A Brand New Sony Discman.

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

Most CD players couldn't play CD-Rs until long after this particular player released--which you probably guessed by now.

[@GavinFromWeb]

Skul??? I remember when I used to watch you!!!

[@ok-is2qq]

oh its skul

[@invetegon4596]

my 1987 magnavox with the old style philips mech plays cdrs just fine

[@MattExzy]

Sometimes it could depend on the burn speed. 1x or 2x was generally safe, but not always a success.

[@MatroxMillennium]

In my experience that's not necessarily true, although I am thinking more of computer CD drives or home stereo players when I say that. CD-RWs are a big issue on older players though.

[@YostPeter]

6:11 I like how you wrote "Scarlet Fire" on the disc like "SCARLet FIre" to match the emphases in the actual song. Nice touch.

[@dinkarfowkar999]

@@Danerock13 Lmao 😂😂😂

[@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

better than justin bieber if you play both songs on mute.

[@ghosttraintittiebeaan4879]

@Joshua Roehl oh shit, its the greatest singer/songwriter of our time (srsly his channel is a gem)

[@somebutter6755]

I think he just ran out of space writing lol

[@YostPeter]

@@somebutter6755 I dunno, the letters get small very suddenly and then stay that small. When you run out of space, you get smaller and smaller as you realize your mistake.

[@yowatchie]

Man CD’s. This man really knows how to take me back to a 2000’s full of PKcells.

[@hibbiea8841]

"Oh, my Puksell!"

[@himanshumundepi]

Oh moi PKcerhgegheghls.

[@InsanityPrevails]

Are CDs that nostalgic already?

[@kleiton__]

Cee Deez nuts

[@baconwizard]

@@himanshumundepi love that youtube translates this to “oh me PKcerhgegheghls” guess they’re feeling extra Scottish today

[@eier5472]

*PS:* You can get an adapter for that janky looking connector on the stinkbuds, to use this remote with your proper in-ear buds. The connector is called Sony Micro Plug or Stereo Mini

[@samuelyoung1]

yup! 2.5mm

[@Therandomtihmged1392]

They have never changed . Oh your sad we used proprietary ports Well if you give us some more money then you can have an adapter

[@lioraselby]

​@@Therandomtihmged13922.5mm isn't proprietary, its just uncommon

[@gypsychef3]

came here to say the very same thing , or you could also cut the jack side of those buds off and solder it to a female 3.5mm jack 🤌might event be enough room inside that remote to replace that proprietary nonsense with the standard. Sounds like you would have to open up the remote anyways to clean the volume pot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@alyx6427]

can you get one that converts earpods to it? like the earpods remote also works

[@cyrfung]

The “MD Link” thing printed on the player: this thing has optical out so you can connect it to a MD recorder to copy CDs to MDs with the best quality possible.

[@z33r0now3]

I loved my 2 minidisk players back in the day. Its the old tech i miss the most. Sony Hifi brick and a JVC portable one made with a complete metal housing and backlit remote. Straight from record to MD. What a sound. Attrac3 was a very good algorithm.

[@sonntagskind84]

Got my MiniDisc-Player a few days ago. So what you describe, i did yesterday. 😂Copying optical is great. Perfekt leveling, and it even marks the Tracks absolutely correct.

[@blob9534]

"CDs" "It's pretty nuts" i see what you did there

[@coochie8670]

@Lotus shut up

[@ThePersianYT]

@Joshua Roehl dude shut up.

[@beegyoshi6525]

Great profile pic

[@ThePersianYT]

@@beegyoshi6525 LOL

[@TVEE]

@Lotus shut up, man

[@theallknowingsause8940]

This is my take on DankPods: When things go wrong = funny When things go right = wholesome

[@xxyvng6831]

@You have to know i scared to click that link....is it rick roll

[@7racc]

@Covetz Its a quran recitation, no idea why spam bots are being made to spam those links

[@7racc]

@@xxyvng6831 Its a quran recitation, no idea why spam bots are being made to spam those links

[@matthewdegois7365]

Yep. Batman nugget is perfect example

[@insert_username_here]

@@bonkobonko6707 It's disappointing when someone says the word "wholesome" and people like you yell "oh oh redditor wholesome 100 UwU big chungus" or something like that. It's a normal word in the English language for something heartwarming, not a metaphor to the dark depths of Reddit.

[@Notllamalord]

Boxes then: here’s a bunch of stuff with your new device! Boxes now: to protect the environment, your device is no longer included

[@aspidacctvods]

Boxes in the future(tm): since we care so much about the environment: your box will not be manufactured. you can find your device in the same place as our care about our customers!

[@FiniteCS]

"To protect the environment" needs MASSIVE air quotes around it since that's the most bogus reasoning ever.

[@Novistador96]

@@FiniteCS Like if you need a charger it comes with its own packaging

[@FiniteCS]

@@Novistador96 And if you buy the product without knowing it doesn't come with a charger, you then have to have it shipped separately. It's absolutely hilarious that they can make such bogus claims, but have people eating every word.

