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Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
slaps stereo this bad boy can fit so many CD's in it
Bonus burnout revenge music: https://youtu.be/H0h1suV_l4Q
RETVRN
But in all seriousness, anyone else totally turned off/worried by the massive turn towards streaming music rather than owning physical media or even mp3s?
No, not really. My media streams from my home server, it takes up way less space! 
MP3s were the height of music in the sense that you could have as much music as you wanted, and you owned it. Downside is supposedly the quality of the audio isn’t as good as physical (idk I’m not an audiophile but that’s what they say) point is MP3s were goated and my only regret in life is I didn’t steal more music (there will never be enough music to steal)
The 128kbps mp3s of the kazaa/ipod era aren't as good as physical CDs, but the 320kbps mp3s that are common today are indistinguishable from CD or any other higher-quality recording.
Chat is this true?
128kbps mp3s on my ewaste nugget good times good times. 2000s era music devices were peak ewaste that put modern mobile phones to shame
i had a 128mb mp3 ewaste device.. could put maybe 10 - 13 songs on it at a time... man i used the hell out of that thing and burned through so many AAA batteries
Eh I just pirated and burned onto CDs, can still do that if I want but there’s really no point
I still collect records, and a lotta people I know collect them and tapes as well. I don't listen to much mainstream music so I can find a LOT of what I listen to in vinyl format. Even then I know a lot of pop artists started releasing music on it as well. Why does streaming worry you?
I mean, ignoring how ecologically wasteful it is, just look at the all the issues we're having with other digital content; Books and games being removed from markets and people's libraries, popularity dictated by the controlling companies elevating their preferred content, old games lost to time because companies keep attacking emulators. If you don't have your own copy of something that you can control, whether physical or digital, you don't own it.
how ecologically wasteful it is
is streaming really that much worse on that? there's centralized servers that cost a lot but millions are using the same one, as opposed to millions of players and media that had to be manufactured and shipped. like i don't have any data either way i can just see difficultly in calculating and coming to a discrete answer.
I mean, it doesn't have to be worse to be bad. I've seen multiple studies that put streaming as having less of a carbon footprint than physical media, but then we use it more because it's so plentiful. I see it as the difference between ice cars vs electric. Capitalism isn't gonna let us find the efficient, eco-friendly alternative to cars or anything else because they're keeping us captive in their framework of discourse.
at least improvements in efficiency when they are allowed to happen are easier to implement in centralized systems
Not if it costs money to implement those improvements.
US telecom infrastructure:
Ah I see yeah, that totally makes sense. Speaking of everything turning into a rental or subscription, reminds me of the fact that you have to pay a fucking subscription for car sear warmers in some luxury cars now, pure insanity. And also I guess there's the fact that any of that stuff stored digitally can just disappear in a snap. Like decades of cultural history, important or not. Kinda wild
I've never owned any audio cds, and only a couple movie dvds from a clearance bin. If I want something on physical media I burn it myself.
I still use a stereo much like this with my TV. I also plug it into my DJ decks for house parties and use it as the speakers for that. No I am not joking.
I thought was AI.
GIGA TUBE
No my young friend, this is what the late 90s/early 00s were actually like.
I'm an older millennial I remember these boomboxes but I don't remember them being THIS fucked up looking lol
This is definitely a particularly intense one. Those reflex ports over the top really put it over the top.
Maximalist late 90s early 00s design was so cool. I hate how everything now is minimal or pastel. I want garish and hideous because it actually makes me feel something.
The LCD panels on these things were art. The animations and colours unmatched. Turning one on felt like turning on a serious bit of machine that went beep boop. Tech doesn't make me think that of it anymore just silent boxes of disappointment
I live with this vibe. The wiring in my car isn't... great. So my car radio still has the in store Fast and Furious style sales animation that cycles between cars racing on a overpass with a traffic light or something (?) and like 5 frames of someone kicking a soccer ball into a goal. All on like a 360 x 160 all blue pixel display. And it plays constantly while I drive!
They weren't LCDs!! They were these very cool things https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display
CD's NUTS
I had to do a double take because I thought that thing was photoshopped lmao, I forgot how ridiculous these things looked.
I think you mean fun and based
I'm surprised that, in this stimulus-craving era, there hasn't been more design backlash against the iPod/iPhone minimalism that led the late 2000s/2010s. Everything is an app, and every app should let me winamp-skin it.
Windows XP + Winamp with the silver-blue skin was peak design
it's beautiful 😍
i actually split my ps1/ps2 av cord so i could route the audio thru one of these bad boys. good times.
stuff like this was supposed to evoke the future but now it just evokes 2002
and the actual future is just a series of glossy black rectangles with zero buttons
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I started collecting CDs recently. They are usually cheaper than vinyl secondhand. And I think they sound better. I hate not owning the music. And it just reminds me of being a teenager in 2014-2015 and hanging out with friends just to listen to an album and smoke weed.
Memories of hitting the bass boost button and listening to Dr Dre until my friend's mom yelled at us. Good times.
