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In my experience that's not necessarily true, although I am thinking more of computer CD drives or home stereo players when I say that. CD-RWs are a big issue on older players though.
The “MD Link” thing printed on the player: this thing has optical out so you can connect it to a MD recorder to copy CDs to MDs with the best quality possible.
I loved my 2 minidisk players back in the day. Its the old tech i miss the most. Sony Hifi brick and a JVC portable one made with a complete metal housing and backlit remote. Straight from record to MD. What a sound. Attrac3 was a very good algorithm.
Got my MiniDisc-Player a few days ago. So what you describe, i did yesterday. 😂Copying optical is great. Perfekt leveling, and it even marks the Tracks absolutely correct.
*PS:* You can get an adapter for that janky looking connector on the stinkbuds, to use this remote with your proper in-ear buds. The connector is called Sony Micro Plug or Stereo Mini
came here to say the very same thing , or you could also cut the jack side of those buds off and solder it to a female 3.5mm jack 🤌might event be enough room inside that remote to replace that proprietary nonsense with the standard. Sounds like you would have to open up the remote anyways to clean the volume pot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@somebutter6755 I dunno, the letters get small very suddenly and then stay that small. When you run out of space, you get smaller and smaller as you realize your mistake.
@@bonkobonko6707 It's disappointing when someone says the word "wholesome" and people like you yell "oh oh redditor wholesome 100 UwU big chungus" or something like that. It's a normal word in the English language for something heartwarming, not a metaphor to the dark depths of Reddit.
I absolutely love CDs. They're incredibly cheap (unlike vinyl), lossless, and really easy to slam into your PC's optical drive to convert to FLACs and put on your phone so you can listen to them with some ten dollar dirty buds. Used CDs also come with a bunch of other stuff like the lyric book that you don't get when you buy your music digitally. Rip em once, stash them in a box in the closet, back everything up to a hard drive just in case, and the things last basically forever AND you still get to enjoy the music that was on them. Also, going used means you might end up with a version of an older album BEFORE it was remastered, which means the sound wasn't destroyed by the loudness war.
That last point is the golden truth. Man. I just queued up a playlist of circa-2000 alt-metal, and even that actually had dynamics. When you go back and play something that isn't crushed to a range of 3dB peak-to-peak, it sounds... _SO GOOD._
@@A-G-F- Most CD quality audio is formatted in a way that while it isn't 100% lossless ON PAPER, the human ear is physically incapable of hearing a difference. It cuts out the infrasound and ultrasound frequencies, but otherwise is able to replicate the sound in a way that well over 99.99% of people would think is identical.
Boxes in the future(tm): since we care so much about the environment: your box will not be manufactured. you can find your device in the same place as our care about our customers!
@@Novistador96 And if you buy the product without knowing it doesn't come with a charger, you then have to have it shipped separately. It's absolutely hilarious that they can make such bogus claims, but have people eating every word.
So true. Like we go from tons of stuff included at no extra cost, to oversized packaging with basically nothing but the device in it, to now, no headphone jack or charging cables included. Shit's really changed.
I remember when I got my XP-Pen Artist 12, a display graphics tablet. Came with literally every power adapter I could ever want, tons of replacement pen nibs, a pen case with a cap that doubles as a holder.. I was blown away. And yet was mad it didn't come with even a basic stand. Beautifully packaged though, really nice box too.
i bought a second lightly used intuos4 med in case my main one breaks, because there is some quality of life features they never brought back. box has nibs, drivers, cable, pen stand (it houses the nibs)... ah, and those fucking wonky ass wacom mouses, it has one. quaint. my second one is the wireless one, and comes with a dongle too (i will wire it in lmao) but the main feature which i refuse to relinquish: H O T K E Y. L E D S. hotkey led labels right next to the hotkey buttons means i refuse to go back to not having the labels right there. there is no explanation why they got rid of this feature. it is IMMENSELY FUCKING HELPFUL and the only thing i could ask more for is a hotkey puck with the led indicators in the box (this is solved with a cabled numpad and setting the keys up as hotkeys, and slapping a label on top of the caps. hot trick for the girlies in the back. you want a separate numpad so you can move it around for better access: YOU DON'T WANT CARPAL TUNNEL AND CLAWING A KEYBOARD WILL DO IT)
One cool thing about CDs is that used CDs are crazy cheap, so it's usually the cheapest way to get lossless music (and you can get stuff none of the lossless store have). The little booklets also almost always have neat stuff in them (especially if you're really into the artist in question) you don't get in a download. I know Apple experimented with electronic liner notes on the iTunes store in the 2000s but it obviously never caught on. CD are actually amazing considering they're more or less 70s technology, and the 16bit/44.1k standard was so good that the audio world has never really moved on from it. This video also reminded me how spoiled North America is for cheap electronics. By the late 90s you could get a decent name brand portable CD player in the US for under 150 dollars.
One thing worth mentioning is master difference. On streaming services you receive the most recent remasters, however sometimes I prefer older releases as they're ex. less compressed (the loudness war).
You're giving away the secrets! Im getting into collecting CD's, i just hope the price of old ones doesn't shoot up when people inevitably realize how good they actually are!
I bought a portable cd player in Sweden for 795 SEK in '98, which at that time basically was $100 US. So it wasn't just the US, more that the poor Aussies had it rough rather.
@@AVINIDE I hate that a lot of the stuff in my Spotify library gets silently replaced with "remastered" versions, that I'm guessing are either made to sound louder, or made to sound better on cheap headphones and bluetooth devices. That's why I keep .flac rips of my favourite albums.
I had this exact CD player!! I never used the remote and always used the separate battery pack because the rechargeable batteries became useless too quickly!
That super subtle joke on the CD-R. The first letters of your writing being too big and having to squeeze the last letters in a miniscule amount of space. Hits me right in the nostalgia.
@@Dee_Just_Dee Which wasn't the first MP3 player by a long shot. The iPod was like half the size with double the battery life, there's a reason it was a massive hit.
@@frostedbutts4340 For sure the Nomad wasn't the first MP3 player. It was the first _mass storage_ MP3 player. They only made the mistake of thinking that people would be fine buying one in a discman-size form factor for familiarity, when it was easy enough to go smaller. No reason to get so butthurt.
A bookshelf? Shit I've got 5 250-disc booklets, all arranged by broad genre, artist name, and release date... And then a chest full of the stuff I don't dig into often. I'm a little OCD.
I fr have been going through such a shit depressive episode and found your channel in the middle of it and I gotta say I watched all the content you got and I so look forward to the stuff you make, it’s made this crappy time just a little bit better.
There once was a king who asked his most trusted adviser to bring him a magic ring that would make the wearer happy when they are sad and sad when they are happy. This was however a trick to teach the advisor some humility as the king knew no magic rings truly existed. Some time later the king asked his advisor if he’d managed to find the magic ring, to the kings shock the advisor said he had found just such a ring and presented to the king a simple golden ring with four wounds engraved on it “this too shall pass”. At that moment The king realized that all his wisdom, fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust. This story reminds me that the bad times are not permanent and *shall pass* and to enjoy and cherish every moment of the good times for they to are fleeting.