[@CophinRuinz0rKestra]

So true. Like we go from tons of stuff included at no extra cost, to oversized packaging with basically nothing but the device in it, to now, no headphone jack or charging cables included. Shit's really changed.

[@spicytuna62]

I absolutely love CDs. They're incredibly cheap (unlike vinyl), lossless, and really easy to slam into your PC's optical drive to convert to FLACs and put on your phone so you can listen to them with some ten dollar dirty buds. Used CDs also come with a bunch of other stuff like the lyric book that you don't get when you buy your music digitally. Rip em once, stash them in a box in the closet, back everything up to a hard drive just in case, and the things last basically forever AND you still get to enjoy the music that was on them. Also, going used means you might end up with a version of an older album BEFORE it was remastered, which means the sound wasn't destroyed by the loudness war.

[@nickwallette6201]

That last point is the golden truth. Man. I just queued up a playlist of circa-2000 alt-metal, and even that actually had dynamics. When you go back and play something that isn't crushed to a range of 3dB peak-to-peak, it sounds... _SO GOOD._

[@A-G-F-]

Most of the CDs arent in Loseless formats tho

[@russianbot8576]

@@A-G-F- a lot of them are .wav?

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@A-G-F- Most CD quality audio is formatted in a way that while it isn't 100% lossless ON PAPER, the human ear is physically incapable of hearing a difference. It cuts out the infrasound and ultrasound frequencies, but otherwise is able to replicate the sound in a way that well over 99.99% of people would think is identical.

[@A-G-F-]

@@russianbot8576 Yes

[@ettcha]

1:13 I was 100% getting ready to proclaim this as one of the smoothest transitions into a sponsor spot in history!😄

[@Bane_Amesta]

Dude I didn't noticed until now, yes, it looked like a sponsor lmao

[@g4mmalotus937]

"so I'm actually excited right because this video is actually sponsored by nord VPN!"

[@evilredflame]

I only wish he was sponsored by the Discman

[@blakksheep736]

​@@evilredflame me too, but it'd be real wierd if he was sponsored by a product the original manufacturers no longer produce.

[@ratkeep]

@@blakksheep736 big shoutout to today's sponsor apple and their apple ii computer this is really top notch

[@averin5193]

ah, it's always a good day to see an Australian man show me some old nuggets

[@TheApocalypseAttack]

It’s a whole chicken.

[@BenjjjDW]

Great comment, have you watched the video yet?

[@LexosVr]

I just love it how he calls them nuggets

[@official.aproxioiplus]

Fax

[@HappyJazzLover]

@@LexosVr The most accurate name, probably

[@irtbmtind89]

One cool thing about CDs is that used CDs are crazy cheap, so it's usually the cheapest way to get lossless music (and you can get stuff none of the lossless store have). The little booklets also almost always have neat stuff in them (especially if you're really into the artist in question) you don't get in a download. I know Apple experimented with electronic liner notes on the iTunes store in the 2000s but it obviously never caught on. CD are actually amazing considering they're more or less 70s technology, and the 16bit/44.1k standard was so good that the audio world has never really moved on from it. This video also reminded me how spoiled North America is for cheap electronics. By the late 90s you could get a decent name brand portable CD player in the US for under 150 dollars.

[@AVINIDE]

One thing worth mentioning is master difference. On streaming services you receive the most recent remasters, however sometimes I prefer older releases as they're ex. less compressed (the loudness war).

[@jameslangridge8849]

You're giving away the secrets! Im getting into collecting CD's, i just hope the price of old ones doesn't shoot up when people inevitably realize how good they actually are!

[@SgtStinger]

I bought a portable cd player in Sweden for 795 SEK in '98, which at that time basically was $100 US. So it wasn't just the US, more that the poor Aussies had it rough rather.

[@ThePhantom4516]

James Langridge it probably won’t, and I don’t see the rise of CDs happening the same way it did for vinyl. I could just be completely wrong of course

[@irtbmtind89]

@@AVINIDE I hate that a lot of the stuff in my Spotify library gets silently replaced with "remastered" versions, that I'm guessing are either made to sound louder, or made to sound better on cheap headphones and bluetooth devices. That's why I keep .flac rips of my favourite albums.

[@Azeria]

Discman ‘ESP’? Does it read your thoughts?

[@지호-x1z]

reminds me of DSMP

[@metroplexprime9901]

Might mean that it can be used with the koss esp 95x's?

[@spedsledproductions]

@Lotus shut

[@bosh6604]

Nah its a TES mod

[@_string]

@@choppercove malding

[@sammichmanjr]

That super subtle joke on the CD-R. The first letters of your writing being too big and having to squeeze the last letters in a miniscule amount of space. Hits me right in the nostalgia.

[@RyokoVT]

I remember when I got my XP-Pen Artist 12, a display graphics tablet. Came with literally every power adapter I could ever want, tons of replacement pen nibs, a pen case with a cap that doubles as a holder.. I was blown away. And yet was mad it didn't come with even a basic stand. Beautifully packaged though, really nice box too.

[@berdansargol1577]

I mean, I've got a new Wacom One last year and it came with its cable and spare tips. Still better than most flagship phones today.

