<![CDATA[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?]]>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?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/dfa71973-1a6c-48d3-a3dd-41a6428d1721/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-purchasesRSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 11:08:03 GMTThu, 04 Jun 2026 00:19:27 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:14:47 GMT]]>@torb CD support was not even listed in the spec sheet when I bought it in 2017.

I was like “let’s try and see what happens”. It worked 😁

@mcc

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.moimeme.ca/users/EdwinG/statuses/116692725764970146https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.moimeme.ca/users/EdwinG/statuses/116692725764970146Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:14:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:32:03 GMT]]>@EdwinG @mcc BluRay players are often recommended as a cheap way into high-end CD audio. It’s digital output is not really all that different from a ‘audiophile’ CD player. 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/torb/statuses/116692557741807309https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/torb/statuses/116692557741807309Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:32:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:30:16 GMT]]>@mcc Would be interesting to see a version of this thar stipulated *without using a PC/computer*.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/torb/statuses/116692550740998738https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/torb/statuses/116692550740998738Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:30:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:17:06 GMT]]>@mcc My uncle, until just recently had 16 player pianos. The great purge of 2026 has brought that down to one. I assume the one kept still functions. As a result I voted for the player piano roll.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pdx.social/ap/users/115602075857943919/statuses/116692263017081366https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pdx.social/ap/users/115602075857943919/statuses/116692263017081366Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:17:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:43:33 GMT]]>@misty @mcc @christinelove Not sure if it's helping, or if folks would realize it's an option, but anyone with a modern disc-capable game console (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series) would have at least that option for a music CD.

On the nerdier side, it gets even easier. While I only have one turntable, I have lots of things that can play a music CD: 2 vehicles, 5+ old computers (one disc-capable laptop), 3 shelf DVD players (one HD DVD), 2 portable CD players, and 10 game consoles back to the Sega CD.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/patridge/statuses/116692131071578272https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/patridge/statuses/116692131071578272Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:43:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:33:09 GMT]]>@misty @mcc @christinelove Yeah, I forgor that this was a multiple choice poll so I didn't click "cassette tape" but I have an old boombox that I'm pretty sure I picked up for free, specifically to play the CDs I still have. Also pretty sure the DVD drives on my PC count though I haven't tried using them to play CDs so idk…we also have a USB DVD player that I think still works. Can a PS4 play CDs?

I also don't know what is Redbook but from context I assume it's what I'd call "a regular CD" 😅

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sandwich.net/users/Sharksonaplane/statuses/116692090188185864https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sandwich.net/users/Sharksonaplane/statuses/116692090188185864Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:33:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:33:38 GMT]]>@mcc I do have a cassette player but it needs a new belt

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bitbang.social/users/kalleboo/statuses/116691856164338984https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bitbang.social/users/kalleboo/statuses/116691856164338984Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:33:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:56:12 GMT]]>@mcc what about ?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/wuppi/statuses/116691708956176385https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/wuppi/statuses/116691708956176385Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:56:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:23:43 GMT]]>@mcc i would need to go into the basement to find a cd player in storage. But I have one somewhere.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Apiary/statuses/116691581256370334https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Apiary/statuses/116691581256370334Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:23:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:37:28 GMT]]>@mcc Have a CD player in my car still, a Blu-Ray player that should be able to play audio CDs through my entertainment system, and a USB Blu-Ray drive to play on a computer with VLC.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dmv.community/users/MikeV/statuses/116691399384968072https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dmv.community/users/MikeV/statuses/116691399384968072Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:37:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:34:07 GMT]]>@mcc 8 track will work if I steal a replacement drive band off one of my cassette decks... it broke when I was fixing it up last time.

I really need a DAT player; I have studio recordings of my old band on this format and no player ☹️

Never got into MD 🤷‍♂️

Reel2reel tape I did have around 1983 but both valve decks went to the junk years ago. So sad, I'd love one of those now 😥

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/Slash909uk/statuses/116691386196773310https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/Slash909uk/statuses/116691386196773310Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:34:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:18:53 GMT]]>@mcc CD but in the blueray player that’s gathering dust or the external DVD-RW drive on the laptop.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/jmb/statuses/116691326295489571https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/jmb/statuses/116691326295489571Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:18:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:21:57 GMT]]>@mcc

In 2013, I bought a Blu Ray read write drive for my desktop. That drive has made it through all of my upgrades and is now effectively a built-in appliance in my home.

