Look at all these rich people in the comments with their car stereos that could play CD-RW. Some of us were lucky to have one that would play CD-R 80% of the time, and it was completely brand agnostic.
I got a Sony CDP once that wouldn’t play burned CDs. Not sure if it was a hardware issue with that one CDP, or if it affected the model itself. I returned it and got a different one and it works with burned CDs. To this day it’s a mystery
Alright Scrooge McDuck driving your Rolls-Royce with a CD player, any car I could afford to drive still had a tape deck even by the time I had a phone to plug into it via an adapter!
Back then we could pull the factory radio out, and replace it with a new one. And it was easy.
I duplicated CDs for a while for the car, then bought a new car stereo that could play MP3s and condensed my collection onto 3 discs. I left the discs in the car when I sold it
I never had the luxury of an easy replacement, I always had to deal with jank mounts that had to be cut to fit the car and stereo, and then there was the mess of wires to hook up. That’s what I get for trying to jam 1990s technology in to 70s and 80s cars…
They went that expensive at least by 2000, I put one in my 99’ Neon for like 200$. It actually could play MP3 discs! I had one disc with a shit load of songs that was my default disc in the player.
Look at all these rich people in the comments with their car stereos that could play CD-RW. Some of us were lucky to have one that would play CD-R 80% of the time, and it was completely brand agnostic.
I got a JVC head in like 2002 that could play MP3 cds. I was the king.
MP3 cds blew my mind and that’s what made me understand the difference between analog and digital in regard to files and music.
How can there be 100 songs on some cds and only 12 on others? Well that’s why.
Technically the regular audio CD is a digital format too, but it’s uncompressed.
It’s compression, baby. I don’t get mad at bad high-hat sound if there are 100 songs on the disc.
I got a Sony CDP once that wouldn’t play burned CDs. Not sure if it was a hardware issue with that one CDP, or if it affected the model itself. I returned it and got a different one and it works with burned CDs. To this day it’s a mystery
Sony did a lot to develop drm for disc’s. I bet not playing burned disc’s was an intentional design decision.
I had one of these bad boys for work, its a Sony.
It could play mp3 CDRW discs. It was an amazing device.
I’d forgotten about those! SO many tracks!
Alright Scrooge McDuck driving your Rolls-Royce with a CD player, any car I could afford to drive still had a tape deck even by the time I had a phone to plug into it via an adapter!
Back then we could pull the factory radio out, and replace it with a new one. And it was easy.
I duplicated CDs for a while for the car, then bought a new car stereo that could play MP3s and condensed my collection onto 3 discs. I left the discs in the car when I sold it
I never had the luxury of an easy replacement, I always had to deal with jank mounts that had to be cut to fit the car and stereo, and then there was the mess of wires to hook up. That’s what I get for trying to jam 1990s technology in to 70s and 80s cars…
Mine were a corolla and a commodore. The first had a standard rectangular 1 unit space; the second had a standard 2 unit space
It made it super easy. I wish all followed that standard. Stock audio sucked
They went that expensive at least by 2000, I put one in my 99’ Neon for like 200$. It actually could play MP3 discs! I had one disc with a shit load of songs that was my default disc in the player.
I only ever made like 2 CDs that worked in my life. And I NEVER burned a DVD that worked.
My setup couldn’t even do that. But hey I had a tape player…