[@russianbot8576]

i bought a second lightly used intuos4 med in case my main one breaks, because there is some quality of life features they never brought back. box has nibs, drivers, cable, pen stand (it houses the nibs)... ah, and those fucking wonky ass wacom mouses, it has one. quaint. my second one is the wireless one, and comes with a dongle too (i will wire it in lmao) but the main feature which i refuse to relinquish: H O T K E Y. L E D S. hotkey led labels right next to the hotkey buttons means i refuse to go back to not having the labels right there. there is no explanation why they got rid of this feature. it is IMMENSELY FUCKING HELPFUL and the only thing i could ask more for is a hotkey puck with the led indicators in the box (this is solved with a cabled numpad and setting the keys up as hotkeys, and slapping a label on top of the caps. hot trick for the girlies in the back. you want a separate numpad so you can move it around for better access: YOU DON'T WANT CARPAL TUNNEL AND CLAWING A KEYBOARD WILL DO IT)

[@zorsenothorse]

7:22 bonus fact, Gorillaz first album was my first CD i ever bought myself, and it also has a hidden video / interactive when you put it into a pc, give it a go

[@CraigKeidel]

Ahhh, Enhanced CDs... Some CD players would try to read the enhanced portion as an extra track and always screwed up playback unless you remembered to skip it

[@R-E-D-A-C-T-E-D.]

same here gorillaz was the first cd I had ever brought in my life!

[@QuartzSTQ]

Yup, well the Eee PC would sure know: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYCzd5R4qLGWj5o

[@eatsleepdie8808]

haha it was my second or third CD, my first being Follow The Leader by KoRn

[@lic.josechavez8837]

Sooooooooooo interesting

[@Platitudinous9000]

Man, the start of this is just reminding me how revolutionary it was when the original iPod was announced with like ten minutes of skip protection

[@LaskyLabs]

I think it was twenty minutes actually.

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

Except it wasn't. Creative beat Apple to the punch with the Nomad. Apple just miniaturized the concept.

[@frostedbutts4340]

@@Dee_Just_Dee Which wasn't the first MP3 player by a long shot. The iPod was like half the size with double the battery life, there's a reason it was a massive hit.

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

@@frostedbutts4340 For sure the Nomad wasn't the first MP3 player. It was the first _mass storage_ MP3 player. They only made the mistake of thinking that people would be fine buying one in a discman-size form factor for familiarity, when it was easy enough to go smaller. No reason to get so butthurt.

[@anx.anxiety]

I fr have been going through such a shit depressive episode and found your channel in the middle of it and I gotta say I watched all the content you got and I so look forward to the stuff you make, it’s made this crappy time just a little bit better.

[@purpleneons]

hang in there!!

[@anx.anxiety]

@@purpleneons I’m trying my best!

[@purpleneons]

@@anx.anxiety fingers crossed for you!

[@HeyPatch]

There once was a king who asked his most trusted adviser to bring him a magic ring that would make the wearer happy when they are sad and sad when they are happy. This was however a trick to teach the advisor some humility as the king knew no magic rings truly existed. Some time later the king asked his advisor if he’d managed to find the magic ring, to the kings shock the advisor said he had found just such a ring and presented to the king a simple golden ring with four wounds engraved on it “this too shall pass”. At that moment The king realized that all his wisdom, fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust. This story reminds me that the bad times are not permanent and *shall pass* and to enjoy and cherish every moment of the good times for they to are fleeting.

[@TheMilkDistributor]

Same though

[@PSPREVIEWER100]

As a CD collector this video really made my day. Love to see people talk about CDs and CD players!

[@DschungelKatze]

Seeing him happy because of an actually properly working nugget just makes my day

[@davestechstuff8222]

nugget

[@kenjitasaka]

Having a bookshelf full of CDs is sure making me feel old now

[@MattExzy]

Don't sweat it. At least they're not wax cylinder recordings.

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

I've got rubbermaid bins full of CDs because I can't afford bookshelves or the space for them. Generation gap, I guess.

[@fellahuman]

No joke I got 126 soundtrack CDs on my shelf and my classmates think I’m some sort of Luddite

[@dmo848]

Still have them in my car. Lol about 100.6 disk player I'm still rocking

[@CraigKeidel]

A bookshelf? Shit I've got 5 250-disc booklets, all arranged by broad genre, artist name, and release date... And then a chest full of the stuff I don't dig into often. I'm a little OCD.

[@timmytacoburrito]

This is a huge throwback. I remember owning a CD player, and it just makes me miss the Walkman and CD players and stuff.

[@grigoris.7732]

I had the craziest nostalgia hit from this

[@tuser8]

The insane bit is that CD players are now considered a nostalgic thing, how time passes...

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

@@tuser8 I kinda like it. I've been buying CDs the whole time, and for about 15 years I've felt like kinda a luddite. Now I feel more like a hipster, and that feels like a modest upgrade.

[@EpicB]

@@Dee_Just_Dee I got into vinyl a couple years ago but eventually got away from it and moved to CDs because vinyl got way too expensive to keep up as a hobby. It's just not worth the effort for me.

