I was in Publix the other day when this really eccentric wizard looking lady approached me and had a story about how she needed a few bucks. She said she had music for sale that she made herself. I said well how do I purchase it? She reached into her bag and said “ I’ve got cds “ I gave her a few bucks and was on my way feeling good. Got into my fucking car and realized oh shit I’m not a teenager anymore in my old car with a cd player like I thought I was for a solid 10 minutes after buying the damn thing. Got home and had to dig out a cd player for my laptop. Music was weird as fuck which I enjoyed. She bought a jug of cough syrup with the money lmfao
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Once you break up, fantastic tree ornaments also.
And, their temporary nature fits the fleeting nature of infatuation.
You can make a million other hand-made things. But sure bring back obsolete tech.
While your jacking off into your Xfinity/Comcast/NBC/Meta/Google/Micorosft/Amazon DNA test to prove you’re allowed to watch the next ad that only plays while it detects your eyeballs on the screen…
I’ll be watching Lord of The Rings Extended Edition on Blue Ray.
Ok clearly it's not literally about making CDs and people saying "just make your own streaming service" are both missing the point and vastly over estimating the capacity of the average person.
The important part that's largely missing from today's music environment is the personal touch and investment. Many people, as the author says, just comfortably coast through an algorithmic smoothie of familiar music. That is inferior to a friend saying "I made you this mix" and then you actually listen to it, attentively, more than once.
It doesn't have to be a CD. It can be a zip file. But the intention and focus was important.
I'm an outlier in that I never let "the algorithm" choose what plays. Sometimes I still make mixes for friends, though lately they've just been a collection of links. That process of choosing is meaningful. My friend still listens to the mix I made for them when their job laid them off, sometimes.
It can be a zip file.
Or just a playlist you made on one of those streaming services. Ain't no difference.
I generally agree, but it was special to have a physical tape or CD that you got to keep around. Felt more like an actual gift.
Memory sucks. Having a physical token as a reminder is very helpful.
Nothing's stopping you from burning a CD right now. But ultimately, these kinds of nostalgic memories are less about the tech itself and more about remembering the happy times of youth. Bringing back the burned CD won't bring those back I'm afraid.
What’s stopping me is that I haven’t had a CD burner in like 12 or 15 years. But you’re right about the rest of it.
A tiny laser and steady hands should work
External USB ones are free in boxes of Frosted Flakes these days.
I have a genuine honest to goodness 5.25" bay mounted Blu Ray burner in my tower right now. Hey, you never friggin' know. It comes in handy every once in a while. There's a machine in my basement with an LS-120, a Zip drive, and a 5.25" floppy drive in it that all still work. Occasionally I still find myself needing to get some monumentally important ancient file off of some kind of floppy disk or other for somebody.
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What no love for the mixtape? We have to go straight to CD?
No, we need transferable digital licenses. I want to both own my software and download it on the go
Bring back that whole timeframe. We weren’t all so stuck up our phone’s ass.
Posted in r/teachers yesterday:
I took my own children to a park, there were about 8-10 kids running around between the ages of 1 and 6. The children were feral. The parents were on their phones the entire time. None of the bad behavior was noticed, let alone corrected. A three year old boy sat in a tunnel and screamed and pushed anyone who came near. Mom was oblivious. She wasn’t watching her kid, she was on her phone. Another girl (about 5) was being extremely rough around some of the toddlers (kicking towards them, jumping over a one year old at one point). Her dad didn’t correct the behavior. He didn’t see it. He was on his phone. I could go on. Besides the occasional glance, parents were completely disengaged from their children.
Yeah, growing up as a teen it was the opposite. I was burning CDs and had this phone stuck up my ass
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Cassettes would like to have a word.
That word
By: Lorie Ransom, The Daily Drawing
It's weird though. Pencils were never a good way to transport tape. It was also investigated that only certain Japanese pencils fit as these are bigger. In my memory we always used a BIC ballpoint pen which fits perfectly.
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imho in a weird way cassettes were better/more fun. Like wanting to record a song you like so you'd sit in front of the tape deck for hours on end listening to the radio waiting for that ONE song to come on so you could record it. It would take you hours, maybe even days, to make that mixtape of songs you didn't own.
Also when I was a kid I had one of those fisher price tape decks that had the microphone attached to it. I wanted to make a mix tape of all my favourite songs from my NES games or games that I would rent (like the Battletoads theme song, or the music from the Batman videogame) so I would pop the game in then hold the microphone up to the TV speaker and record the songs.
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Bring Back the Clay Tablet— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.
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There was a certain intentionality to burning a CD that a Spotify link just can't replicate. Spending an hour picking the perfect songs to fit exactly 80 minutes, and then handwriting the tracklist... it was a real labor of love. It’s a shame that convenience has replaced that personal touch.
What a dumbass article. It's way too easy right now to burn a CD, we need another 25 years before were nostalgic about this one.
I think the majority of people at this point don't have a computer with a CD / DVD burner anymore. And at least over here the supermarket also does not sell blank CDs / DVDs anymore.
Most people would have to go out of their way to acquire the means to burn their own CDs
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I never stopped. How else am I going to burn PS1, Dreamcast, and 360 games?
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Sure you can burn a CD, but I think I have nothing to play them anymore. My car (2020) does not have a CD player anymore. Nor my PC nor my laptop have one. I may have in my drawer an old BD reader DVD burner/reader with a SATA plug or something, I remember I plugged it on my laptop with a USB adapter yearsssss ago to rip my LOTR BD. It has been used 1 time in like 10 years.
This is stupid. Just make your own streaming service.
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