I still burn CDs. This whole streaming thing won’t last. Also, my back hurts…
RIP obsolete tech
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Mist101@lemmy.world 3 months ago
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
The real meta is to have a hard drive full of flac files and use tailscale to stream them wherever you are from your computer at home
Mist101@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s the dream. Currently debating what to do with a spare laptop and “make it a server” sounds ideal.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I need to learn how to do this.
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 3 months ago
Plexamp is also good for this
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah well… Can you set the time on a VCR?
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Burning one today just because of this post.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 months ago
lightscribe for old time’s sake?
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 3 months ago
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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 3 months 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, and MP3 players replaced CD players. 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).
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I burn Blu-rays once in a while. They work for backup.
Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
They don’t last very long. About 5-10 years at most, and that’s if you bought special archival burnable DVDs. If you depend on them for backups, you should check the integrity annually (always include a checksum like SHA256 with any backup archive).
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I have CDs that I burned in the 90s that still work fine. I’m assuming the blu-rays I burn now will probably last as long, which is decades longer than I need them to.
Pnut@lemm.ee 3 months ago
…you need so much specific equipment. You do realise that the day blue ray was announced we collectively gave up on physical data storage in the form of polished mineral disks right?
droans@midwest.social 3 months ago
So much equipment.
First you have to buy the DVD writer and then you also have to get yourself blank DVDs.
dustyData@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We definitely did not gave up on discs. They may no longer be mass consumer oriented. But bluray for backup, archiving and data transfer are still a thing. Nothing beats the bandwidth of a plane filled with hard drives. The media itself is not relevant, magnetic tape is still available and used to this day. The first time I held more than a terabyte in my hand was in a data tape cartridge. Consumer hard drives hadn’t gotten there yet. Even today, new optical media is being researched. There are fascinating breakthroughs on laser engraved crystal storage.
Anyways, I just wanted to remember that wasteful mass consumption media is not representative of humanity as a whole.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I just use a USB Blu-ray burner.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Polished mineral? Like a silicon wafer? um??
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 months ago
NOOOOO! You must use cheap AliExpress SSDs, because something something 1980’s tech something something technological advancements must be pushed at all cost!
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I use them all the time. If you leave any data behind that even theoretically exists in 50 years, readable or not, optical media is your only option. Or Ardrive if you want to spend 1000x the amount and make it public. In case you plan on leaving any videos around for your grandchildren.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 months ago
I’ve never had a Blu-ray player and at this point I expect I never will.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 months ago
I still have a big stack of blank CDs and DVDs. I burned a DVD late last year. I don’t think I’ve hit my last time yet. But maybe.
kevin2107@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No way crazyyyy this generalization didn’t apply to SOMEONE on the internet. no wayyyyyy
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You know 4chan is back online, right?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Last time I saw this template it was “Someday your parent will carry you in their arm for the last time and neither of you will know it was the last time.”
😭
bstix@feddit.dk 3 months ago
My grandfather made it a point to lift everyone until he couldn’t get then off the ground anymore.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
demunted@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Friggin Keener
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why didn’t you just zip drive it?
RedBauble@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Wait is that in the background supposed to be the tardis?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
I still burn them sometimes for the car.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The car you downloaded? Because YOU would totally download a car?
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I downloaded a dealership, and i don’t know where to put it.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I think that was the last CD I burned too, before I just started auxing in my phone with Spotify.
Based on my phone and car-stereo timelines, I guess that means my last burn was probably in 2009 at the latest.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I loved DVD-RAM. I could just mount them in Linux and copy backups on it. They are even reusable, like you could just delete a super old backup and put a new one on it. I think I stopped using them, because of capacity.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
That sounds like slow-ass RAM.
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I miss lightscribe
Gerudo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I used to use the work lightscribe to burn my band’s cds.
anguo@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I was just about to comment that the last time I did it, it was because I had some lightscribe disks that I wanted to try, but already had no use for anything on a CD.
AprilShowers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I still have a lightscribe drive in my main PC. No lightscribe discs though.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Wasn’t that the label making thing? I think I had a laptop once that had that as a feature but it was literally never used
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 3 months 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$.
Even my kids haven’t complained about the lack of streaming, they seem perfectly happy using my physical media library.
applemao@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yep, don’t give in to ease of streaming, that’s how they win, and take it all from you. Everyone needs to own what they pay for.
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Yep. My brother has at least 4 streaming subscriptions that add up to closer to 100$ 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.
KiESi@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Whoa, you sound exactly like an improved version of me!
