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Martin Skelly's Retro Playlist Player Makes Us Miss Albums

by Terrence O'Brien on May 3, 2010 at 07:30 AM

Martin Skelly's Playlist Player Makes Us Miss Albums
As much as we love digital technology here at Switched, we still cling to a certain amount of nostalgia for the simpler days; when the photorealism of a video game didn't matter and when we all enjoyed full-length albums instead of shuffling on our iPods like we have extreme cases of ADHD.

While we're not about to pay for our hundreds of gigabytes worth of music to be converted to vinyl, we're pretty intrigued by the Playlist Player concept from Martin Skelly. The concept involves syncing playlists to the player itself using a "memory stick." Then you take a "record" from the record box, which includes customizable sleeves, and place it on the player. Instead of a needle, a light shines through the translucent "records" as the list progresses. Instead of indicating tracks, though, the light moves steadily as time progresses. There is no way to skip tracks, fast forward, or rewind -- instead, the listener must sit and enjoy the music from beginning to end (imagine that!).

While the digital music revolution has greatly increased the size of our collections, we do admit that the rather sudden death of the album format saddens us -- remember how well we knew the albums of our youth, front to back? Maybe we'll start burning all our albums to CD again and break out that eight year old Discman and leave the iPod at home for a while. [From: ISO50]

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