@@tuser8 I kinda like it. I've been buying CDs the whole time, and for about 15 years I've felt like kinda a luddite. Now I feel more like a hipster, and that feels like a modest upgrade.
@@Dee_Just_Dee I got into vinyl a couple years ago but eventually got away from it and moved to CDs because vinyl got way too expensive to keep up as a hobby. It's just not worth the effort for me.
I still have my teenage Walkman, I was thinking about finally throwing it out since the battery hatch is broken and how often do I use it, really. But your enthusiasm reminded me of its value and a little tape on the hatch has it good to go for another decade or two.
Man this takes me back. I remember inheriting my sister's old tape walkman and using that for a couple of years before getting a CD walkman. The joy of recording tapes 😭
7:22 bonus fact, Gorillaz first album was my first CD i ever bought myself, and it also has a hidden video / interactive when you put it into a pc, give it a go
Ahhh, Enhanced CDs... Some CD players would try to read the enhanced portion as an extra track and always screwed up playback unless you remembered to skip it
By the way streaming is going I honestly see actually hardcopy music and formats becoming popular again. I use my iPod but it's all from CDs I have put on. I have my cassette walkman still and I like the feeling of actually sticking on a album from a tape or CD, let alone a vinyl record. Would love to see you do more of these sorts of videos. Keep up the fantastic work as always man! Been waiting for my WiFi to come back to watch your video so worth the wait 👌🏻✌🏻
I remember growing up at the end of the cassette, but still experiencing it to the rise of CDs. I used to listen to music on a stereo in bed before streaming. 😳
Discmans were terrible. I had a Walkman as a kid, then a discman when high school started. The damn thing skipped and was actually way more chunky to carry around than a Walkman. Not to mention you could fit 90 minutes on a tape... and steal songs off the radio. Win win.
If you don't mind violating the earbuds, it would be really easy to solder the proprietary connector to a female aux cable so you could plug whatever you want into the remote :)
I had that EXACT Akai player and let me tell you, calling it a nugget is nearly insulting the common nugget. The second it was not horizontal it would stop playing. It worked better as a level than an actual level! Try taking that to school to listen on breaks. But I got it to play burnt CDs with a 45% success! So you know, some sorta silver lining.
I had what looks to be that exact player when I was in high school. It was stolen from my backpack one day during class. The kid who took it gave it back a day later and apologized, he said he felt bad but I think what really happened is he tried to use it and figured it was easier to give it back than throw it away.
You know what's crazy? You can still pick up CD wallets at dollar stores. I honestly don't know who the hell is still buying them, but they're still making and selling them....
@@Kostas_Dikefalaios I guess I think it's weird that people would buy stuff on disc and immediately throw away the case and liner notes. Might as well just buy a download or streaming license for quite a bit cheaper if all you want is the content.
I still like burning warez type stuff onto discs to prevent my antivirus from autodeleting this type of stuff But ooohh! They still sell cd wallets?! that would've been good to know 😶
4:44 by the way, that’s a thing they did a couple times, but mostly their remotes had a standard jack out. But also, a handful of tape Walkmans did the reverse: the remote had an AUX out, but the player had no headphone jack, just the proprietary remote port. Sony.
Isn't the jack also different on pretty much every player? I know a lot of people (myself included) give Apple flack for still using Lightning (instead of USB-C like they should in 2021, especially considering EVERY OTHER DEVICE THEY MAKE, *INCLUDING THE IPAD* , USES USB-C), but at least it's a standard that dates back to the iPhone 5, and can even be adapted back to 30-pin for really old car stereos and iPod docks
And there were at least a couple tape Walkmans that had the proprietary edge connector, and got aux out via a coin-sized adapter that was completely separate from the remote/headphones. And everyone lost it.
@@thetechconspiracy2 nah, they had a couple different connectors, but mostly it was the one you see in video, it’s just that some or all the features didn’t work on every player.
Man the nostalgia. Back in middle school, my brother gave me his Kenwood cd player which had the backlit remote (with a normal jack on it, thank you kenwood) It was the coolest thing my classmates had ever seen. I went back on it last summer and plugged my AT m50x in it. Still works flawlessly. Almost cried.
3:14 that's a true statement btw our family microwave is around 30+ old and still working, then we decided to buy a new one just to see it broke down in 6 months.
No word of a joke, I have a 35 year old microwave in my TV room mostly just to cook "microwave popcorn". Got the thing at a yard sale for like $20. Meanwhile I've gone through 4 different modern microwaves in the kitchen.
I thought the same thing. With a good jack and a bit of work for isolation it could work fine. Or go the hardcore route and solder a port into the remote directly instead of the strange one
They look 3.5. They just seem like the plug broke inside the remote's jack. Had the same thing happen to me a couple months back with some dirty buds and my ipod.
@@themaritimegirl oh, really? Nice. If there's a pre-existing adapter out there already, that's definitely the way to go. I just wasn't very hopeful that a 20+ year old short lived connector would have much aftermarket support. That, and also I had no idea what that plug was called, even.
That has got to be one of the most well put to together portable cd player kits I've ever seen, let alone any portable media player kit. Nice nugget bud. I absolutely love this channel, it always makes my day.
It's so funny to me because I've bought three Sony portable CD players brand new over the course of my life. They came with a pair of headphones and a charger. No case, no rechargeable battery pack (even though two of them supported that very one), no line audio cables. Just exactly what you need to use it and no more. I always wondered if those battery packs and cases were mythical figures, and come to find out that pretty much every other person got them complimentary. WTH? :-D
I bought a Walkman from that era (a cardboard box Walkman [WM-fX553] and not a plastic blister Walkman) and I can confirm that Sony still put some legit effort into much of their stuff back then. Easily put 500-700 hours of use on that thing in just the first year I owned it. They don't make them like they used to Or provide useful accessories like they used to . . .
@@nickwallette6201 It's the frigging region-specific SKUs, man. They still do that with the Xperia phones. Back in 2014, the Xperia Z2 was really close to being one of the nicest smartphones ever made, except it still used two sealing flaps in order to be water resistant (a common thing to see on sony's water-resistant Xperia models as far back as 2011). One of them covered the microUSB/charging port. You'd have to open the flap everytime you needed to charge the phone (read: nearly every day). The flaps wore out rather quickly for a component that's supposed to last for the lifetime of the phone (or at least it's original battery), so after a couple of months you'd see people using their Z2s with an exposed USB port and SIM card tray on it's side. Unsightly to say the least. None of that was an issue if your particular phone was shipped with the Sony DK36 magnetic charging dock in the box. Very, very few people got those in the box. They were laughably rare and expensive for those of us who didn't. Some regions algo got a free USB-OTG adapter and Sony NC31E noise-cancelling IEMs, which are said to be great. I now have a DK44 dock (that's actually for the thicker Z2a, but works with the regular Z2 with some padding) and it's pretty convenient. Too bad Sony didn't grace us with the extra goodies.
Cleans pretty much all electronic with grimy contacts. I think all of my analog tech (instruments, amps, speakers, etc) have had their input jacks and dials flushed with deoxit.
