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Dec 3, 2023 10:25:21   #
JBRIII
 
Back in the 80's I believe, an agency was given the task of how government records should be stored in the future. Answer, high quality paper. People thought this ridiculous until they explain that the 1960 Venus data was only available as summaries. The raw data needed a Univac? of which only two existed in museums. The Navy had also had to gobble together working machines from old scrap to read some kind of data. This works for written data, but for photos or instrumental data the data would have to be extremely valuable to reenter using optical character recognition software and then for errors. One of my spectral files had over 5000 12 digit values, and one error could ruin the entire file. Datasets consisted of 100's to 1000's of this files. No great or easy solution but moving to the next media.

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Dec 3, 2023 10:30:45   #
fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH
 
I had a 25-year-old JVC micro stereo CD player in my kitchen that finally died. It was fairly hard to find a CD-playing replacement and the only choices were modest Sharp (and similar) setups or a really expensive Denon unit. Since it's largely for background music, the Sharp was acceptable and along with CDs it has Bluetooth, USB, FM and micro plug inputs. I use them all. In the family room, my better performing Marantz CD/DVD unit works with my high end Onkyo and JBL setup but I don't know what kind of replacement will be available when it goes.

As you guessed, I probably have several hundred CDs and DVDs and I still pull MP3's off the internet to make up music sets but now I mostly put them on thumb drives since cars no longer have CD players.

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Dec 3, 2023 10:39:23   #
JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco
 
I have around 500 CDs, and no way left to play them. Most of the essential ones I have ripped onto my computer and iPod using iTunes and Apple Music. New music I get from an Apple Music subscription. I do a lot of walking for exercise and transportation, and also take transit, and being able to carry my entire music collection with me is great. At home I have a bluetooth speaker system to play music off my iPod.

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Dec 3, 2023 10:54:56   #
EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace
 
Not only does my 1996 Ford Explorer have a six-disc CD player in the center console but also has a compact tape player in the dash.

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Dec 3, 2023 12:12:36   #
BebuLamar
 
EdJ0307 wrote:
Not only does my 1996 Ford Explorer have a six-disc CD player in the center console but also has a compact tape player in the dash.


That was 1996 both Cassette and CD were still popular. My car 2015 still have a CD player. I can play cassette tape by bringing my cassette deck circa 1979 and leave it on the passenger seat, run it on the cigarette lighter power and play the audio via the Aux input of the car stereo. Still works great. My home stereo system does have a CD player and also my desktop computer does have a DVD/CD drive.
Attached is picture of my cassette tape deck along with my 2 cameras.


(Download)

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Dec 3, 2023 12:34:10   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
I have 3 200 disk Sony changers, all full, but now I stream everything using Apple’s Hi definition streaming and an external DAC directly feeding my amps. I have carefully A-Bd the CD against the stream, track for track, and the stream is just as good and in some cases better (remastered) than the CD. Plus, the library of available music is gigantic, and it’s ultra convenient.

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Dec 3, 2023 12:34:42   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
BebuLamar wrote:
I just used one last week for my Juried Rigged charger. I need it to connect a Programmable Controller to the Programmable Power Supply to read the current off the power supply then when the current drops to a preset level it sends command to the power supply to turn it off also activate an output to disconnect the battery and then disconnect AC power to everything.
I found that I stil use RS-232 quite often.


I don't think I need one of them.

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Dec 3, 2023 13:45:05   #
DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I don't want an answer, but I know some of you will post a number. I'm guessing that all of you have hundreds, if not thousands, of CDs/DVDs. If you buy a new car or a new computer, you will probably have no way to play those CDs. Sure, we can download what we want - if we can find it. Then, we have to organize it on the computer, keep it backed up, and decide what to transfer some of the songs to another device for playing in the house or car. In other words, it's a nuisance.

