Back when somebody could steal your whole music collection from your car.
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They were better than cassettes, that's all I have to say.
Depends .... with a cassette you could toss in the back seat and it could get kicked around on the floor all summer and as long as it stayed dry, it would keep working the next time you put in the player. I found an old REM cassette wedged into the back seat of my truck ... I don't know how long it had been there ... the thing still played as well as it did when I last played it.
You had to baby CDs a lot more because once they got scratched, you either skipped that song all the time or the thing just got unplayable.
Sound quality was a lot better on CD ... cassette audio were never great even when new and they degraded over time ... but cassettes were durable out of their case or packaging, CDs were not.
Am I the only one who still worries about the exposed tape when I don't store the cassette in its case? I feel like a wrong move can simply destroy the tape, resulting in immediate uselessness. Yeah, CDs can get damaged too, but it's more of a problem that gradually gets worse instead of immediately becoming useless.
I just set up a nice little wallet of cds :) it makes me happy to do, and some of the stuff isn't on spotify :)
Oh nice! Do you have a picture?
Of course!
I have a few in the car, but this is today's project! :) This case has been with me at least a decade judging by the fact I used it to cart music to play in the Oxfam shop while on the till.
https://i.imgur.com/aqomdjU.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/PhZaBEN.jpeg
In case of curiousity, this week's music was things I like but haven't listened to in ages!
- Yuck - Yuck
- Radiohead - In Rainbows
- Neil Young - Unplugged
- Fontaines DC - A Hero's Death
- R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
- Wet Leg - Wet Leg
- Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
- Mogwai - As the Love Continues
- Mojo (Magazine) - Sub-pop silver jubilee
Back in the day? I still have that! Three as a matter of fact. CDs forever man…
Get out of my car window.
Still saving up for that six disc changer. Gonna be sweet. Of course, someone has to sit in my S10's jump seat.
I remember no handing my S10, flipping through these books, dart hangin out of my mouth going about 30 over the speed limit (which was about all it could handle). Straight piped 4 cylinder. I was a terror in my late teens lol.
Just out for a rip.
Mp3 CDs helped a little, but not entirely
Whether your car supported them is another matter...
USB is brilliant in comparison, hundreds of songs and dozens of albums all on a stick that is a fraction of the size of a single CD case.
And if all the files metadata are well curated, it's a breeze to find what you want to listen to.
I have a small USB stick always plugged in the car (barely sticks out of the port) and I can listen to whatever I want without using mobile data or having to pair my phone.
Current car (2016) has a hard drive, it'll auto-rip any disc you put in. But only from disc (I think).
They should've had this in 2000, by 2016 it was too late...it would take forever to rip all my stuff that way.
Miss my mini disc set up.
That’s easily $600 worth, new, retail. Minus the longbox and jewel case trash.
Also if it’s from the 90’s those probably have another decade on ‘em before they go kaput.