It cost $100, but I can't use it anymore.

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It cost $100, but I can't use it anymore. - Lemmy

This type of shit is why I just want a vehicle with a CD player that can hold multiple discs. Then I could just burn my favorite music onto a few discs and not have to worry about not having paid to have access to the music I want and donโ€™t have to worry about a song I dislike popping up randomly.
CDs skip when you hit bumps. Just use a thumb drive.

CDs skip when you hit bumps

Is your deck is from a dollar store lol

You could buy portable DVD and CD players back in 2005 that would keep playing without a hitch even if you dropped them. Admittedly this was mostly down to them caching the content in RAM and spinning down to save battery powerโ€ฆ

I havenโ€™t used a CD deck in about a decade. I literally donโ€™t know how CDs would even sound in my carโ€™s deck, because itโ€™s a dead technology.

So yeah, probably?

The only reason to purchase a CD nowadays I think is memorabilia, or to support an artist/groupโ€ฆ aside from that itโ€™s pretty much as you say, physical media is a dying format.

Vinyl is an outlier, but even then modern vinyl players are noticeably worse than ones manufactured several decades ago

Or a very solid way of backing up important stuff like family photos, because no burglar in their right mind would steal a DVD from your home.
I get ya on the dead tech but for your info skipping on bumps stopped being a limitation on cds 20 years ago

Unfortunately I was pretty poor 20 years ago or id have been super jazzed about that.

TIL tho and I appreciate ya teaching me

That Sony S2 life.

The skip protection on those things was unbelievable, and they were built like tanks.

Mine took a spill out the back of a pickup on the freeway and kept working like a champ.