Seeing someone else so happy about Gorillaz makes me really happy too. Gorillaz was shown to me by a buddy in middle school. Started listening more and now just love them. That friend has since moved away and we talk less. But when new Gorillaz stuff comes out we text non stop
Oh hey, I was born a day before you! Fancy meeting here. I hate cd's now personally, much prefer cassettes for my nostalgic media, but I still keep my old CD stack on deck. Have a good day buddy!
I am from 1.9 years later. :) I don't collect CDs either, but I grew up with them. Personally, I thought CDs would die out by 2015, and am grateful they didn't.
@@kal2045 Fancy meeting here! My family used to have a bunch of cassettes but after moving around we couldn't find them anymore, such a shame. You have a great day as well! I will remember to come back to this comment and wish you a happy birthday on Thanksgiving!
CDs are GOAT. Good sound, nice HiFi decks and overall, I like em' Edit: also, streaming services suck now and the big ones actually don't even pay artists fairly. So, in my opinion, going forward, I'll be buying all my music on CD.
Well, it depends. Spotify pays 1 eurocent per 4 streams, even for the smallest of all musicians. (If streamed with a pro subscription). That's relatively okay. But still, what I do is: I listen to spotify all day long, but still, if there is a new release from one of my favorite artists, or even if there is an album I really pump, I just get the CD or, if available, the vinyl, even though I didn't listen to CD in years and don't even own a vinyl player. And then go to concerts and buy some merch. So I do everything to support the artist, the way I did before Spotify, and they get some money out of my streams on top.
HOLY MOLY! I got this exact CD player (discman D475) and MDR 7506 headphones for christmas in 1996. Due to the price (the CD player was $200 at the time) they were the only 2 presents I got, but I couldnt have been happier. It did play some brands of CDR but not all, obviously. I think it was the Maxwell brand CDRs that I found worked in it, and they had to be burnt using a particular method I've long since forgotten. I was surprised to find that it played PS1 and Sega Saturn Yellow Book audio from the game CDs. I remember bopping to Virtua Fighter 2 and Tobal No. 1 on Christmas morning like my world had changed. Thanks for reminding me of this :)
Dude I love your voice! I honestly have no clue about what you’re saying about half the time but the way you talk and the enthusiasm in your voice entertains me more than anything you’re actually talking about
5:00 you just know, though, that if Apple designed the first iPod today instead of back yonder, they would have tried something proprietary to avoid having 2 ports on a device.
My father bought a new Lincoln Town Car in 2004-ish. It had a six-disc CD Changer in the trunk. My dad had never had a CD player. I get a phone call asking to look at his CD player because it wasn't playing. I go to the house, and he was trying to play the "B" side like an LP.
I’m a CD enthusiast due to how cheap they are (I can find most of my favorite albums for basically nothing where I live) and my setup is a 90s Panasonic stereo
Can you advise on roughly what to look for when buying a dedicated CD player? New stuff sounds surprisingly bad. A lot of old stuff does too. Lots of CD players were cheap and had rubbish amp/dac bits in them. New audiophile ones are silly money. I just don't know how to pick a decent used one.
1:05 I have been having a similar problem with my lighting port headphones, But it’s worse because I use it to walk around when it’s the end of school,waiting for the bus.
I'm still a disciple of CD, even though I've been copying them to MP3 since 1998. Yes, that's right, for *_23 years_* I've been buying CDs just to immediately "rip" them to MP3 and shelve them. And it seems like *_only now_* is CD finally entering its twilight years. One of my local-ish but definitely "made it" bands released their newest album on streaming and download services only; no CD pressing. 1982-2021, baby! Hell of a run! Oh, if you actually clicked to read the rest of this: I jammed to *_MP3-CD_* players until about 2006. That's right, I copied CDs to MP3 just to put those MP3s back onto CDs, wut?! While it wasn't as good or cool as having an iPod, it meant that I could go to the record store downtown, pick up an exclusive release, and listen to it on public transit on the way back home to rip it to MP3 to play on the same player but better.
You listened to CDs up until 2006? I started listening to CDs at the end of December 2006... Until then cassete tapes, vinyl and radio only. Nowadays I listen to MP3 from PC, laptop, car USB player, etc., but also radio and cassete tapes. I still ocasionally listen to vinyl or CDs, but that's rare.
When I started listening to music around 2004 it was all CDs. I remember getting American Idiot and Hot Fuss for my birthday. First music that was my own.
I never got the idea of needing/wanting a remote for your portable music players. I mean, you're normally less than 4 feet away from the actual device, not much more than an arm lenght, because of the wire, so is it too much of an inconvenience to reach the actual device and press a button on it.
6:52 Yeah, they added that feature later. It doesn't really make any sense that it doesn't just work, but by the time I was burning CDs pretty much all players would play them.
I love how he goes totally nuts about the fact that every accessory that the owner might perhaps ever need is included. It just used to be like this. I'm also genuinely amazed about the batteries still being in usable condition after all those years, but Ni-MH cells do like to be stored in discharged state and these are also only 1200mAh, so they have a nice thick robust insulation layer that won't easily break down. But if they do die, you can always get some rechargeable PKCELLs instead!
All of the early 2000nds Walkmans are incredibly nice and well made. The 20th anniversary cassette Walkmans are probably the most feature packed and smallest cassette players you can get. The same goes for their Minidisc players/recorders. I still find it amazing that they could cram an entire minidisc deck into something that fits into the palm of your hand.
"Remember not to disturb those close to you" needs to be written everywhere. On city streets, busses, parking lots, hell, out in the woods to in places where people camp.
Let me guess, you've burned the Scarlet Fire CD-R at maximum speed? Yeah, old lasers don't like that. Get an old writer and burn them as slow as possible, preferably 8x or less, and you should be good.
@Tkemali sauce 8x is pretty much the threshold, but getting anything below without building a PC with parts from the late 90's is going to be difficult.
Even my car's CD player freaks out at anything above 2x. I've gone back to CDs in the car, since I caught myself reaching for a phone or something all the time. There's something nice about just going "okay, I'm playing THIS disc now.." and not jumping around playlists.
My dad got a portable Panasonic CD player in like 1995, he had it plugged into his home HiFi through an RCA to 3.5mm jack. I used to jack it ALL the time to take to school, especially for the bus ride. Which meant I also jacked the batteries from EVERY controller in the house.
Video Recommendation: A 20+ minute video about ANYTHING, I use ur vids to relax before bed and the long vids always got me engaged. Maybe comparing budget bluetooth headphones with the Apple over ears or Sonys
Sony tape and cd walkmans in the mid to late nineties were best you could buy back then, the attachment for the aaa batteries was for backup power when the rechargeable ran out. It was when they rolled out the groove audio (the replacement for megabass) which was pretty good for the time. The later remotes used standard 3.5mm jacks
This is the "BIG BOY" Discman experience, you could also buy them without all the accessories. My dad bought a "Car Discman" in like 1996 that was just the regular one with a tape adapter, a car power adapter, a wall adapter, and a crazy anti-shock mount you had to bolt to your car.
