@pg To which I say, "It's a big white brick with a shiny butt that can play a small fraction of all music ever recorded that you must rip from CDs and select in advance and it's the best thing since the walkman"
@pg@jbigham@amyjko I never felt much need for portables in the pre-phone era (my car was big enough to carry one of those CD binders) but I got tired of shuffling CDs in and out of my 300-disc CD changer at home so I copied them all to hard drive, encoded with Vorbis (didn't have the space for FLAC at the time). It's hard to overstate the extent of CD carousels for my youthful music imprinting: the first 100 or so CDs I owned I basically knew by heart, which I don't think is a thing any more.
@wollman@jbigham@amyjko holy bovine, 300-disc changer! i still have my big binder of CDs in my car that i started in high school and transferred across multiple cars. of course, all the CDs in there are from the 90s
@pg@jbigham@amyjko I remember there was a transition in the late 2000s from having a big CD changer in the trunk to head units just automatically ripping every CD you insert to an internal drive. Or at least that's what the owner's manual said; I've never tried to play a CD in my car since I copied my whole library to my phone.
@pg@wollman@amyjko y'all are so interesting, i had like 8 CDs and just listened to them over and over again, and also to the radio. i did get a CD changer for my car in high school. i just thought it was cool that it could do that but didn't care at all about the music. i still listen to mostly those CDs over and over, very calming.
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