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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@mcc This poll makes me once again regret giving away my portable minidisc player (and stereo component minidisc recorder), the pinnacle of futuristic portable music in the 90s.
I loved how those portable players had a boatload of RAM (for the time) so they could buffer enough to survive seek overhead on RW discs and only spin up the motor every now and again on pressed discs.
@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 This poll makes me once again regret giving away my portable minidisc player (and stereo component minidisc recorder), the pinnacle of futuristic portable music in the 90s.
I loved how those portable players had a boatload of RAM (for the time) so they could buffer enough to survive seek overhead on RW discs and only spin up the motor every now and again on pressed discs.
@swetland @mcc I’ve still got my Sony MD Walkman as well as my full sized Sony MD deck. I was a big cassette taper of live shows in the 80s and when MD came out I switched to it. I eventually moved to DAT for convenience. Still I have a ton of live music recordings on MD that I enjoy listening to. Getting the music off of those disks into MP3 format is a real chore though and I worry that someday that deck is going to fail on me.
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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.
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 >.>;;
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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 a couple of my musician friends have given me vinyl LPs of their latest music recently. They're just sitting in shrinkwrap on a shelf here. The last time I used a turntable was a roommate's in college. I also had a cassette Walkman back then, which got way more use.
We had a 1976 Ford Mustang II with 8 track player when I was a kid. Nothing else that played them.
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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
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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(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 still use my MZ-RH1 to do live recordings. I must have hundreds of hours of session & concert recordings on MD still.
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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.