[@oldgrunger5]

Same !!... I use to carry mine in a back pack as it was the big wouldn't fit in my pocket lol

[@Rocketranger]

Yay another video of my favourite Australian man screaming about Music

[@erikkhatman463]

FR

[@LilTachanka]

why is there so many bots in the comments, like lotus here

[@yangsinful]

@@LilTachanka imma report it

[@fairyball3929]

@@yangsinful Same, I guess we'll both report Lotus.

[@fairyball3929]

@@onionman500_m8 Idk who's generating these bot accounts...

[@UBoiii]

1:28 Man I thought he was about to say "I'm actually excited to tell you about today's sponsor, NordVPN"

[@Tine_of_Nice_Dreams]

I still have my teenage Walkman, I was thinking about finally throwing it out since the battery hatch is broken and how often do I use it, really. But your enthusiasm reminded me of its value and a little tape on the hatch has it good to go for another decade or two.

[@Elzariel]

I had that EXACT Akai player and let me tell you, calling it a nugget is nearly insulting the common nugget. The second it was not horizontal it would stop playing. It worked better as a level than an actual level! Try taking that to school to listen on breaks. But I got it to play burnt CDs with a 45% success! So you know, some sorta silver lining.

[@Tetchreon]

I had what looks to be that exact player when I was in high school. It was stolen from my backpack one day during class. The kid who took it gave it back a day later and apologized, he said he felt bad but I think what really happened is he tried to use it and figured it was easier to give it back than throw it away.

[@alyanahzoe]

4:19 the funniest bit 😂😂😂

[@HL_Lifts]

Even weird is how there's no screen so you need to recount what track you were on

[@elnombre91]

Man this takes me back. I remember inheriting my sister's old tape walkman and using that for a couple of years before getting a CD walkman. The joy of recording tapes 😭

[@alexq961]

“My old mate steveo” is the most Aussie introduction

[@CraigKeidel]

I love those teal pads on the cans, god that's a nice hue and looks sharp!

[@Lupo2punto0]

Man the nostalgia. Back in middle school, my brother gave me his Kenwood cd player which had the backlit remote (with a normal jack on it, thank you kenwood) It was the coolest thing my classmates had ever seen. I went back on it last summer and plugged my AT m50x in it. Still works flawlessly. Almost cried.

[@PineEtc]

7:05 - Wow, that CD wallet was the biggest throwback of the video

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

You know what's crazy? You can still pick up CD wallets at dollar stores. I honestly don't know who the hell is still buying them, but they're still making and selling them....

[@Kostas_Dikefalaios]

@@Dee_Just_Dee Well you can use them for DVDs, Blu Rays and CDs. So of course people still buy them

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

@@Kostas_Dikefalaios I guess I think it's weird that people would buy stuff on disc and immediately throw away the case and liner notes. Might as well just buy a download or streaming license for quite a bit cheaper if all you want is the content.

[@Biaanca5036]

I still like burning warez type stuff onto discs to prevent my antivirus from autodeleting this type of stuff But ooohh! They still sell cd wallets?! that would've been good to know 😶

[@Igor-or1rb]

"Monkey music" is something I never thought I'd hear from Dank. Though, he IS Dank.

[@coochie8670]

@You have to know shut up

[@DerkuiDerkui]

Hearing your excitement on all the 'taken-for-granted' features brings back memories of the old days, simpler times with a cd player.

[@belligerentinsurgent]

9:53 "gimme my precious monkey music back" XD

[@flopp_idk]

MONKEY MUSICCCC

[@AnonymousCaveman]

By the way streaming is going I honestly see actually hardcopy music and formats becoming popular again. I use my iPod but it's all from CDs I have put on. I have my cassette walkman still and I like the feeling of actually sticking on a album from a tape or CD, let alone a vinyl record. Would love to see you do more of these sorts of videos. Keep up the fantastic work as always man! Been waiting for my WiFi to come back to watch your video so worth the wait 👌🏻✌🏻

[@adrianplatt4907]

Still doing much the same with MD recording decks plus MD portables

[@sdc303]

MP3 is the peak music format to be honest. You can put them in CDs, USB sticks and your phone. The musics is yours forever.

[@frizzlefry1921]

​@@sdc303 Till the drive quits and your email gets hacked then your screwed.

[@Alec_Reaper]

I remember growing up at the end of the cassette, but still experiencing it to the rise of CDs. I used to listen to music on a stereo in bed before streaming. 😳

[@walmorcarvalho2512]

Yeah me too! My dad's old truck had a cassette deck but he got one of those adaptors and one of these CD players. it skipped a bunch but it worked

[@MattExzy]

Discmans were terrible. I had a Walkman as a kid, then a discman when high school started. The damn thing skipped and was actually way more chunky to carry around than a Walkman. Not to mention you could fit 90 minutes on a tape... and steal songs off the radio. Win win.

[@itsTyrion]

yyyyyupp

[@deadliestvice5356]

I grew up on the edge of a CD. My childhood was quite dangerous.

