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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Now, if only they'd sold a device that could play isolinear chips. As I recall all of Jadzia's favourite Klingon operas fit on one of those...

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They were Worf's and they were cardassian isolinear rods.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

~~My bad. I thought she gave them to him when he started bunking on the Defiant. Apparently she gave them back.~~

Actually, according to Memory Alpha's summary of "Bar association",

Worf settles into his new quarters on the Defiant and Dax gives Worf a gift: a copy of her favorite Klingon operas.

They were hers.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, I forgot about that. Haha, my bad instead. I was thinking of the episode where Worf goes on a dangerous mission and Jadzia keeps HIS Klingon operas. And his motivation is that she's known to lose things so the longer he's gone the more likely he won't get some back.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 1 points 2 hours ago

Heh, that one tripped me up at first as well 😄

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 17 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

I'm actually starting to get back into CDs. Found a bunch of my old CDs in a box while I was cleaning and have been listening to them a lot lately. Beats the absolute crap out of streaming, and I'm now realizing I miss the "curated" feel of listening to either a studio album or a mixed CD I made two decades ago that still plays somehow.

Even thought about buying a fresh pack of CD-R's and burning CDs again. My car is one of the last models to come with a CD player, so might as well use it :)

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Burning CD's is fun. Please burn lossless files and not mp3s.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 7 hours ago

You saying this to a guy who burned 96kbps MP3s to a CD. 96 kbps MP3s that were ripped from another CD I owned and could have re-ripped at an acceptable bitrate had I not been stuck with the shareware version of MusicMatch Jukebox which was the only software I could run to rip CDs lol

To this day, Eve 6 does not sound "right" unless it's horribly compressed and clipped. Kind of my own, weird version of "sounds better on vinyl".

But I do have much better tools today, so I can go FLAC through the whole process.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 3 points 11 hours ago

For sure. I started building a vinyl collection the last couple of years, but also dug out my old CDs from the basement. There's some good stuff in there, even things that never came out on vinyl because the industry just dropped LPs like a hot potato back in the day.

Physical media is great, but I still keep like 200Gb of music on my phone for convenience.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Remember minidiscs? Now there's a tech I'm disappointed never took off

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 12 hours ago

I've seen a lot of minidisc players and media on the second hand market the past year. It's having a comeback, if not in new releases.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 11 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Albums are such a lost art, it kills me.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, and in my case, a fine example of "you don't know what you've got til it's gone". I seldom listened to tracks in order and would skip around or put my favorite song on a loop or switch CDs just to hear one song, etc even on CDs I mixed myself.

This time around I've just been putting them in and letting them play. On some albums, it is clear the artist or producer wanted you to dip your toes in with the first track, get you pumped with the second, make you think or feel with the third, give you a breather with the forth, and crack it back up with the fifth (and so on) and the last track is pretty much always the "finale". Definitely more than just throwing the tracks down and saying "come get it" and something I'm sad I didn't appreciate more when physical media was common.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 14 hours ago

Do y'all not listen to albums on your phone?

[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 20 hours ago

Agreed. I much prefer listening to full albums. Even stuff I bought a long time ago as a teenager for one song, I’ve enjoyed going back and listening to the complete album.

[–] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago

I burned a cd for niece a few months back. She was in awe. Surprisingly that spindle of CDRs that have been sitting in my attic for 20 something years still record just fine!

I also have ripped all my CDs as flacs and stream them with navidrome. Convenience is nice and beats syncing to an mp3 player.

I also have a raspberry pi hooked up to my stereo with an nfid reader and print out cards with album art. Just select the one you want, drop it on the reader, and the album plays.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Mine has a cd of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in my disc player and I don’t think I’ve ever used it, but I’m of the same mind to build some playlists in disc again instead of futzing with subscription services