• psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    The Walkman was the cassette player. Weren’t the CD players called the Discman?

    Now I’m sad that I’d lost my Walkman more than a decade before that, in or around 1990. The Discman sounded better, but was worse on batteries and skipped if you looked at it funny.

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      7 months ago

      It says walkman right there on the device.

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        7 months ago

        Looks like I’m just old.

        Sony used the Discman branding in the mid 90s and went back to Walkman in the late 90s and early 2000s.

        For me, Walkman meant tape or cassette, but again, I’m old. Old enough to have been listening to Depeche Mode on tape on my Walkman.

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          7 months ago

          Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward was the first cassette of theirs I bought and it lived in my walkman.

          I have the same understanding as you on the whole walkman/discman thing.

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          7 months ago

          Same for me. I was rocking out to Cinderella, Scorpions, and Poison on my Walkman and then it sounded better later on the Discman with no need to flip or rewind for the specific songs.

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        7 months ago

        I have, and have had for almost ten years, a Walkman-branded music player which plays, among other formats, FLAC.

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        7 months ago

        2001 weren’t we all using mp3 players?

        I know I was. It was really big and could hardly fit anything.

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          7 months ago

          Yes, those rio ones with a hdd in it! 4 gb or something like that. Or you had a cheaper flash one with 128 mb.

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      7 months ago

      First ones were branded “Discman” for some reason before Sony went back to using the “Walkman” name.

      I find it weird since all of the other portable stuff before and after like MD, DAT, MP3, and the newer hi-res players were released under the “Walkman” name