You actually let some of those Hobos in your house? Did you have to fumigate afterwards?
The single reason which answers all that, and the fact that it continues to persist even today, and still indirectly poisons all digital formats that have followed, is simple human greed.
mnem
I'm talking about audio quality and manageability, and you are -- conveniently to your argument -- including metadata and politics.
Yes, with the hindsight of 2021, adding 1-10KiB or so of metadata is a no-brainer.
Given the technical solutions of 1982, that would mean ASCII or worse, just look at the GSM SMS charset, it is such a worse-ness; it's almost but not quite LATRINE-1, and what would Sony say? Dutch like English has hardly any characters outside 7-bit so neither one of the inventors nor most of the readers of this thread would even start thinking of this as a problem unless beaten with an internationalisation stick. Us Nordic people look at the 7-bit world and their Heavy Metal usage of umlauts and simply break down in a meleé of cringe and pity: "Mötley Crüe" "Tröjan")
(Creating that paragraph involved editing Wikipedia to insert "Tröjan", with references, just because.)
The thing with CD that has made it good beyond its useful life is that it is simple, well understood, open and not encumbered by stupid things like software "patents". Given that CD is alive still -- according to you -- because of greed, that might seem like a controversial statement, but look at what came after it; MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, WMA, Real, APT-X, et c. ad inf. All festering piles of greed. Compared to those, CDDA is immaculate conception pure. Not until the arrival of Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and Opus has the music compression landscape become something else than an industrial wasteland.
So, there!
Not to mention YOU OWN the CD unlike a iTunes download.
Yeah had one too that didn't work properly. Took some fixing that one!
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/hp-1740a-power-supply-burn-up/
This was my favourite diagnostic picture - spot the missing bond wire on the LM723:
Collector bond wire of the internal power transistor. Probably the main cause of death for this type of chip.
Greetings,
Rainer
I still like CDs and I still keep buying them.
Why ?
Because I hate streaming services and the bloody DRM stuff. I want to be able to listen to and watch my stuff when I like, where I like and as often as I like.
Without anybody charging me for it continuously.
Not to mention YOU OWN the CD unlike a iTunes download.
Tek 335, starting bid ca. 70 Euro, no bids so far.
Any good?
TEA has been a bit quiet lately as I have been going through a mountain bike phase - in late December 2020 my new toy arrived from 'merica, 7 months after ordering (bike sales have gone crazy), I have upgraded it a little with carbon rims, and SRAM eagle X01 AXS electronic dropper seat post and gears. For the bike spotters it is a 2020 Santa cruz hightower CC X01. It climbs pretty well but can handle bloody rough trails at speed going downhill and not get too unsettled. Both the forks and the shock have individually controllable high and low speed compression and rebound - setting it up is not a simple task - I have no doubt that the bike is better than me😂
A had a kangaroo - abrasion induced rest off the bike for a while in February but back on again and attempting to get back some of the fitness lost.
The electronics are quite different from manual gears - quite sensitive controls - not easy if you are being shaken around by the trail, but really helpfully can give you a readout on your bike computer/garmin as to what gear you are in, saves that perilous between the leg gawk. The other weird thing is that electronic gears are really consistent as cable wear/stretch is never an issue so they 'integer' really well and generally stay that way better than cable gears do.
The hand controllers use a CR2032 battery - said to last about a year, the seat post dropper and derailleur use a proprietary SRAM small waterproof LiPo that lasts about 400km of cycling.
Not to mention YOU OWN the CD unlike a iTunes download.
You might own the physical copy, but not the data. The one being tied to the other has served as a damper on the batshit crazy lawyers and media moguls, because it gave us as consumer some leverage, we could sell the carrier and therefore transfer the custody of the data, and further, it was impractical to grant a temporary license to consume the data. Even though the fine print says the license can be revoked.
Now, with file-based media flows (including streaming; it's all files, including the live lookalikes, make no mistake, it's just that someone else has the rights to your temp directory, unless you take measures to reassert it.) the insanity and greed has reached boiling levels.
The fact that copying is fundamental to computers and seen as bad in media business, to the extent that they will attempt to buy any law that can help them stop it, including very unnatural limitations on computing, is at the crux of much of the stupidity around media today.
If they could, the media industry would gladly pursue a ban on consumers owning Turing machines, to be replaced with the equivalents of Hollerith plugboard punchcard devices. Parts of the software industry would applaud this.
I still like CDs and I still keep buying them.
Why ?
Because I hate streaming services and the bloody DRM stuff. I want to be able to listen to and watch my stuff when I like, where I like and as often as I like.
Without anybody charging me for it continuously.I also like CDs, then I can use them how I like, rip them into what ever format(s) I want and still have the CD as back up, play them in my desktop PC, laptop, car or home Hi-Fi or even on the TV via DVD/Bluray player, load the rips onto my iTunes, iPod, phone, tablet or whatever.
