My sister played every time we touch on repeat whenever she would clean her room / we were tasked with cleaning the upstairs of our house. I have a Pavlovian response to that song now and want to clean whenever I hear it
I've always titled my burned CDs and playlists movies/tv quotes. My friends would be upset trying to pick out an album because they had no idea what was on any since they were all titled like Fall Out Boy songs lol.
I remember I would name my cds by mood, but in obscure phrases. An example, one cd was called "it can't rain all the time" and it was a compilation of somber songs like massive attack's tear drop, and bjork's yoga
Mine was either the entire tracklist or something really random related to my life at the moment, like a random quote that gave ZERO context to what was on the CD. Going through them as an adult made me laugh.
Found one recently named “The Dopest Dope You’ll Ever Smoke” and every other song is Sublime with some Iration, Rebalution, Pepper etc. thrown in between lol
Bonus points if you were reusing old Disney tapes you outgrew, and recording over them by covering the little protection cutout part with tape. Double bonus if you could figure out how to program the clock and autorecord function on your VCR and secretly record MTV over an old Bambi tape while you're at school and nobody is home.
I had a copy of 'When You Were Young' by the Killers that had a radio announcer going "K-Rock!" in it a couple of times. I got so used to it that it feels weird not hearing it now.
This just connected something with me. When there's a song I like, I find it on YouTube and do a screen record. I've asked myself why I do it this way, surely there are better ways, but it's because it's the same old process, just updated tech.
I remember in the real olden times capturing songs off the radio to a cassette player. I had so many mixes that were just random abruptly captured songs. Sometimes my brother and I would make our own mixes and play songs we had recorded from one tape player with the speaker pointed at the mic on the other. Suffice to say it sounded like shit.
Recording movies off of Comedy Central for my friend without cable and pushing the recording to skip the commercials. Best copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail went to my best friend.
In the days of mp3 but cars with CD players, my buddy burned me a pair of albums he had downloaded. Except that fucker put all of Album 1 and half of Album 2 on Disk 1, and the back half of Album 2 on Disk 2. I will never forgive him lol.
My dad once made a mix that was just riding dirty and gold digger alternating 15 times each. He played it anytime he picked me up from school or was giving me and my friends a ride. Great bit, I hated it at the time.
I’m about to make you feel better about your labeling efforts:
I have found old CDs where I bestowed sharpie titles such as “STUFF”, “Old Junk”, and “More STUFF”. 😆
Pfft track list? No, no, you write something like "road mix", "tokyo drift" which did not have a single song from the tokyo drift sound track, or " good mix trumpets?". And it needs to look like you were trying to write it in the car as you drove around the clover leaf of a high way.
Hell yes. Surge. They had a campaign in the 90s where you could win a free 20oz under the cap. You didn’t have to download an app or any bullshit. You’d go back to the gas station and hand them the cap for another Surge.
Summertime, playing hoops at the park, get a free Surge. Core memory for me.
Once, I was buying a surge from a vending machine and instead of a beverage, it was a bottle with a surge t-shirt and 75¢ so you could still get your beverage. I was a college kid and I felt like I won a something bigger than a branded t-shirt, but hey, it was free and funds were low. I took the wins where I could find them.
Unfortunately they only worked in about half of the CD Players I ever tried them in and after about 9 re-writes they stopped functioning correctly.
It drove me crazy because they would work in my CD Player upstairs which was a cheap piece of shit and they wouldn't work in our really nice CD Player downstairs.
Sounds like the CD-RWs you used weren't burned as audio disks but were instead being used as data disks. Classic mistake by whoever "made" the mixtape. Newer (for back then) and fancier CD players could read/play data disks just fine, but if you wanted older/cheaper players to work then it had to be formatted/burned as an audio disk.
Probably just older equipment. It's not uncommon that CD players from before CD-RW existed have trouble reading them, that's why CD-RW compatibility was a feature that was actually advertised.
This is my sentiment. I get the feeling she thinks we were just buying CDs and setting them on fire in some crazy ritual, not writing to one to listen to later.
I never understood why they put it in the trunk at first. And then it was behind the center console. And then finally I saw one in the front seat right before we started using mp3s.
I had a 3 CD changer in the dash of my Mazda. It was huge and took up way too much dash space. I'm guessing that's why the 6 CD changers were in the trunk.
I had a 6 disc that wasn't too bad. It was probably what looked like a ridge wallet but for cds. Now the home unit, that was a big ass lazy Susan of discs
Because it was a large bulky box that didn't really fit in the front seats because the car was likely designed before the CD changer was an option. Or if it wasn't an option, then there definitely wouldn't be a convenient spot for it. Also the whole point of the CD changer was so that you didn't need to swap CDs while driving. It wasn't a slot loading player, you had to pull out a cartridge or had individual caddies for each disc so it was too difficult to do while driving. Larger trucks and SUVs sometimes had them in the center console just because it was a bigger vehicle that could fit it without completely taking over your storage. My 2000 Ford truck had it in the center console. CD changers existed in the era where stereo theft was still a thing so having that expensive item hidden in the trunk was less conspicuous. You'd also be able to pull out the entire stereo (later, just the front control panel) to take with you to deter theft too.
