“We used to mark them ‘summer mix’ and put them in a soft case full of them in the car, which was the style at the time”
"I used to be with it"
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Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
skooma_king@piefed.social 1 day ago
You would change your disc at a red light, as tradition tells
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Pah, I had a CD-changer for 6 discs!
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I did it at 80 for style points
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 day ago
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Help me out here
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Nero Burning Rom was a popular program for burning CDs
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
It would take less time to just search “burning cds” than even posting this.
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Look grandpa, I found this box full of save icons in your old stuff”
Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
And omg soo much retro porn which is now banned in the us
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
kamen@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Funny to think that the same number of drives would fit into maybe 1/4 of this height if made in the slim form factor.
transfluxus@leminal.space 21 hours ago
Zomg@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
This CD is not for your Stereo, it’s for your Computer!
gerowen@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I’m a school bus driver and I’m not even joking when I say I blew my kids’ minds with a burned CD the other day. My daughter asked me to make one of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One kid asked how I got it on CD and when I showed him a burned disc complete with sharpie label his response was just, “Wait you can do that?!”
Made me feel old as hell.
SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
CDs nuts!
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Got em.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I burned a CD just a few days ago.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I just punched a card yesterday.
beneeney@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I inscribed a clay tablet just this morning
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why? What did the card ever do to deserve that?
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.
All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I’m amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Linux has built-in in dvd burning and ripping tools that work amazingly. Been ripping all my ps1 and ps2 games.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 18 hours ago
FYI: unless you have a very specific model of CD drive, your PS1 backups aren’t perfect copies. They will work but the copy protection might not have been read properly. It’s not important in 99.9% of use cases. If you need a perfect copy, download NoIntro dumps.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
CDeez Nutz Burnin’
ch00f@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You like tapes and CDs?
How 'bout I tape my dick to your head so you can CDs nuts!?
funkajunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s a cream for that
PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And a weed strain
Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Did anyone ever have a Lightscribe burner? I always wanted one. It seemed pretty dope being able to etch a label onto the disc with the same device that wrote data to it.
rothaine@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Yes. It was neat, but actually sucked because the contrast was so low. Switched back to Sharpie after a few
moseschrute@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Good ol alcohol 120%
dellish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well of course the first step is to tie an onion to your belt. You can’t burn CDs if you’re not stylish.
littletranspunk@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Wait until they hear we ripped them after burning them
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Never. The audio equivalent of “Needs More JPEG”
m3t00@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
have a stack of blanks. no cd drive. almost bought a usb burner but thumb drive is better. cds only hold like 600mb
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Low effort joke
When I was your age, we used to own our music. It worked offline and we could copy it to other devices.
Tangent
Why aren’t Normies speaking up about everything needing internet? Street navigation, music, videos, reading, games, etc. Are all things that would work brilliantly normally, no server required. Why does no one realise, that if the server disappears, so does in effect their personal property? If it is tethered to a server, it’s broken, because the server will disappear, the question is only when.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Normies dont understand the abstraction layer between all their data being stored in offline data banks and being mined for illegal ai use and surveillance.
Ill keep my physical media thanks. Never was on the cloud bandwagon, I wont be on the ai bandwagon.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
why aren’t normies speaking up
They dont care. Speaking as a normie-convert, so long as it works right now idgaf. When it doesn’t work tomorrow I’ll cry about it then and demand to speak to the manager, but right now? Summer will last forever.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Why aren’t Normies speaking up
I’m the most bland person you’ll ever meet and I kept all my CDs and DVDs. I would never buy something only as digital/cloud format that I couldn’t burn on a disc. It gave me anxiety from the beginning. I have multiple external storages with the same copies of photos and I still print the most precious ones out. I’ll have music and memories if the internet ever breaks down, I just need a power generator.
I also absolutely don’t see physical copies of books, music, or movies, as clutter. Booklets in CDs are to die for, and I think it makes for great room decor. If I burn a CD I usually make some collage artwork as a cover to accompany the disc.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I told my dad I want cassette tapes to come back. He laughed and said how he remembered how crystal clear CDs were when he listened to them for the first time. What can I say dad, I like a little wow/flutter in my music.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 23 hours ago
I grew up with cassette tapes. I know what the connection is between a cassette and a biro…
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Cds are digital data storage discs that are etched in microscopic 1’s and 0’s in a microscopic spiral with a laser, and then later read back with lasers. You can only write them once but you can read them a million times. So grammatically, in the same way you “nuke” food in a microwave, you “burn” a cd in a cd drive that is capable of writing cds.
Maybe someday we can have cheap (cheaper than other storage media per gb), durable (last at least my lifetime), terabyte, fast read optical media. I would love to permanently store lots of stuff that doesn’t ever need to be rewritten.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 1 day ago
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Well you etch pits you don’t actually actual numbers. Also it’s not a spiral, it’s not a record player it’s not been read by physical stylist so you don’t need a guide, they’re just concentric circles.
You start the disc off as a zero, then whenever you need to transition to a one you etch a pit, then it will continue to read that as one until you etch another pit and flip back to zero. So the sequence 0111001 would be etched as _...
Discs can also be overwritten, and used multiple times, you just wipe the entire top layer off and start again on the layer below, only really cheap CDs were single use.