[@crow_creek]

i grew up with CDs but still close to the end, it was fun as hell (also meant my parents let me play my children's music in the car which drove them crazy)

[@extrahourinthepit]

4:44 by the way, that’s a thing they did a couple times, but mostly their remotes had a standard jack out. But also, a handful of tape Walkmans did the reverse: the remote had an AUX out, but the player had no headphone jack, just the proprietary remote port. Sony.

[@thetechconspiracy2]

Isn't the jack also different on pretty much every player? I know a lot of people (myself included) give Apple flack for still using Lightning (instead of USB-C like they should in 2021, especially considering EVERY OTHER DEVICE THEY MAKE, *INCLUDING THE IPAD* , USES USB-C), but at least it's a standard that dates back to the iPhone 5, and can even be adapted back to 30-pin for really old car stereos and iPod docks

[@frostech3149]

Surprised that Lotus guy didn't reply here first

[@benjammin2020]

And there were at least a couple tape Walkmans that had the proprietary edge connector, and got aux out via a coin-sized adapter that was completely separate from the remote/headphones. And everyone lost it.

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

yeah Sony has been doing proprietary bullshit since before anyone else hell, remember fuckin Memory Sticks lmao

[@extrahourinthepit]

@@thetechconspiracy2 nah, they had a couple different connectors, but mostly it was the one you see in video, it’s just that some or all the features didn’t work on every player.

[@ConnorNolanTech]

Legitimate question: You gonna try to turn those old dirty buds into a 3.5mm adapter, because that was my first thought.

[@ized88]

I thought the same thing. With a good jack and a bit of work for isolation it could work fine. Or go the hardcore route and solder a port into the remote directly instead of the strange one

[@necromax13]

They look 3.5. They just seem like the plug broke inside the remote's jack. Had the same thing happen to me a couple months back with some dirty buds and my ipod.

[@ziginox]

@@necromax13 I thought the same, didn't really look like any connector I'd ever seen.

[@themaritimegirl]

@@necromax13 Nope - it was Sony's attempt at a proprietary plug, called the Micro Plug. You can buy a 3.5mm adapter for it on eBay.

[@ConnorNolanTech]

@@themaritimegirl oh, really? Nice. If there's a pre-existing adapter out there already, that's definitely the way to go. I just wasn't very hopeful that a 20+ year old short lived connector would have much aftermarket support. That, and also I had no idea what that plug was called, even.

[@taylorsutherland2595]

If you don't mind violating the earbuds, it would be really easy to solder the proprietary connector to a female aux cable so you could plug whatever you want into the remote :)

[@benllewelyn98]

You can buy an adapter

[@3aje6o]

I remember when you where at the 40k and i genuinely enjoy watching the Patreon list get longer and longer

[@WayneW3st]

3:14 that's a true statement btw our family microwave is around 30+ old and still working, then we decided to buy a new one just to see it broke down in 6 months.

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

No word of a joke, I have a 35 year old microwave in my TV room mostly just to cook "microwave popcorn". Got the thing at a yard sale for like $20. Meanwhile I've gone through 4 different modern microwaves in the kitchen.

[@Matt-qf6pd]

I know it's like they make there new stuff break easy so you need to buy another

[@ZedDevStuff]

The Sharp Carousel Multiple Choices was made in 1997 and still is better than most microwaves today

[@Jordanninja09]

@Joshua Roehl Nobody cares.

[@badeskimo1]

That has got to be one of the most well put to together portable cd player kits I've ever seen, let alone any portable media player kit. Nice nugget bud. I absolutely love this channel, it always makes my day.

[@nickwallette6201]

It's so funny to me because I've bought three Sony portable CD players brand new over the course of my life. They came with a pair of headphones and a charger. No case, no rechargeable battery pack (even though two of them supported that very one), no line audio cables. Just exactly what you need to use it and no more. I always wondered if those battery packs and cases were mythical figures, and come to find out that pretty much every other person got them complimentary. WTH? :-D

[@spiderpickle3255]

I bought a Walkman from that era (a cardboard box Walkman [WM-fX553] and not a plastic blister Walkman) and I can confirm that Sony still put some legit effort into much of their stuff back then. Easily put 500-700 hours of use on that thing in just the first year I owned it. They don't make them like they used to Or provide useful accessories like they used to . . .

[@YeOldeKamikaze]

@@nickwallette6201 It's the frigging region-specific SKUs, man. They still do that with the Xperia phones. Back in 2014, the Xperia Z2 was really close to being one of the nicest smartphones ever made, except it still used two sealing flaps in order to be water resistant (a common thing to see on sony's water-resistant Xperia models as far back as 2011). One of them covered the microUSB/charging port. You'd have to open the flap everytime you needed to charge the phone (read: nearly every day). The flaps wore out rather quickly for a component that's supposed to last for the lifetime of the phone (or at least it's original battery), so after a couple of months you'd see people using their Z2s with an exposed USB port and SIM card tray on it's side. Unsightly to say the least. None of that was an issue if your particular phone was shipped with the Sony DK36 magnetic charging dock in the box. Very, very few people got those in the box. They were laughably rare and expensive for those of us who didn't. Some regions algo got a free USB-OTG adapter and Sony NC31E noise-cancelling IEMs, which are said to be great. I now have a DK44 dock (that's actually for the thicker Z2a, but works with the regular Z2 with some padding) and it's pretty convenient. Too bad Sony didn't grace us with the extra goodies.

