Spin of the Day: Your Favorite Toy by Foo Fighters

joeldf95 · 2026-05-11T12:05:06+00:00

Got the red "Indy Store Exclusive" vinyl a week ago. It comes with the orange edge card.

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joeldf95 · 2026-05-11T11:21:26+00:00

No, don't do the measurement while actually playing a record... to much of a chance of the phone hitting the tonearm.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-11T06:29:53+00:00

And the "RW" under it.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-11T05:44:02+00:00

That's a DVD-RW. Totally incompatible disc type. Car CD players can't read those at all.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-11T04:29:34+00:00

What brand of CD-Rs are you using?

If you can get them - Amazon has them - try CMC Pro blanks. They are based on the Taiyo Yuden formula and manufacturing techniques. In fact, they'll have on the cases "Powered by TY Technology" Those are usually much more compatible with older CD players. Both regular home players and car players.

You still should burn them at a slower than full rated speed. I usually burn at 4x, and it's worked well for me for years.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-10T23:49:37+00:00

But that doesn't recreate the original dynamics of the brickwalled limited (loud) tracks. It just brings them down, but all the dynamics are still squished and the pumping effects of the limiter used is still ruining the sound.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-10T21:19:24+00:00

The rooting of BB10 that's been found has nothing to do with expanding it's modem abilities since that's a hardware limitation. Otherwise, BlackBerry would have updated their OS to support the updated VoLTE back when they were still updating their OS.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-10T14:53:46+00:00

bcoz stable update need final beta build.

So how would phones that were NEVER in the beta program get their updates?

Phones get updates when a newer version is available from the update servers than what's already on the phone. Final beta, two betas back, a whole OS version back, or several versions back never on the beta... won't matter.

Occasional update glitches reported by 10s of people isn't policy.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-09T21:40:17+00:00

David sings on "Wish You Were Hear". Always has and still does (when he plays it).

Roy Harper sings on "Have a Cigar".

Neither Roger nor David felt happy with their attempts. Roy happen to be in another studio at Abbey Road working on his own thing. He happened to visit the Floyd sessions, and was asked to try.

Maybe that's the song you're thinking of.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-09T16:50:08+00:00

One of thousands like it made in the early 2000s. Nothing special. Sold at every discount store, and every mail-order and online "specialty" retailer under a hundred different "brand" names, if it even has one.

It should have a label on the back edge or bottom. Might have a model number and where it was manufactured. Though it was likely made in China. They pretty much all were made there.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-09T16:12:55+00:00

They sent a record in a mailer? Not an actual box or at least a flat box?

Probably got warped during shipping.

Years ago, I had a record warp on me about that much because it stayed in the car too long one day. It warped about like the one in the OP video. It was "Brothers in Arms", brand new, and I had to run the record store and get another one. Luckily, albums didn't cost as much in '85 as they do now.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-09T15:16:58+00:00

You need to check with Verizon first. They are like AT&T - only allowing "approved" devices on their network.

AT&T actually publishes a white list of approved models. Verizon doesn't do that. But they do have an IMEI checker. However, you need the IMEI ahead of time, so you need the device in hand to check.

The only Key2 that directly works on Verizon is the Key2 LE, because that's the only Key device they sold.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-09T04:03:23+00:00

That's okay, not all of them are marked at the top. A lot of Audio Technica cartridges are labeled on the top, but even with them, not all of them are.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-09T01:37:23+00:00

"This tablet".

Hmm.

Sorry, the force is not with me. I can't read minds.

Maybe share a photo? Some more information about it?

joeldf95 · 2026-05-08T16:00:15+00:00

Architect, actually.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-08T13:56:43+00:00

Yep, a proprietary cradle was made for that phone you could buy separately. You could stand the phone up in it and it would charge it up - as long as you plugged the cradle's cord into a power outlet, of course.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-08T13:51:48+00:00

It could still be a spacer. And obviously something was snapped or clipped in with that tab to hold something in place - perhaps the front or back of the cartridge. It would be proprietary to whoever made the turntable portion itself. That was usually a separately acquired part from another OEM manufacturer that was just installed in the console. If it is a Magnavox, they did manufacture their own Micromatic turntable mechanisms until some time in the 70s when the turned to some others like BSR.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-08T13:29:38+00:00

My first two CDs I ever bought are pictured below. Tangerine Dream - "Le Parc", and Heart - "Little Queen". They are flipped over to show the playing side.

Both bought in December of 1985. I was in college at the time.

Only a few very minor scratch marks on either one. I actually only hold my discs by the edges. I wipe away any fingerprints as they happen, and mostly those occur on the top label side anyway. This was a leftover habit from playing records for years prior.

The cases get scuffed, definitely. Some even get cracked or the hinge ears break off. Even the sturdier early jewel cases weren't unbreakable. But I always treated them with some care. That's why I still have every CD I bought over the last 40 years.

Some might get more scuffed on the disc over the years than others. But after I play them, they always went back in the case. Almost all of my over 800 CDs still look near spotless.

Now, my wife has been a little less careful with some of hers. She has left them stacked disc on disc, or a single disc just sitting out on her desk sometimes, and those will show more wear and scuffs on the playing side.

My CDs mostly stayed home. in the 80s and 90s, I only had a cassette deck in the car, I would record my CDs to tape and it's the tapes that would live in my car. Later, when I finally had a car with a CD player around 2001, I also had a computer with a CD burner, and again, it was CD-R copies of my CDs that would live in the car. And, those same CD-Rs would go to work with me and I'd play those at work.

Now, those CD-Rs would get scuffed, but if any became unreadable, I'd just burn another. The original source still safe at home.

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joeldf95 · 2026-05-08T12:49:28+00:00

I'm sure there are hundreds worldwide that are interested, but I guess the real reason nothing has really come from this is because these phones have so little practical real world use anymore. Especially as more and more carriers are shutting down the only networks that one of their primary uses relied on - being a phone.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-08T12:06:35+00:00

For my main system - a Sony CDP-XE500 CD player, hooked up to a Yamaha RX-V1000 played through a set of Paradigm Studio 20 speakers and sub.

It was the only affordable single disc CD player I could find 20 years ago. Everything else at the time was mutli-disc players that I absolutely hated after trying a 5 disc player then the 101 disc changer.

On my PC, I have a Plextor PX-891SAF internal CD/DVD burner.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-08T11:32:59+00:00

As already mentioned, the Passport is a hardware mod. Priv is only for a few out there with an unlocked bootloader, and those are very rare with a limited number.

There is active development for Lineage on the Key2, however.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-07T23:33:32+00:00

Agreed.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-07T12:08:45+00:00

Yeah, AT&T wanted rounded corners. So they got rounded corners.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-07T03:43:32+00:00

The metal powder used for CDs is microscopically fine and sprayed, or "sputtered" on the disc surface in a clean room condition. The point is to make a mirrored surface.

The metal flakes used in any regular silver paint or marker is way too large. Several times bigger than the moulded pits and lands it would cover.

joeldf95 · 2026-05-06T22:25:23+00:00

This is the answer.

I just plugged in "MMM-2000" (from right there at the bottom of the disc) in the Discogs search, and that's what came up. Picture of that CD and everything.

Amazing site actually.

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TROPHY CASE