It’s time to dust off those old CD binders.
- wizardbeard ( @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English35•2 months ago
Nah man. If you care about your CDs you should already have them ripped to flac format, so the disc rot can’t kill them. Convert to mp3 vbr0 for tossing them on a player or your phone. Listen with whatever ear buds you like.
It’s not like vinyl or casette tape, where the analog nature of the storage medium is going to effect the sound. CDs are pure digital, just a carrying case for the files on them.
- Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) English9•2 months ago
Why mp3 vbr0 and not opus?
- cmnybo ( @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ) English12•2 months ago
The only reason to use mp3 is if you want to play it on old devices. It’s much better to use opus on anything that supports it.
- Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) English2•2 months ago
Yeah, that makes sense.
Thankfully, most things I have support opus, even a very old iPod, thanks to Rockbox.
- MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) English3•2 months ago
Yeah, i like them converted to opus better. Guess the psychoacoustic compression does something.
- KaRunChiy ( @KaRunChiy@kbin.run ) 3•2 months ago
Or buy your music from a source that offers both. I have flacs from bandcamp, but also CDs from those same albums
- Jay ( @Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ) English3•2 months ago
That’s the first thing I did with all my Frank Zappa cds… converted them to digital and put the cds away so they wouldn’t end up scratched.
- BubbleMonkey ( @BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net ) English25•2 months ago
This is one of those “they were so concerned with if they could do it, they didn’t stop to think if they should” sort of things.
Portable cd players were never actually that portable, because cds are just big. Minidisc players sure, but those never really caught on. MP3 players, however, caught on because they are small and easily portable, and the library doesn’t take up a binder.
- AlbertSpangler ( @AlbertSpangler@lemmings.world ) English14•2 months ago
Also portable CD players skipped constantly. Minidisc was way better for that, but then MP3 (and Limewire) hit…
- jonne ( @jonne@infosec.pub ) English6•2 months ago
With current technology you could make them a lot better. Basically put 700mb of flash memory on the player and rip the whole thing as soon as you put the CD in, then play from flash. But then you get back to why you would want to do something like that again.
- BubbleMonkey ( @BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net ) English2•2 months ago
Heck yeah!
I had a Sony atrak 3+ player back in the day (around 2003-4, probably, because I used it at work) which was just an mp3 file compression alternative served up on a special cd player instead of an mp3 player… they tried… anyway I had a re-writable disc that I’d add stuff to whenever I downloaded it, and I think the one cd had like 1800 songs on it or so (and lots of space left)
That didn’t skip, even working a physical job, unless I banged it against something. Part of why I got it. But when I put regular discs in, they would skip a lot if I didn’t have it laying flat.
- alansuspect ( @alansuspect@aussie.zone ) English1•2 months ago
I loved my MiniDisc player, I wish Sony had opened up the tech.
- sexy_peach ( @sexy_peach@beehaw.org ) English7•2 months ago
That’s stupid
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English4•2 months ago
why
- VodkaSolution ( @vodkasolution@feddit.it ) English4•2 months ago
Yeah sure. Also, Milli Vanilli are back…
- BearOfaTime ( @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) English1•2 months ago
Pulled from the grave, just like portable CD players?
(Boo! OK, I’ll see myself out. MV is a tragic story)
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.earth ) 2•2 months ago
portable players where always trash, this looks like some audiophile wankery that is only ever used stationary … and I still have a real cd player for that.