Indeed. The models that came in a cardboard box were a cut above the models that came in plastic blisters. I had one from each tier in the mid 90's. Sound quality was similar but everything else was black and white. It would be like comparing a Lexus to a Toyota. They both drive good, but...
My favorite memory of these walkman players is finding out that some of my old ps1 games had the game soundtrack burned onto the disk and you could listen to it by sticking em in a cd player. I remember popping Saltwater Sportfishing into my Grandma's Walkman and being blown away that the soundtrack was playing.
I remember having a few PC games like that. There was one racing game I had back then that I absolutely loved the soundtrack to, but I haven't been able to find since. EDIT: Nevermind, it apparently got rereleased on GOG and is something of a cult classic now. I spent a LONG time trying to find it, and your comment making me think about it again let me find it finally.
What you got there, must have being VERY expensive back in the day. This was probably top teir with its rechargable batt, case, remote, and spare battery thingy. I could only afford the base model and even then those were expensive. Sony was always expensive. These things were great man. AND yes CD-R compatibility came in a lil bit later down the track. The earlier ones had copyright protection.
Most CD players couldn't play CD-Rs until long after this particular player released--which you probably guessed by now.
Skul??? I remember when I used to watch you!!!
oh its skul
my 1987 magnavox with the old style philips mech plays cdrs just fine
Sometimes it could depend on the burn speed. 1x or 2x was generally safe, but not always a success.
In my experience that's not necessarily true, although I am thinking more of computer CD drives or home stereo players when I say that. CD-RWs are a big issue on older players though.
Man CD’s. This man really knows how to take me back to a 2000’s full of PKcells.
"Oh, my Puksell!"
Oh moi PKcerhgegheghls.
Are CDs that nostalgic already?
Cee Deez nuts
@@himanshumundepi love that youtube translates this to “oh me PKcerhgegheghls” guess they’re feeling extra Scottish today
The “MD Link” thing printed on the player: this thing has optical out so you can connect it to a MD recorder to copy CDs to MDs with the best quality possible.
I loved my 2 minidisk players back in the day. Its the old tech i miss the most. Sony Hifi brick and a JVC portable one made with a complete metal housing and backlit remote. Straight from record to MD. What a sound. Attrac3 was a very good algorithm.
Got my MiniDisc-Player a few days ago. So what you describe, i did yesterday. 😂Copying optical is great. Perfekt leveling, and it even marks the Tracks absolutely correct.
*PS:* You can get an adapter for that janky looking connector on the stinkbuds, to use this remote with your proper in-ear buds. The connector is called Sony Micro Plug or Stereo Mini
yup! 2.5mm
They have never changed .
Oh your sad we used proprietary ports
Well if you give us some more money then you can have an adapter
@@Therandomtihmged13922.5mm isn't proprietary, its just uncommon
MDR-NC20 had a cable that could be detached and you could use them with the remote without having 9ft of cord to carry. It was the bomb.
came here to say the very same thing , or you could also cut the jack side of those buds off and solder it to a female 3.5mm jack 🤌might event be enough room inside that remote to replace that proprietary nonsense with the standard. Sounds like you would have to open up the remote anyways to clean the volume pot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
6:11 I like how you wrote "Scarlet Fire" on the disc like "SCARLet FIre" to match the emphases in the actual song. Nice touch.
@@Danerock13 Lmao 😂😂😂
better than justin bieber if you play both songs on mute.
@Joshua Roehl oh shit, its the greatest singer/songwriter of our time
(srsly his channel is a gem)
I think he just ran out of space writing lol
@@somebutter6755 I dunno, the letters get small very suddenly and then stay that small. When you run out of space, you get smaller and smaller as you realize your mistake.
This is my take on DankPods:
When things go wrong = funny
When things go right = wholesome
@You have to know i scared to click that link....is it rick roll
@Covetz Its a quran recitation, no idea why spam bots are being made to spam those links
@@xxyvng6831 Its a quran recitation, no idea why spam bots are being made to spam those links
Yep. Batman nugget is perfect example
@@bonkobonko6707 It's disappointing when someone says the word "wholesome" and people like you yell "oh oh redditor wholesome 100 UwU big chungus" or something like that. It's a normal word in the English language for something heartwarming, not a metaphor to the dark depths of Reddit.
I absolutely love CDs. They're incredibly cheap (unlike vinyl), lossless, and really easy to slam into your PC's optical drive to convert to FLACs and put on your phone so you can listen to them with some ten dollar dirty buds. Used CDs also come with a bunch of other stuff like the lyric book that you don't get when you buy your music digitally. Rip em once, stash them in a box in the closet, back everything up to a hard drive just in case, and the things last basically forever AND you still get to enjoy the music that was on them.
Also, going used means you might end up with a version of an older album BEFORE it was remastered, which means the sound wasn't destroyed by the loudness war.
That last point is the golden truth. Man. I just queued up a playlist of circa-2000 alt-metal, and even that actually had dynamics. When you go back and play something that isn't crushed to a range of 3dB peak-to-peak, it sounds... _SO GOOD._
Most of the CDs arent in Loseless formats tho
@@A-G-F- a lot of them are .wav?
@@A-G-F- Most CD quality audio is formatted in a way that while it isn't 100% lossless ON PAPER, the human ear is physically incapable of hearing a difference. It cuts out the infrasound and ultrasound frequencies, but otherwise is able to replicate the sound in a way that well over 99.99% of people would think is identical.
@@russianbot8576
Yes
1:13 I was 100% getting ready to proclaim this as one of the smoothest transitions into a sponsor spot in history!😄
Dude I didn't noticed until now, yes, it looked like a sponsor lmao
"so I'm actually excited right because this video is actually sponsored by nord VPN!"
I only wish he was sponsored by the Discman
@@evilredflame me too, but it'd be real wierd if he was sponsored by a product the original manufacturers no longer produce.
@@blakksheep736 big shoutout to today's sponsor apple and their apple ii computer this is really top notch
"CDs"
"It's pretty nuts"
i see what you did there
@Lotus shut up
@Joshua Roehl dude shut up.
Great profile pic
@@beegyoshi6525 LOL
@Lotus shut up, man
Boxes then: here’s a bunch of stuff with your new device!
Boxes now: to protect the environment, your device is no longer included
Boxes in the future(tm): since we care so much about the environment: your box will not be manufactured. you can find your device in the same place as our care about our customers!
"To protect the environment" needs MASSIVE air quotes around it since that's the most bogus reasoning ever.
@@FiniteCS Like if you need a charger it comes with its own packaging
@@Novistador96 And if you buy the product without knowing it doesn't come with a charger, you then have to have it shipped separately. It's absolutely hilarious that they can make such bogus claims, but have people eating every word.
So true. Like we go from tons of stuff included at no extra cost, to oversized packaging with basically nothing but the device in it, to now, no headphone jack or charging cables included. Shit's really changed.
God I miss so much when companies actually gived you a complete product
I remember when I got my XP-Pen Artist 12, a display graphics tablet. Came with literally every power adapter I could ever want, tons of replacement pen nibs, a pen case with a cap that doubles as a holder.. I was blown away. And yet was mad it didn't come with even a basic stand. Beautifully packaged though, really nice box too.
