Re:In-car touchscreens are dangerous
by jim-jim-jim on Friday February 26, 2021 @06:50PM
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How old fashioned is the CD player? My Civic from the (past (past decade)) supported MP3/WMA CDs and it ruled. I'd burn a couple hundred tracks of whatever I was obsessed with atm, put it on shuffle, then be set for a few months. No screens and no disc swapping either.
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Too old fashioned for that unfortunately, otherwise it would be a good option.
I guess I still have my mp3s from 2008, but what about new music?
Re:In-car touchscreens are dangerous
by willcipriano on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:06PM
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I like bandcamp.
Buy CDs of the stuff you like?
I do this where I can. Unfortunately lots of newer music increasingly doesn't offer the option of a physical copy, or physical copies are produced only in limited numbers.
The other trend I've seen a bit is digital and streaming releases, with a vinyl physical release, but no CD version. I mean, fine, whatever, if that's what the market wants I suppose.
I don't tend to mind too much if FLAC is an option (usually the case if available on Bandcamp), but it's pretty annoying when the only options are MP3s or streaming, which tends to be the case with albums only available through more mainstream distribution channels such as Amazon (I'm looking at you Dark Country album series).
The only thing I have that can play cds are video game consoles.
I did the whole binders of cds and the giant cd towers to hold my music, that was a giant pain. I jumped on mp3s as soon as I could, and then once Spotify launched in the US I joined and never looked back.
Re:In-car touchscreens are dangerous
by jim-jim-jim on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:08PM
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slsk is still kicking. I downloaded at least 100 new albums in 2020.