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One thing that I have been wanting to whine about for a while but haven't got around to is CD covers. CDs are perhaps the greatest invention of this era, but the covers are something that really get me infuriated.
Sure, you may argue that the covers make the CD look presentable an maybe in some cases you have bought a CD because the cover looked cool. No, I am not going to winge about appearance but a few other things.
As CD owners I am sure that you have many cracked and even shattered cases. They just aren't durable at all. I put a brand new CD in my school bag to lend to a friend and somewhere between my house a school (about a 10 minute walk) the CD case managed to open and the little plastic hinges broke, consequently the disc fell out and was scratched more than a So Solid Crew track. The disc no longer worked and the shop refused to take it back because they claimed it was 'personal neglagence'.
If they made the CD cases more durable I wouldn't have had to buy a £14 album twice and would have been able to purchase something worthwhile.
But no, this isn't my only complaint with CD covers, oh no.
In the hectic process to make today's CD covers look more attractive, designers seem to keep forgeting track numbers. This is one thing that is skin-crawlingly irritating. Like most people I sometimes only want to listen to a certain track on album instead of the whole thing. To work out which track it is I have to count down the list to see which track I need to skip the CD player to. This wastes about 10 seconds every time I do it and if I listen to, on aveage, 6 CDs a day that is 1 minute every day. This tally's to 7 minutes a week and 6 hours a year. If the average person lives 75 years (assuming they dont listen to music for the first 5 years) they will spend 420 hours of their lives finding out which track they want to listen to. This works out at just over 8 3/4 days you are likely to spend searching for the correct track. Attrocious to say the least!
Track numbers should be compulsary on CDs because I don't want to damn industry to claim 8 3/4 days of my life!
Ok, im done whinging now.
-kyz-
Sure, you may argue that the covers make the CD look presentable an maybe in some cases you have bought a CD because the cover looked cool. No, I am not going to winge about appearance but a few other things.
As CD owners I am sure that you have many cracked and even shattered cases. They just aren't durable at all. I put a brand new CD in my school bag to lend to a friend and somewhere between my house a school (about a 10 minute walk) the CD case managed to open and the little plastic hinges broke, consequently the disc fell out and was scratched more than a So Solid Crew track. The disc no longer worked and the shop refused to take it back because they claimed it was 'personal neglagence'.
If they made the CD cases more durable I wouldn't have had to buy a £14 album twice and would have been able to purchase something worthwhile.
But no, this isn't my only complaint with CD covers, oh no.
In the hectic process to make today's CD covers look more attractive, designers seem to keep forgeting track numbers. This is one thing that is skin-crawlingly irritating. Like most people I sometimes only want to listen to a certain track on album instead of the whole thing. To work out which track it is I have to count down the list to see which track I need to skip the CD player to. This wastes about 10 seconds every time I do it and if I listen to, on aveage, 6 CDs a day that is 1 minute every day. This tally's to 7 minutes a week and 6 hours a year. If the average person lives 75 years (assuming they dont listen to music for the first 5 years) they will spend 420 hours of their lives finding out which track they want to listen to. This works out at just over 8 3/4 days you are likely to spend searching for the correct track. Attrocious to say the least!
Track numbers should be compulsary on CDs because I don't want to damn industry to claim 8 3/4 days of my life!
Ok, im done whinging now.
-kyz-
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Idlewild wrote:
> Kyz22 wrote:
> It was Coldplay: Rush of blood to the head.
>
> It deserved a lot better than that - Why don't you get Disk Dr.
> anyways, that'll do the trick.
Whats a disk Dr? Leeds is about 30 years behind everywhere else in England, we just got sliced bread!
> Kyz22 wrote:
> It was Coldplay: Rush of blood to the head.
>
> It deserved a lot better than that - Why don't you get Disk Dr.
> anyways, that'll do the trick.
Whats a disk Dr? Leeds is about 30 years behind everywhere else in England, we just got sliced bread!