I mean, I've got a new Wacom One last year and it came with its cable and spare tips. Still better than most flagship phones today.
i bought a second lightly used intuos4 med in case my main one breaks, because there is some quality of life features they never brought back.
box has nibs, drivers, cable, pen stand (it houses the nibs)... ah, and those fucking wonky ass wacom mouses, it has one. quaint. my second one is the wireless one, and comes with a dongle too (i will wire it in lmao)
but the main feature which i refuse to relinquish:
H O T K E Y. L E D S.
hotkey led labels right next to the hotkey buttons means i refuse to go back to not having the labels right there.
there is no explanation why they got rid of this feature. it is IMMENSELY FUCKING HELPFUL and the only thing i could ask more for is a hotkey puck with the led indicators in the box (this is solved with a cabled numpad and setting the keys up as hotkeys, and slapping a label on top of the caps. hot trick for the girlies in the back. you want a separate numpad so you can move it around for better access: YOU DON'T WANT CARPAL TUNNEL AND CLAWING A KEYBOARD WILL DO IT)
ah, it's always a good day to see an Australian man show me some old nuggets
It’s a whole chicken.
Great comment, have you watched the video yet?
I just love it how he calls them nuggets
Fax
@@LexosVr The most accurate name, probably
One cool thing about CDs is that used CDs are crazy cheap, so it's usually the cheapest way to get lossless music (and you can get stuff none of the lossless store have). The little booklets also almost always have neat stuff in them (especially if you're really into the artist in question) you don't get in a download. I know Apple experimented with electronic liner notes on the iTunes store in the 2000s but it obviously never caught on. CD are actually amazing considering they're more or less 70s technology, and the 16bit/44.1k standard was so good that the audio world has never really moved on from it.
This video also reminded me how spoiled North America is for cheap electronics. By the late 90s you could get a decent name brand portable CD player in the US for under 150 dollars.
One thing worth mentioning is master difference. On streaming services you receive the most recent remasters, however sometimes I prefer older releases as they're ex. less compressed (the loudness war).
You're giving away the secrets! Im getting into collecting CD's, i just hope the price of old ones doesn't shoot up when people inevitably realize how good they actually are!
I bought a portable cd player in Sweden for 795 SEK in '98, which at that time basically was $100 US. So it wasn't just the US, more that the poor Aussies had it rough rather.
James Langridge it probably won’t, and I don’t see the rise of CDs happening the same way it did for vinyl. I could just be completely wrong of course
@@AVINIDE I hate that a lot of the stuff in my Spotify library gets silently replaced with "remastered" versions, that I'm guessing are either made to sound louder, or made to sound better on cheap headphones and bluetooth devices. That's why I keep .flac rips of my favourite albums.
I had this exact CD player!! I never used the remote and always used the separate battery pack because the rechargeable batteries became useless too quickly!
That super subtle joke on the CD-R. The first letters of your writing being too big and having to squeeze the last letters in a miniscule amount of space. Hits me right in the nostalgia.
Man, the start of this is just reminding me how revolutionary it was when the original iPod was announced with like ten minutes of skip protection
I think it was twenty minutes actually.
Except it wasn't. Creative beat Apple to the punch with the Nomad. Apple just miniaturized the concept.
@@Dee_Just_Dee Which wasn't the first MP3 player by a long shot. The iPod was like half the size with double the battery life, there's a reason it was a massive hit.
@@frostedbutts4340 For sure the Nomad wasn't the first MP3 player. It was the first _mass storage_ MP3 player. They only made the mistake of thinking that people would be fine buying one in a discman-size form factor for familiarity, when it was easy enough to go smaller.
No reason to get so butthurt.
Having a bookshelf full of CDs is sure making me feel old now
Don't sweat it. At least they're not wax cylinder recordings.
I've got rubbermaid bins full of CDs because I can't afford bookshelves or the space for them. Generation gap, I guess.
No joke I got 126 soundtrack CDs on my shelf and my classmates think I’m some sort of Luddite
Still have them in my car. Lol about 100.6 disk player I'm still rocking
A bookshelf? Shit I've got 5 250-disc booklets, all arranged by broad genre, artist name, and release date... And then a chest full of the stuff I don't dig into often. I'm a little OCD.
Seeing him happy because of an actually properly working nugget just makes my day
nugget
As a CD collector this video really made my day. Love to see people talk about CDs and CD players!
I fr have been going through such a shit depressive episode and found your channel in the middle of it and I gotta say I watched all the content you got and I so look forward to the stuff you make, it’s made this crappy time just a little bit better.
hang in there!!
@@purpleneons I’m trying my best!
@@sophiaenos2417 fingers crossed for you!
There once was a king who asked his most trusted adviser to bring him a magic ring that would make the wearer happy when they are sad and sad when they are happy. This was however a trick to teach the advisor some humility as the king knew no magic rings truly existed. Some time later the king asked his advisor if he’d managed to find the magic ring, to the kings shock the advisor said he had found just such a ring and presented to the king a simple golden ring with four wounds engraved on it “this too shall pass”. At that moment The king realized that all his wisdom, fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust.
This story reminds me that the bad times are not permanent and *shall pass* and to enjoy and cherish every moment of the good times for they to are fleeting.
Same though
This is a huge throwback. I remember owning a CD player, and it just makes me miss the Walkman and CD players and stuff.
I had the craziest nostalgia hit from this
The insane bit is that CD players are now considered a nostalgic thing, how time passes...
@@tuser8 I kinda like it. I've been buying CDs the whole time, and for about 15 years I've felt like kinda a luddite. Now I feel more like a hipster, and that feels like a modest upgrade.
@@Dee_Just_Dee I got into vinyl a couple years ago but eventually got away from it and moved to CDs because vinyl got way too expensive to keep up as a hobby. It's just not worth the effort for me.
Same !!... I use to carry mine in a back pack as it was the big wouldn't fit in my pocket lol
1:28 Man I thought he was about to say "I'm actually excited to tell you about today's sponsor, NordVPN"
I still have my teenage Walkman, I was thinking about finally throwing it out since the battery hatch is broken and how often do I use it, really. But your enthusiasm reminded me of its value and a little tape on the hatch has it good to go for another decade or two.
Man this takes me back. I remember inheriting my sister's old tape walkman and using that for a couple of years before getting a CD walkman.
The joy of recording tapes 😭
7:22 bonus fact, Gorillaz first album was my first CD i ever bought myself, and it also has a hidden video / interactive when you put it into a pc, give it a go
Ahhh, Enhanced CDs... Some CD players would try to read the enhanced portion as an extra track and always screwed up playback unless you remembered to skip it
same here gorillaz was the first cd I had ever brought in my life!
Yup, well the Eee PC would sure know: ruclips.net/video/cOPFaBsLcY8/видео.html
haha it was my second or third CD, my first being Follow The Leader by KoRn
Sooooooooooo interesting
I love those teal pads on the cans, god that's a nice hue and looks sharp!
