Want the full manual for using the player of an inherently offline media like LPs? Go online then.

#enshitification #LPs

Luckily it's just a download page for a plain PDF, but I wonder how much longer it'd take for them to make the manual into something like an app, an app-fied web page, part of a subscription, etc.

A paper manual does come with the player, but it's a very simpliefied, 4 pages-long one, while the PDF one is 47 pages-long (will try to take photos of the physical one).

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Or you go online and save a copy of the PDF now that will cost a fraction of a penny to store rather than killing hundreds of trees across tens of thousands of shipped SKUs to print something most people will ignore, lose, or throw away. $1 is a wildly optimistic price for a physical manual and there is nothing stopping you from printing one yourself.

This is like calling work email enshittification because you want a memo you can touch.

You are someone who bought an expensive bluetooth record player rather than just playing digital files or streaming. You may simply prefer physical media of all kinds. I support it, but not being catered to is not enshittification.

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