isn’t AI generated!
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I got a cheap DVD player a few months ago which I could use to play CDs, of which I still have maybe 100, but I haven’t. I did the trolly thing >10 years ago. Can send to my receiver via bt but usually just play on my computer speakers while I sit at my desk. It’s fine, my hearing isn’t great, and I doubt my neighbors want to hear weird random old man music. Also send to a crappy bt speaker when I shower. I think the neighbors enjoy that.
I bought one of those Bose CD players a few years ago that I mainly use for streaming now. But still spin a CD every once in a while.
You collect retro clocks and wash clothes in the sink but don’t believe in cd players?
Sample-based music still exists and there are works you can only find on cd.
what can I say, I contain multitudes
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What’s your clothes washing technique? Serious question.
Yes this is true. CDs are a lossless format, digital music in general is sold lossy.
May be the best channel in YouTube (if you like hour long videos about household electronics and tech)
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buy this
https://www.amazon.com/Tide-Liquid-Detergent-Travel-Packets/dp/B01IAINZYQ
hot water in the sink with a packet, wash, rinse. take a towel laid flat out, put wet clothes on towel, roll it up TIGHT and wring as hard as you can, this will get most of the water out, hang the stuff to dry (most hotel hangers have the little clips on them, but I always carry a few old school clothespins), by morning it should be dry. Also clothing selection is a big factor here, avoid cotton and go for shit like nike dri-fit or whatever.
also the biggest secret is sometimes you don’t have enough time and the stuff doesn’t get 100% dry, you just put it on anyway and your body heat will dry it out pretty dang quick.
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In my car at least, sound quality goes:
CD > My own CD rips >> Streaming >>> Satellite radio
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It’s not the trade embargo. Plenty of countries can trade with Cuba. Cuba is just broke and can’t afford it.
I had ripped most of my CDs into iTunes years ago and then when Apple Music went to a subscription service I just started using that. Only CD I’ve had since was a gift for Christmas and it lived in my car, which was the only CD player I had. The new car of course doesn’t have a CD player so listen to music through my phone in the car, like a civilized person.
This is just at hotels/traveling right?
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