By the way streaming is going I honestly see actually hardcopy music and formats becoming popular again. I use my iPod but it's all from CDs I have put on. I have my cassette walkman still and I like the feeling of actually sticking on a album from a tape or CD, let alone a vinyl record. Would love to see you do more of these sorts of videos. Keep up the fantastic work as always man! Been waiting for my WiFi to come back to watch your video so worth the wait 👌🏻✌🏻
Still doing much the same with MD recording decks plus MD portables
MP3 is the peak music format to be honest. You can put them in CDs, USB sticks and your phone. The musics is yours forever.
@@sdc303 Till the drive quits and your email gets hacked then your screwed.
Yay another video of my favourite Australian man screaming about Music
FR
why is there so many bots in the comments, like lotus here
@@LilTachanka imma report it
@@yangsinful Same, I guess we'll both report Lotus.
@@onionman500blin8 Idk who's generating these bot accounts...
I remember growing up at the end of the cassette, but still experiencing it to the rise of CDs. I used to listen to music on a stereo in bed before streaming. 😳
Yeah me too! My dad's old truck had a cassette deck but he got one of those adaptors and one of these CD players. it skipped a bunch but it worked
Discmans were terrible. I had a Walkman as a kid, then a discman when high school started. The damn thing skipped and was actually way more chunky to carry around than a Walkman. Not to mention you could fit 90 minutes on a tape... and steal songs off the radio. Win win.
yyyyyupp
I grew up on the edge of a CD. My childhood was quite dangerous.
If you don't mind violating the earbuds, it would be really easy to solder the proprietary connector to a female aux cable so you could plug whatever you want into the remote :)
You can buy an adapter
9:53 "gimme my precious monkey music back" XD
MONKEY MUSICCCC
Discman ‘ESP’? Does it read your thoughts?
reminds me of DSMP
Might mean that it can be used with the koss esp 95x's?
@Lotus shut
Nah its a TES mod
@@choppercove malding
I had that EXACT Akai player and let me tell you, calling it a nugget is nearly insulting the common nugget. The second it was not horizontal it would stop playing. It worked better as a level than an actual level! Try taking that to school to listen on breaks. But I got it to play burnt CDs with a 45% success! So you know, some sorta silver lining.
I had what looks to be that exact player when I was in high school. It was stolen from my backpack one day during class. The kid who took it gave it back a day later and apologized, he said he felt bad but I think what really happened is he tried to use it and figured it was easier to give it back than throw it away.
4:19 the funniest bit 😂😂😂
I remember when you where at the 40k and i genuinely enjoy watching the Patreon list get longer and longer
6:26 that noise is so much nostalgia
7:05 - Wow, that CD wallet was the biggest throwback of the video
You know what's crazy? You can still pick up CD wallets at dollar stores. I honestly don't know who the hell is still buying them, but they're still making and selling them....
@@Dee_Just_Dee Well you can use them for DVDs, Blu Rays and CDs. So of course people still buy them
@@Kostas_Dikefalaios I guess I think it's weird that people would buy stuff on disc and immediately throw away the case and liner notes. Might as well just buy a download or streaming license for quite a bit cheaper if all you want is the content.
I still like burning warez type stuff onto discs to prevent my antivirus from autodeleting this type of stuff
But ooohh! They still sell cd wallets?! that would've been good to know 😶
Hearing your excitement on all the 'taken-for-granted' features brings back memories of the old days, simpler times with a cd player.
I love how this channel is basically a preservation project for weird 2000S technologies and some from late 90s and earlier 2010s
I remember being excited to get a skip resistant player and see how much I could shake before it it stopped.
4:44 by the way, that’s a thing they did a couple times, but mostly their remotes had a standard jack out.
But also, a handful of tape Walkmans did the reverse: the remote had an AUX out, but the player had no headphone jack, just the proprietary remote port.
Sony.
Isn't the jack also different on pretty much every player? I know a lot of people (myself included) give Apple flack for still using Lightning (instead of USB-C like they should in 2021, especially considering EVERY OTHER DEVICE THEY MAKE, *INCLUDING THE IPAD* , USES USB-C), but at least it's a standard that dates back to the iPhone 5, and can even be adapted back to 30-pin for really old car stereos and iPod docks
Surprised that Lotus guy didn't reply here first
And there were at least a couple tape Walkmans that had the proprietary edge connector, and got aux out via a coin-sized adapter that was completely separate from the remote/headphones. And everyone lost it.
yeah Sony has been doing proprietary bullshit since before anyone else
hell, remember fuckin Memory Sticks lmao
@@thetechconspiracy2 nah, they had a couple different connectors, but mostly it was the one you see in video, it’s just that some or all the features didn’t work on every player.
"Monkey music" is something I never thought I'd hear from Dank. Though, he IS Dank.
@You have to know shut up
Man the nostalgia. Back in middle school, my brother gave me his Kenwood cd player which had the backlit remote (with a normal jack on it, thank you kenwood) It was the coolest thing my classmates had ever seen. I went back on it last summer and plugged my AT m50x in it. Still works flawlessly. Almost cried.
8:44 Sony still puts the digital mega bass button on their car stereo systems.
3:14 that's a true statement btw our family microwave is around 30+ old and still working, then we decided to buy a new one just to see it broke down in 6 months.
No word of a joke, I have a 35 year old microwave in my TV room mostly just to cook "microwave popcorn". Got the thing at a yard sale for like $20. Meanwhile I've gone through 4 different modern microwaves in the kitchen.
I know it's like they make there new stuff break easy so you need to buy another
The Sharp Carousel Multiple Choices was made in 1997 and still is better than most microwaves today
@Joshua Roehl Nobody cares.
“My old mate steveo” is the most Aussie introduction
Welcome back to the CD club. We've been waiting for new members.
That sound of a cd spinning is so nostalgic to me. So old yet still sound futuristic
Really miss the times when my biggest problem involved putting one of these inside my 00’s cargo pants’ gigantic pockets. Good times.
You'll have to talk to James about modding the Discman to play CD-Rs, I'm sure he has the technical know-how!
JAMES - THE GENIUS!
@@beezleboss2099 The genius magpie savior.
@@BorislavVeselinov (this actually happened)
You don't need to mod anything
Windows has an option built-in to burn a CD for playing on older players. Don't know about Mac though, which is what Dank uses.
I remember my cousin bought one of these second hand in around 2004, and being so envious of her! She was listening to backstreet boys like a boss.
legends say frank still figuring out her home entrance til these days
Legitimate question: You gonna try to turn those old dirty buds into a 3.5mm adapter, because that was my first thought.
I thought the same thing. With a good jack and a bit of work for isolation it could work fine.
Or go the hardcore route and solder a port into the remote directly instead of the strange one
They look 3.5.
They just seem like the plug broke inside the remote's jack. Had the same thing happen to me a couple months back with some dirty buds and my ipod.
@@necromax13 I thought the same, didn't really look like any connector I'd ever seen.
@@necromax13 Nope - it was Sony's attempt at a proprietary plug, called the Micro Plug.
You can buy a 3.5mm adapter for it on eBay.
