- Puppy Galaxy
- Aug 1, 2004
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aren't most phones without any sort of external/removable storage option these days? and headphone jacks?
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- Puppy Galaxy
- Aug 1, 2004
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I got into DMB when I was 16.
Stellar musicianship. Don't understand the hate towards them honestly (is it the lack of a "rock n roll" lifestyle? Is it because of people spotting groups of white matcha liberals doing Tai chi in the park to 'Crash Into Me'?)
I take it back. That's rock n' roll.
I have a soft spot for a couple albums but if you listen to Dave sing for 10 seconds it’s easy to see why people hate them
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Jan 30, 2022 22:58
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- Puppy Galaxy
- Aug 1, 2004
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An aside for a technical question.
I do most of my posting in this thread from my home desktop; I also own a laptop I use mainly for work but I keep the music and my notes and plans about this project on the home desktop. To rip CDs I bought a cheap usb-external CD burner. It cannot read some CDs that I know are not inherently flawed because they play fine on the stand-alone CD players I have. But I cannot include these CDs in this project unless I have a way to convert the CDs into MP3 files. None of the computers I own (I have an unreliable older laptop and my wife owns a few laptops as well) or have access to has an optical drive.
The desktop tower has room inside, though not the necessary mounting positions pre-cut, including a single continuous grid piece that makes up the front of the tower. Ideally, I would like to install a CD tray in my desktop, which would require at minium removal of the front panel and probably drilling some holes in the top of the tower to allow attachment of structures to hold the CD player. This would eliminate the fiddling around with the too-short USB cable on the existing player or any, also likely quite short, cable on a replacement external CD drive. However, a replacement USB CD drive is the much easier option.
The one I have is some no-name Chinese mass-produced cheapness from Amazon. When I try to search for known brands that I hope would be higher quality, all I find are very expensive and somewhat exotic units such as DVD burners from LG. Does anyone have any advice? Just buy another cheap one and use it until it breaks, too? Cut and drill my desktop? Something else?
I just googled "external CD drive" and plenty of name brands show up for around the $30-40 mark. They're all listed as DVD drives.
It might the case that at the budget level you're getting the same components no matter what brand you buy, not sure. But a name brand would (presumably) have support/warranty/ etc.
edit: also, do any of the CDs that aren't read have some gimmick like being Enhanced CDs, dual discs, etc?
Puppy Galaxy fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Aug 14, 2022
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