I can lose the plot here as can everyone else who is desperately searching for the plot. I will endeavour to persevere to keep up with the plot in the appropriate Covid thread 😵 @Songbird-1
I find Hifi baffling these days. Way back in the 70s when I bought my first stereo system I recorded all my LPs onto tapes and played those to save records form being scratched. I also made compilations with all my singles. Still have those somewhere.
Then CDs came along and you couldn't buy a decent record deck for love nor money, let alone LPs tho I've seen they're coming back.  Now my main sound system refuses to play CDs and I haven't seen a new one to replace it.  The new car has no CD player, just a USB thingy and, while I have backed up my CDs to an external hard disk they're not in "playlist form" and while I'm driving I don't want to have to try to find stuff and pretty soon I'll need a new PC and they don't have CD readers.
Possum has playlists on her new phone and plays those in the newer car but I'm not paying for one of those just to get music. My mobile is used for about 2 texts a week and fewer phone calls so is very basic but does what I need.
I pretty much got left behind after Cds. I always thought that HMV could have avoided going down the toilet if they had offered some kind of service to sell music and load it into the appropriate kit for people who still wanted to buy music but had been left behind by technology.
Minidisc was the perfect format. Technology peaked with the minidisc and then got dragged down by this ipod nonsense. I bought and downloaded some audio books a while ago and I'm now having a battle to be able to keep listening to them. I'm sure Amazon would come to your house and glue all your books shut if they thought they could get away with it.
In other grumpy news I stayed up late getting the washing done then my wife got up early to get it pegged out only for a gull to crap all over it when it was nearly dry. Â
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
At least gull crap is normally whitish. My missus went nuts when a bird crapped all over the washing after gorging on blackberries. That crap really does stain!
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Then CDs came along and you couldn't buy a decent record deck for love nor money, let alone LPs tho I've seen they're coming back.  Now my main sound system refuses to play CDs and I haven't seen a new one to replace it.  The new car has no CD player, just a USB thingy and, while I have backed up my CDs to an external hard disk they're not in "playlist form" and while I'm driving I don't want to have to try to find stuff and pretty soon I'll need a new PC and they don't have CD readers.
Possum has playlists on her new phone and plays those in the newer car but I'm not paying for one of those just to get music. My mobile is used for about 2 texts a week and fewer phone calls so is very basic but does what I need.
How long before CDs come back then?