The CD Emoji 2

We were spending the day at my in-laws, when we discovered the CD collection of a long lost era. These were our picks: The Original Soundtrack of the Fifth Element, "If you're Feeling Sinister" by Belle and Sebastian and a self-burned CD that had only "Chicane" scribbled on it. I couldn’t believe that people still had CD drives in their households, but my mother-in-law proved me wrong. CD drives—if you don't remember—offered trays, into which you could insert these shiny discs of nostalgia. I inserted the Fifth Element album into her laptop's built-in CD tray, which promptly started buzzing and scanning and huffing and puffing. I was ready to open up the legacy Windows Media Player on her laptop on what I expected to be Windows 10, but was delighted when I realised that her ancient device was actually running on Linux Mint—following a trend to power really old devices with Linux—in her case, kindly installed by a friendly neighbour. The Rhythmbox app opened, the CD drive fired up,…