Continuing with CDs?

I've ripped 3" CDrs on me laptop. I mean they just clip on to the spindle thing line full size jobbies.

*like

I've heard that they can come loose? I have been afraid to try, I need my laptop CD drive in good working order.

the spin rate is higher/faster for laptop ripping than it is for regular CD players aiui

every laptop and PC I've ever owned has the inset tray for 3" CDs?

mine is an "air drive", just a slot that sucks them in

Macbook

ah well, that's what you get with Apple isn't it

The real horror of all digital media becoming unusable in a post apocalyptic / EMP scenario is we'll have no way to accoustically counter wondering bands of dystopian gothic folk troups. Paper cones aren't going to cut it either.

vinyl doesn't become digital just because the master was. the medium dictates whether the information it contains is analogue or digital. continuous grooves in a platter are analogue, discrete pits and lands in a shiny disc are digital

And what comes out of a CD player or computer is ultimately analogue despite the storage medium being digital. Not that I think you were saying otherwise at all. It's a *complete* recreation of the sampled waveform within the frequency range (half the sampling frequency) according to maffs.

i think the EMP already happened and ilx rebooted or something. i feel like we had all these discussions like 15 years ago on here.

The real horror of all digital media becoming unusable in a post apocalyptic / EMP scenario is we'll have only
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lolll

just get an external cd / dvd drive, you can find one for like $40 now.

Dafuq?

https://coldericemedia.kartra.com/page/70M19

oh great, my secret's out

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video: "some people think CD stands for compact disc; nope, it stands for cash dollars"

far as I've gotten yet. Thank you so, so much...

"I know it is 2019"...

'Already a member?' Demonstrably, yes.

It's kind of wild looking for a new CD player these days, so many weird off brands you start longing for the good old days of reliable known brands like GPX or Coby.

Were brands like GPX and Coby ever considered reliable? I see a base-line Onkyo at the Best Buy website for $169 which seems like a rip-off even with its DAC, so, i guess i see your point.

I snagged a Tivoli Model CD that came up on Kijiji, it looks nice on the desk. But damned if I can tell the difference in sound from the Panasonic portable player I was using before that... $20 on eBay. So I'd recommend those if looks/remote control function aren't factors. There's a long thread on stevehoffman about how surprisingly good these are :)

you're really looking for a DVD or Blu-ray player, they all play CDs and if they have digital out you can hook them up to a DAC

if you have a dedicated DAC already, definitely

i was gifted an Onkyo CD player, it's pretty damn good. The CD has to be extremely fucked up to skip, compared to old-school players which would skip if you coughed in the next room.

when i first posted in this thread I probably had about 1500 CDs. Down to maybe 600 now?

You should've been with me last weekend when I went into a local car audio store to upgrade my car stereo. The clerk asked me what I was looking for, and I made sure to mention it needs to have a CD player. He gave me the same "Okay, psycho..." stare I get from people when I tell them I still buy CDs.

At home, I'm still using the same desktop CD player I've had since 1999. It's a 51-disc changer (not that I ever put more than a few in at a time). The buttons on the remote have been acting wonky for the last five or so years, but it still plays great.

Don't most cars still have CD? I need to use mine more... I often end up listening to the radio on short trips, rather than: turn on Bluetooth, wait for pairing, max the volume*, pick a song*

What I'd really like is cassette! I don't have a decent digital audio interface at the moment, so it's easiest to record anything live/make a mix to tape.

Or a car without a blinding screen... imagine it!

*can automate, don't want to

It's a 51-disc changer

wow I had no idea this was a thing

why 51 though

i had one friend who had a 101 disc changer, like this one: https://www.ebay.com/p/Pioneer-PD-F908-CD-Changer/66791977?iid=163412537779&chn=ps

The buttons on the remote have been acting wonky for the last five or so years, but it still plays great.

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic)

Disassembly is easy; the buttons are all part of one piece of molded rubber with contacts in the back that abuts with the board -- clean both sides with isopropyl, dry, and reassemble. My son had many spills on our remotes over the years and have done this dozens of times.

The 51 and 101 disc varieties have a carousel for the bulk and a single drawer for single plays.

I have like 30 jandek CDs so a player like that sounds perversely interesting

My current newish one is a Phillips, and it does this annoying thing of hesitating for a couple of seconds between tracks while it reads the new information. Completely fucks up continuous mixes.

my new amp has an onboard dac so I just bought a Sony DVD player for $10 off crait sounds better than the once expensive Marantz that had died

I actually need to replace my CD player, think I'm gonna go for a PS1 as discussed elsewhere (?) since they apparently have good DACs

This is the exact one:https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1517&bih=695&ei=LDxSXLijLYeijwS5hLLgCQ&q=sony+51+disc+cd+changer&oq=sony+51+d&gs_l=img.1.0.0i24.1356.2857..4383...0.0..0.133.832.7j2......1....1..gws-wiz-img.......0j0i10j0i8i30j0i5i30.5TF0QDiGGCQ#imgrc=unefVozfpY8NcM:

Sorry about the formatting.

Just picked up a used Onkyo 7030 to replace my skippy old beater - it’s a real pleasure being able to throw any old disc in it and get reliable sound, and it sounds beautiful too (tho my ears aren’t reliable enough to say for certain it’s an audio upgrade).

Were brands like GPX and Coby ever considered reliable?

That was kinda the joke!

I actually wound up buying a Sony for $7.20 at a Goodwill and it's working fine so far.

i got a cool tascam cd player for a song

it doesn't have a whole lot of features but it's very sturdy and i like the rugged aesthetic

https://cdn3.imggmi.com/uploads/2019/2/1/695e846ddc2d1bb6a4083c9c39d70a8b-full.jpg

load cd.
press play.
what more does anyone need.
love the minimalism.

would buy

lol, minimalists love the Muji wall mount thing. it is cute. I wonder if anyone has hacked an optical out

I remember it being really hard to find single-disc players in the late 90s/early 00s.. everything was either a 5 disc changer or one of those 50/100 disc blooming onion things. Seems like it's swung around now.

love the rackmountable look a+

I have a rack-mountable Tascam 3-head cassette deck that would sit nicely next to (above/below) that disc player.

Me from the HTRK thread talking about the brilliant Standish/Carlyon album Deleted Scenes...

Unfortunately two times I played the cd (out of maybe 10 or 12 times) it sounded flickery towards the end in a bad cd-r way. I'm afraid I'll play it years later and it wont even work. I had this problem with the Lush box set and I hate to think that this is becoming a real issue with labels using cheap cds (?) I love cds, don't do this to me, music labels.

I think there might be something wrong with the first disc in a 3CD Terje Rypdal box I bought last year. It's an ECM disc, which upsets me - I thought if any label was gonna be top notch about quality control it would be them.