I still have Cd and DVD players, so I can take a disk off the shelf and play it. There are still lots of Cd players available on Amazon, but they're generally small, "Boombox" types. Amazon still has lots of DVD players available, too, and they're generally under $50. I wonder if I should buy one as insurance against future unavailability. You can also buy a VHS player, but they're close to $300. For almost $400, you can buy an 8mm projector that also records to digital. If I had a lot of undigitized 8mm film, I might be tempted.


https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-Digital-MovieMaker-Digitizer-MM100PRO/dp/B0785H3FGN/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=3AVWVOPNKFJ1N&keywords=vhs+player&qid=1701611137&sprefix=vhs+player%2Caps%2C548&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

FYI - Vinyl record sales outperformed CDs in the US for the first time since 1987, according to a new report. Just over 41 million vinyl records were sold in 2022, to the tune of $1.2bn (£. 99bn). Only 33 million CDs were sold, amounting to $483m.
I don't want an answer, but I know some of you wil... (show quote)


You know, I'm sure, you could easily rip your cd's into MP3's in order to listen in the car, or for that matter, anywhere else.

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Dec 3, 2023 13:53:19   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
DWU2 wrote:
You know, I'm sure, you could easily rip your cd's into MP3's in order to listen in the car, or for that matter, anywhere else.


But with a big loss in dynamic range and frequency response.

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Dec 3, 2023 14:08:51   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
TriX wrote:
But with a big loss in dynamic range and frequency response.

Better than nothing though......
I have 20GB of music on a USB fob in the car, just in case.

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Dec 3, 2023 14:15:05   #
Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I don't want an answer, but I know some of you will post a number. I'm guessing that all of you have hundreds, if not thousands, of CDs/DVDs. If you buy a new car or a new computer, you will probably have no way to play those CDs. Sure, we can download what we want - if we can find it. Then, we have to organize it on the computer, keep it backed up, and decide what to transfer some of the songs to another device for playing in the house or car. In other words, it's a nuisance.

I still have Cd and DVD players, so I can take a disk off the shelf and play it. There are still lots of Cd players available on Amazon, but they're generally small, "Boombox" types. Amazon still has lots of DVD players available, too, and they're generally under $50. I wonder if I should buy one as insurance against future unavailability. You can also buy a VHS player, but they're close to $300. For almost $400, you can buy an 8mm projector that also records to digital. If I had a lot of undigitized 8mm film, I might be tempted.


https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-Digital-MovieMaker-Digitizer-MM100PRO/dp/B0785H3FGN/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=3AVWVOPNKFJ1N&keywords=vhs+player&qid=1701611137&sprefix=vhs+player%2Caps%2C548&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

FYI - Vinyl record sales outperformed CDs in the US for the first time since 1987, according to a new report. Just over 41 million vinyl records were sold in 2022, to the tune of $1.2bn (£. 99bn). Only 33 million CDs were sold, amounting to $483m.
I don't want an answer, but I know some of you wil... (show quote)


Concerning preserving old forms of CDs or other media: I have some cassette tapes that I want to preserve the content of and they are not available anywhere in other types of media. I have a set of 4 tapes by Robert James Waller (author of the #1 best-selling book "The Bridges of Madison County"). They are called "Old Songs in a New Cafe". They are very heartfelt snippets of Waller's life as well as a couple of other stories of other people. A couple of months ago we got in a retro-style boom box by ION that converted cassettes to MP3s. I bought it and now have those tapes preserved on a stick and on my computer. I also have a turntable that will convert vinyl to MP3s and I plan to preserve some of my oldest 33s in the next month or so. My very first Album purchase was the Rascal's "Time Peace" album -- their greatest hits. That record is 55 years old and has a few scratches but still is in very good shape for something that old. That boom box I got was the first time I had seen a cassette on a boom box in many years and am glad they came out with it.