This year we were looking at ways to give our 2 year old access to music and realized that the best way to avoid any stupid vendor lock in bullshit was a CD player.

Between those and my 10 year old laptop I have 3 ways to play CDs but none of the others.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.nyc/users/gbargoud/statuses/116691102406035228https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.nyc/users/gbargoud/statuses/116691102406035228Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:21:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:21:51 GMT]]>@mcc None of the above

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/cassolotl/statuses/116691102053892561https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://eldritch.cafe/users/cassolotl/statuses/116691102053892561Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:21:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:44:26 GMT]]>@mcc I still have one or two optical drives in the house if I look hard enough.

Definitely one on the TV/media center Debian box, and I'm pretty sure there's one more kicking around downstairs somewhere but I never use it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/azonenberg/statuses/116690954900448611https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/azonenberg/statuses/116690954900448611Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:44:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:43:05 GMT]]>@mcc
None of the above, unfortunately.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/Guillotine_Jones/statuses/116690949614311248https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/Guillotine_Jones/statuses/116690949614311248Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:43:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:42:59 GMT]]>@mcc I suppose *technically*, I could feed the player piano roll through my scanner and write some code to do image recognition on that and then process the holes into something that would generate MIDI. That's not buying anything new, but it's probably cheating for the purposes of this poll.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/darkling/statuses/116690949191416136https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/darkling/statuses/116690949191416136Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:42:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:12:05 GMT]]>@CommonSparrow @mcc
I saw a home 8 Track player once, ever.
Never saw one in a car, though I had a S/H car 8T in the house for a while 1999 & 1 cart.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/raymaccarthy/statuses/116690827712006166https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/raymaccarthy/statuses/116690827712006166Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:12:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:09:19 GMT]]>@ljrk @mcc
Vinyl wear is very fast. 20 plays loses most above 10 KHz.
Distortion is high
Noise much higher than CD.
33 vinyl recorded with less dynamic range than 45 to extend playtime. Both less than CD.

CD best way to buy a copy of music to play anywhere. You never own streaming and needs Internet.
CD trivial to store on PC/Flash etc with automatic track names.

Cassette is best for audio books as location is "saved" between players. Quality OK for that but marginal for music.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/raymaccarthy/statuses/116690816802532538https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/raymaccarthy/statuses/116690816802532538Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:09:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:04:43 GMT]]>@mcc Where's the "none of the above" option

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115628614496668967/statuses/116690798719673113https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/ap/users/115628614496668967/statuses/116690798719673113Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:04:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:03:01 GMT]]>@mcc Why ist there no option for ? I have one of those in my stack, too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nerdculture.de/users/gisiger/statuses/116690792086799181https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nerdculture.de/users/gisiger/statuses/116690792086799181Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:03:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:59:38 GMT]]>@mcc
You'd want to ask if voter is in USA or Europe.
The USA fitted 8-Track (Lear Jet Audio) to 1 or 2 brands of car as standard.
Players were very rare in UK (likely in all of Europe) and cartridges rarer.
Compact cassette already existed.
8 Track issues: No FF, no rev or rewind, recorders rare. High wear, wow & flutter due to endless loop. Shorter than cassette. Head moves when foil hits & goes out of alignment.

You can't buy 8T for decades. The others are still made. Had 1 once. 1 cart.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/raymaccarthy/statuses/116690778744299658https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/raymaccarthy/statuses/116690778744299658Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:59:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:58:23 GMT]]>@mcc I said only CD but I'm pretty sure I could read all the rest with what I have here ... but it would imply probably weeks of engineering to basically build players out of random bits I have laying around 😅

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/tnt/statuses/116690773819564731https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/tnt/statuses/116690773819564731Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:58:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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? on Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:42:10 GMT]]>@mcc i really need to fix my cassette deck

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/fishidwardrobe/statuses/116690710054313224https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/fishidwardrobe/statuses/116690710054313224Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:42:10 GMT