[@GonDFRD]

Really miss the times when my biggest problem involved putting one of these inside my 00’s cargo pants’ gigantic pockets. Good times.

[@GDmashups25]

6:26 that noise is so much nostalgia

[@offscreen6578]

Welcome back to the CD club. We've been waiting for new members.

[@Enriath]

5:00 you just know, though, that if Apple designed the first iPod today instead of back yonder, they would have tried something proprietary to avoid having 2 ports on a device.

[@lepidotos]

Bluetooth headphones and wireless charging only for that truly portless experience

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Apple is great at coming up with "problems" that no one else cares about so they can look super smart when they "solve" them.

[@dionysus6892]

Seeing someone else so happy about Gorillaz makes me really happy too. Gorillaz was shown to me by a buddy in middle school. Started listening more and now just love them. That friend has since moved away and we talk less. But when new Gorillaz stuff comes out we text non stop

[@notenoughram3312]

Monke music good yes

[@Bill_Gamesh]

@@notenoughram3312 monke music is best music

[@gabs1131]

fav band member?

[@notenoughram3312]

@@gabs1131 2d prob

[@gabs1131]

@@notenoughram3312 same. i’ve gotten too much into the lore 😭

[@AaronSkone]

You'll have to talk to James about modding the Discman to play CD-Rs, I'm sure he has the technical know-how!

[@beezleboss2099]

JAMES - THE GENIUS!

[@BorislavVeselinov]

@@beezleboss2099 The genius magpie savior.

[@bloodakoos]

@@BorislavVeselinov (this actually happened)

[@BavarianM]

You don't need to mod anything

[@jonasgrill1155]

Windows has an option built-in to burn a CD for playing on older players. Don't know about Mac though, which is what Dank uses.

[@HoundNL]

I love how this channel is basically a preservation project for weird 2000S technologies and some from late 90s and earlier 2010s

[@orinokonx01]

My first CD was the Men In Black CD Single. I remember that, because I still have it around here with the receipt, wrapped in the bag it came in from Sanity at Marion. Spent all of my birthday money on it.

[@legendarysoil1064]

Dude I love your voice! I honestly have no clue about what you’re saying about half the time but the way you talk and the enthusiasm in your voice entertains me more than anything you’re actually talking about

[@equimosis1]

Gosh, I feel exactly the same when Danks goes to full Aussie mode lol

[@weldernick3750]

I had this exact CD player!! I never used the remote and always used the separate battery pack because the rechargeable batteries became useless too quickly!

[@thenerdling1]

There's a spray that cleans dials, I think it's called deoxit or something You could also cut up the dirty buds and make a 3.5mm adapter

[@elijahzimmerman2053]

they actually just sell adapters just search sony micro to 3.5mm

[@glass.hammer]

Cleans pretty much all electronic with grimy contacts. I think all of my analog tech (instruments, amps, speakers, etc) have had their input jacks and dials flushed with deoxit.

[@mysticpuffy]

My father bought a new Lincoln Town Car in 2004-ish. It had a six-disc CD Changer in the trunk. My dad had never had a CD player. I get a phone call asking to look at his CD player because it wasn't playing. I go to the house, and he was trying to play the "B" side like an LP.

[@AtrocityEquine01]

> Dream Theater's Metropolis Pt. 2 > dank: My favorite album ever! Ah, I see you're a man of culture.

[@ShoelessJP]

The last time I was this early, DankPods still made exclusively iPod content.

[@einenglander3223]

Eventually it was going to happen tbh

[@jugostran]

CDs are GOAT. Good sound, nice HiFi decks and overall, I like em' Edit: also, streaming services suck now and the big ones actually don't even pay artists fairly. So, in my opinion, going forward, I'll be buying all my music on CD.

[@AfroRedMusic]

Bandcamp is also a good way to support artist directly!

[@jugostran]

@@AfroRedMusic Indeed, but mainly referring to the big artists that have labels in my initial post.

[@thatbillguy5211]

Sadly record companies mistreat artists even more.

[@_.dywtylm._]

I like vinyls too

[@torbenmayer]

Well, it depends. Spotify pays 1 eurocent per 4 streams, even for the smallest of all musicians. (If streamed with a pro subscription). That's relatively okay. But still, what I do is: I listen to spotify all day long, but still, if there is a new release from one of my favorite artists, or even if there is an album I really pump, I just get the CD or, if available, the vinyl, even though I didn't listen to CD in years and don't even own a vinyl player. And then go to concerts and buy some merch. So I do everything to support the artist, the way I did before Spotify, and they get some money out of my streams on top.

[@Kilerwhale13]

Missed opportunity for the intro: "CDs CDs?" *awkward silence*

[@gabmalagonpersonal]

Cd'z nutz

[@Thelango99]

Well CDs do have better audio quality than most streaming services.

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

That joke is actually almost as old as the CD itself.

[@caranook]

I remember my cousin bought one of these second hand in around 2004, and being so envious of her! She was listening to backstreet boys like a boss.

