The cassette player on the Blaupunkt radio-cassette in my Nissan Micra has packed up. Looking in Halfords, I see that entry level CD-radios are cheaper than cassette-radios nowadays.
Would the panel recommend a CD-radio? Are they non-skip? Are CDs bulkier to store? Are CD-radios more liable to get nicked?
I've got about 20 CDs compared to a 100 cassettes. But CDs have definitely taken over the market -- newspapers are giving them away.
Bruce
CDs very rarely skip unless you bottom out the suspension. CDs are smaller than tapes. CD players are obviously more nickable.
For home use, cassettes are shit and CDs aren't. Then the decision becomes easy - use the same as what you use at home, ie CDs. Saved me the bother of trying to record all my favourite music onto tape before I went away on holiday!
cheers, clive
The message from bruce snipped-for-privacy@my-deja.com (bruce phipps) contains these words:
Many copy-protected audio CDs don't play on car CD players.
Which ones are these? FWIW, if I came across one, I'd just download whatever tools I needed to bypass the copy protection, and make my own unprotected copy...
The message from "Doki" contains these words:
Depends what you want to listen to. I regularly drive for over an hour and like to listen to radio comedy/drama programmes that I've taped earlier in the week. If I put them onto CD it'd cost a fortune, but on tape I can record over them when I've heard them.
David.
comedy/drama
Blank CDs 20p a go?
cheers, clive
CDRWs buggerallp a go? And there are car CD players that will play CDRWs. That said, not many people possess standalone CDRW recorders at home, and recording on a PC is a bit of a faff.
Doki ( snipped-for-privacy@spamtroNspidar.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
No, it isn't that bad.
Source it from "Listen Again" on the Beeb's website ("radio comedy/drama" implies BBC R4 or BBC 7, very little chance of commercial radio), and use something like TotalRecorder to save the Real stream to WAV (and/or MP3), which can then be burned onto CD in seconds.
It's easier than remembering to be in when the program's on and start the tape, as you can listen and record any time over the next week. It's also far, far easier to then build up a library of the ones you *really* liked.
TBF to David, though, Listen Again on pikeyband is seriously unpleasant, and his posting IP resolves back to a dial-up pool. Still, FM cards for PCs aren't *that* expensive, or he can plug his PCs mic socket to the output from any FM receiver simply enough.
MP3/CD-R car stereos seem to me to be extremely good value.
Is Real horribly compressed or is it decent quality? If I were recording the radio, I'd be tempted to get a standalone CDRW machine and wire it up to my tuner, but then I'm picky and like new toys :).
Yep.
unprotected
Interesting stuff. The website mentions that Celine Dion CDs have particular problems, apparently they stop iMacs working, which demonstrates good taste if nothing else :o)
Doki ( snipped-for-privacy@spamtroNspidar.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
It's more than adequate for the car environment - especially for speech - and seems to be better than all bar the very best FM reception on all bar the very best FM receivers.
It won't help you record it after you've missed the initial broadcast (or - as is more normal for me - thought "bloody hell, this sounds interesting, wish I'd heard the start") as Listen Again does...
The message from "Carl Bowman" contains these words:
"My heart will go on"...but your Mac won't?
Not being a follower of popular beat combos it took a while to realise that the song wasn't called "My heart will goon" - 'cos that's what the local poster said after the posterputtingupbloke had overlapped a couple of sheets.
Guy King ( snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Somebody beating her until she stopped singing would certainly be popular.
Yes, I know. Home-wise I am slowly moving to CD. And I suppose MP3s can be "burned" to a CD quite easily. But I have a lot of old stuff on cassette, from my 20s when I used to actually buy a lot of music. Nowadays, I feel a little uncomfortable venturing into record shops. Its all extremely loud and confusing for an old duffer like me. Apparently vinyl is back in fashion!
Bruce
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Just wait till M&S open their S&M department.
Get a radio/CD with MP3 playback. Download a backup of the tapes you have of the internet and burn them to CD. Far to much hassle trying to copy the tapes to CD.
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On 18-Aug-04 10:44:51, Guy King said
I've not come across that yet, but just as important, not all car CD's support CD-Rs, so that's worth checking before you buy.
My tapes started acting up a year or two ago. so I just gave up on them and went for CD in the car. I've not regretted it, and you can find most of those old tracks somewhere if you look - and have broadband. :)
All the best, Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)
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