Did you have one? | TheaterFire

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WonderingHarbinger@reddit

I had a bunch over the years. I got them at Circuit City with the extended warranty, so when one broke (I was very hard on electronics), I'd take it back and they'd give me a new one. Sometimes multiple players in the same warranty period (I think two years?)

I went through batteries like nobody's business until I got rechargeable ones.

Then there was the giant cd binder that also went with me everywhere.

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cloudydays2021@reddit

One? I went through a few of them over the years. I brought it with me everywhere and used them til they died

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tarheelfire@reddit

Same thought! Went through many, many of those... "Skip Protection" never worked... First CD player I got in my pickup (Christmas or '94) was stolen WITH "Vitalogy" in the drive. I was devastated.

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PersianCatLover419@reddit

Same I had 3 or 4, or 5 as did everyone I know. Even my parents had them as they would listen to music while exercising at home and at gyms.

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luxtabula@reddit

I was broke and skipped over a CD player. I went cassettes to mini disc to mp3 player to ipod before i streamed exclusively. the only cd player i personally owned was in my car or PC.

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weeziefield1982@reddit

Nope, I used my walkman for a very long time. It worked better anyways.

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thoughtfractals85@reddit

Fit perfectly in the pocket of my JNCO jeans.

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SpreadDependent8805@reddit

That was me too. It was great for walking to work. Fit right in the back pocket no worries

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thoughtfractals85@reddit

Yes! I did landscaping on a 300 acre campus for 3 summers as a teen, and that thing got me through.

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WeirdObligation1002@reddit

Sure did. I had two then jumped to a minidisc just in time for the iPod to render it obsolete.

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jeffois@reddit

Ha! Same, had an MDLP player, absolutely top of the line Sony one. Tiny thing, all metal. Such a lovely piece of kit. And useless within months as the media more or less disappeared from shops.

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jeffois@reddit

Might even still have one around... Probably one of the last ones Panasonic made. It is very slim, has amazing battery life with a rechargeable battery, is absolutely skip free and read MP3s off the disc.

It was very much from a time when solid state MP3 players were just starting to pick up in availability, maybe just around the second gen iPod came out?

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

I had a Sony car edition. It was a regular discman but came with a cigarette power adapter, cassette adapter and a back lit screen that had two color choices.

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NoItsNotIronic@reddit

This is mine

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BongwaterJoe1983@reddit

My folks just got me the westinghouse version... if you breathed on it the cd would skip 🤦‍♂️

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DirtyBirdDawg@reddit

The first one I got was made by Teac. It had no bass boost, no skip protection, and used a whopping four(!) AA batteries.

My second one was a Sony that was superior in every way. I wish I had gotten that one first.

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Crowley-Barns@reddit

If you got the Teac one second you would have been WAY sadder.

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DirtyBirdDawg@reddit

If I remember I think one of my aunts got it for me. She knew nothing about technology so I can't really blame her.

But still...4 AA batteries is a lot.

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-piso_mojado-@reddit

Had an RCA myself. I couldn’t walk around to show it off AND listen to music at the same time. I kept it on the nightstand and bought some like $20 speakers that would fit in the headphone jack. It would skip if I rolled over in bed sometimes. I ended up gluing together an anti-shock stand of modified pool noodles and kitchen sponges. It actually worked for the most part.

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bootyhole-romancer@reddit

Damn, electronics definitely had a look in the 2000s

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DirtyBirdDawg@reddit

At the turn of the century, everyone went for that "futuristic" look.

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sCOLEiosis@reddit

Holy shit I forgot about THE LATCH.

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sundaywr@reddit

Back in the day, Sony was basically what Apple became in at the height of its success.

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BigPoppaStrahd@reddit

“Is”. Nice, how long have you had it? Since the 90’s or have you had to rebuy it over the years?

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NoItsNotIronic@reddit

This is my second one. The first I had from like 2003-2015. All the rubberized plastic had turned to oily goo. I bought this second one a few months ago.

