You ever have a car cd player that plays files? You could put every song you downloaded from LimeWire onto a single disc.
That was an amazing time to be alive. I miss it sometimes. No need for a music streaming service when you have 4 gigs of music on one CD. Then If you get bored you can pull out the other CDs that also have stupid amounts of music. Or maybe you burned all of a language learning program onto one disc. ALL of the language discs onto one.
how did you 4 gigs of music on a 700m CD??
He probably meant dvd.
They probably mean the mp3 equivalent of what it would be in wav, since most any CD player that could genuinely care about files could play mp3’s. … Although that could easily get past six CDs on one’s worth so… I dunno’!
When I started listening to the harry Potter audiobooks I had the first 4 on tape. They filled a small suitcase.
I got 5 and 6 on CDs, each with ~20-25 CDs.
The 7th book came on mp3 CDs. Just 3 for the whole book. It absolutely blew my mindIt has taken me at least a decade to stop calling audiobooks, books on tape…
I was a Napster guy, then a Kazaa guy. I had moved on to torrents by the time Limewire was the big thing.
Though I haven’t actually pirated anything in over 10 years. Was thinking of getting back into it and setting up a Jellyfin to keep some family members from giving money to streaming services that support fascists, but don’t even know where to get files anymore. I’ve already got a VPN for privacy reasons, so I think I’m good there, but I can’t imagine Pirate Bay is still a safe source
I had a 6 disc changer in the trunk AND a head unit that could play mp3s … coolest nerd in the parking lot
Could the disc changer play files? If you filled all 6 with files, I think you would have had all of music ever made up until 2004. Which is when I’m assuming you had this car.
It was a mk4 Jetta, I had a stupid wiring harness adapter from an Acura spliced inbetween the Bose system and the aftermarket head unit, but … yes.
We discovered the 6 disc changer in the trunk cuz my mom had been driving the car and hated it because she “needed” to use a portable cd player with a cassette adapter. I put a head unit that could handle mp3s and had a usb port, no cd slot because of the 6 disc changer.
Loved that car.
We had so much music at our disposal whole smoking blunts in it
You ever have a car cd player that plays files?
It’s pretty common.
My current car can do that (2019 Toyota) with the factory player.
As could every car I have owned in the previous couple decades.
Man limewire got me laid so much.
We had to use these dammit.
Remember kids, be kind rewind!
My mother just gave me the walkman I had in high school, which I guess was in a box somewhere in her house. It still works, and in it was a cassette I taped off the radio
Is that even legal??
Not only legal, this was an old way of distributing software.
In the early 1980s, engineers over at the Dutch broadcasting organization Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) had this fantastic idea of distributing computer programs over the radio
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/people-once-downloaded-games-from-radio.html?m=1
Yeah but I read it took forever to download them.
Everything about computers was slow then. There was a time when you could read text faster than modems could run text through them.
I wish I was born in 1970 so I could’ve experienced all the old technologies as well as the premium LSD of the 90’s. So many people used to tell me, “You would’ve done great int he 80’s,” I didn’t know what that meant until I was older and they’re right, I would’ve enjoyed myself and I would’ve been one of those nerdy fuckers. Then again, I’ve enjoyed myself throughout my life and I am a nerdy fucker lol.
The first OS I ever used was Windows 95 in 1998 at 6 years old. I didn’t grasp the inconvenience of dial-up until I was a little older but everything after Windows 2000 was fast.
Yeah, it would be fair use. Selling the tape would be illegal tho.
We all taped the radio. If we ran out of cassettes we’d get sticky tape and put it over the hole at the top to allow recording over recorded stuff we didn’t want
A friend of mine spent weeks creating a single cassette mixtape off pausing recording while songs were being played.
Snitches get stitches.
Call the feds
No, it was not legal. Did I give a fuck. Nope.
Had an audiophile buddy who bought tons of Japanese import vinyl records which he would burn(copy) to tape for me. Later on to CD then even later to DVD’s. Many years later bought tons of original CD’s at flea markets at rock bottom prices. Mainly got them for the artwork. Was not ever worried about the illegality of it.
Edit: I also have a boatload of .flac rock songs and oldies I downloaded as well and have stashed away.
It’s totally legal to tape the radio for personal use
This comment makes me feel so old
“Press play on tape one.”
It was 2002. Was going on a 1 year assignment to Australia.
Spent almost 24 straight hours feeding CD after CD into my fancy 6x reader, ripping and converting to MP3. Brought my whole 5’ high tower of music on the plane in a harddrive.
Almost 25 years later(!), same direcory has been added to and copied to a hosted VPS from which I stream.
My favourite name for any application ever is Nero.
What does Nero do?
Burns (CD) ROM!
Anyone else remembers having to cook eggs to replace the ball on the mouse? It was ridiculous.
Please don’t do animal cruelty
Eh… What?! Certainly remember pre-optical mice, but replacing the balls with eggs was surely not a thing?
Ask your parents, sure they did it and never told you about.
Doubtful, I’m 49!
Maybe you forgot about it. Ask your parents, for sure they can help you remember
Haha
What happened to the original ball?
Its get used and dirt for the table. You can clean the ball but eventually it lost material and became too small to work functionally and you had to overcook an egg to replace it
“Ripping CDs” was a concerning term for non-technical friends even back then. I had to assure them it wouldn’t ruin their discs. It does sound more violent than it really is.
They’re burning to see deez nuts! Got 'em!
When I was 15 I bought a CD burner for my PC. This was circa 1999 and Napster. It cost about $250 (which is a little over $500 in 2026) and it had to be installed and in a more complex fashion beyond plug USB and let’s drivers auto install. I was selling custom CDs for $5 with case inserts and paid off the burner in about a month. Then someone snitched on me in school and eventually burners started becoming standard on all new machines
It’s slang for using Nero burning ROM
And people still say Germans lack a sense of humor…
My car is a 2001 and has a CD player. Normally, this would preclude playing phone music (without that FM transmitter bullshit, at least), but this CD player was built to accommodate a 6-CD changer in the trunk, and you can buy a little gadget that plugs into the port for this and allows an aux jack to feed audio into the player. This worked great for me until my latest phone which has no audio port. My USB-C to 1/8" jack technically works, but the volume is way too low. So I’m back to burning CDs for my car.
I’ve got a similarly older vehicle. I ended up buying a little Bluetooth dongle that plugs into the aux jack for, like, $10.
I wish I had an aux jack. 2001 just predates that, I guess.
From waaaayyyyy back in the day, most cars didn’t have FM radio, just am band. You could buy an add-on FM band device that would receive the FM signals and then transmit them to the AM radio to hear.
Today, you can get a cigarette lighter powered unit to connect to your phone by bluetooth and then to an unused radio station to listen to your phone. About $10 to $20 or so. They work fine. I have one in a Jeep.
Have you tried USB-specific players? I remember using USB player pro or whatever it was called, did the job perfectly.
If you’re going to get BT adapter, may I recommend this?
I burnt a cd like 3 weeks ago, this technology isn’t as archaic as you think
We’re on lemmy. Our opinions on how widely used tech is don’t count.
Personally my last 3 PCs haven’t had a disk drive and I can’t remember the last time I’ve SEEN a disc. It was almost certainly before college.
I think burning CDs is a hate crime. They should be loved, and maybe given better wigs
Wigs?
CD also stands for Cross Dresser.
Captain Disillusion
Lmaooo
