Shheze, I listen to the factory stock radios in my cars. I did buy some CD's when I first got my old truck, but the novelty wore off with in a month. I remember being a young teen and going to the record store with my dad, cassete tapes were the big thing and I remember Dad, in a corner digging through a small box of 8 tracks.. Fast forward to my daughters 16th B-Day and I took her to wall mart to pic out a few CD's and I just happened to find, in a corner, a small box of cassete tapes! I falshed back to the record store and realized...... I had become my Dad!
I believe you are THE youngest member, cap. And I find it heartening that you look to the past as well as the future.[/QUOTE] i love everything about the past, im a real big "history buff", h*ll, i even prefer watching VHS's over DVD's!! but shhh
Quote: Originally Posted by silverfox Hell....I even had some OLD records that you dare not drop! I remember those... I was maybe 10 years old and my Dad and I were in Maine or Vermont(??) traveling, in some small small town there was a old movie theater that was a antigue museum tourist trap. Wow, talk about memory flash back!! There was a 60 Edsil parked infront (Her car) and I had neber seen a edsil in person. accross the street at a gas station was a 57 Ford ranchero, again I had never seen one in person! The old lady ave us the tour and had a mountain of those wax cylinder records. She played one for us on her antuiqe player...I remember the song as she said to me " I have to find something you would listen too". She played that song..... " Look at that man in his flying machine.....it goes up dilly up,,,t goes dilly down,,,up down, flying around......" Heavy Metal for back in those days! http://www.cylinder.de/guide_brown-wax-cylinders.html
I still buy CDs & records, though as soon as I can get around to it I convert them to mp3 and then never touch the physical copies again. The only reason why I keep the physical copies after that is in case I loose my computer files. Physical media can lay on a shelf for 50 years and still be used, but digital media only lasts as long as you're proactively maintaining it. This has bailed me out only once, since usually I have backup copies of my music to revert to [in that one case the backup device had failed while sitting in storage]. I prefer cds because they're the fastest to convert to mp3 and take up the least space, but I will buy a record if no cd version was made [or if it cannot be found to purchase]. I will buy mp3 files only as a last resort. For playing music I went from making mix tapes straight to mp3 files. If they made minimalistic car radios w/gps at tablet-depth with only SD slots for removable storage & no optical drive, I would consider it. I can fit a lot of 192 kbps mp3s [in cars odds are your speakers aren't going to be good enough to take advantage of anything better] on a 16gb sd card. CDs have nothing on that.
I have about 20 CD's, the majority is vinyl, 8-track or cassette. No digital media for me. I just set up my old turntable/8-track player in the basement the other night after getting a free set of speakers, enjoyed KISS and Cheap Trick at a loud volume. Quite satisfying.
whenever i borrow Stoves p/u....i spend all my time switching stations as they pee me off......not fond of it.....but i like the variety....Im torn:confused: I just bought the program deelio to burn all my vinyl into the Puter.....that should keep me busy alll freekin winter.... as for buying CDs...not for years thats for sure...but i borrow them and steal what i want into my Itunes and considering my vast collection of crappy old stereos....i never use tapes or 8's anymore:confused:....its all on MP3's !!!......which is the same dilema as the 'satellite'.....im constantly hitting "next"....
I'll pick up listening to CDs again when I get into my own place and can set up a nice hi-fi system. I can't remember the last time I actually listened to a CD recently, though. I no longer have a CD player in my car. It's got a Pioneer MVH-P8200BT, which is just a radio, AUX input and USB input with bluetooth capability for pairing a phone for hands-free. I just plug in my nearly-full 160gb iPod Classic and call it good.
I was a big cassette person until High School. Then I got some CD's and that was it for a couple years then I went back to cassettes. Stayed that way until my wife won an iPod shuffle and she already had an MP3 player so I got that one and then got the eMatic 4GB one from Wal-Mart and as soon as I get a decent windshield mount for my Galaxy S II phone, it's 16GB so I'll use it instead. Love the MP3 files, I have well over 16GB of them totaling 3240 tracks including hour-long comedy shows and live sets from Metallica, Grateful Dead, and more.
Put another way if you played all my music on my computer from beginning to end it would take over 9 days to hear it all.
I never turn on the car radios. I listen to my wife tell me where to go! Same reason I don't have a GPS. I listen to my wife tell me where to go! On this computer I must have a million tunes but it disturbs my wife..... so I just listen to her telling me where to go. Sounds like a broken 78 RPM record huh! Listen to Your Master's Voice!