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sthef2020@reddit

My mom got this one for jogging, and eventually I claimed it as mine for going rollerblading. Never felt more futuristic than when shuffling tracks on Stankonia with the little thumb stick on the top.

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PeterPunksNip@reddit

Still have mine 😆

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SoSoOhWell@reddit

My first one was clunky as hell and took 4 AA batteries that were in a box that slid in. You got maybe 3cd's worth of music before the batteries died. However it was with me everywhere, along with the cassette adapter to use it in the car.

I upgraded to one of the first ones that played mp3's that only took 2 AA's. A burnt CD full of mp3's gave you like a day worth of music. Then the batteries died. I think I still have it in my basement along with a CD case full of burnt cd's comprised mostly of Napster and lime wire booty.

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ShillinTheVillain@reddit

I had one with a 12v cigarette lighter and a cord going to the tape adapter, which was an upgrade from the FM transmitter dongle

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SlavaSobov@reddit

Yeah until I had to keep it together with electrical tape. 😂

Then I saved up for an iPod Nano.

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gooch_norris_@reddit

Yeah but did you have the dynamic bass boost??

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PersianCatLover419@reddit

Yes I did.

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Dear-Discussion2841@reddit

Personally I did not, but I DID have anti skip protection! 😂

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LiiilKat@reddit

I still visualize music with a CD spinning up and spinning down, to keep the anti-skip buffer fed.

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mustachiomegazord@reddit

The ole battery drainer

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JamesMattDillon@reddit

Nope, but my DVD player can play CD's

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

First thing I bought with money from my first ever summer job. Was $130 back in 1993.

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chispitothebum@reddit

Several. I think the best bang for the buck, by the mid 90s, were Pannies.

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Constant_Cultural@reddit

Of course, with a no skip which never worked

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Affectionate-Song230@reddit

Kind of like asking if anyone owned socks in the 90s.

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J_Robert_Matthewson@reddit

One? From 1997 through 2005, I went through five of them because I kept wearing them out and needing to replace them every 18-24 months. Went through 3 -4 car tape deck adapters, too.

Bizarrely, I used the same set of headphones the entire time and those were the foldable ones I had from my old, beloved WALKMAN, which was a hand-me-down from my older brother.

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DirtyBirdDawg@reddit

When I was in HS riding around with a Discman playing through a car kit? You couldn't tell me shit. I think I may have gone through two or three of those, myself.

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crzytech1@reddit

I did, but not for long. I rocked a Panasonic Shockwave cassette player until college, preferred to make my own tapes and CD burning was still a ridiculous pain and expensive.

In college I had a little Maxell CD player. But frankly it was awful. Switched to an RCA Lyra MP3 player when it came out. Took SD cards, and had plenty of smaller ones kicking around from the lightning fast digital camera upgrade treadmill in the 2001-2004 timeframe.

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DirtyBirdDawg@reddit

Hell, I'm pretty sure that I still have one of those in a storage container somewhere in my house. Seeing this makes me want to go looking for it.

If it still works, I'm breaking out the Bone Thugs n Harmony's "East 1999 Eternal" and taking it back to 10th grade.

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pug_fugly_moe@reddit

Bought a Marantz CD60 a few months ago. That’s how much I still like CDs.

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Farmerstubble@reddit

I listened to soo much Eminem and Limp Bizkit on those!

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Curtainmachine@reddit

My ride or die

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Silverknightowl@reddit

I never got past cassette Walkman. ☹️

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PickledPixie83@reddit

I had one and took it with me everywhere in my giant JNCO pants. These were the only pants that had a pocket big enough (I’m a woman and we aren’t allowed pockets in our clothing, apparently.)

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Suddenspider@reddit

my sony still works

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OGdrummerjed@reddit

I still have mine. I also still have my walkman.

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Dickrubin14094@reddit

Mine was the “fancy” model that could play MP3s from a CD

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moarlo@reddit

Game changer once you could play mp3 encoded cd’s in these

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CakeRobot365@reddit

Had a Sony Discman with anti skip and bass boost. I believe it also came with rechargeable AAs that could charge in the player when it was plugged in.