[@ucitymetalhead]

I remember being excited to get a skip resistant player and see how much I could shake before it it stopped.

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

I'm still a disciple of CD, even though I've been copying them to MP3 since 1998. Yes, that's right, for *_23 years_* I've been buying CDs just to immediately "rip" them to MP3 and shelve them. And it seems like *_only now_* is CD finally entering its twilight years. One of my local-ish but definitely "made it" bands released their newest album on streaming and download services only; no CD pressing. 1982-2021, baby! Hell of a run! Oh, if you actually clicked to read the rest of this: I jammed to *_MP3-CD_* players until about 2006. That's right, I copied CDs to MP3 just to put those MP3s back onto CDs, wut?! While it wasn't as good or cool as having an iPod, it meant that I could go to the record store downtown, pick up an exclusive release, and listen to it on public transit on the way back home to rip it to MP3 to play on the same player but better.

[@parlinmains]

That’s super cool.

[@vinegar9566]

I see

[@mitko_dsv1999]

You listened to CDs up until 2006? I started listening to CDs at the end of December 2006... Until then cassete tapes, vinyl and radio only. Nowadays I listen to MP3 from PC, laptop, car USB player, etc., but also radio and cassete tapes. I still ocasionally listen to vinyl or CDs, but that's rare.

[@david.carreira]

I KNEW IT! I KNEW THAT SOMEDAY DREAM THEATER WOULD BE MENTIONED ON THIS CHANNEL. It even is the metropolis pt2 masterpiece

[@gpturner0924]

Dream Theater Scenes from a Memory. One of the greatest concept albums of ALL TIME!!!

[@nicholasmapes]

I could listen to dream theater all day long...

[@beezleboss2099]

just got the cd for one buck a few weeks ago. great stuff

[@Despicablehobbit]

We demand a dank pods dance of eternity cover!

[@adambell5781]

Dank pods Octavarium cover pls

[@Mardy72]

Images and Words. My fave album

[@SlavJerry]

legends say frank still figuring out her home entrance til these days

[@penquinmaster]

The commentary with Frank never fails to get me to smile.

[@gabs3716]

This is exactly what I've been waiting for.

[@JamienautMark2]

When I started listening to music around 2004 it was all CDs. I remember getting American Idiot and Hot Fuss for my birthday. First music that was my own.

[@dmo848]

Basket case here

[@genekwagmyrsingh9433]

Yes, I'm aware I'm old. :P

[@i11umina]

imagine walking down the street and seeing a disc with arms and legs

[@matthewsienzant8035]

Scenes from a Memory Pt2. Fantastic taste. I approve of your nugget channel. Fan for life.

[@monika.alt197]

8:44 Sony still puts the digital mega bass button on their car stereo systems.

[@valoric4767]

Watching this made me get out my CDs again for a listen. Sony Walkman we’re so awesome

[@Steakkiller]

All of the early 2000nds Walkmans are incredibly nice and well made. The 20th anniversary cassette Walkmans are probably the most feature packed and smallest cassette players you can get. The same goes for their Minidisc players/recorders. I still find it amazing that they could cram an entire minidisc deck into something that fits into the palm of your hand.

[@TheSektorz]

0:47 Dankboi knows Steve-O confirmed lore

[@theaudiocrat]

HOLY MOLY! I got this exact CD player (discman D475) and MDR 7506 headphones for christmas in 1996. Due to the price (the CD player was $200 at the time) they were the only 2 presents I got, but I couldnt have been happier. It did play some brands of CDR but not all, obviously. I think it was the Maxwell brand CDRs that I found worked in it, and they had to be burnt using a particular method I've long since forgotten. I was surprised to find that it played PS1 and Sega Saturn Yellow Book audio from the game CDs. I remember bopping to Virtua Fighter 2 and Tobal No. 1 on Christmas morning like my world had changed. Thanks for reminding me of this :)

[@SharkDeschain]

Went to see what brand my old cd player is, but I put a big ol' sticker right over all of the info, both front and back so I have no idea. Was surprised to see it still had a disc in it.

[@sorysrgee]

Would love to see you look into vinyl as well. Your commentary would be hilarious

[@onetruemode]

you got your wish

[@blakksheep736]

He has now.

[@notmyrealname1526]

Let me guess, you've burned the Scarlet Fire CD-R at maximum speed? Yeah, old lasers don't like that. Get an old writer and burn them as slow as possible, preferably 8x or less, and you should be good.

[@notmyrealname1526]

@Tkemali sauce 8x is pretty much the threshold, but getting anything below without building a PC with parts from the late 90's is going to be difficult.

[@MattExzy]

Even my car's CD player freaks out at anything above 2x. I've gone back to CDs in the car, since I caught myself reaching for a phone or something all the time. There's something nice about just going "okay, I'm playing THIS disc now.." and not jumping around playlists.

[@necromax13]

@@MattExzy I've developed an allergy to playlists as of late. CDs bring me some illogical joy nowadays.

[@epicalduck]

Yeah, that's probably the case, good call!