@@themaritimegirl oh, really? Nice. If there's a pre-existing adapter out there already, that's definitely the way to go. I just wasn't very hopeful that a 20+ year old short lived connector would have much aftermarket support.
That, and also I had no idea what that plug was called, even.
That has got to be one of the most well put to together portable cd player kits I've ever seen, let alone any portable media player kit. Nice nugget bud. I absolutely love this channel, it always makes my day.
It's so funny to me because I've bought three Sony portable CD players brand new over the course of my life. They came with a pair of headphones and a charger. No case, no rechargeable battery pack (even though two of them supported that very one), no line audio cables. Just exactly what you need to use it and no more.
I always wondered if those battery packs and cases were mythical figures, and come to find out that pretty much every other person got them complimentary. WTH? :-D
I bought a Walkman from that era (a cardboard box Walkman [WM-fX553] and not a plastic blister Walkman) and I can confirm that Sony still put some legit effort into much of their stuff back then. Easily put 500-700 hours of use on that thing in just the first year I owned it.
They don't make them like they used to
Or provide useful accessories like they used to . . .
@@nickwallette6201 It's the frigging region-specific SKUs, man. They still do that with the Xperia phones.
Back in 2014, the Xperia Z2 was really close to being one of the nicest smartphones ever made, except it still used two sealing flaps in order to be water resistant (a common thing to see on sony's water-resistant Xperia models as far back as 2011). One of them covered the microUSB/charging port. You'd have to open the flap everytime you needed to charge the phone (read: nearly every day). The flaps wore out rather quickly for a component that's supposed to last for the lifetime of the phone (or at least it's original battery), so after a couple of months you'd see people using their Z2s with an exposed USB port and SIM card tray on it's side. Unsightly to say the least.
None of that was an issue if your particular phone was shipped with the Sony DK36 magnetic charging dock in the box. Very, very few people got those in the box. They were laughably rare and expensive for those of us who didn't. Some regions algo got a free USB-OTG adapter and Sony NC31E noise-cancelling IEMs, which are said to be great.
I now have a DK44 dock (that's actually for the thicker Z2a, but works with the regular Z2 with some padding) and it's pretty convenient. Too bad Sony didn't grace us with the extra goodies.
The commentary with Frank never fails to get me to smile.
I remember my first iPod came with ALL. The goodies.. remote, case, dock, 20gb 3rd gen.
There's a spray that cleans dials, I think it's called deoxit or something
You could also cut up the dirty buds and make a 3.5mm adapter
they actually just sell adapters just search sony micro to 3.5mm
Cleans pretty much all electronic with grimy contacts. I think all of my analog tech (instruments, amps, speakers, etc) have had their input jacks and dials flushed with deoxit.
Seeing someone else so happy about Gorillaz makes me really happy too.
Gorillaz was shown to me by a buddy in middle school. Started listening more and now just love them. That friend has since moved away and we talk less. But when new Gorillaz stuff comes out we text non stop
Monke music good yes
@@notenoughram3312 monke music is best music
fav band member?
@@gabs1131 2d prob
@@notenoughram3312 same. i’ve gotten too much into the lore 😭
I was born 1997 November 27, and love collecting CDs, this video is so perfect to me in every way.
Oh hey, I was born a day before you! Fancy meeting here. I hate cd's now personally, much prefer cassettes for my nostalgic media, but I still keep my old CD stack on deck. Have a good day buddy!
I am from 1.9 years later. :) I don't collect CDs either, but I grew up with them. Personally, I thought CDs would die out by 2015, and am grateful they didn't.
@@thatguyalex2835 1.9 years earlier? Wait, is your birthday near? If so, happy birthday man!!!
@@kal2045 Fancy meeting here! My family used to have a bunch of cassettes but after moving around we couldn't find them anymore, such a shame. You have a great day as well! I will remember to come back to this comment and wish you a happy birthday on Thanksgiving!
@@gobymark9379 Already passed, and thank you bro. :) I will not say the specific date, cos of weirdos, but it was less than a month ago
> Dream Theater's Metropolis Pt. 2
> dank: My favorite album ever!
Ah, I see you're a man of culture.
CDs are GOAT. Good sound, nice HiFi decks and overall, I like em'
Edit: also, streaming services suck now and the big ones actually don't even pay artists fairly. So, in my opinion, going forward, I'll be buying all my music on CD.
Bandcamp is also a good way to support artist directly!
@@AfroRedMusic Indeed, but mainly referring to the big artists that have labels in my initial post.
Sadly record companies mistreat artists even more.
I like vinyls too
Well, it depends. Spotify pays 1 eurocent per 4 streams, even for the smallest of all musicians. (If streamed with a pro subscription). That's relatively okay.
But still, what I do is: I listen to spotify all day long, but still, if there is a new release from one of my favorite artists, or even if there is an album I really pump, I just get the CD or, if available, the vinyl, even though I didn't listen to CD in years and don't even own a vinyl player. And then go to concerts and buy some merch. So I do everything to support the artist, the way I did before Spotify, and they get some money out of my streams on top.
The last time I was this early, DankPods still made exclusively iPod content.
Eventually it was going to happen tbh
HOLY MOLY! I got this exact CD player (discman D475) and MDR 7506 headphones for christmas in 1996. Due to the price (the CD player was $200 at the time) they were the only 2 presents I got, but I couldnt have been happier. It did play some brands of CDR but not all, obviously. I think it was the Maxwell brand CDRs that I found worked in it, and they had to be burnt using a particular method I've long since forgotten. I was surprised to find that it played PS1 and Sega Saturn Yellow Book audio from the game CDs. I remember bopping to Virtua Fighter 2 and Tobal No. 1 on Christmas morning like my world had changed. Thanks for reminding me of this :)
I had a Sony Walkman CD player that I absolutely abused for like 6 years before it finally broke, CD'S hold a special place in my heart
Dude I love your voice! I honestly have no clue about what you’re saying about half the time but the way you talk and the enthusiasm in your voice entertains me more than anything you’re actually talking about
Gosh, I feel exactly the same when Danks goes to full Aussie mode lol
5:00 you just know, though, that if Apple designed the first iPod today instead of back yonder, they would have tried something proprietary to avoid having 2 ports on a device.
Bluetooth headphones and wireless charging only for that truly portless experience
Apple is great at coming up with "problems" that no one else cares about so they can look super smart when they "solve" them.
4:09 words for life, agreed
Unless I was in the library or court building, I think people can put up with the sounds coming out of my Grados at the grocery store or such...
My father bought a new Lincoln Town Car in 2004-ish. It had a six-disc CD Changer in the trunk. My dad had never had a CD player. I get a phone call asking to look at his CD player because it wasn't playing. I go to the house, and he was trying to play the "B" side like an LP.
Dream Theater Scenes from a Memory. One of the greatest concept albums of ALL TIME!!!
I could listen to dream theater all day long...
just got the cd for one buck a few weeks ago. great stuff
We demand a dank pods dance of eternity cover!
Dank pods Octavarium cover pls
Images and Words. My fave album
Missed opportunity for the intro:
"CDs CDs?"
