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r/assholedesign•
GoRedBad

Maybe I'm out of touch, but I just discovered PS4 will not play CDs.

I gave away all my CDs about a decade ago. I don't buy them, or DVDs, or even Blu-Rays because my space is limited. I prefer digital.

But it was nice to know i had a disc player in the house, just in case, such as when a friend bought me a blu-ray box set last year.

Well that same friend just bought me a CD for Christmas, and this afternoon I put the PS4 on for a listen, only to be disappointed that CDs are unsupported. There isn't even a download you can pay for in the store to make it work. FUCK YOU SONY.

Posted Jan 6, 2019, 2:14 PM UTC

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Sarin_G_Series•

I remember how the XBox 360 let you rip CDs to your hard drive, and you could play your music through the guide at any time. I can't bring myself to to get rid of it either; I would have a real hard time replacing the albums on there

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RexpletiveDeleted•

Its some shit aint it

Least external drives work now

Not sure how they pull off dvd/bluray without cd, Or why a manufacture company even bothered thinking about not including it...

Anyways i never tried, interested to see now

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thiccsnaccs2018•

Disks work for mine so

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GoRedBadOP•

Disk as in hard disk or floppy disk? Or do you mean disc?

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thiccsnaccs2018•

I can’t spell lol:)

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GoRedBadOP•

just making my daily pedantic comment!

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bilgriffith•

Probably floppies. Not sure which size tho, maybe the 8 inchers.

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Iowa1995•

No. Audio CD laser technology is not in a PS4.

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thezlord•

You can copy contents of cd(assuming you mean music) and copy them to a usb stick and play on your ps4 using Media Player.

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GoRedBadOP•

yes, it seems I will be forced to get hold of a USB disc drive since my laptop won't take discs either.

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AlienBoy6NHL•

Its even worse that the Xbox One and PS4 don’t support Bluetooth audio devices (Bluetooth headphones). Even dumber on PS4 as the controllers are basically “Bluetooth audio devices” since they have a speaker on them.

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Iowa1995•

RTFM or just buy a car.

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GoRedBadOP•

I do plan to buy a car this year. AFAIK most new cars do not come with CD players.

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Iowa1995•

Then buy an older one or have it installed for you.

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nostaljik•

Wait seriously? I don't plan on ever getting a PS4 so it doesn't matter too much to me but PSX can play CDs so that's kind of inexcusable. That's like Apple getting rid of headphone jacks on their phones but it makes even less sense

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Iowa1995•

OrTesla not running on Diesel.

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Actualhumandisaster•

Mine plays movies with cds?

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georgepearl_04•

This is common, ps4 uses dvds as they are higher capacity. Cc'd and DVD mat look the same but the readers are different things. The only reason why your pc may read them is that it treats it as a DVD and takes off the data, converts it then plays it.

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thiccsnaccs2018•

Ohh wait does he mean music If so ofc a ps4 doesn’t play music it’s not a speaker

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GoRedBadOP•

Well it was advertised as a media player and even has an app with that name pre-installed...

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thiccsnaccs2018•

The console doesn’t even have speakers so why would you be able to play music off of it but movies work perfectly fine with mine

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HairyEyeball5•

The music would play through the tv????

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thiccsnaccs2018•

Weird flex but ok

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