I still have an optical drive, and i just put a disk in it about an hour ago.
The only sad thing is people foolishly abandoning physical media.
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Agent641@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
There was a day when you inserted a CD into your computer for the last time and you didn’t even realise. Sad when you think about it.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
My old pc’s still have drives I use sometimes. Or well, only my previous pc. My oldest one, the one I built when I was 18 (21 years ago), still works but it’s a time capsule. Running state of the art XP and photoshop 7, Winamp, C&C red alert 2, age of empires 2.
Last time I burned a cd was to copy a CD a friend bought in North Korea. Maybe I’ll backup some photos on a dvd in the future. Because fuck cloud services.
adistantmirror@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I was bored one weekend and went through all the photos on my phone and sent a bunch them to Walmart to be printed into photos. Now I have an old school photo album in my living room that friends and family can look through when they come over.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
I plan on doing the same for my current vacation to South Africa. Otherwise I’ll never look at the photos again.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
When I upgradedy pc a few years ago I realised the case doesn’t have bays for my bluray burners. Instead I bought an external case with usb 3.something.
It’s not an amazing setup but it means on the rare occasions I need to use a disc I can. Usually it’s ripping CDs bought from charity shops and adding to my collection on my NAS or the occasional Blu-ray rip.
What was on the north Korean CD?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
North Korean music. Typical propaganda music in North Korean style. Women singing about soldiers and the great leader (I assume, I don’t speak Korean but this is what I was told). If interested I can share, in September after my vacation in South Africa.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
Yeah that would be interesting to hear. Thank you.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I didn’t find it sad. The writing was on the wall for physical media and I ripped it with the highest accuracy I could. I still have those albums in CD quality today.
That track at the end of Further Down the Spiral that relies on CD skipping is sort of lost to us, I guess. You can replicate it but kids won’t accidentally stumble upon it. Just like kids won’t accidentally stumble upon the “3rd spiral” of vinyl records. The Easter egg era is over.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Hey, I’m one of today’s ten thousand! I don’t think any of my LPs have a hidden groove but I want one now!
My Easter egg musical experience was with a CD, Guster’s Keep it Together. I was the first person in the family to get an mp3 player, and when I ripped the CD I found a minute long “Silent Track” before a hidden song, Two at a Time. When we saw them live next and I knew the lyrics to that song my parents were baffled lol.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Hidden grooves on records were not terribly common, as far as I am aware. I have Tool’s Undertow (which — if you have the CD version — you have already heard it) and a Monty Python record Tie and Handkerchief.
Not a terribly strong argument to preserve a format because I have no motivation to revisit either, but a fun little one time experience if you have either of those handy.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
And for CDs, before the zero mark, there could be data. I think the X-Files TV show soundtrack had a couple of songs if you inserted the disc and immediately rewound before the starting zero. Like, in minus time. The table of contents apparently didn’t care about minus numbers.