*awkward silence*
Cd'z nutz
Well CDs do have better audio quality than most streaming services.
That joke is actually almost as old as the CD itself.
I’m a CD enthusiast due to how cheap they are (I can find most of my favorite albums for basically nothing where I live) and my setup is a 90s Panasonic stereo
Can you advise on roughly what to look for when buying a dedicated CD player? New stuff sounds surprisingly bad. A lot of old stuff does too. Lots of CD players were cheap and had rubbish amp/dac bits in them. New audiophile ones are silly money. I just don't know how to pick a decent used one.
1:05 I have been having a similar problem with my lighting port headphones, But it’s worse because I use it to walk around when it’s the end of school,waiting for the bus.
I'm still a disciple of CD, even though I've been copying them to MP3 since 1998. Yes, that's right, for *_23 years_* I've been buying CDs just to immediately "rip" them to MP3 and shelve them. And it seems like *_only now_* is CD finally entering its twilight years. One of my local-ish but definitely "made it" bands released their newest album on streaming and download services only; no CD pressing. 1982-2021, baby! Hell of a run!
Oh, if you actually clicked to read the rest of this: I jammed to *_MP3-CD_* players until about 2006. That's right, I copied CDs to MP3 just to put those MP3s back onto CDs, wut?! While it wasn't as good or cool as having an iPod, it meant that I could go to the record store downtown, pick up an exclusive release, and listen to it on public transit on the way back home to rip it to MP3 to play on the same player but better.
That’s super cool.
I see
You listened to CDs up until 2006? I started listening to CDs at the end of December 2006... Until then cassete tapes, vinyl and radio only. Nowadays I listen to MP3 from PC, laptop, car USB player, etc., but also radio and cassete tapes. I still ocasionally listen to vinyl or CDs, but that's rare.
I KNEW IT! I KNEW THAT SOMEDAY DREAM THEATER WOULD BE MENTIONED ON THIS CHANNEL.
It even is the metropolis pt2 masterpiece
Scenes from a Memory Pt2. Fantastic taste. I approve of your nugget channel. Fan for life.
The Sony D-35 discman. Now that is a player! I love it.
When I started listening to music around 2004 it was all CDs. I remember getting American Idiot and Hot Fuss for my birthday. First music that was my own.
Basket case here
Yes, I'm aware I'm old. :P
This is exactly what I've been waiting for.
I never got the idea of needing/wanting a remote for your portable music players. I mean, you're normally less than 4 feet away from the actual device, not much more than an arm lenght, because of the wire, so is it too much of an inconvenience to reach the actual device and press a button on it.
6:52 Yeah, they added that feature later. It doesn't really make any sense that it doesn't just work, but by the time I was burning CDs pretty much all players would play them.
imagine walking down the street and seeing a disc with arms and legs
Would love to see you look into vinyl as well. Your commentary would be hilarious
you got your wish
He has now.
This was more of the 90s sony experience. Total dominance back then. All the features, the most advanced. Good stuff.
I love how he goes totally nuts about the fact that every accessory that the owner might perhaps ever need is included. It just used to be like this.
I'm also genuinely amazed about the batteries still being in usable condition after all those years, but Ni-MH cells do like to be stored in discharged state and these are also only 1200mAh, so they have a nice thick robust insulation layer that won't easily break down. But if they do die, you can always get some rechargeable PKCELLs instead!
Watching this made me get out my CDs again for a listen. Sony Walkman we’re so awesome
All of the early 2000nds Walkmans are incredibly nice and well made. The 20th anniversary cassette Walkmans are probably the most feature packed and smallest cassette players you can get. The same goes for their Minidisc players/recorders. I still find it amazing that they could cram an entire minidisc deck into something that fits into the palm of your hand.
Speaking of cassettes, my dad’s truck that is a 2004 model, came with a cassette player.All these years after lol
"Remember not to disturb those close to you" needs to be written everywhere. On city streets, busses, parking lots, hell, out in the woods to in places where people camp.
Let me guess, you've burned the Scarlet Fire CD-R at maximum speed? Yeah, old lasers don't like that.
Get an old writer and burn them as slow as possible, preferably 8x or less, and you should be good.
@Tkemali sauce 8x is pretty much the threshold, but getting anything below without building a PC with parts from the late 90's is going to be difficult.
Even my car's CD player freaks out at anything above 2x. I've gone back to CDs in the car, since I caught myself reaching for a phone or something all the time. There's something nice about just going "okay, I'm playing THIS disc now.." and not jumping around playlists.
@@MattExzy I've developed an allergy to playlists as of late. CDs bring me some illogical joy nowadays.
Yeah, that's probably the case, good call!
Or if you haven't burned something in like a decade? Just dust your tray and your laser. Saves quite a bit of money
0:05 he should have said that was DISCappointing
Pun
My dad got a portable Panasonic CD player in like 1995, he had it plugged into his home HiFi through an RCA to 3.5mm jack. I used to jack it ALL the time to take to school, especially for the bus ride. Which meant I also jacked the batteries from EVERY controller in the house.
Video Recommendation: A 20+ minute video about ANYTHING, I use ur vids to relax before bed and the long vids always got me engaged. Maybe comparing budget bluetooth headphones with the Apple over ears or Sonys
This man just basically told us “CDs nuts”
Sony tape and cd walkmans in the mid to late nineties were best you could buy back then, the attachment for the aaa batteries was for backup power when the rechargeable ran out. It was when they rolled out the groove audio (the replacement for megabass) which was pretty good for the time. The later remotes used standard 3.5mm jacks
i really love seeing the slow transformation into techmoan
This is the "BIG BOY" Discman experience, you could also buy them without all the accessories. My dad bought a "Car Discman" in like 1996 that was just the regular one with a tape adapter, a car power adapter, a wall adapter, and a crazy anti-shock mount you had to bolt to your car.
Indeed. The models that came in a cardboard box were a cut above the models that came in plastic blisters. I had one from each tier in the mid 90's. Sound quality was similar but everything else was black and white. It would be like comparing a Lexus to a Toyota. They both drive good, but...
My favorite memory of these walkman players is finding out that some of my old ps1 games had the game soundtrack burned onto the disk and you could listen to it by sticking em in a cd player. I remember popping Saltwater Sportfishing into my Grandma's Walkman and being blown away that the soundtrack was playing.
I remember having a few PC games like that. There was one racing game I had back then that I absolutely loved the soundtrack to, but I haven't been able to find since.
EDIT: Nevermind, it apparently got rereleased on GOG and is something of a cult classic now. I spent a LONG time trying to find it, and your comment making me think about it again let me find it finally.
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The stuck together AA rechargeable was a standard into the 2000's. I had a Kodak camera that came with a set
Dude seeing dank get so excited over this stuff is making me wanna get into it
What you got there, must have being VERY expensive back in the day. This was probably top teir with its rechargable batt, case, remote, and spare battery thingy. I could only afford the base model and even then those were expensive. Sony was always expensive. These things were great man. AND yes CD-R compatibility came in a lil bit later down the track. The earlier ones had copyright protection.