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.
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.
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
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.
I still do burn CDs but it is much less common. Mostly just for retro computers which use CD-ROM. I burn DVDs slightly more often since you can fit larger ISOs on them and they're more durable (seriously, CDs are so fragile it isn't even funny, their data layer is completely unprotected, just a thin film on the top).
I still burn CDs for my dad all the time, (I also have a few of them for myself too) since our cars have CD players in them, and while I usually play Music through the Aux it's good to have CDs for when there's spotty connection and nothing good on the Radio.
Also still use CDs for my car! CDs just feel like the right solution to local music, sometimes I just want to keep my phone in my pocket (or not on me at all) and drive. USB drives feel too easy to lose
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
I keep my old SATA DVD-RW but I haven't had it installed in anything for years. I finally recycled my USB floppy drive. I'd kept it to potentially help people with data recovery but decided that floppy data anyone might have lying around had already degraded.
There's like a 95% one of the last CDs I burned was a The Prodigy album. I was super into them the last time I had a computer with a burner installed and I can't think of anything else I would have burned during that time. It's possible it was a cracked version of office or something.
Mine was around 2016 and IIRC I said something like "Never thought I'd be burning a CD in 2016!" because some Autodesk software required it and we had to fish a CD-RW drive out of storage in the client's closet.