REMINDER: CDs degrade over time and eventually become unreadable.
- Burned CD-R’s can last as little as 5-10 years(!)
- CD-RW discs generally last 20–50 years
- Factory-pressed CDs generally last 50 years
Rip your disks to your permanent HDD storage, which ofc should be on a RAID mirror and backed up regularly. Always store a copy in a separate location in case of fire/flood/etc.
I LOVE YOU AND WANT YOU TO OWN YOUR DATA FOREVER!
Thank you for doing the lord’s work.
I love that physical media is getting new life, but CDs are not archival in nature. It’s a drastically different problem from not owning anything, but I don’t want unreadable CDs to push people back to streaming.
I’ll also mention that a major benefit of vinyl records – despite cracks and pops and quality turntables being generally expensive – is that they are so dirt simple as to be effectively immune from similar issues. Not trying to sway opinions at all, but as physical media goes, it still exists for a reason.
Personally, I have both CDs and vinyl. And tapes!
vinyl records
… and ofc gold is not tractable for consumer-priced devices, but there’s a very good reason the very best minds at NASA listened to Carl Sagan and added this to Voyager
I have my original CD-RW.
I’ve saved a copy (HDD) of all my library onto an external hard drive that I’ve lost in the move.
I have a second copy on my PC (SSD) that I have operational.
Then my old laptop (HDD) has my original library and thats lost somewhere at my parents home (remote location)
Am I doing this right!??
Oh big edit immediately: I LOVE YOU TOO AND ALL MY OTHER LOVELY LEMMY FRIENDS
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LP vinyls are great fun to hunt for a bargain, one of my best finds was a Double Album of Joe Cocker for 8€! Last vacation found Prince’s first album- original pressing, and I didn’t grab, and regret not getting the George Burns album (which would have been an interesting one just for it being unique)
Always go hunting when visiting other cities and on vacations, always fine one or two interesting ones.
A few CDs for $5? I wish. In my area, the local CD shop was around $9 for individual CDs. I mean, I am willing to pay if it keeps them open, though. And despite thrift stores being cheaper, it’s almost always extremely hit or miss to find anything I’d want.
I always find it funny how companies like Spotify talk about “Lossless audio” and “Maximum quality”, but if you look at the numbers, they really just mean “The same quality you used to get on a CD 25 years ago, and if you don’t pay for the most expensive plan, CDs are going to be better.”
Imagine spending MONEY on CDs when you could bolster the numbers of your local library instead
Local town library -> interlibrary loan -> hard-to-find CD -> rip to my HDD -> return to local town library
Literally how I got half of my music library
That squeaky sound is from resellers rubbing their greasy hands.
Any good websites you all enjoy getting physical media at? Ive picked clean the thrift stores around where im at.
My wife likes to go to antique stores and they always have a ton of CDs. We were in one yesterday and joked with each other about how we don’t even own a way to play optical media any more. Fortunately they also had a shelf full of old CD players. Unfortunately we live in a van and space is at a premium so owning a CD player isn’t an option for us at the moment.
Book sales also skyrocketed, but for the wrong reasons.
AI datacenters are buying them up and destroying them for data. Chances are they’re doing this with CDs too.