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Fun today. Toilet flush packed in. Siphon dead. I’m not doing any plumbing as I only do electrons and higher levels of information abstraction. Well fuck I didn’t get away with the hack job I did last time and now need a new toilet
...At this point, I believe I need to sleep on it. Maybe some clarity will come with the morning light.
mnem
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/26-x1-75-Wheel-size-36V-500W-Electric-Bike-Conversion-Kit-for-Rear-Wheel-Motor-Hub-Control/PRD4FR0J46H75OWthe kit looks like a 750w unit have fun
<snip>
Fun today. Toilet flush packed in. Siphon dead. I’m not doing any plumbing as I only do electrons and higher levels of information abstraction. Well fuck I didn’t get away with the hack job I did last time and now need a new toiletYou can go to the hardware store B&Q etc, and buy just the siphon and replace the old one, no need for an expensive new toilet.
...At this point, I believe I need to sleep on it. Maybe some clarity will come with the morning light.
mnem
This is what the morning light brought...
fukkin' seriously? 3 days ago I was sweating like a longshoreman, doing yardwork in t-shirt & shorts...
mnem
*clarity*
Not to mention YOU OWN the CD unlike a iTunes download.
You might own the physical copy, but not the data. The one being tied to the other has served as a damper on the batshit crazy lawyers and media moguls, because it gave us as consumer some leverage, we could sell the carrier and therefore transfer the custody of the data, and further, it was impractical to grant a temporary license to consume the data. Even though the fine print says the license can be revoked.
Now, with file-based media flows (including streaming; it's all files, including the live lookalikes, make no mistake, it's just that someone else has the rights to your temp directory, unless you take measures to reassert it.) the insanity and greed has reached boiling levels.
The fact that copying is fundamental to computers and seen as bad in media business, to the extent that they will attempt to buy any law that can help them stop it, including very unnatural limitations on computing, is at the crux of much of the stupidity around media today.
If they could, the media industry would gladly pursue a ban on consumers owning Turing machines, to be replaced with the equivalents of Hollerith plugboard punchcard devices. Parts of the software industry would applaud this.
Best way to fix this is learn to play an instrument
Fun today. Toilet flush packed in. Siphon dead. I’m not doing any plumbing as I only do electrons and higher levels of information abstraction. Well fuck I didn’t get away with the hack job I did last time and now need a new toilet
I still like CDs and I still keep buying them.
Why ?
Because I hate streaming services and the bloody DRM stuff. I want to be able to listen to and watch my stuff when I like, where I like and as often as I like.
Without anybody charging me for it continuously.I also like CDs, then I can use them how I like, rip them into what ever format(s) I want and still have the CD as back up, play them in my desktop PC, laptop, car or home Hi-Fi or even on the TV via DVD/Bluray player, load the rips onto my iTunes, iPod, phone, tablet or whatever.
I have well over 400CDs. It was a passion of mine for a long time (aka addiction).
Then I got Spotify (and bad CD players in cars) and I put them in a box in the attic. Never looked back.
...At this point, I believe I need to sleep on it. Maybe some clarity will come with the morning light.
mnem
This is what the morning light brought...
fukkin' seriously? 3 days ago I was sweating like a longshoreman, doing yardwork in t-shirt & shorts...
mnem
*clarity*
I still like CDs and I still keep buying them.
Why ?
Because I hate streaming services and the bloody DRM stuff. I want to be able to listen to and watch my stuff when I like, where I like and as often as I like.
Without anybody charging me for it continuously.I also like CDs, then I can use them how I like, rip them into what ever format(s) I want and still have the CD as back up, play them in my desktop PC, laptop, car or home Hi-Fi or even on the TV via DVD/Bluray player, load the rips onto my iTunes, iPod, phone, tablet or whatever.
I have well over 400CDs. It was a passion of mine for a long time (aka addiction).
Then I got Spotify (and bad CD players in cars) and I put them in a box in the attic. Never looked back.
I still like CDs and I still keep buying them.
Why ?
Because I hate streaming services and the bloody DRM stuff. I want to be able to listen to and watch my stuff when I like, where I like and as often as I like.
Without anybody charging me for it continuously.
The single reason which answers all that, and the fact that it continues to persist even today, and still indirectly poisons all digital formats that have followed, is simple human greed.
mnem
I'm talking about audio quality and manageability, and you are -- conveniently to your argument -- including metadata and politics.
Yes, with the hindsight of 2021, adding 1-10KiB or so of metadata is a no-brainer.
Given the technical solutions of 1982, that would mean ASCII or worse, just look at the GSM SMS charset, it is such a worse-ness; it's almost but not quite LATRINE-1, and what would Sony say? Dutch like English has hardly any characters outside 7-bit so neither one of the inventors nor most of the readers of this thread would even start thinking of this as a problem unless beaten with an internationalisation stick. Us Nordic people look at the 7-bit world and their Heavy Metal usage of umlauts and simply break down in a meleé of cringe and pity: "Mötley Crüe" "Tröjan")
(Creating that paragraph involved editing Wikipedia to insert "Tröjan", with references, just because.)
The thing with CD that has made it good beyond its useful life is that it is simple, well understood, open and not encumbered by stupid things like software "patents". Given that CD is alive still -- according to you -- because of greed, that might seem like a controversial statement, but look at what came after it; MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, WMA, Real, APT-X, et c. ad inf. All festering piles of greed. Compared to those, CDDA is immaculate conception pure. Not until the arrival of Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and Opus has the music compression landscape become something else than an industrial wasteland.
So, there!