[@Biaanca5036]

Or if you haven't burned something in like a decade? Just dust your tray and your laser. Saves quite a bit of money

[@HardWithStyleFan]

This man just basically told us “CDs nuts”

[@ninjasack9134]

That sound of a cd spinning is so nostalgic to me. So old yet still sound futuristic

[@gobymark9379]

I was born 1997 November 27, and love collecting CDs, this video is so perfect to me in every way.

[@kal2045]

Oh hey, I was born a day before you! Fancy meeting here. I hate cd's now personally, much prefer cassettes for my nostalgic media, but I still keep my old CD stack on deck. Have a good day buddy!

[@thatguyalex2835]

I am from 1.9 years later. :) I don't collect CDs either, but I grew up with them. Personally, I thought CDs would die out by 2015, and am grateful they didn't.

[@gobymark9379]

@@thatguyalex2835 1.9 years earlier? Wait, is your birthday near? If so, happy birthday man!!!

[@gobymark9379]

@@kal2045 Fancy meeting here! My family used to have a bunch of cassettes but after moving around we couldn't find them anymore, such a shame. You have a great day as well! I will remember to come back to this comment and wish you a happy birthday on Thanksgiving!

[@thatguyalex2835]

@@gobymark9379 Already passed, and thank you bro. :) I will not say the specific date, cos of weirdos, but it was less than a month ago

[@zman1508]

The stuck together AA rechargeable was a standard into the 2000's. I had a Kodak camera that came with a set

[@chronovac]

My favorite memory of these walkman players is finding out that some of my old ps1 games had the game soundtrack burned onto the disk and you could listen to it by sticking em in a cd player. I remember popping Saltwater Sportfishing into my Grandma's Walkman and being blown away that the soundtrack was playing.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

I remember having a few PC games like that. There was one racing game I had back then that I absolutely loved the soundtrack to, but I haven't been able to find since. EDIT: Nevermind, it apparently got rereleased on GOG and is something of a cult classic now. I spent a LONG time trying to find it, and your comment making me think about it again let me find it finally.

[@nunkiakademi2067]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio name?

[@salsamancer]

As a fellow old,I can confirm how amazing it was to use CDs for the first time and be able to skip to the track you wanted to hear

[@DaisythedragonpuppeteerOSC]

Im still really excited to finally test out my portable tape deck cause i get to bring it to school for show and tell in band class i can't wait for friday

[@rayjesur2307]

"Its depressing because most things dont even include these things" i guess you could say if you owned the discman its just a burning memory

[@SilverSpade92]

Aye, I'll keep holding on to my discman until I get back onto CD's!

[@timmytatoe4248]

Man I still get CDs on the regular. They're usually pretty cheap, I rip them to mp3 on my ps3 and then they look nice on a shelf.

[@mr.strange5066]

I had a Sony Walkman CD player that I absolutely abused for like 6 years before it finally broke, CD'S hold a special place in my heart

[@hugojardmo4746]

As someone who is 17 now... Gorillaz is amazing to this day and I adore it

[@CraigKeidel]

Shame they stopped making records after Plastic Beach. Yup. Real swan song, that album. Never made another record after that. Real shame.

[@R-E-D-A-C-T-E-D.]

same here im 15 and gorillaz still rocks in 2021 and i hope nobody forgets it in the future!

[@brently1973]

The Sony D-35 discman. Now that is a player! I love it.

[@EricLS]

This was more of the 90s sony experience. Total dominance back then. All the features, the most advanced. Good stuff.

[@bntrs]

Finally a Discman video!

[@craig.denham]

been collecting CDs since the start of this year, this is my shit 😍😍😍

[@haarp35117]

4:09 words for life, agreed

[@MaxW-er1hm]

Unless I was in the library or court building, I think people can put up with the sounds coming out of my Grados at the grocery store or such...

[@alexanderthomas2660]

I love how he goes totally nuts about the fact that every accessory that the owner might perhaps ever need is included. It just used to be like this. I'm also genuinely amazed about the batteries still being in usable condition after all those years, but Ni-MH cells do like to be stored in discharged state and these are also only 1200mAh, so they have a nice thick robust insulation layer that won't easily break down. But if they do die, you can always get some rechargeable PKCELLs instead!

[@adrianplatt4907]

Still using one of these plus portable md player rather than mp3 player.have got cd player running through a cambridge dac and also use it for real time recording via an md deck for a nostalgic touch

[@rikhil4220]

Used to rent out 20+ cd audiobooks (order of the phoenix) from the library and use a discman to listen to it, good times!

[@Lyon77777]

Every Thursday my ears get blessed by the Australian IPod legend

[@whoasked4588]

0:05 he should have said that was DISCappointing

[@tera59487]

Pun

[@genekwagmyrsingh9433]

6:52 Yeah, they added that feature later. It doesn't really make any sense that it doesn't just work, but by the time I was burning CDs pretty much all players would play them.

[@MrDjvariety1]

Sorry im 3 years late to the party but RHCP Stadium Arcadium was the first album i ever bought. I was 14 years old and i bloody loved it! I knew that album inside out including track running order and the lyrcs to literally every song. Thank you Dank for unlocking this distant memory!