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> - Skipping to a certain part of a song is much more difficult with CD's.

Are you serious?

Completely. Well, ok, not really :) I debated including it because it's not something I do very often. I do think it's true though. On a CD you hold the skip button and have to guess where you are (pretty sure none of my CD players showed a timecode when skipping but it's been a while). With vinyl you can see a physical representation of the length of the track and estimate much better (i.e. the solo is half way through so I put the needle in between these two lines and I should be close).

NB: I'm thinking about actual CD players here, not your CD through iTunes or something where you can click to skip on a progress bar.

The first CD player I used, which my parents bought in about 1988, showed the current time when you held down the "Fast Forward" button. I don't think I've ever owned one that didn't do this.

Nowadays, a good professional CD player (or DJ equipment) will have something like an infinite-turn knob, which you can use to seek.

Hmmm maybe I'm just remembering wrong then. It's been a long time since I had a dedicated CD player.

>maybe I'm just remembering wrong then.

Nope; many CD players, like the first one I got in 1986, had only a two-digit led display for the track number -- there was no time display at all.

EDIT: It was a Fisher Studio Standard that looked like this, so I guess it did show an "index number" while scanning through a track.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J08NITOv2FA/hqdefault.jpg

> CD's scratch and then skip easily

I imagine they are not!

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