• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    16·
    11 days ago

    A few months ago I started moving most of my audio media over to CDs. I don’t trust streaming services to maintain extensive libraries and/or continue to exist.

    We’re already seeing video streaming services remove content from their platforms despite having the rights to it.

    I doubt that Spotify or Apple Music won’t do the same in the near future.

      • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6·
        11 days ago

        Because my parents had a CD burner and a tower of blank CD-RWs they let me take from their place. Also, doesn’t need an internet connection for me to accesses them when I’m not at home.

          • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            10 days ago

            Ain’t it weird how they keep taking out an important feature right before promoting a new service or product that makes it easier to live without it.

            “Why would you need headphone jack when Bluetooth auto connecting earphones”

            “Why would you need swappable/expandable storage when media streaming and cloud storage?”

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          9 days ago

          Consider that CDs can be fairly ephemeral, and I think it’s a lot worse with home-burned CDs. When you grab something out of your home-burned CD collection in 10 years, there’s a pretty good chance that it won’t work or be super glitchy. Harddrives are way better for longterm storage, since you can easily copy the entire collection before the drive fails (and I think the classic magnetic spinny drives, as opposed to SSDs, also have at least better longevity than CD-RWs if you store them unpowered).

          • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            9 days ago

            It depends on the type of CD. Normal CDs rely on the shape and reflectivity of the aluminum layer, and if this oxadizes they degrade, the oxidation process is drastically slowed by good storage, and they can last much longer if stored in an inert gas.

            CD-Rs are dye based with the dye being burnt away for recording. Depending on the type of dye, the dye can break down fairly quickly irrelevant of storage conditions, the cheap dyes degrade inevitably with in 10 years.

            CD-RWs (what I’m using) operate on an alloy that is melted to switch it between an amorphous and poly crystalline state to effect reflectivity, and that is fairly stable long term as it is not a chemical change and the alloy is resistant to oxidation, these can be expected to last 20 years under poor storage (exposed to UV and humidity which can damage the plastic) and up to 200 years if stored properly.

            Frankly, I doubt my personal music collection needs to last more than 70 years.

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        8 days ago

        Resilience to ransomware attacks and electrical faults.

        Also we’re not Elon Musk, who thinks physical media is old technology needs replacement.

        • Darorad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          Oh yeah physical media absolutely has a place, I was just curious since most of the people I know went the NAS route

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
    9·
    11 days ago

    And when was the last time you dubbed a compact cassette? (For me it was 2 hours ago)

      • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        They feel nice in the hand and sound good. Also it’s fun mixing them, designing jcards and labels.

    • gerryflap@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Whenever I get my cassette player to work again. I have to replace a gear, and I do have the replacement gear, but it’s turning out to be harder than expected. Luckily the manufacturer put a diagram of all bits and bobs with numbers and how they fit together in the device manual. It’s like a very complicated puzzle

      • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        I think it’s pretty cool that they have user and service manuals. So you can actually fix it by yourself when you have the parts and tools to do so.

        • gerryflap@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          Yeah exactly. But those must’ve been hard times for the shareholders. How can those poor hardworking shareholders ever earn money if you don’t buy new e-waste every 2 years?

          3D printing is also awesome. For this respective model there were already 3D models available for the gear that broke in mine. I don’t have a printer, but I was still easily able to order a 3D printed replacement gear

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)English
    9·
    10 days ago

    *will

    And have few days ago. I like spinny media.

    Oh, I also have a half destroyed portable CD player (previous battery leak, damaged screen, broken stop button) that can even play mixed mode CD with MP3 files. That means I can combine lossy and lossless on the same disc. It can even shuffle between the 2 parts, albeit with a slight delay.

  • Truscape@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    11 days ago

    To quote Mr. Bringus Studios: “Optical media bad.”

    I did back up all my discs though, physical media backups are awesome.

  • Rezurektme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    Unless I die in the next month, I plan on burning more CDs. Added a bunch of new albums to my MP3 player a few months ago

            • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
              17·
              11 days ago

              Yes because your BURNT cd hasn’t had a few steps to degrade the quality… a bought cd would be better than a BURNT cd.

                • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  13·
                  11 days ago

                  A BURNT cd isn’t lossless so that’s just plain false mate….

                  Bloviate about whatever, but dude asked about burning a cd, you made a comment about vinyl which can be lossless, while a BURNT cd never will. A bought cd yes, as I did already clarify.

              • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                21·
                11 days ago

                That’s not the case. We can copy a music CD in a lossless way, losing no information.

                Burning low bitrate mp3s will obviously be worse.

                • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  11 days ago

                  And the music they ripped is what quality…? When you start off without the master files, you’re already at a loss compared to the originals.

                  Ripping a bought cd even with”lossless” methods, won’t beat the original printing. That’s just pure fantasy.

                  Does it matter for on transfer? Unlikely, but how about what someone did before you downloaded the torrent as well?

                  The fidelity of vinyl, is more than a burnt disc. I didn’t think that was an arguable fact.

  • colin@lemmy.uninsane.orgEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    ngl i feel safer digging through CDs while driving than digging through a music library on some phone touchscreen. probably if i learned to use voice controls i’d feel better about the phone but i’m at that age where i’m comfortable enough with my ways that i’d rather not have to change them.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    11 days ago

    I actually do know when my last disc was burned (it was a DVD though–)

    One of my video prod professors demanded we turn in our group assignments in DVD format

    … This was in 2018

    I was the only person in the entire class that even had a DVD burner. Everyone pooled together to buy a spindle and a Disc Marker and I spent all afternoon burning everyone’s DVDs