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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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?
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.
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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 CD but in the blueray player that’s gathering dust or the external DVD-RW drive on the laptop.
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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 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
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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 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.
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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 would need to go into the basement to find a cd player in storage. But I have one somewhere.
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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?
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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 do have a cassette player but it needs a new belt
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@mcc @christinelove I figure it’s got to be that, right? The CD revival is underway but no way is that responsible for this hitting 94%.
@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"
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@mcc @christinelove I figure it’s got to be that, right? The CD revival is underway but no way is that responsible for this hitting 94%.
@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.
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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 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.
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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 Would be interesting to see a version of this thar stipulated *without using a PC/computer*.
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@mcc CD
I discovered two months ago that I have a CD player! I thought my Blu-ray player couldn’t read them 🤯
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