Narcileptic Insomniac wrote:
> don't tar me with your retards brush.
>
> I often wonder how much effort one would have to make to forget which
> track one had just listened to time and time again so that they can
> never place them in a numerical order.
>
> Surely you must have to purge your brain of the song order to be that
> forgetful? Does it hurt?
I have around 150 CDs as I said, I remember the order of the tracks I listen to more frequently, yes, but find it impossible to know each and every track on each of those CDs. Some of us have lives and dont sit at home with a notepad memorising track listings. Baffoon.
> don't tar me with your retards brush.
>
> I often wonder how much effort one would have to make to forget which
> track one had just listened to time and time again so that they can
> never place them in a numerical order.
>
> Surely you must have to purge your brain of the song order to be that
> forgetful? Does it hurt?
I have around 150 CDs as I said, I remember the order of the tracks I listen to more frequently, yes, but find it impossible to know each and every track on each of those CDs. Some of us have lives and dont sit at home with a notepad memorising track listings. Baffoon.
Kyz22 wrote:
> It was Coldplay: Rush of blood to the head.
It deserved a lot better than that - Why don't you get Disk Dr. anyways, that'll do the trick.
> It was Coldplay: Rush of blood to the head.
It deserved a lot better than that - Why don't you get Disk Dr. anyways, that'll do the trick.
don't tar me with your retards brush.
I often wonder how much effort one would have to make to forget which track one had just listened to time and time again so that they can never place them in a numerical order.
Surely you must have to purge your brain of the song order to be that forgetful? Does it hurt?
I often wonder how much effort one would have to make to forget which track one had just listened to time and time again so that they can never place them in a numerical order.
Surely you must have to purge your brain of the song order to be that forgetful? Does it hurt?
Narcileptic Insomniac wrote:
> Kyz22 wrote:
> at just over 8 3/4 days you are likely to spend searching for the
> correct track. Attrocious to say the least!
>
>
> So you will waste 8 and 3/4 days of your life because you lack the
> simple capacity to mentally assign something a number and commit it to
> memory?
I have around 150 CDs - I can't remember all of the track positions on everyone, and doubt you could either.
> Kyz22 wrote:
> at just over 8 3/4 days you are likely to spend searching for the
> correct track. Attrocious to say the least!
>
>
> So you will waste 8 and 3/4 days of your life because you lack the
> simple capacity to mentally assign something a number and commit it to
> memory?
I have around 150 CDs - I can't remember all of the track positions on everyone, and doubt you could either.
Idlewild wrote:
> It depends on what CD it was in your bag - if it was something to my
> disliking, it DESERVED to get scrathed, and even mauled. If it was
> Iron Maiden, I shall weep.
>
> Go on boy, speak!
It was Coldplay: Rush of blood to the head.
> It depends on what CD it was in your bag - if it was something to my
> disliking, it DESERVED to get scrathed, and even mauled. If it was
> Iron Maiden, I shall weep.
>
> Go on boy, speak!
It was Coldplay: Rush of blood to the head.
Kyz22 wrote:
> at just over 8 3/4 days you are likely to spend searching for the
> correct track. Attrocious to say the least!
So you will waste 8 and 3/4 days of your life because you lack the simple capacity to mentally assign something a number and commit it to memory?
Life is tough.
> at just over 8 3/4 days you are likely to spend searching for the
> correct track. Attrocious to say the least!
So you will waste 8 and 3/4 days of your life because you lack the simple capacity to mentally assign something a number and commit it to memory?
Life is tough.
Your friend is a fool. But I guess you've already told him that?
Unbeliever wrote:
"Oh yeah, track 4 is really cool."
My friend does that.
Thinks hes the biggest Foo Fighter's/RHCP's fan ever and only knows the songs by their track number.
"Oh yeah, track 4 is really cool."
My friend does that.
Thinks hes the biggest Foo Fighter's/RHCP's fan ever and only knows the songs by their track number.
So I can "put my daughter to the slaughter?"
No thanks.
No thanks.
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