What is the difference between an LP and A CD

Where would Decca and Bluebird have been without the 10" single? Others of course did 10" singles, but I believe that that was the only format of Decca and Bluebird. Oh yes, there was also Capitol and I am sure others that don't instantly come to mind.

Yeah...I figured as much Phoenix..so, Ill just keep em around for if I ever come across something to play them on I suppose.
Actually had an LP that shattered in college...boy was I po'ed..it was an old 60-70's thing and I loved playing it over and over for a while there. Then, oops...splatter all over the floor. ah well.
I didnt have CD's until I bought my car-1995 which while it came with a cassette player also came with a trunk disc changer...I remember saying..dang..now Ive got to go the CD route.

b.t.w. way IQ is not your official intelligence it is an estimated amount of POTENTIAL intelligence yes i know this,yet i do not know how this works out and also don't always trust online tests they're usually are scams or ads

welcome to a2k 3varisto ...how on earth did you unearth this old thread?

I'm curious too. Cavfancier is in here.

yeah....it's like turning the corner in a mansion and bumping into a ghost

I just read something I wrote years ago, which I had forgotten all about!

Damn, I wrote good.

I read that in the days of shellac records, when the material was scarce, old unwanted records (in pieces, maybe) could be returned and the material re-used to press new recordings.

especially this sentence McTag

...but I know what you mean. One reads a post from 6 years ago and thinks: "Dang, not bad"

During WWII shellac was so hard to get that even in the USA there were strict limits or record releases, often new records could only be pressed from people bringing in their old records - which is why it's so hard to get recordings from 1942-1947, both released discs and recordings of radio shows.

In my own collection i have much higher numbers of tracks recorded in the late 1930s than I do from 1943 until it starts to pick up again in 1948. Over the rest of the collection it's pretty much a normal distribution.

I'm only 30 and yet grew up haven listened to each format besides the 79rpm (which wasn't always singles and could go up to 130rpm). Of course, most know the 33rpm LP. I had one single 45 and it was the 45 from Ghostbusters. I loved that thing. For some reason I want to say it had the larger center where you're supposed to use the adapter. I was really young and didn't have it so I have memories of playing with it for quite some time to get it centered properly. It was the only record I ever had or recall seeing as a kid that was small and wasn't the full sized record.

You mention your science teacher, some reason this make me think of mine in 6th grade (around '95) and her large laser discs that were such an amazing thing to see at the time compared to a VHS. Obviously it wasn't long that DVDs tool over and the laser disc went the way of the Betamax. Of course, DVDs we're the better format compared to Betamax being better than VHS yet still lost. I think part of it was the high cost of BM but who'd thought that porn being only on VHS would determine which standard won. I guess the closer battle comparison was when the PS3 and Xbox 360 came out. There was the battle to see if HD-DVD or Bluray would win. I luckily chose right and went with the PS3. I saw a format that was packaged in a game system that was $600 beating the format of the nearly same priced Xbox 360 where it was an option you had to buy as an addon. People already had the Bluray player who bought the ps3s. That war didn't last long. Especially when a stand alone Bluray player was $1000 compared to the $600 ps3 (which was the only reason I bought the ps3, not for the games). If you think about it, sony kinda followed porn's strategy with VHS to win.

There were inserts for 45s, so that they would stay where they were supposed to, while playing. And it was 78 RPM, not 79. My folks owned some 16 RPM LPs (classical music, I believe).

I'm only 30 and yet grew up haven listened to each format besides the 79rpm (which wasn't always singles and could go up to 130rpm). Of course, most know the 33rpm LP. I had one single 45 and it was the 45 from Ghostbusters. I loved that thing (wonder how much it would be worth today with collectors) For some reason I want to say it had the larger center where you're supposed to use the adapter. I was really young and didn't have it so I have memories of playing with it for quite some time to get it centered properly. It was the only record I ever had or recall seeing as a kid that was small and wasn't the full sized record.

You mention your science teacher, some reason this make me think of mine in 6th grade (around '95) and her large laser discs that were such an amazing thing to see at the time compared to a VHS. Obviously it wasn't long that DVDs tool over and the laser disc went the way of the Betamax. Of course, DVDs we're the better format compared to Betamax being better than VHS yet still lost. I think part of it was the high cost of BM but who'd thought that porn being only on VHS would determine which standard won. I guess the closer battle comparison was when the PS3 and Xbox 360 came out. There was the battle to see if HD-DVD or Bluray would win. I luckily chose right and went with the PS3. I saw a format that was packaged in a game system that was $600 beating the format of the nearly same priced Xbox 360 where it was an option you had to buy as an addon. People already had the Bluray player who bought the ps3s. That war didn't last long. Especially when a stand alone Bluray player was $1000 compared to the $600 ps3 (which was the only reason I bought the ps3, not for the games). If you think about it, sony kinda followed porn's strategy with VHS to win

Someone mentioned someone using padding on their record player to keep it from skipping. When I was in HS, I drove a Camaro with an upgraded. High end CD player in the dash. Obviously even those were terrible about skipping, I tried probably everything I could get my hands on to shove in the gap behind where the CD player mounted in the dash to help stop this. It never completely stopped but I was able to get it to stop skipping when someone sneezed and only on large bumps

All this when makes me think about the CD-ROMa in computers. If y'all notice, there's a smaller circle inside the larger one for normal sized disks. Remember they used to make singles or demo CDs at this smaller size to fit in that smaller area? I even remember several companies who wanted to stand out, making discs that weren't round but would look like ninja stars and all other sort of shapes. I never thought they'd work considering like with a record player, the laser reads in a circular pattern but they did. To be honest, I still don't understand how these worked. Then again, I had forgot about them until now

EPs were known mainly for DJs at strip clubs to play only sample of songs. Like how you buy a dance "for a song" and it somehow ends in 30secs.

As far as LPs, it's strange how things come full circle cause all new bands talk about their new LP being released. Even with all the high capacity CDs with like 10000 layers, they're still releasing LPs bc people love the sound quality better. There was something about the white noise caused by the needle. Of course now the LPs them self are used as art/advertisement. The last one I remember Jack White (from Whitestripes that owns his own label now), released one with a new tech where the LP was duel color. I'm sure it's gone beyond that now.

I guess I was lucky to grow up during the period where all these mediums met and replaced each other. I got to me in a house who a record player and 8track, see cassettes replace them, CDs those, MP3s and now going back to records. Hasn't been a bad period to live musically

Sorry this was so long,

Cobus

Welcome Cobus; fun post.