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    Modernizing.

    My husband was arranging CDs on my ironing board when I came downstairs. Many were dusty. We had this conversation.

    Me: Please don't get my ironing board dirty.
    Him: I'm converting all of the CDs to MP3s. I was going to put them on your phone and surprise you.
    Me: It's not a surprise if you're doing it on my ironing board.
    Him: You were supposed to sleep in.
    Me: There are four boxes of them in the corner.
    Him: I'm working on it.
    Me: That's really nice of you. You know, I have a Snow Patrol CD in the player in the truck. It's been in there for ten years.
    Him: I got that one.
    He picks up my phone and starts scrolling.
    Him: Ingrid Michelson?
    Me: No.
    Him: What's it called?
    Me: I don't know. It's been in there for ten years.
    Him: Imagine Dragons?
    Me: No. Snow Patrol.
    Him: Nine Inch Nails?
    Me: Please stop doing that. Incidentally, did you check the cassette player?
    He hands me the bluetooth speaker.
    Me: This is great! I'm going to duct tape that to the top of the lawn tractor.
    Him: The tractor has bluetooth.
    Me: Great! We'll figure that out next spring.

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    It must have been an amusing conversation.

    I have around 60 cassette tapes, many of which are recordings off of LPs. (Some co-workers are amused that I like having such ancient tech as cassette tapes.) I've played some tapes so often (like a couple Seals and Crofts) they sound like mud. Some, though still in decent condition, are probably otherwise too fragile to play. And yet there is definitely a different, richer and deeper, quality to the sound as opposed to purely digital.

    I wouldn't mind having a turntable. Haven't yet figured out how to isolate it from the bouncing jouncing that comes from people and dogs iiving on a pier and beam foundation.
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    I threw in the towel and went with Apple Music for the family. You can pretty much find any song or album you want and download it to your phone. I have a box full of CD's in storage that I am just too lazy to burn into mp3's.

    I was going to start collecting albums but figured it would be another labour intensive hobby that I have no place to store anything.
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    This may not come as a surprise as you guys know I am pretty techy but I converted years and years ago. Probably near 2000. There was a lot of tools to do so at the time. Even a cassette and 8 track player that hooked directly to a PC and would convert them into MP3 files. Now days most computers dont even come with a CD/DVD player anymore. That has died.

    However, the cool thing with my smart home I have complete access to everything anywhere. Hemi even has his own playlists. When I leave for the morning, Alexa, play playlist Hemi Music. 95% of the time it works flawless, 5% well we get Hindi Music. So Hemi and I jam to a little Bollywood.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff View Post
    This may not come as a surprise as you guys know I am pretty techy but I converted years and years ago. Probably near 2000. There was a lot of tools to do so at the time. Even a cassette and 8 track player that hooked directly to a PC and would convert them into MP3 files. Now days most computers dont even come with a CD/DVD player anymore. That has died.

    However, the cool thing with my smart home I have complete access to everything anywhere. Hemi even has his own playlists. When I leave for the morning, Alexa, play playlist Hemi Music. 95% of the time it works flawless, 5% well we get Hindi Music. So Hemi and I jam to a little Bollywood.
    I'm sensing a Bollywood routine for Hemi's next talent show.

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