The 90s were a wild time to be alive.
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.
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
Wow, that's very helpful for uh, holding... four CDs I guess.
There are five CDs! How many do you see now?
THERE. ARE. FOUR. CDS 😭
"up to".
Oh wow even better! So this is great for people with four CDs, three CDs, maybe even two!
Who has only four CD's?
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 :)
Albums are such a lost art, it kills me.
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.
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.
Do y'all not listen to albums on your phone?
It's not that they don't exist it's that artists/producers aren't focusing on the album experience as much. The album used to be the thing, and the single was the bait to lure you into purchasing it. Now, the single is more likely to be the thing.
They're still making concept albums. Check out Unleash the Archers
Yeah it’s not that they don’t exist it’s that artists/producers aren’t focusing on the album experience as much.
Then follow better artists who align with your tastes
My personal tastes have nothing to do with the topic being discussed. Stop trying to provoke an argument or I'll report you.
Burning CD's is fun. Please burn lossless files and not mp3s.
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.
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.
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.
They were Worf's and they were cardassian isolinear rods.
~~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.
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.
Heh, that one tripped me up at first as well 😄
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.
It looks nothing like the picture on the box
We have Defiant at home.
It's the Valiant.
I'd love to listen to listen to my nu metal CD's on this.
Does it cloak?
That’s why nobody can find theirs anymore.
This is one of the sexier objects
Given the shape of it, it would have been rude not to.
That packaging is way too large.
Did it have anti skip? Did it play mp3?
Am I the only one thinking this liiks like AI slop? The text on the box is super inconsistent
We thought so to, so we went ahead and looked up a few more boxes and nah that’s just how it was designed.
ooh okay! Also, I noticed it might be some lightning/shimmering effect making it look really odd.
Could also be a bad AI upscale. My iphone does it with text that’s far away
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