Living in the Dark Ages

[muninnhuginn]

Ironing whilst transferring contents of CDs (for inevitable baby-sitting in hotel room sessions at the weekend) onto cassette, we're beginning to consider going out and buying the cheapest portable CD player we can find, even if we really want an iPod. (Whilst we likes our gadgets an awful lot. We only likes ones we use. Since, at worst, we'll almost definitely get an iPod by the end of the year, we're willing (just about) to make do, since it'd be a waste to get another piece of kit, however cheap, that would only get used for a few months.)

Of course, we'll still have to cart the CDs along, too, for use in the car.

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New CD too! Caws jubilantly! Onto the sixth playing already since this morning....

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Cheapest CD players

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

around this neck of the woods were about 20 quid, got a couple from Budgens that I gave away as presents.

Alternatively, spend a little more on one and get one that plays MP3 files as well. You can then burn many many tracks to a CD-R and carry far fewer with you. You need to get used to MP3s anyway if you're going to get one of the new iPods ...

Re: Cheapest CD players

[muninnhuginn]

Quite used to MP3s thank you, but don't possess the capability of burning them to CD (you really don't want to know the route taken to get my old Play Away and Play School LPs into a format we can use for LL in the car).

Actually, the real problem is portable CD-players are just not sexy enough (one of the walkmans I possessed was, but its replacements never were). iPod's are.

Though, having had to ditch a cassette halfway thorough and begin the process all over again, the idea of buying a CD-player just for the few months we might want it, wasteful tho' it seems, is getting all too attractive (we have to pass Comet to get to Tesco--heck, what do Tesco have themselves?).