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If you like music, or had an address in the late '90's, you probably have a collection of old CD's sitting unappreciated and unused in a corner of the closet. Whether it's Aerosmith's Greatest ...
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Some people still use their existing CD collections or their old functional equipment. Some prefer the sound of vinyl records. Specialist or niche applications use technology that may have become commercially obsolete, like the vacuum tube. Historical societies may maintain a working knowledge of old machines.
[2] [3] Many remastered CDs from the late 1990s onwards have been affected by the "loudness war", where the average volume of the recording is increased and dynamic range is compressed at the expense of clarity, making the remastered version sound louder at regular listening volume and more distorted than an uncompressed version.
Repurposing is the use of a tool being re-channeled into being another tool, usually for a purpose unintended by the original tool-maker. Typically, repurposing is done using items usually considered to be junk, garbage, or obsolete.
It's also unlikely to be a get-rich-quick strategy unless you happen to have thousands of CDs you want to clear out. Muse's Resistance, for example, will net sellers $2.15 in "good" condition or ...
Each of the three most common 12 cm optical media formats (CD, DVD, and Blu-ray) was first released in read-only form years before writable forms were available.Within each format, there is both forward and backward compatibility, in that most older read-only drives and players can read (but not write) writable media in the same format, while read/write drives can read (but not write) old read ...
When "Dangerous" -- now Ben's favorite Jackson CD -- hit stores in late 1991, he and his parents went to WHSmiths, bought it, took it home, and listened to it immediately. Lots of '90s kids liked Sonic. Everyone liked Jackson -- at least until 1993, when allegations first emerged that the pop star had sexually abused underage boys.