Where do you get .wav files these days??
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I get them by ripping CD:s or digitzing vinyl albums.
superkret@feddit.org 3 months ago
I didn’t know it was the last time, and I don’t know when exactly it was, but I do know what it was that I burnt:
A Linux install CD
peregrin5@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Haha same.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 3 months ago
For a while, burning CDs was my way of keeping backup of stuff. I might still have a bunch of them stored somewhere and if I still had any way to read them I would be picking them up right now to see which ones still worked and if there was anything interesting in there.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Jokes on you, I still burn my acquired digital media to BluRay discs
Disk rot is like 25 years while an SSD still doesn’t have that kind of shelf life
deadbeef@lemmy.nz 3 months ago
Who are these mad men who are dumping stuff to SSDs and then sitting them on a shelf? Can’t get my mind around it.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
You’d be surprised. And then they tell me disk rot makes BD not recommended… meanwhile this happens after several decades
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Doesn’t it make more sense use harddisks?
I mean, the ultimate long terms storage medium seems to be tape, but that stuff is very expensive, but outside that harddisks seem to have the best balance of accessibility and shelf life.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Right post there chief
Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Unless I die tomorrow, you’re wrong.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 months ago
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.
lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I don’t burn CDs, I buy music on CDs (Best Of albums, etc.) and copy them to my computer. Cheaper than some of the online music stores.
Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You should checkout the public library.
lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
For music CDs? I dunno bout that (see comment above). I do borrow books a lot, if that counts.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I’m curious. Why not just torrent?
lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Tbh I don’t know. I torrented lots of stuff as a kid (including music on Soulseek), but now I feel like paying for stuff. I know, weird.
PeterisBacon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
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’.
poloqualle@feddit.org 3 months 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.
Kookie215@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We should go back to doing it, physical media is where it’s at.
bier@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Physical media yes, CDs or DVDs no. Most discs I burned are probably unreadable by now. I remember my favorite artist explaining how he probably had to stop making music because it just wasn’t financially viable. So I decided to buy all his albums (I had all the albums in mp3 format for years). Its about 10 years later, all the CDs are lost or destroyed (most in my car). I still have a NAS with the original mp3s I downloaded 20 years ago.
Merva@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah, I burned 100s of music cds as well about 20 years ago, and stored them in those books with slots. They weren’t stored in a car, but still about a quart of them doesn’t play anymore, and I am sure it won’t be long before none of them will. All my store bought cds of the same age or older still works fine though.
Homeburning is not a good physical media alternative.
4k93n2@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
minidiscs are a good sweet spot if youre looking for something physical. theyre not too big so you can fit a few discs in your pockets. the player itself can easily fit in your pants pocket as well. any minidisc player that has webMD support will let you add or remove tracks using a web browser. theres the LP mode that lets you fit more music on a disc
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I would legitimately switch back to one of my old MD players in an heartbeat if I had access to a decent software to load music on. Those little wired remotes with LCD screens were when technology peaked, IMO.
Any recommendations for an alternative to SonicStage (or whatever Sony’s proprietary crapola from back in the day was called)?
rbm4444@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
LumpyPancakes@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I microwaved a few from 2008 last month. They smell of cancer if you do that though.
TurtleMelon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months 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 intetnet 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.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 3 months 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.
weker01@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Work with medical data in Germany and you’ll burn CDs every day, probably for the next 50 years.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I felt scammed for a split second recently because I bought a new laptop and it had no optical drives…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 months ago
I still see blank CDs and DVDs for sale sometimes. Makes me wonder who is out there using them.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 months ago
I still use them (in blu-ray form) for encrypted backups.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 3 months ago
CDs are too small, so yeah. DVDs on the other hand? Optical disks are the only practical media that is EMP-proof. After the apocalypse, I’ll still have all my coding projects, thank you very much.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m going to go burn one for the last time just to subvert this meme.
jonesey71@lemmus.org 3 months ago
I have a CD player in my 2004 car and I burn CDs regularly.
dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
i burned a cd 2 weeks ago.
Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Ok, boomer
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
unneccessarily rude!
They might be just genX.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I don’t think burning CDs much much of a boomer activity.
nuko147@lemm.ee 3 months ago
No boomers are the ones reading the CDs not writing them. Their kids are writting them.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
… and you didn’t know it was the last time
nao@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Every time is the last one, at least for a while
dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
naw, we have a cd juke box at my work. pretty sure ill be burning them for the foreseeable future.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Cd…or DVD?
dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
cd, thats why i said cd.