Subj : Re: floppy disks
To : Warpslide
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Apr 29 2025 10:40 am
-=> Warpslide wrote to Nightfox <=-
Wa> On 28 Apr 2025, Nightfox said the following...
Ni> I've seen some weird things like that. One thing I noticed is that if I
Ni> burned CDs on the maximum speed, they'd often read okay in my PC, but
Ni> other CD-ROMs and CD players might have trouble reading it. I found
Ni> that it was best to burn CDs at the slowest speed available, and that
Ni> generally helped.
Wa> One of my car stereos was like that. It would play burned audio CDs if
Wa> burned at a slower speed (4X I think), but if burned at faster speeds
Wa> it would sometimes recognize the disc, other times not. If it did
Wa> recognize the disc it would often just skip or start playing and then
Wa> just stop.
Wa> A later car stereo I had that played MP3 CDs seemed perfectly fine
Wa> reading discs burned at higher speeds.
Wa> Thinking back to those times, having to use physical media in vehicles,
Wa> makes me appreciate how far we've come. Now I can just talk to my car
Wa> and ask it to play nearly any song that's available on a streaming
Wa> service without having to worry about which disc it was on or having to
Wa> changes tapes or discs when I want to listen to a different artist.
Wa> Tired of music? Just tap the podcast button on the dashboard and
Wa> listen to someone ramble on about any variety of subjects, fiction or
Wa> otherwise.
Wa> We're honestly spoiled for choice, which I appreciate.
See, I don't like that. It sounds good, but I prefer to put on an album, and
enjoy the album as it was meant to be played. Or radio, where I can find new
songs, new artists, new songs from artists I know but I didn't know they did
this or that. It might sound weird, but at least for me personally, I don't
particularly wan't to just able to play and song that comes into my head on
demand. It feels like, I'm not invested enough? Like music is just background
noise and not something to be appreciated.
