• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Ain’t no way that’s a Discman. I have a Sony one from the 90s on my desk, for one. Two, I thought Sony had the trademark on Discman? And three, that’s Panasonic and doesn’t have Discman anywhere on it.

    So unless Discman wasn’t trademarked and became synonymous with CD players, I refuse to accept that’s a discman!

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    Discman was a Sony trademarked name only. That in the museum was a portable MP3 compact disc player with remote.

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      I had a diskman when they were dying to pure MP3 players.

      It was an ATRAK3 plus (a proprietary compression format) and CD player combo that came with software to burn whole libraries on standard CDs, complete with folders and everything.

      It was cool as hell, a built-in an/fm tuner, and I used it for work for years along with a single rewritable cd. I had different folders for different languages and genres and shit.

      You can buy them on eBay now for like $30, which ironically is more than I paid for it in 2002-4 or whatever it was, however the software to convert to the ATRAK3 plus format was super super hard to find even in the early naughties, unless you have the installer disc.

      They should have put one of those into the museum. Would have been way cooler and more informative and shit

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      You confirmed my suspicions. I immediately looked at the tag and knew it probably wasn’t a Discman because there ain’t no way Sony wouldn’t have trademarked that name.

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    When I was a little kid my dad’s old retired police cruiser still had an 8-track player in it. Y’all ain’t that old. I was there for that thing’s entire lifecycle, then portable mp3 players’ too. Streaming on mobile will probably last a while though.

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Anti skip was awesome. I remember showing my friend’s dad and tapping it and stuff and it keep playing and his eyes went wide. Then he bought a minidisc player and blew MY mind.

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          Anti skip wasn’t completely anti skip if it took a massive jolt but for sure it was like magic compares to the old ones which needed to be preferably flat on a table xD

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            One massive jolt was okay, but sustained vibration was not. Anti-skip worked by caching a few seconds in the future and playing that when the laser lost focus. More than a couple seconds of no laser contact and the cache runs out.

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    It’s not even the oldest one. I had to wait like three Christmases until I could play mp3s on a disk without converting them first.

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    Saw a Genesis console displayed behind glass in a library. I took photos like I haven’t seen one before… 😭

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    Damn kid you had the high tech newfangled round clear gel looking shit.

    I had the original 6AA battery disc man where you can either listen to music for a couple of drives without skipping, or a week if you didn’t turn the anti skip buffer on.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      More battery drain with anti-skip.
      The tables have turned later on. The anti-skip would extend battery life. It would get enough buffer allowing the CD to spin-down and then it would spin back up when needed. This time could be even longer if playing MP3.

      For example, my Panasonic SL-CT520 does 100 second “anti-skip” (at this point it’s not really just anti-skip), and with MP3 cites up to 155h of playback time. Unfortunately, the unit I have can’t play CD-RW (it is mentioned in the manual) which probably means a degraded laser.

      But even with CDDA, my Sony D-EJ000 cites 16 hours with anti-skip and only 11 hours without anti-skip. Unfortunately, in this case the anti-skip also reduces audio quality slightly since it uses lossy compression, so I keep it off.
      At least I think that’s what the manual is trying to say

      To enjoy high quality CD sound, select “G-off”.