is indexing obsolete?

[hadron]

Just discovered one of the often overlooked functions on one of my favorite opera CDs, Oedipus Rex/Chicago Symph/DG, testing a modded (12 year old) Sony D-25S. I'm liking this feature very much, is it still used at all? I can only think of maybe 2 other CDs in my collection that might make use of this.

 

[daycart1]

I've found that while some new CD players will display index numbers, they will not skip to them.

 

[redshifter]

i remember my first cd player had indexing. you could even program by index. also, the 1980 glenn gould goldberg is one long track, broken into indexes for each variation.

i haven't seen it used much lately. too bad, it was an interesting feature.

 

[andrzejpw]

Most of the more expensive cd players(ie: Not portables) still do indexing these days, or so I've found. The problem is, very little cds do indexing.

 

[Duncan]

Yes, my Aura CD Player has indexing features... but, none of my CDs do...

Oh well, Guess I won't miss what i've never used...