@narfcake That’s what I did too, and exchanged them with a friend. I still like them, although I rarely listen to them. (I do still have cassette players too.)
I didn’t vote because it’s actually some old mix cassettes that I recently listed to - ones I recorded with Dolby C on my Sony 3-head recorder. They still sound not-horrible!
Almost all of mine were made between the ages of 16-20, allowing for the maximum allowable amount of cringe by law. Embrace the cringe, embrace yourself.
Never really bothered to make mixed CDs. Always found that I enjoyed listening to an entire album especially ones that were thoughtfully crafted by the artists so the songs were connected… Still find I do that frequently with my Amazon music account. I’ll re-visit an artist by listening to several of their entire albums while I’m working outside etc
I still have an old Panasonic 100 disc CD player at home full of most of my old CDs (it was a sad day when I could no longer fit all CDs inside the player and had to decide which ones to remove from it).
Being the Computer Science major I was at the time- I added all my CDs and the tracks in them in a Microsoft Access Database and printed them off in alphabetic order in a 3-ring folder so I could find the exact song/album I wanted on demand.
@OnionSoup Never did get a 100 or 101 disc changer; 5 was plenty. Sony made them so it could automatically sync with one of their 5-cassette changers, however. The mid-1990s was a strange era, since they didn’t embrace folks duplicate onto digital with copy restrictions and all that but made it super simple to duplicate onto analog.
@narfcake it was one of the few “big purchases” I made in my college years… And by big… I think it was $99… Granted that’s probably more like $250 in today’s money I was very proud of my CD changer… Lol. Served me well for years… Now of course it just sits on top of an armoire and hasn’t been powered on in years. I don’t really have need for CDs anymore.
I lost all of my most beloved CDs (in my favorite CD-holder) on a bus in Spain around 20 years ago. I’ve been very timid about holding optical media dear to me ever since.
I made mix CDs when I used to drive more often (online shopping has really spoiled me). I used the disks that could be printed on.
Our car has a six CD player. I guess after a while the coating on the disks starts to flake off and we can’t get the unload the damned thing. Obviously, we can’t play it either. It’s been years.
He says he’s gonna get that taken care of this year. I hope so, I might drive more often. Seriously, what’s the use of driving if you can’t sing your heart out as loud and badly as possible?
Right now, I’m listening to a playlist I made on Plex.
I was a HS teacher and after about ten years in, found some old mix CDs and ripped them to my school computer. One day we were stuck on lockdown because of idiots running around, so they asked if I could play some music (before Spotify existed). I pulled up my old mix CD files and surprisingly the kids mostly enjoyed them, so apparently I had good taste…
I never made one. Neither of my cars have cd players so there’s not really a point now.
My wife still has a bunch of those old round silver things. Will this box make those make the sounds?
Made mix tapes but not mix CDs – primarily because they didn’t exist yet!
@narfcake That’s what I did too, and exchanged them with a friend. I still like them, although I rarely listen to them. (I do still have cassette players too.)
@Kyeh @narfcake Me three.
I didn’t vote because it’s actually some old mix cassettes that I recently listed to - ones I recorded with Dolby C on my Sony 3-head recorder. They still sound not-horrible!
Does a digital playlist of ripped CD’s count?
I still have a boombox that has a tape and cd player so when I find either I listen to them.
Almost all of mine were made between the ages of 16-20, allowing for the maximum allowable amount of cringe by law. Embrace the cringe, embrace yourself.
Never really bothered to make mixed CDs. Always found that I enjoyed listening to an entire album especially ones that were thoughtfully crafted by the artists so the songs were connected… Still find I do that frequently with my Amazon music account. I’ll re-visit an artist by listening to several of their entire albums while I’m working outside etc
@chienfou the mixed cd was more the mating call of us hormone swamped millennials during highschool
I still have an old Panasonic 100 disc CD player at home full of most of my old CDs (it was a sad day when I could no longer fit all CDs inside the player and had to decide which ones to remove from it).
Being the Computer Science major I was at the time- I added all my CDs and the tracks in them in a Microsoft Access Database and printed them off in alphabetic order in a 3-ring folder so I could find the exact song/album I wanted on demand.
@OnionSoup Never did get a 100 or 101 disc changer; 5 was plenty. Sony made them so it could automatically sync with one of their 5-cassette changers, however. The mid-1990s was a strange era, since they didn’t embrace folks duplicate onto digital with copy restrictions and all that but made it super simple to duplicate onto analog.
@narfcake it was one of the few “big purchases” I made in my college years… And by big… I think it was $99… Granted that’s probably more like $250 in today’s money I was very proud of my CD changer… Lol. Served me well for years… Now of course it just sits on top of an armoire and hasn’t been powered on in years. I don’t really have need for CDs anymore.
I lost all of my most beloved CDs (in my favorite CD-holder) on a bus in Spain around 20 years ago. I’ve been very timid about holding optical media dear to me ever since.
I made mix CDs when I used to drive more often (online shopping has really spoiled me). I used the disks that could be printed on.
Our car has a six CD player. I guess after a while the coating on the disks starts to flake off and we can’t get the unload the damned thing. Obviously, we can’t play it either. It’s been years.
He says he’s gonna get that taken care of this year. I hope so, I might drive more often. Seriously, what’s the use of driving if you can’t sing your heart out as loud and badly as possible?
Right now, I’m listening to a playlist I made on Plex.
I was a HS teacher and after about ten years in, found some old mix CDs and ripped them to my school computer. One day we were stuck on lockdown because of idiots running around, so they asked if I could play some music (before Spotify existed). I pulled up my old mix CD files and surprisingly the kids mostly enjoyed them, so apparently I had good taste…
Disc rot has probably claimed most of my collection
(I had MP2 files I ripped from the air with a momma’s mono directional microphone)
@pakopako Wow, I don’t remember MP2.
@cfg83 I have no idea how autocorrect turned “cheap” into “momma’s”, but yes, MP2 audio was there for a hot minute.