Geez, technology moves along doesn’t it? I was cleaning out the drawers and found our old one-disk player and thought “I’ll probably never use this since we now have an MP3 player”.
Do you feel the same way… is our old one worth anything?
I checked just now on the web. They are still selling new ones, but… why? I guess for people who don’t have computers?
I still use one, but it plays MP3s as well. It’s painful sometimes, but I can’t really afford an MP3 player right now, so I’m stuck with the CD player for a bit. They’re significantly less expensive than MP3 players; my guess is that’s the major reason they’re still sold.
I bought a cheapo one at Woolworths this summer. I was traveling (mostly) solo around the UK and the Netherlands for three weeks and my iPod decided to crap out on me a couple of weeks before I was to leave. That said, I had a devil of a time finding one. Before going to Woolworths, I visited a couple of CD shops, a couple of drug stores and a couple of electronics stores. I didn’t see any portable CD players any of those places. The one I finally bought was the only model in the shop, and as I said, was pretty crappy. It lasted the trip, though, which is all that matters.
Yes-I don’t have an MP3 player.
I have one…two actually. One is in my car and the other is in the storage closet in my apartment. I have an mp3 player as well, but I still own a lot of cds. Of course, I’m the guy who drives the car that came with a tape deck, so I have the portable hooked up wth a tape adapter for all my music.
Brendon
I bought one just last year. I’d love to get an MP3 player, I just don’t have the funds.
Definitely still using mine (replaced it recently and bought a backup). First the soundquality is better. The one I bought plays CD’s and lossless, as well as MP3’s and on a good audio system you can hear the difference. If I’m working on my own sound it would be on .wav unless I’d finished it, so I want a player that can play that.
Of course, my main overriding reason being that my one and only MP3 player fried my computer and itself when plugged in, and I can’t afford to loose another PC to it. Motherboards, processor and powersupply are expensive to replace.
(No1 on words you don’t want to hear when you take the MP3 player back to the shop: “Hey Joe, this player’s getting hot! Is that smoke?” “Wow, I’ve never seen one do that before!”)
I don’t have an mp3 player yet, and only a tape player in the car – so, yeah. Esp. with a commute that’s over an hour each way, I keep mine in the car these days.
I have a Toshiba portable DVD player. I like to take it on long trips. Now that my iPod has a video screen, however, it’s going to be a struggle for me to lug the DVD player along. It has a much better picture, but the battery only lasts 3 hours and then you have to lug along all the DVDs…
I love my iPod.
I’ve got one somewhere- used to use it with an adaptor in my car, and I’ve been known to keep one in the sound booth of a theater (we rent to private groups a lot, and it never hurts to have another available). Mostly I use my Ipod though- I have a ton of music and I don’t like to think about which music I’m carrying around.
We just got a portable dvd player. Its an el-cheapo COBY model and its for playing movies in the backseat during long car trips. All we need is a ‘y’ splitter from Radioshack and two sets of headphones for the kids in back…
Portable CD player? HAH! I still use my portable cassette player.
I have both an MP3 player and a portable CD player–but the CD player plays MP3 files. The reason I have both–the MP3 player is great for music that I want shuffled. However, the CD player is good for audio books where the tracks can’t be shuffled. I can burn the tracks in the correct order to a CD in MP3 format, and listen to the story in the correct order.
I do have quite a few ordinary CDs on hand, mainly because Mr. Kiminy worked at a music store for several years after we got married, but the CDs I listen to most often have been ripped to MP3s.
My car CD player only plays normal CDs though, so I do keep a few CDs in my car for times when I don’t have my MP3 player available, and I don’t want to listen to the radio. These are mostly copies of CDs that I own, though, so I don’t have to worry about them being damaged or stolen from the car.
I still have an .mp3 CD player. I have thousands and thousands of hours on .mp3 CD, and, although the tiny size is attractive, it still isn’t enough of an incentive to lay down the cash for a slick little mp3 player. If I’m carrying my backpack, it’s nice to have a CD wallet full of media on hand for variety, no matter how long I’m out or how my mood changes.
It would be nice to have a little player for a quick, unencumbered stroll, though; so far I’m just too cheap to pay a premium for the convenience.
Same here. El-cheapo brand from discount store. Main use? Well, y’see, major airlines used to have several channels of music on the headphone system, that one could use your own headset or buy a cheap one from the FA… but a lot of them now seem to feel that t’ain’t no big thing to NOT provide it on some flights, or on some airplanes, or on some routes. Why keep using the CD player? Well, partly because I don’t feel like spending the effort ripping my CDs.
I have one I use when I go to the gym. Go ahead and laugh, but I don’t use mp3s. I figure two things are likely to happen. Either I’ll lose thousands of songs when my hard drive packs up, or I’ll get a good-sized collection just in time for the next medium to come along. “Dude, are you still using mp3s? That is soooo 2006!”
I had one that died last winter. I don’t think I’ll be getting another one any time soon.
I don’t get you. MP3s are not tied to any particular medium, so they won’t be dying out any time soon. Anyway, the idea of there being a next medium, be it BluRay DVDs or whatever, is kind of obsolete. Whatever you want to hear or watch can be stored on your hard disk, or in the flash memory of a portable device, or indeed on somebody else’s server, to be streamed to you whenever you feel like it. If you insist, it can be stored on a DVD too, but optical disks are so last century 
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I just bought my CD player earlier this year. Why not upgrade? Because it’s just not that much of a concern for me.
Me too. I use it every night for audiobooks. In fact, I have the really old fashioned kind of cassette player without any radio. The past couple of combination CD player/cassette players I’ve bought are horrible for audiobooks on casstte. The radio always seems to leak though.
