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Jerry Cotton posted:answered youre own question there god drat it
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Bored Online posted:wasnt the point to prevent button wear to retain resale value yeah but people kept doing it even after the button was made capacitive because they got so used to it
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Midjack posted:lmao at giving a gently caress about resale value on anything but especially electronics and cars. use that thing up like you want to and throw it away when it’s a useless pile of shards. same except instead I have to to afford to live
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I never gave a poo poo about the light scribe logo on my crappy home built tower PC. It took a wanky Mac Pro user to point out what it was and spent like 5 hours burning a label onto a mixed CD he made for me. It is the only time I ever saw it used. also this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40hJStzsBm8&t=1133s
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echinopsis posted:same except instead I have to to afford to live don’t buy a new phone every year predicated on the resale value then
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qirex posted:my understanding was this was a cultural quirk mostly relegated to south asia and china is, not was. at this point people still do it even though they dont have a real button there
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that chinese girl that sold her kidney for an iphone 4 is probably feeling pretty silly these days. i bet the kidney held on to its resale value better.
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i still have a 4 in reasonably good condition just sitting in my desk drawer wonder how many kidneys i could get for it now 
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just loled thinking about "audio CD-Rs". they actually were different somehow, i remembered in like 1998 trying to copy a playstation 1 game and i couldn't write the data because it blocked anything that wasn't audio, somehow. the store actually let me exchange them wtf were those stupid things? i dont recall really seeing them again after that edit: maybe they were just made for stereo systems that had CD-R drives and you could record directly to it? like one of those vinyl record to CD-R type of things? no clue what was on those things to not allow me to burn data to them on a PC though Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:just loled thinking about "audio CD-Rs". they actually were different somehow, i remembered in like 1998 trying to copy a playstation 1 game and i couldn't write the data because it blocked anything that wasn't audio, somehow. the store actually let me exchange them stupid copy protection poo poo and a tax. there’s poo poo outside of the writable area fighting the last battle; mp3s lol
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i was thinking that but i thought the CD-R audio tax thing only existed in Canada and i'm in the US
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Mar 18, 2020 05:26
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:i was thinking that but i thought the CD-R audio tax thing only existed in Canada and i'm in the US nope, there was a private copying levy on blank tapes and cds in the us. it wasn’t called out as a separate charge but was baked into the purchase price.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:just loled thinking about "audio CD-Rs". they actually were different somehow They were normal CD-Rs that failed the quality control for data. Why throw away a bad batch when you can mark them as "For Audio Only" and sell them for the same price as good discs.
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I think I remember what the difference was, but my memory might be foggy. In Canada, any and all CD-Rs were more expensive due to the RIAA tax (or whatever Canada's version of it is). Even data discs. In the US, audio CD-Rs were more expensive than data CD-Rs, because only audio CD-Rs had the RIAA tax. Of course, you could just burn audio CDs with data discs on your PC, so audio CD-Rs were pretty uncommon, especially by the early 2000s. For every 20 CD-R makes and models, maybe 1 or 2 would be audio CD-Rs. I have the memory of a goldfish so this could be completely wrong but it's what my thick skull is piecing together the more I try to remember all this
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Sweevo posted:They were normal CD-Rs that failed the quality control for data. well, no how would you do qc on a cdr? it's a blank dye layer.
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"audio cd-rs" were a gimmick for standalone cd writers that were meant to hook up to your home stereo if you bought a "cd deck" by analogy to your 1980s tape deck, you were forever obliged to pay 2x as much for the blank media because the riaa hates you a cd writer hooked to a pc had no problem writing red book (cdda) discs on either medium
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:"audio cd-rs" were a gimmick for standalone cd writers that were meant to hook up to your home stereo i definitely wasnt able to burn data to an audio CD-R i had, but i fully admit this was like 1997
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IIRC the more legally compliant software wouldn’t copy cd audio to cd audio w/o ‘audio cd’ better software would happily copy cd to wavs and copy wavs to cd
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PCjr sidecar posted:IIRC the more legally compliant software wouldn’t copy cd audio to cd audio w/o ‘audio cd’ i never found any software that cared, not even the software that came with my early cd-r drive as far as i know the only application for audio cd-rs, anywhere, was the home cd writing consoles that plugged into a stereo. which is why they vanished very rapidly. about as popular as divx
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one of the tricky things is that old-timey cd players wouldn't necessarily play back cdr or cdrw so the audio cd-r only existed in the narrow window of time in which cdr and cdrw read support were practically universal, but while old people still cared enough about discrete stereo components to pay $500 for a cd writer and then an extra dollar pepr disc
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i never found any software that cared, not even the software that came with my early cd-r drive here’s a contemporary article when the cat was out of the bag already. you’ll never guess which vendor. https://www.wired.com/1999/10/burning-cds-the-riaa-way/
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funny tech poo poo u just remember caring a lot about ripping software reripping several times from cd 1. cd to a pirated fraunhaufer encoder 2. cd to lame 3 cd to a lossless format cbr vs vbr
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Transferring music to my Minidisc player was always a pain. Then I got an iAudio MP3 player and that was pretty rad. Ah the memories of the 2000s
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PCjr sidecar posted:1. cd to a pirated fraunhaufer encoder since you're setting me up: remembering the nullsoft mp3 decoder being wrong in early winamp versions, then it being corrected to agree with fraunhofer, then the old incorrect version being reintroduced because people preferred the entirely wrong sound.
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lars being really peeved about napster
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Bored Online posted:lars being really peeved about napster https://youtu.be/LeKX2bNP7QM
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rotor posted:SD vs MMC i remember being so glad to not have to give a drat about compactflash anymore (which, of course, my sharp zaurus used)
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remember having a job? lol good times
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my bitter bi rival posted:remember having a job? lol good times Ha! hahhh................... 
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Lenny Nero posted:Transferring music to my Minidisc player was always a pain. Then I got an iAudio MP3 player and that was pretty rad. Ah the memories of the 2000s This is possibly the most Sony product of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8yxCKP1h5I
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I bet there’s some product manager who got fired/demoted for proposing sony make minidisc players play mp3 files
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duz posted:nero burning cd-rom nero burning rom was the best/worst name for software ever (no “cd” because that ruins the terrible joke)
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PCjr sidecar posted:funny tech poo poo u just remember to this day I own hundreds and hundreds of cds on the theory I might need to rip them again but Spotify happened and I never finished the transition
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PCjr sidecar posted:funny tech poo poo u just remember setting up EAC with LAME and getting ID3 tags from Freedb 
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