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.
I’m gonna burn a bunch of music to cd this week just because I can. Might even archive some movies.
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.
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.
It was Armin Van Buuren's Intense. Burned it for a road trip.
Bullshit. Just two weeks ago I burned an audio CD as a gift for someone who enjoys listening in their car or on their player in the bathroom. Not everything needs to be always online streaming or has the ability to read SD cards or USB sticks.
Burning a FLAC and hearing on a HiFi system with nice cable headphones sounds so much better than a garbled compressed audio stream that gets recompressed to be send over Bluetooth.
I had to do it last year so my school would let me listen to music during tests. Had to be on a burned cd so they could review it for cheating. I'm just lucky I still put a disc-drive in my pc builds.
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.
It was only a few years ago, when I ran off some Dreamcast games.
My barely consumed blank cd tower somewhere in my basement agrees.
Sigh. I work in medical IT. They still burn shit. I've written procedures for USB, but alas...
Mdisks are a viable offline long term backup solution, and cheaper to get started with than tape drives.
Last week isn't really that long ago. Going through my mom's old things and found a PC she bought new back in 2013. A Dell Optiplex 790 with a dvdrw in it.
I just happened to have a couple of blanks so I verified that it worked before pulling it out and using it as an external drive. Works that way as well on my much newer Ryzen 5800x build in a case with no 5.25" bays. (Or externally accessed 3.5s for that matter. No external bays of any sort other than some USB ports on the front.)
My 2006 Honda also has a 6 disc changer and it sounds better than the Bluetooth adapter I connected to it. (It is wired to the back of the factory sound system, but Bluetooth audio just sounds flat to me, even on the best speakers)
Happened around 2010. Trust me I remember.
My last ISO was hirens boot CD. Shit like me test and whatnot
Why is this written in the past tense?
i sure was fucking hoping it was though
I have not yet begun to peak. I'm gonna make a driving CD eventually
Unless I die tomorrow, you're wrong.
I do the opposite now. I buy discs cheap from bin stores, rip them onto my desktop and then upload to my home library for more affordable 'streaming'.
Occasionally break out the burner, it’s just very rare. Plus these days it’s a portable little usb drive.
It was a CD rw and didn't actually work. The data wasn't there.
That's sad but true, man. Miss you "Car Rock VI".
If we include DVDs I probably put a Linux distro iso on one in 2010 or 2011. CDs? Maybe a CD I made for a road trip on 2009 or 2010.
I still store offsite backups on CD and DVD disks
I literally have to do this for work so unless I lose this job it's gonna be another decade
I'm not dead yet and have a Blu-ray burner and some blanks.
I doubt it. Although, I imagine I may have recorded over my last tape.
I did know. It was 2 years ago when me and my neighbour pranked our neighborhood grandma by burning shitty music and leaving the CD in the mail.
I was hoping for it tho.
Jokes on you, I've never burned a CD
I recently got a USB CD drive/burner. But I don't have blank CDs lol
Joke's on you. I have multiple spindles of blank optical media I use regularly. I am not putting a ODE on my Saturn unless I absolutely have to.
I burned a few last week
I'm going to go burn one for the last time just to subvert this meme.
I microwaved a few from 2008 last month. They smell of cancer if you do that though.
I still burn blu ray M-discs
Cheap difraction gratings though, indispensable
I still rip blurays, so reading them is go
Every now and then I have a reason to archive something at work, its probably like once a year tho
I still occasionally burn CDs, whenever I need new music in the car that doesn't require my phone. Last time was last year.
Obsolete tech needs to be preserved.
I was just thinking "I need to burn some music CDs for when I travel", just in case.
I went on a car trip earlier this year, but forgot my bluetooth to aux adapter. I tried to buy one while I was on the road, but places were sold out, didn't carry them, or they only sold them via online orders.
As luck would have it, I still had some old CDs I'd burned 20ish years ago sitting in my glove compartment! I honestly did not expect them to work because they'd likely spent at least the last decade+ in that glove compartment, enduring extremes of heat and cold. They were scratched to hell and back and I had always heard that they degrade and become unreadable after a certain amount of time, even under ideal storage conditions.
Luckily for me, though, they mostly worked. I think there were a couple of songs on one disc that skipped a bunch, and everything else played fine. I rediscovered a few great songs from my youth that I'd not heard in so long that I'd practically forgotten about them.
My gen Z kids burn CDs - it's a "retro" thing for them. Literally burnt one last week.
Maybe there'll be a revival in twenty years or so 😁
I burned an Active Shooter video for work last week. I got a lot of spare discs. Might be a good way to store copies of everything the fascists are deleting.
I knew. I had been meaning to buy an aftermarket car stereo with USB and MP3 support for a long time. I was on my last blank CD, and had to decide then whether I would buy more CDs, or whether I would buy a new stereo that didn't need CDs.
Burnt one recently for a profile backup on a terminated user.
While reading this subject line kids these days will be wondering 'why we are lighting metallic disks on fire'.
You know, I wish I could remember what it was, there's something a little sad about it being the last one and me not even remembering what was on it. I think I would have burned what will likely be my last ever DVD quite a lot more recently, probably about 2018 or 2019, but CD, that's a way's back.
I rip all my vinyls to optical for backup purposes, so the last one I did was a few weeks ago.
DBAN baby!
