Zotwoz posted:

Piano rolls are cool. Piano rolls are for player pianos. Player pianos are cool as well. In fact they are rad as gently caress

redmercer posted:

Twitch posted:

I used to make really obnoxious "techno remixes" then give them misleading names and share them on Napster. It was funny every time.

doctorfrog posted:

Yes, it's a "normal" head unit installed standard with the car, so it has the features of a generic music player (skip, shuffle, etc.). Mp3 management just seems to be something of an afterthought. Shuffle will (shockingly, considering) shuffle a single folder's contents (recursive selected sub-folder shuffle = no) or the entire directory structure.

I will say this: copying things over to the USB drive used to be a major pain. I'd copy them over, then use mp3tag to apply a baroque folder restructuring so I could browse by Genre/Artist, and another program to truncate folder and filenames. I Googled/figured out how to use foobar to export a shitload of albums by genre and artist, and apply a truncated subfolder structure in one go, while avoiding the 700 folder problem.

code:

$cut(%genre%,50)/$cut(%album artist% - %album%,50)/$cut(%track% - %title%,50)

Then it's Sanse Mp3 Art Sizer to change album art.

Then BulkFileChanger.

Frankly, I'm surprised I managed to cobble a process together.

vvvvv ah, my bad

Groke posted:

Also has such advantages as empty stovetops not getting hot no matter how many buttons your toddler fiddles with.

tight aspirations posted:

3.5"?

Iron Crowned posted:

I have an 8" floppy stashed in my closet

Lurking Haro posted:

You could jam a USB-C cable in there.

Arivia posted:

Only use Made for iPhone cables for sounding or you can get an infection

Gromit posted:

I've had that box with the kit still in it for decades, and no idea where it came from. I'm not into model making or anime robots, so I don't even know why I haven't thrown it out yet.

Gaius Marius posted:

It's a bootleg kit too. Probably worth nothing except to someone collecting bootlegs

holefoods posted:

amazing. I was at half price books a few months ago and listened to some guy assuring his girlfriend that the laserdiscs were just big CDs before they made them smaller and it’s just soundtracks, not actual movies and whoever sold them to HPBs must have really loved soundtracks.

Kwyndig posted:

Did Napster have checksum or was it solely length/title/artist for songs?

I don't remember anything about Napster.

LimaBiker posted:

[snip]

LifeSunDeath posted:

holy poo poo this guy has banks of old telcom hardware, wtf.

Horace posted:

I found some 8 Track cartridges in a vintage shop and decided to see if the 8 track player in my car worked. Would you know? It works fine. Even sounds quite good! There's something appealing about the simplicity of the format. There isn't even a power button. The only control is the cartridge and whether it's inserted or not. If it's in the player, it's playing. If it's not, it's not. I think I'll get some more carts.

lobsterminator posted:

I like vinyl. Not for sound quality, although I enjoy the snaps, pops and crackles, but I just enjoy putting a vinyl on and listening to a record with some concentration.

If I listen on a computer I tend to get distracted and pause and look at a video etc.

I've been buying one vinyl a month for some time now. It's a nice little treat.

One annoying trend is that many new releases are double vinyls, because they apparently have a better sound quality, but that just means more swapping when listening. I can deal with one side swap during an album, but three starts to get annoying.

Humphreys posted:

This is the exact version I have:
https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/07519/1130-80/Star-Wars:-A-New-Hope-(FOX)

On Vinyl/any physical music release: I find that I will actually listen to the whole album as intended by the band/artist. If I piecemeal buy a song here and there digitally it really isnt the same thing. Imagine listening to Fear Factorys' Obsolete album without reading along with the liner notes and knowing the story!

Horace posted:

It has an integrated pen holder.

Horace posted:

The surround with the pen holder is part of the radio. I don't know why they included it, the pen flies out the first time you go round a corner. (not my picture, my car is never so dusty)

Nocheez posted:

I only listen to IMAX releases on the original 70mm print. Anything else just doesn't have the same warmth.

Of course, my entire house had to be renovated to store the system and platters, which are 550 pounds apiece. But you can't put a price on fidelity.

FilthyImp posted:

Considering this actually toured, I think the speaker columns are at least legit.



The separate electical supply just for the room is amazing. I think that CALtech can repurpose the design of that phonograph to aid in earthquake detection, though. The 3 styluses are definitely overkill.


The end of that hit me like a ton of bricks, though.

wa27 posted:

I really don't think there's a modern equivalent to things like china hutches, grandfather clocks, pianos, etc. Maybe man cave stuff? Pool tables that never get used, putting a bar in your basement, things like that.

I mean there's plenty of things that "regular people" buy because it makes them feel wealthy: $80,000 pickups, yeti coolers, RV's. But there's not much these days that people buy just because "that's just what ya do."