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[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Look at all these rich people in the comments with their car stereos that could play CD-RW. Some of us were lucky to have one that would play CD-R 80% of the time, and it was completely brand agnostic.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I got a JVC head in like 2002 that could play MP3 cds. I was the king.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

MP3 cds blew my mind and that’s what made me understand the difference between analog and digital in regard to files and music.

How can there be 100 songs on some cds and only 12 on others? Well that’s why.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Technically the regular audio CD is a digital format too, but it’s uncompressed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's compression, baby. I don't get mad at bad high-hat sound if there are 100 songs on the disc.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I got a Sony CDP once that wouldn't play burned CDs. Not sure if it was a hardware issue with that one CDP, or if it affected the model itself. I returned it and got a different one and it works with burned CDs. To this day it's a mystery

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sony did a lot to develop drm for disc's. I bet not playing burned disc's was an intentional design decision.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had one of these bad boys for work, its a Sony.

It could play mp3 CDRW discs. It was an amazing device.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

mp3 CDRW

I’d forgotten about those! SO many tracks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Alright Scrooge McDuck driving your Rolls-Royce with a CD player, any car I could afford to drive still had a tape deck even by the time I had a phone to plug into it via an adapter!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Back then we could pull the factory radio out, and replace it with a new one. And it was easy.

I duplicated CDs for a while for the car, then bought a new car stereo that could play MP3s and condensed my collection onto 3 discs. I left the discs in the car when I sold it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I never had the luxury of an easy replacement, I always had to deal with jank mounts that had to be cut to fit the car and stereo, and then there was the mess of wires to hook up. That's what I get for trying to jam 1990s technology in to 70s and 80s cars...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Mine were a corolla and a commodore. The first had a standard rectangular 1 unit space; the second had a standard 2 unit space

It made it super easy. I wish all followed that standard. Stock audio sucked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

My setup couldn't even do that. But hey I had a tape player...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I only ever made like 2 CDs that worked in my life. And I NEVER burned a DVD that worked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They went that expensive at least by 2000, I put one in my 99' Neon for like 200$. It actually could play MP3 discs! I had one disc with a shit load of songs that was my default disc in the player.