Poll: Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
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i have like, a nonzero chance for reel to reel, but it depends on if this machine thats been in parts for years works when i reassemble it >.>;;
i answered yes anyway because i have at least one local friend that would let me use at least one working reel to reel. this is making me wish i had hung on to that 8-track player. and making me really wish i had looked into that pianola that appeared on the curb in my neighborhood last year
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(BONUS POLL)
Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
NOTES:
- If the answer is "none of the above" ,click "Show results". We can probably compare the previous poll to judge the significance of the scale of responses.
- Rather than worrying about differences between reel-to-reel formats, answer "reel to reel tape" if you can play at least one reel to reel tape format.
@mcc very sad to me that I cannot click "minidisc" despite having several minidiscs in my possession.
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Poll: Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
Never had an 8-track player (or 4-track!) and our turntable was left out of the moving van two moves ago.
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Poll: Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
@mcc 94% on CD?!
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Poll: Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
Wow, 50% vinyl is a surprise, cool.
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Poll: Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
@mcc the 2001 Toyota I had until 2018 could play a tape or a CD. That was the last time I touched a tape player.
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Poll: Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
@mcc If I didn't move to a different country like 6 times the answer would be "all of the above". Unfortunately, I moved to a different country like 6 times. All my possessions fit into two 30kg travel cases, a duffel bag, and a camera backpack
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@swetland unfortunately they're all dying. Even the Hi-MD deck I imported from Japan was started showing issues playing some discs. Idk if it's something to do with the laser components or the recordable mediums degrading, but I fear they won't be functional for many more decades (unlike cassette players, even though the tapes might die, we can make new ones comparatively easily).
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@mcc If I didn't move to a different country like 6 times the answer would be "all of the above". Unfortunately, I moved to a different country like 6 times. All my possessions fit into two 30kg travel cases, a duffel bag, and a camera backpack
@coffee honestly relatable
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@mcc 94% on CD?!
@misty one observation is that there's no NOTA on this, so that means 6% can play at least one other format but not CD
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@misty one observation is that there's no NOTA on this, so that means 6% can play at least one other format but not CD
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@mcc very sad to me that I cannot click "minidisc" despite having several minidiscs in my possession.
@onelson take heart. you can still throw them at people
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(BONUS POLL)
Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
NOTES:
- If the answer is "none of the above" ,click "Show results". We can probably compare the previous poll to judge the significance of the scale of responses.
- Rather than worrying about differences between reel-to-reel formats, answer "reel to reel tape" if you can play at least one reel to reel tape format.
@mcc I have difficulty believing the player piano numbers here... I bought an old busted player piano years ago, thinking, oh, it'll be fun to learn to fix this thing up! But it turns out "fixing up a player piano" basically means "reverse-engineering and rebuilding more than 88 individual custom hand-built wooden bellows" as table stakes, because the rubberized fabric starts leaking air after about 20 years, so even if it was perfectly restored in the 90s, it's fucked now.
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@mcc I hate to admit, but I have a few modern vinyl records simply because I liked the look of them, and have no intention of owning a record player.
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@mcc lol none. Unless a CD in an old XBox 360 with only a TV for audio output counts.
@phil if you have a compatible TV then this counts. otherwise no
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Poll: Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
@mcc I can also play MiniDiscs
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@mcc I have difficulty believing the player piano numbers here... I bought an old busted player piano years ago, thinking, oh, it'll be fun to learn to fix this thing up! But it turns out "fixing up a player piano" basically means "reverse-engineering and rebuilding more than 88 individual custom hand-built wooden bellows" as table stakes, because the rubberized fabric starts leaking air after about 20 years, so even if it was perfectly restored in the 90s, it's fucked now.
@SpindleyQ i mean if you're looking for a web forum where people with working player pianos are incidentally present then this is the one, BUT
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@misty one observation is that there's no NOTA on this, so that means 6% can play at least one other format but not CD
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@onelson take heart. you can still throw them at people
@mcc and look so fucking cool while I do it
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Poll: Which of the following music media, if someone suddenly handed you a piece of music recorded on it, would you be able to play without making additional purchases?
TIL CDs are sometimes called "Redbook". Over 40 years of using them and never heard that before.
