Wish I still had a CD player

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dont let your dreams be dreams. Get out and buy yourself a CD drive or even a HiFi and show them streaming service who’s boss.

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• redlemace@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still do! AND it’s connected and working (not compatible with any O/S though)

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh, but through the power of line-in it is actually compatible with everything :)

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    • redlemace@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I see you lived the Sinclair ZX81 era too (yes, i still have mine, it worked when I tried 8 months ago)

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  .mp3 CD players were awesome. 740 MB of music at a time when most CDs only had 12 tracks, so it was like 10x the music on the same sized disc.

  Apparently .mp3 DVDs were also a thing, but I never got a chance to try them out as solid state .mp3 players became dominant then.

  Now I’m stuck largely streaming since my phone doesn’t have a microSD card slot (thanks Obama).

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• JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well why didn’t you take care of your cd player?

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember when computers came with cup holders.

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I see that’s Windows NT 3.1, but now I’m curious, did they have a Windows 3.11 version of the M$ CD Player app?

  I loosely recall Win3.11 CD playback requiring DOS drivers and somewhat proprietary Windows software provided by the sound card manufacturer…

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  • CyberTaco@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A driver and loading mscdex in dos yes, proprietary Windows software no, at least for a standard IDE/ATAPI cd rom drive. CD data would work as long as the dos driver was installed right, and for cd audio, Windows 3.1x has a driver that comes with it called “[MCI] CD Audio” that will need to be installed in Control Panel -> Drivers. :-)

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