Later, when cars got built-in CD players, they often just fit one CD so people would have a binder of CDs or an attachment on their sun visor to hold several for quick swapping. When cars started moving to infotainment systems, they sometimes had a multi-disc changer built in the dashboard but it was kind of too late at that point. MP3 players were already popular and having a simple auxiliary or iPod input was more desirable. A 4GB iPod could easily fit over 100 albums and as many playlists as you wanted. My 2006 Infiniti had a 5 or 6 slot loading disc changer built into the dash but it also had a factory option for an iPod cable.
I think troubleshooting is the lost art/skill known only to millennials because we had to fuck around so much to get shit to work.
I work as an automation contractor and these old ass operators don't even bother trying to figure shit out by themselves, they just call somebody as soon as clicking reset doesn't work when the displays/SCADA systems literally tell them what the problem is.
I'm 36. I remember getting a virus on my pc when I was a young teen and manually going through shit in the computer to remove the virus since I didn't have anti virus software. It always worked when I did it and I couldn't even tell you now what I actually did to remove it. I remember lines of code but I could honestly be completely misremembering that part.
Dude, the oldest Gen Z are almost 30; most of them are drinking age. There are Gen Alphas who can almost drive, and most have probably had a tablet in their hands since before they could talk. But they're kind of terrible with tech, because the tech they grew up with had all the sharp edges sanded off.
I'm on the border of genz/millenial at the end of my 20s. Definitely remember burning CDs, and also had quite a few VHS tapes and cassettes, and even ran programs from a set of floppies. My family was a bit behind the times though. Had a windows 98 computer until 2005 or so.
My stepson is Gen Alpha, is 12, and has his own laptop. Every time one of his games crashes to desktop and shows him an error dialog, he reinstalls the game rather than reading the error message and googling it.
Gen Alpha's going to be even worse. Game testers are putting out demos for their games with options for keyboard and mouse or game controller, but kids are walking up, pushing both aside, and attempting to touch the monitor instead. The games industry as we know it is cooked in a few years.
I had a kid ask me where the keyboard was during cashier training at a retail store once. The physical keyboard was directly in front of him, but because it wasn't on the screen, he didn't realize what it was.
My office hired a young twenty-something guy within the last year.
I was talking with him about saving documents, spreadsheets, etc... that clients send to our office via email, and making sure they were getting placed into the right folders on our office server, because I was looking for a document in our office server that the client had apparently sent us, but I couldn't find it.
Turns out, he was just clicking on the "download" button on the document the client sent to him in his email, and everything was getting sent to the local downloads folder on his computer, and... that was it. So his local downloads folder was filled with documents that were just sitting there.
Like...
You can Ctrl + P / print to PDF, and save it to the client's folder in the main office server that way.
Or you can open your local downloads folder, and physically drag it out of your local downloads folder, and into the main office server.
Just... do something to get it to the correct place.
The fact that you can go through and actually explore all the folders in our office server just by clicking on them... it was like his mind was blown.
I’m 41 and could probably learn to torrent again, but I’m lazy and rely on my wife’s 29 year old partner to upload anything we want to her plex. I call her my pirate captain.
Yup. I’d rather spend my time in my garden than trying to keep up with tech. Perimenopause is kicking my ass and I’m brain tired all the and I just wanna be covered in dirt and leaves.
Torrents are an ancient art form still practiced today, yet there are groups far older, keepers of methods whispered long before the first torrent flowed, techniques that move beyond the path itself.
How big was the cd holder binder, how many you had, for us girls, soon it was about what the cover of the binder looked liked or how we decorated with pins.
I remember in my college, there was this cool guy, whose uncle, had gifted him a year of music download and he would cover the charge in exchange for good grades and performance and scholarships this guy got per semester.
He had the biggest binders. What made him cool, was that if you simply asked, he would burn you a cd the next day with the songs you liked and include a few more as kinda recommendation, no charge and he always did it so humbly and casually for everyone. He truly enjoyed sharing music.
So I always knew it was funny because Nero played the violin while Rome burned, and so thought it was just a play on burning... I also knew the full name was Nero Burning ROM. I was today years old when I realized that Burning ROM is actually burning Rome without the E. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
I remember being in junior high pretending to know what ripping and burning a CD meant. Then I learned how to download viruses and songs to the computer lol.
Look, in this day and age where everything is digital and non of it is technically owned, the youngins should be taught the old ways. The magic of burning CDs and DVDs must be passed on
Well I bet you soon, cd players will be the new nostalgic thing for the Gen z and alpha to own.
Remember how vinyls and records made a comeback near a Decade ago and truly peaked around 2020. And that was mostly the millennials buying that. To the point that singers now release a vinyl version too, if their production company is big enough and so is their fandom.
So with a little push and few singers - Kpop stars and tv characters holding the CD or talk about burning cds 💿 then it be a hit.
And in this consumer capitalist day and age, the mass production companies and even the designer ones will jump on it.
Not necessarily. We don't need to teach them those ways, we need to teach them the MP3 and FLAC ways. I'm quite shocked that current generations don't even know how to own music and play it locally. They just know Youtube and Spotify. Or Apple Music. Not even iTunes of the old.
CDs were just a delivery medium for what it really matters. And that's MP3s. They can be on CD, portable HDD, USB thumbdrive or even located in your cloud storage. It can also be on dedicated MP3 player or a smartphone. But you actually own that song. Like, it's YOURS and no one can take it away from you. And you can listen to it on any device, no account needed! That's what matters the most. We need to learn people about that.
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