As for the future there are already experimental crystal storage solutions (made out of artificial diamond so it would be essentially indestructible) which really are single use, but they can store hundreds of petabytes of data so you would probably just treat them as if they were rewritable. There’s also DNA storage but the equipment to save and read the data is nowhere near commercially viable yet.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The pits just represent numbers. A 1-bit memory cell typically stores high or low voltage. The numbers 0 and 1 only exist as a platonic ideal, and there are many ways to represent them in the real world.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Ngl, i didn’t know it was concentric circles. I always thought it was a spiral like a vinyl record.
Also the encode is pretty neat, I didn’t know that.
I DID know about RWs being rewritable, and you could sort of brute force some supposedly single write discs.
To be clear, I wrote that to be as simple as possible like if a person read it who really didn’t have any idea, they could have a relatively quick understanding in plain terms. Guess even I learned something today!
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s a Bluray media called MDisc that’s supposed to be more durable. It says 1000 years so I give it 100 based on the fact that the 100 year rated Verbatim AZZO DVD+R’s that I burned and verified to have low PIO errors had errors after 10 years stored in black cases in my temperature controlled basement.
People claim their burned DVD’s are all fine but I’ve never heard a post back when I asked if they’ve actually verified all the bits. “It reads when I put it in.” doesn’t mean there isn’t data corruption.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I recently learned of MDisc (there’s a CD and DVD version, too, iirc) and decided to get a burner and convert my old data CDs.
While I haven’t verified every single bit, I did check that the files copied off of it were still functional and didn’t see any issues. Also didn’t get any errors. I was surprised because I’ve had some of them for over 20 years now and didn’t do more than put them in CD binders to protect them (during the days when I didn’t even consider the longevity of the media, other then obvious things like scratches.
Only disc I wasn’t able to get the data from was a packet CD, which was a special format that facilitated treating the disc more like diskettes, where you could read or write at will via the filesystem rather than writing the disc as a special package from the start (or having multiple sessions if there’s still room on the disc after one such write). I was able to find references to the tech, though not if it was a standard or just a name a few different companies used for different implementations, but I wasn’t able to find Linux drivers that could do anything other than rip the ISO and a few strings or tell me it can’t find anything. Though it’s possible that corruption is really what happened here because I’d expect RW CDs to last a shorter time than the write once ones.
Though I suppose I could try it on my old windows machine and see if drivers are more readily available there.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I think there are some optical media like that. the discs are cheap but the readers are made of mithril.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
M-disc, I presume?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc - This one floundered and died before coming to market
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_optical_data_storage - A bunch of different solutions, and it looks like they were all being developed independently circa 2008, and then went nowhere
My guess is that there’s not much use case beyond archival backups. That’s not going to get the economies of scale that CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays have. It’d be priced for the corporate market, but they already have perfectly good archival backup solutions. You’d also have to prove that it can be durable for at least a few decades, but even for commercial duplication, previous optical formats are just OK at best on longevity.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Lol, consumerism.
Still burning cds and making tapes here. Nothing changed. You got sucked into consumer capitalism
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Have you ever heard of something called a hard drive?
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Are you manufacturing your own CDs and tapes, or are you buying them as a consumer?
Good job not being a consumer I guess.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You had to monitor the computer, if any program started or did anything weird, it could cause the entrie disk to be destroyed
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A CD is a Certificate of Deposit. You see, back in the 1900s, our parents had this thing called DISPOSABLE INCOME thought to be a myth, but trust me, it was real. People had so much money they wouldn’t starve to death if they didn’t work overtime.
Anyway, they needed a place to put it, so get this: they could deposit it into an account, and it would actually grow! Then they’d get a Certificate of Deposit to verify they really gave the bank the money because—guess what—it wasn’t a scam! They got the money back! I know, right? Amazing.
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Back in the day here in Finland we ordered bulk of cd/dvd r and rw’s from Åland Islands (autonomous region of Finland). They were cheaper thanks to taxes loophole. I still had 20 pcs of dvd’s from those days and burned them all to save some space on my pc.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe it’s finally time to throw out the half finished pack of blank cds away. They’ve been sitting on my bookshelf for 20 years
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I had a pack like that, tried to use them last year and every one of them failed to burn. Must have hit their shelf life somewhere along the way
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s what nazis and christians burned before books were invented
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
See, I had a 6 cd rack for burning but I never learned why it was called burning. Every time I asked in irc, they said something to the effect of “head to the doctor, you should get that looked at.” Any kind lemming care to elucidate me?
ShenanigansMcGee@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sure! It’s called “burning a CD” because you are literally burning it. You are using a laser to burn or etch a texture into the CD that can be read by the lasers in other CD drives.
Anyone more knowledgeable than me is more than welcome to add details and correct whatever I got wrong. I know the basic concept, but I’m no CD engineer.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s called “burning” because a laser is used to etch information into the disc. It burns tiny “pits” into the polycarbonate material.
ShenanigansMcGee@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Huh, you learn something new everyday. Thanks!
Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
My understanding was that it had to do with the laser in the CD/DVD/bluray drive “burning” the data onto the disc.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I still burn CD’s.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Light one up for the homies, will ya
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And here’s me planning my album release and obsessing over how much vinyl and CDs to order
Spoiler alert: it’s next to none, but not cause I don’t love’em, but cause I am broke
kamen@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not having lived through it is fine; being unable to google a couple of words is just virtue signalling how lazy you are, especially considering this is probably coming from someone who’s glued to their phone all day.