It went everywhere. It plugged into the tape player adapter to listen to CDs in my first car. Then in college I ran it through a guitar amp and added car subwoofers to give myself a stereo system.

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MrsAshleyStark@reddit

No, only cassette. Parents couldn’t afford those. 😞

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dgodwin1@reddit

My 15 yo has one he takes with him to school. They banned phones in school this year and they are required to turn them in at the beginning of the day. He purchased a discman and headphones and uses them daily. I guess a few other students have asked about it as well.

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PoopyMcpants@reddit

Yep. Had one with a tape or 8 track adapter for every car.

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StillhasaWiiU@reddit

I'd like the hear from those that didn't.

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slusmiles@reddit

My first one had a little table with springs it would sit on in the car.

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texan01@reddit

I still have one!

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The_C0u5@reddit

It kept me sane during my time spent as a Kart wrangler at K-mart (r.i p.)

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degjo@reddit

The last one I had had some Coke design on it. It could play MP3s files burnt onto a disc. It was pretty dope.

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erinrachelcat@reddit

I had one that played mp3s and thought it was amazing that I could have like thousands of songs on my burned CD and hit shuffle

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Dannydimes@reddit

I’m guardian for a developmentally disabled adult. He asked for one the other day. They are getting really hard to find and they are expensive.

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icenine09@reddit

...and they aren't good quality. The majority of new CD players now are garbage. Same with new tape decks. Your best bet is to go on eBay and get a used one from the 90's/early 2000's.

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Buttermilkman@reddit

I would walk to and from college listening to Limp Bizkit and Slipknot with this in my pocket. The thing skipped though so I had to hold it the whole time.

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AnthrallicA@reddit

I bought mine with money from my 18th birthday, I still have it and, amazingly, it still works.

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Leia1979@reddit

My mom wouldn’t let me get one because she said I’d break it, but she bought me an Aiwa model for my 18th birthday that’s still around somewhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if it still works.

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Emotional_Signal7883@reddit

Had this bad boy

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Hattkake@reddit

Several. I remember "the walk" we had to do. No hard steps because that would make the cd skip so walked as if the ground was eggshells.

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sicksixgamer@reddit

'Anti-Skip' 🤣😂

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No_Cow_4544@reddit

Yes a few

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cellrdoor2@reddit

Yep, a black Sony with slip protection and really chintzy foam headphones.

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PlaneAd8667@reddit

Yep, and using them on the treadmill straight up sucked! Lol

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Leather-Stage-6763@reddit

Still have one laying around....not sure if it still works

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nofunatallthisguy@reddit

I thought this was a roomba!

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

My family had one that we shared in the early 90s.

When I graduated high school, I was gifted a small boom box that had a cd player, and thats what I used for years.

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CuriousRiver2558@reddit

Never seen it. I thought this was a pic of a food scale

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VitalArtifice@reddit

Saw one at a thrift shop a year ago. Yes, I bought it.

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Infamous_Top677@reddit

I still have mine. It was a discman with the anti-skip. One of the back hinges is busted so it's held together with a rubber band.

It still works, but I keep it purely as a keepsake for me.

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DameKitty@reddit

I had a red one.

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kvnstantinos@reddit

Had one. First night slept with music on and put it on the floor. Woke up and stepped on it. The end.

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kenadams_the@reddit

kitchen device

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Tony_Tanna78@reddit

I had a Sony Discman. It is one of my favorite portable audio devices. I'm still saddened that I dropped and broke it. Had I not broken it, I would still have it.

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NighthawkCP@reddit

I had a Sony Walkman and then a Discman. I eventually upgraded to one that could play MP3’s off a CD and had that 30-60 second skip protection as well. I should look around and see if I can find the, squirreled away somewhere in one of my box of cables.

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avocadoreader@reddit

Yep and I probably still have it somewhere.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

I thought it was a roomba till a distant memory unlocked.