I'm with Rick on this: my CD player (which also handles USB sources) will show videos and stills with an easy and informative display, is 35x18x3cm and sits on the stack of other devices connected to my TV. In any case, why should I be forced to spend either the time or the money in converting these high quality sources, Deutsche Gramophon vinyl and CD's, into another format which is just as likely to be replaced in the future by some other whiz-kids brainchild? I'm still mad at having to buy an external CD/DVD player to connect to my latest generation PC: do the PC manufacturers think we have thrown away our source software discs? I admit to being an old fart, but I still use Lotus software written in 1990 when I need to have a secure file (on the grounds no-one else nowadays would be able open it, even if they recognised the file type). And of course, how many backup files are no longer accessible because either the creation or restore software exists (hello Microsoft), or the media is now "obsolete"?
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: Rick Womer <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 15 December 2021 11:40 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: OT: Dyspeptic Rant on Modern CD players My collection is overwhelmingly classical, and consists of about 150 CDs and twice that many LPs. I have no desire to spend time ripping them to alternative methods of storage. Rick > On Dec 14, 2021, at 5:36 PM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 14.12.21 um 22:54 schrieb Bob Pdml: > >> Get rid of them all. I got rid of mine years ago because they, and the >> player, took up so much space. The cases are just more useless plastic, and >> at London property prices I figured I could get better value out of the >> square footage. > > I buy most of my music on second-hand cds from German ebay dealer > Medimops. Their prices are most attractive and shipping is free. They > have a lot of stuff that wouldn't be available from the usual > streaming sites. > > Once they arrive, I rip them and store them as uncompressed alac files > on a NAS. This way, I can access them at various places in our flat. > The Cds are stored in the basement. > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : > http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the > link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
