I'd love to listen to listen to my nu metal CD's on this.
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Am I the only one thinking this liiks like AI slop? The text on the box is super inconsistent
Could also be a bad AI upscale. My iphone does it with text that’s far away
We thought so to, so we went ahead and looked up a few more boxes and nah that’s just how it was designed.
Did it have anti skip? Did it play mp3?
If you owned one of these and it broke it would have been replaced under warranty, but instead of shipping you another USS Defiant CD player, they'd send you a USS São Paulo CD player. You could still call it the Defiant after-the-the-fact, but deep down you would know it wasn't the same.
You got a Sao Paulo? All I got was a shitty Valiant.
It looks nothing like the picture on the box
We have Defiant at home.
It's the Valiant.
Given the shape of it, it would have been rude not to.
I would love to have one of those. Couldn't find any active listings, but old listings had them going for like $250+ which isn't too bad for a collector's item, I guess.
I did come across a TNG CD holder: https://www.ebay.com/itm/117030364928
Apparently you can only fit 4 compact discs in a Galaxy class ship lol
Depending on when it came out $250 wouldn't even have been that expensive. I think the early discmans were about that price, albeit for a bundle that came with headphones and a car charger and stuff.
Wow, that's very helpful for uh, holding... four CDs I guess.
Who has only four CD's?
"up to".
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...
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 :)
Burning CD's is fun. Please burn lossless files and not mp3s.
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.
Remember minidiscs? Now there's a tech I'm disappointed never took off
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.
Albums are such a lost art, it kills me.
Do y'all not listen to albums on your phone?
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.
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
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.
Does it cloak?
That’s why nobody can find theirs anymore.
This is one of the sexier objects
That packaging is way too large.
