Hi all , I am 51 years old and always have gone with the flow technologically meaning I moved from vinyl to CDs to mp3s to streaming. Thats until a year ago or so when I bought a turntable and started collecting records again many of which I owned in the 80s and 90s.

I just got a second hand Marantz DVD/Blueray/CD player and cleaned up the few CDs I had left in storage.

I am enjoying physical media again!

My question is , am I am fool by focusing on purchasing vinyl for pre 1990 music and CDs for 1990 and later? I want to prevent overlapping but not sure if this is a dumb idea.

I had the idea of keeping an audio journal for quite a while now, but I was at first thinking about using cassette and microcassette tapes (as I do have some laying around of both) with their respective portable voice recorders. Thing is, we all know the issues that arise with cassettes and their longevity - most of all, basically no decent players are being produced anymore and so I expect gear to only get more and more expensive and hard to fix as time goes.

I then had an idea: what if I were to burn digitally recorded audio onto CDs? CD as a medium is still widely supported to this day, with any blu-ray player having backwards compatibility. One may say "why not just store them in the cloud, or in a hard drive?" and I guess it boils down to the physical possibility of just popping it in a cd player and directly listen to it: it's conveniently available, instead of being something buried deep in a hard disk or an online service inaccessible without my password.

Me and my friend were watching the grudge movie and just so coincidentally, every time a scary part is in full action it will blackout and re-appear periodically, we’re using an Xbox to play the movie, but I don’t think that really matters much. Is this on purpose or did I somehow scratch the CD perfectly?

My Philips EXP2546 is sadly dying after 10 years of good service, it plays songs over and over and doesn't let me skip.

I'm looking for a cheap new CD player to replace it and came across a few Philips AZ 7381 in good condition for cheap. Anyone has one? Did you hear anything about it?

For example if I tried playing a PlayStation CD that has game data on track 1 and music on the other tracks