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Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by Symbiote on Friday June 30, 2017 @12:42PM (#14671876)
The first CD player I used, which my parents bought in about 1988, showed the current time when you held down the "Fast Forward" button. I don't think I've ever owned one that didn't do this.

Nowadays, a good professional CD player (or DJ equipment) will have something like an infinite-turn knob, which you can use to seek.

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Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by k-mcgrady on Friday June 30, 2017 @12:52PM (#14671943)
Hmmm maybe I'm just remembering wrong then. It's been a long time since I had a dedicated CD player.
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Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again by edmccard on Friday June 30, 2017 @01:37PM (#14672329)
>maybe I'm just remembering wrong then.

Nope; many CD players, like the first one I got in 1986, had only a two-digit led display for the track number -- there was no time display at all.

EDIT: It was a Fisher Studio Standard that looked like this, so I guess it did show an "index number" while scanning through a track.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J08NITOv2FA/hqdefault.jpg

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