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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Back when somebody could steal your whole music collection from your car.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They were better than cassettes, that's all I have to say.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh nice! Do you have a picture?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Back in the day? I still have that! Three as a matter of fact. CDs forever man…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Get out of my car window.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Still saving up for that six disc changer. Gonna be sweet. Of course, someone has to sit in my S10's jump seat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Just out for a rip.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mp3 CDs helped a little, but not entirely

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Whether your car supported them is another matter...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Miss my mini disc set up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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.