• TurtleMelon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    2 days ago

    CDs are geat, still burn them all the time. I have a Jellyfin server that hosts my digital music collection, but sometimes I may be going on a long drive without internet and CDs are unmatched for that. No battery, no internet requirement, and hold hundreds of hours of music in a a small book in my backseat.

    • MothmanLives@lemdro.idEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I have an old android phone running lineage and I host a hotspot if I want it to have data, it’s amazing how well Android Auto works without Internet access compared to having data though.

  • applemao@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    I laugh when people think cds are old. They’re still the best form of digital physical media. Now I prefer analog media of course, but convenience and portability of digital is nice.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Compact Disc Digital Audio is difficult to improve upon in terms of quality. For day to day listening I’ll either use mp3 or FLAC but especially as the streaming services enshittify I’ll take my media on CD, thanks.

      Both of my cars have CD players, I probably ought to burn some discs to listen to. I often drive in silence these days.

  • Mist101@lemmy.world
    672·
    3 days ago

    I still burn CDs. This whole streaming thing won’t last. Also, my back hurts…

  • poloqualle@feddit.org
    9·
    2 days ago

    I thought that I burned my last cd a long time ago until my uni required me to hand in my thesis on a cd.

    Buying a 4-pack of CDs (with cases) was more expensive than buying a 128gb sd card.

  • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    2 days ago

    I burned an audio CD just a few weeks ago. My car doesn’t have Bluetooth audio, so I’ve kept going old school all along. I bought a few stacks of empty CD-R’s and DVD-R’s when the stores wanted to get rid of them.

    I have zero streaming subscriptions and no intention of getting any. The number of films, games and music albums I’ve bought from flea markets and second hand stores during the past 10 years has to be in the hundreds. And not one has cost more than 3$.

    Even my kids haven’t complained about the lack of streaming, they seem perfectly happy using my physical media library.

    • applemao@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Yep, don’t give in to ease of streaming, that’s how they win, and take it all from you. Everyone needs to own what they pay for.

      • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yep. My brother has at least 4 streaming subscriptions that add up to closer to 100$ per month. I once asked him how much he actually uses them and his response was: “I don’t know, many times a week! But it’s nice to have them if I want to watch something!”

        To me the idea of basically throwing away more than 1000$ per year is simply horrifying.

        • applemao@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          And not even owning it…and they’ll keep upping the price little by little, slowly sucking us dry

    • KiESi@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 days ago

      Whoa, you sound exactly like an improved version of me!

      Where do you get .wav files these days??

  • Animal@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    Remember me Nero Express, good memories, awesome name for a CD burner.

    My brother recently found 15 year old CDs with family photos and they still work.

    It’s funny how video game media often degrades quickly due to use, but well-packaged and lightly used discs can last for many years. Maybe still a great solution for data that doesn’t need to be accessed constantly.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        5·
        2 days ago

        It’s why I’ve gone through all of my old media and transferred them to my media PC. But I have to admit it’s more satisfying when it’s in the form of physical media, when it’s all computer files I hardly ever look at them.

        • applemao@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          That’s me. ADD and 678 folders of digital media is not fun. I need physical. Plus, it’s actually real then.

    • UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      As a kid I always thought that Nero is a stupid name for a program because in Finnish nero means genius. To be honest I still think that it’s a stupid name.

  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.socialEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    Burning cds of my punk band to sell

    Encountering the first bunch of “I don’t own a cd player” people.

    Cracking the music biz during the collapse of it was a bad idea.

    • applemao@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      All a part of corpos plan to make it so you can never own anything ever again. Subscriptions only. Drink a verification can to skip song.

        • FrChazzz@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Me too! I recently put Linux on it and it runs like a brand new computer.

          • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 days ago

            I run Linux on my daily driver, but I’m addicted to the click wheel iPod and I use this machine because of iTunes.

            • StarMerchant938@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 days ago

              I have two absolutely gorgeous Nanos with zero battery bulge and not a single device that can run iTunes. I even have the 30 pin cable. Once upon a time I would’ve used the family PC but that thing has more viruses than the hospital thanks to my little sister.

              • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world
                2·
                3 days ago

                I like using my own library of MP3s and knowing that for at least a small amount of time, I’m not being tracked in terms of what I’m listening. My clickwheel has a solid state terabyte so I just threw everything onto it.

                If you long to use those nano-s, there are some cheap old Mac’s showing up on eBay or Craig’s list sometimes.

      • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        3 days ago

        There where points in time where I had a lightscribe disk, and points in time where I had a lightscribe drive. But never both at the same time. I feel like this says something, but I dunno what.

      • Psythik@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 days ago

        I went out of my way to buy a LightScribe drive for my 2008 build [C2D E8400, 4GB DDR2 800, AMD HD 4870, Vista Ultimate + Linspire], and I never even used the feature. Burned less than a dozen discs total as well.

        I feel like optical media died around that same time. Netflix introduced its streaming service, torrents entered the mainstream, Blu Ray flopped, and MP3 players replaced CD players (and then streaming replaced MP3 players shortly after). Didn’t even bother with an optical drive in my 2014 build [i5-4670K, 16GB DDR3 1866, GTX 780, Win8.1 + Ubuntu]. Current build doesn’t have one, either [7700X, 32GB DDR5 6000, 4090, Win11 + Arch]. Just been hanging onto the same drive since 2008, for the rare occasion that I actually need to burn a disc. At this point it’s been over 5 years.

    • bob_lemon@feddit.org
      1·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, I have a CD with some x rays lying around here somewhere.

      Although the MRT images I got done recently were accessed via QR code (+password) on an online portal, so yay progress.

    • musubibreakfast@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Little known fact, German doctors love to make cd’s for every procedure. The most famous of these as shown by German medical data is Heinrich’s Proctology Polka Mega Mix.