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Dec 3, 2023 14:42:54   #
MosheR Loc: New York City
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I don't want an answer, but I know some of you will post a number. I'm guessing that all of you have hundreds, if not thousands, of CDs/DVDs. If you buy a new car or a new computer, you will probably have no way to play those CDs. Sure, we can download what we want - if we can find it. Then, we have to organize it on the computer, keep it backed up, and decide what to transfer some of the songs to another device for playing in the house or car. In other words, it's a nuisance.

I still have Cd and DVD players, so I can take a disk off the shelf and play it. There are still lots of Cd players available on Amazon, but they're generally small, "Boombox" types. Amazon still has lots of DVD players available, too, and they're generally under $50. I wonder if I should buy one as insurance against future unavailability. You can also buy a VHS player, but they're close to $300. For almost $400, you can buy an 8mm projector that also records to digital. If I had a lot of undigitized 8mm film, I might be tempted.


https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-Digital-MovieMaker-Digitizer-MM100PRO/dp/B0785H3FGN/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=3AVWVOPNKFJ1N&keywords=vhs+player&qid=1701611137&sprefix=vhs+player%2Caps%2C548&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

FYI - Vinyl record sales outperformed CDs in the US for the first time since 1987, according to a new report. Just over 41 million vinyl records were sold in 2022, to the tune of $1.2bn (£. 99bn). Only 33 million CDs were sold, amounting to $483m.
I don't want an answer, but I know some of you wil... (show quote)


My 2022 Toyota Prius Prime came with, among other things, a CD player.

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Dec 3, 2023 14:54:33   #
cahale Loc: San Angelo, TX
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I don't want an answer, but I know some of you will post a number. I'm guessing that all of you have hundreds, if not thousands, of CDs/DVDs. If you buy a new car or a new computer, you will probably have no way to play those CDs. Sure, we can download what we want - if we can find it. Then, we have to organize it on the computer, keep it backed up, and decide what to transfer some of the songs to another device for playing in the house or car. In other words, it's a nuisance.

I still have Cd and DVD players, so I can take a disk off the shelf and play it. There are still lots of Cd players available on Amazon, but they're generally small, "Boombox" types. Amazon still has lots of DVD players available, too, and they're generally under $50. I wonder if I should buy one as insurance against future unavailability. You can also buy a VHS player, but they're close to $300. For almost $400, you can buy an 8mm projector that also records to digital. If I had a lot of undigitized 8mm film, I might be tempted.


https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-Digital-MovieMaker-Digitizer-MM100PRO/dp/B0785H3FGN/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=3AVWVOPNKFJ1N&keywords=vhs+player&qid=1701611137&sprefix=vhs+player%2Caps%2C548&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

FYI - Vinyl record sales outperformed CDs in the US for the first time since 1987, according to a new report. Just over 41 million vinyl records were sold in 2022, to the tune of $1.2bn (£. 99bn). Only 33 million CDs were sold, amounting to $483m.
I don't want an answer, but I know some of you wil... (show quote)


I can count mine on the toes of one hand. Since, as you say, they can't be played with newer equipment, I converted all the CD audio stuff to mp3 (much more compact, without much quality loss), and moved all the videos to flash drives. Here comes the trash bin for the antiquated devils.

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Dec 3, 2023 15:06:16   #
DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area
 
TriX wrote:
But with a big loss in dynamic range and frequency response.


That depends in part on how much bandwidth you tell the ripper to use. Don't use 128k - use 256k or higher.

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Dec 3, 2023 15:19:16   #
ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca
 
Have about a zillion or maybe just a half zillion CD/SACD's -- Most songs from my youth
Play them off an OPPO 103 a marvelous almost do-everything machine I'm sure they don't make anymore
About 15 yrs ago started listening to Classical initially primarily due to what I call repeatability --
Now listen because I simply love the music --
These recordings are almost all downloads majority of which are from Linn Recordings
All recordings are 24bit & most with a sampling rate of 192.
Store them on multiple PC hard drives & play them back via a PNY 512GB Thumb drive currently with 242GB worth of music via that wonderful OPPO

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