Oddbean new post about login | logout Fellow Gen X’s will appreciate this 😜😂😂 https://i.nostr.build/wuqgJiooouuyNBX7.jpg
Vinyl? 👀
You never had a vinyl?
I still have !
You’re a smart one hanging onto them, the cost these days for vinyl is outrageous 😂💜
Hodling 😎
On of my treasured vinyl is White Zombie La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol 1 signed by the entire band.
Ok I just can come up with Pink Floyd, INXS, Dire Straits and Anne Clark and some others…
INXS great Aussie band 🫡
hahaha my mom keeps a few at my grandma's house there are more of them and the player, we call it "vitrola" https://image.nostr.build/f4bbef58f171ea447266ca9390c25d6b926c3453c3ec069aa0602997a613a953.jpg
wut are all these things?
Your generation will never know 🤣
😭
youngling you are 😂
Listen maam. I may act like a child, but I’m a grown man.
You’re a frog 🐸 remember that 😂 https://i.nostr.build/fk3hpJXr4PX3ozog.jpg
My tape reached the end, so I opened my walkman, flipped the tape, and listened to the rest of the album Kids these days will never understand
I also have a closet full of CDs in plastic bins that have moved with me for over a decade and I don’t know what to do with them. I don’t even own a CD player.
Better hang on to them you never know Also all those random wires in the other plastic bin, don't throw those out either
I just went through a wire cleansing yesterday. Coaxial cables? Don’t need those! iPhone charging cables from 2009? Nope! Headphone jack adapters? Afuera!
I had the original Apple iPod, and thought that was soooo cool with my thousands of songs! 😂
Which reminds me, I found an old iPod touch today but don’t know the passcode. How the hell do I reset it? https://image.nostr.build/9c1c1dbfac8ed7dbabc8d95ba415b1da7f47598d0de8fa5b7f262755d07d4c73.jpg
Oh wow, so what happens now?
I think I figured it out! Had to find the factory reset instructions. If I get this to work I’m giving it to my kid. https://image.nostr.build/3a415b6fd5c41b260085085fb3cabb099650db652553e955e00ad0261d55b8b6.jpg
Yay awesome 😂💜
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I threw all of mine out many moons ago 😂
@utxo the webmaster 🧑💻 lowkey admitted to us he never shelled out the extra money for an auto-reverse Walkman.
I only got my brother hand me downs in that era 😭😭
And there are piles of CD's that you can't just get rid of because you bought them with hard earned shit job money 😂
I’ve got just a couple of CD’s that are unique but nothing to play them on 😂
hahahah my father's collection at my mother's house https://image.nostr.build/a4d14f740920cbf4e58c1f0556a61beb9a25e4c75108b4ac83daf912dd2222c5.jpg
I refuse to use Spotify. I torrent the music I own in CD already and then put that on my phone. Only reason I torrent is because a lot of my CD's are no longer listenable from wear. Always own your music.
I’m an Apple Music gal 🫡
I'll be honest, it's very difficult to chastise you for that when your profile photo is a pair of magnificent boobs. Well played ma'am.
As a gen Xer, I never went for MP3s. I'm an audiophile and an archivist, so I only use high-quality lossless formats. FLAC has been my go-to since it came out. Wasn't a fan of cassettes or VHS tapes because they deteriorated with use, so I had to make and play copies of my 'masters' instead of the originals. CDs were great, but I wasn't too keen on the mp2 quality of DVDs. Laserdiscs, on the other hand, were fantastic and they didn't deteriorate with regular play (aside from potential oxidation issues). Love the warmth of vinyl, the large art and liner notes, but it is a flawed medium that also deteriorates with time and use. Collecting and playing vintage media is fun, but for my library, it's archival mediums FTW.
I used to have a massive archive of live Pearl Jam flacs I got over WinMX 😆 i wonder what happened to them.
Laserdiscs were awesome - real 2 real tapes had the quality for me
💯 Unfortunately, tape stretches and deteriorates rather quickly. My first demo was on reel-to-reel. When properly cared for, not played on the regular, but treated as a master and only played to make copies for regular use, and stored in the proper conditions, they have amazing warmth and quality.
I always found MP3s didn’t sound great, even at the higher bitrates. I would always buy a CD over downloading a MP3. I still have a lot of CDs but have them all converted to FLAC now. Cassettes can sound great with a good tape and good deck to play them. I’ve recently inherited a Nakamichi 480 that was my uncle’s and have given it a good clean and replaced the belts etc. Even though it’s not one of the top model Nakamichi’s it still sounds surprisingly good.
Gotta say, I never really tried to replace everything on CD. WinMX was my goto for mp3s. Before Napster. But I still miss my box of tapes sometimes.
I resemble this comment.
Now I better understand why I hardly listen to music. I prefer playing the guitar or singing...
My best mate and I had a phase for a few years when we also only collected FLAC and ALAC files. Now I don’t have the time anymore. And I also don’t have the equipment to really appreciate the difference. Back in the day I used to listen with AKG K701 studio headphones, now I don’t have them anymore. I’m just streaming everything now. And I’m using AirPods Pro 2. I think they did a great job with Spatial Audio and for the lazy person (me) that’s good enough for now. Let’s see how that will work out in the long run. Streaming is kind of the equivalent of fiat money, isn’t it. You don’t own shit, you can be rugged anytime and probably will be at some point. Not your library, not your music…
