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Me being generally late to the party, I seem to have gotten my first (used) portable cd/mp3 (combined) player back around 2004-5, from someone who was upgrading to I-don't-know-what. I think they were on the way out as the coolest thing to have.
Mine is like the one on the far left here:
Then I had gathered so much OTR in mp3 format on cd, that I got another one (used) from Craigslist for maybe $30, just in case my old one bought the farm.
Now they can't be found for sale much at all!
Is anybody still using theirs? Or are they now in the kid's room being tossed around like so much Samsonite luggage?
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I still use a portable cd player at work. Space on my desk is a premium, so I have a Sony Discman that I plug into some extra computer speakers, and it doesn't take up much space. The sound isn't bad, and I am not going to listen to it very loud at work anyway. Portable cd players are almost impossible to find these days, but I found an extra Discman on amazon, so I have a replacement when the player I am currently using dies.
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Aug 24, 2012 - 9:37 AM
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Joe E.
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I skipped the whole portable CD players because I found them too large and I wasn't sold on the idea that these type of players were all that good for the condition of your cds. I'd see my friends using them, their cd's skipping and it's a much more nonchalant way of loading them, perhaps this is my paranoia and they just didn't know how to handle it better.
I stuck with the tape player for quite some time, an audio cassette can take a much heavier beating. When I did move on, I went to a portable mp3 player.
If your friends' players were skipping I'd think it's more likely from either a) moving the players around while the discs are spinning, or b) them playing discs that are scratched from improper storage / handling; I'd very much doubt the players would actually be scratching the disc surfaces - they hold the discs by a center spindle. The player shouldn't ever touch the read surface, just reflect a beam off it.
I still use a portable cd player at work. Space on my desk is a premium, so I have a Sony Discman that I plug into some extra computer speakers, and it doesn't take up much space. The sound isn't bad, and I am not going to listen to it very loud at work anyway. Portable cd players are almost impossible to find these days, but I found an extra Discman on amazon, so I have a replacement when the player I am currently using dies.
What about just using your computer's optical drive to play them (I'm assuming this is an option since you mention "extra" computer speakers, suggesting you have an initial set, suggesting you have a computer to plug them into, and presumably a computer you'd be using at your desk would have an optical drive)?
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Me being generally late to the party, I seem to have gotten my first (used) portable cd/mp3 (combined) player back around 2004-5, from someone who was upgrading to I-don't-know-what. I think they were on the way out as the coolest thing to have.
Mine is like the one on the far left here:
Then I had gathered so much OTR in mp3 format on cd, that I got another one (used) from Craigslist for maybe $30, just in case my old one bought the farm.
Now they can't be found for sale much at all!
Is anybody still using theirs? Or are they now in the kid's room being tossed around like so much Samsonite luggage?
I have the blue one.
I bought it in the NYC around 2002, however I don't use it as a portable CD player anymore.
It is in our bedside table, connected to the power supply, coupled to two old PC speakers and with a Joe Harnell promo CD inside.
It has been a reliable machine. I loved it!
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I have since bought a handful of cd/mp3 players, cheap on eBay, because I have so much mp3 material stored on cd. Most are not in use now, but will be when the current ones fail and cannot be fixed.* They're all Sony since I want to be able to find accessories (power cords, etc.) in the future.
I've only gotten a couple of Sansa mp3 players (most of them gifts from folks who upgraded to a phone), which I use only for those things I don't want to save.
I've not bothered with a smartphone or the latest "upgrades" to micro stereo equipment, since I don't want to carry around a phone or make purchases like an obedient Epsilon Semi-Moron [see Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"].
*(I might be neck-and-neck with Preston Neal Jones for being the most Luddite-ish person here.)
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), some colour the music and some are nearly perfectly neutral. Yes, they are bulky. Yes, they are rare. Yes, they are inconvenient. And yes, they do have a lot of charm.
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