Are you sure your CD player doesn't need cleaning? Might be some trapped dust inside? You can get lens cleaners (they're just a cd you put in and it sorts it out)

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh - maybe. i'm a bit of a philistine swith new technology and can never be accused of being an avid duster - I'll give it a go.

S'up Sooz, its all about the Mp3 now, innit! Po, po, po, po, po (and other gangsta type words)

 

 

^^^^^^ this. It's almost definitely your CD player. You might have to hunt around to find one of the CD's that cleans it for you, a lot of places don't sell them any more. I've just been told it was Smiths or Staples we got our last one.

Downloads are the way forward

Tesco do lens cleaners or a quick google will bring up other stockists

I like it as it was! I don't like change TBH

Not a fan of mp3, the sound quality is far superior on CDs.

Girlfriend, you need to get with the times! Mmm hmm!

 

oooh nice earings they suit you.

 

seriously sound quality isn't as good on mp3. I have proven this to his nibb, the whole memory stick and then the cd in the car swap.

 

Pah! Pah I say!

You know its true

Give me something physical everytime!  Can't be doing with all this download stuff. Well, I will if it's just one track I want, but an album's worth? CD will do nicely thanks.

I'd be peed off too if someone bought me an adele cd!

Nothing like taking the LP out of its Sleeve..gently blowing over it....lifting the record players arm.....and gently, gently laying the needle on the first ring of you're favourite track......

 

Only to find out it's scratched and plays the first verse over and over 

Converting your stuff is the way forward.

Cds are digitally recorded moosic as are mp3s. If your mp3 is sounding crappy, rip it at a higher bit rate.

A 128 bit rate aac audio file is just about cd quality if the levels are all set at zero

Every Factory record I ever bought jumped

I can't hear the difference m'self. I have my original amp n wharf dales. I play my iPod through a Denon Dock and it sounds great! Of course I've probably lost some parts of the frequency spectrum as I'm in my 50's.

You were to rough......only problem I found was leaving them to close to the fire.....made many a fruit bowl out of those left for to long......

You was'nt supposed to dance around the living room with the stereogram on you're shoulders.....what do you expect!.....

*****Pulls Blushing Blonde Village Idiot Face Smilie*****

The what?

M'Lud a stereogram is a form of gramophone built into a wooden cupboard.

 

I can see how spit-roasting them might have caused problems  I used to love the album covers, you felt like you'd bought something. Then suddenly you get this poxy little CD case thing 

Yep, and the double albums (I still call them LPs) had lyrics in them..and everything.....And Prom (can I call you that?), just cos we had an open fire and at times liked to roast our chestnuts, we were poor and used the nearest thing.....a Led Zepplin LP to rest them on......

 

Feel free, I've been called worse (regularly) I've got to say, if you must sacrifice an LP in the interests of chestnut-roasting Led Zeppelin would have been the first to go for me too 

 (Nicked the rolly eye, cos can't do smilies, thats how out of date I am).....Whole Lotta Love to you peeps...mocking me LPs....

 

You can mock my Bucks Fizz LPs if it evens things up a bit...

I prefer  bought CD's too.Mainly because I can't be arsed to fuss around the comp stuff..actually I'm a comp dunce and trying to download stuff is a pain I can do without.My music system is pretty old compared to what folk have these days.A 16 year old SONY system,it has the twin tape decks on it,redundant now of course,but the sound the amps pound out is still first class.It's rather neat size wise really.It cost £300 then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pACePi441ds

 

 

Evens ***Wink*** xx

 

Oh! they're worth a mint now apparently! I was around in the days of cassette decks and styluses encased in silver, like. The days of taping songs off the radio and trying to cut it just before the DJ started talking over them and when double cassette decks came in it was brill cos you could buy your album on cassette from Our Price, take it home, record it to a blank TDK-90 and then take the original album back, say you didn't like and get your money back.

 

(Or you could chore it from Our Price, tape it, take it back and get a tenner free )

 

On the sleeve of Rastaman Vibration by Bob Marley it states that the sleeve is great for rollin a spliff

 

Thanks for that blast from the past Syd you can't beat a bit of Bucks Fizz  This is turning into a real old codgers 'in my day...' thread 

 

A stereogram..speakers at the sides,lift the lid up and there was the record player and radio.My late dad had one,a phillips,the sound was great.They were pieces of furniture too,pictures,ornaments etc placed on them.

Is anyone going to admit to having bought special editions of singles and LP's? Like 12 inch versions of singles you already had or, er, 'coloured' vinyl versions of stuff you already bought. I just wondered if anyone had ever done anything so mad, I certainly wouldn't even entertain the idea 

 

I have the 12" of Sigue Sigue Sputnik & Thriller 

Oh & Don't you want me baby (from the recycling centre)

I had many twelve inch versions of Trevor Horn's Relax and Two Tribes, as well as love will tear us apart, Blue Monder, memory, money in my pocket by Dennis Brown, Burundi Black, Smiley Culture, all the usual stuff.

Oooooooooooooh Burundi Black - I'm off to You Tube - I'd forgotten all about that