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Is it time to return to simplicity when it comes to listening to music? It seems that there are so many options for listening to music that it has become a bit overwhelming. Sometimes I miss the days when it was simple, you put a CD in your CD player, pressed "Play", and then enjoy.
Even something like Minidisc was very simple when it came to listening to music. Record the songs you want to a Minidisc (if you used an optical cable you didn't even have to set a recording level), put in the player, hit "Play", and enjoy. It was great for portable music.
The only slight issue was you had was to record the Minidisc in real time, but it was countered by Minidisc being a semi-permanent format. Unless you heat the Minidisc to a certain temperature the recordings are permanent and the recordings won't degrade with repeated playing. You record a Minidisc once and you're done. This is an improvement over the days of the compact cassette where you had to occasionally re-record a tape since the original recording would degrade with repeated playing.
Now, it seems that music has become much more of a job than it used to be. Maintaining a music library on your computer, verifying, correcting, and updating the metadata, and finally getting it on your listening device, is often a lot of work.
At times, I've considered returning to CD since it takes about 10 minutes to burn a CD-R (I can put about 6 hours of music on the disc [I burn at the highest sound quality]), put it in my player and enjoy my music. No syncing, no worrying about metadata (my player's just show a folder number and track number), and I can easily burn a report of the contents of the CD-R.
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