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Grandparents owned the summer camp.
Grandfather was a union electrician for over 40 years. Retired in 1994. Made fantastic coin and bought the camp in the mid-70's, for less than $20k. Landlines only that far north into Vermont. Grandparents were both in their late 70's early 80's when the internet took off, so it meant nothing to them. Both were gone of old age by 2020.
Aunt was the black sheep of the family and her husband - the uncle - were old alcoholic hippies that lived hand to mouth. Welfare recipients with drug and alcohol problems who both died - one of alcohol fueled dementia (Koursakoff's Disease) and the other of sepsis (bone infection in the foot) from unmanaged diabetes - at the start of 2024.
Your point is?
„Ripping“ meant something else to me, and the tech fell out of fashion before I could know better.
Ah, yeah. Times and terms change.
I still will pick up old CD's at thrift stores and flea markets fr a few bucks and rip them to my computer system.
I have a monstrous music library. (don't even get me going on the vinyl LPs I've got)
Had a friend give me a used service drive from a computer repair shop and it had a customer's backup music library on it as large as my own at the time. 80+ GB of stuff.
Incorporated that in a heartbeat.
For years I did repairs and drive replacements for the kids in the neighborhood and often they'd be more than happy to let me duplicate their music libraries. I didn't charge a lot so it was a win/win situation.
That and finding a shocking amount of music on dumpster dive laptops.. esp machines from the 2008 - 2012 era.
Know a family (fairly well off) that sold a summer home a few years back and they moved on a ton of stereo equipment and one was a crazy big Sony CD changer that had a carousel of 100 disks in it.. Guess what was still filled with CD's?
Granted it's "grandma" music, and lots of stuff like Burt Bacharach and Barbara Streisand, but some of that is actually really good, solid songwriting. Not my favorite kind of music, but given the AI slop online now, it makes it easy to hear how shitty that is.
What, if I may ask, does „Ripping“ mean to you?
Am always interested in different takes on words.