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.
We’re the same, you and I!
Never burned a CD in my life. And now I never will, just to spite you
My gen Z kids burn CDs - it’s a “retro” thing for them. Literally burnt one last week.
I still use them (in M-DISC blu-ray form) for encrypted backups.
Damn, them discs are expensive.
Yeah, but worth it for important backups since they take a long time to degrade!
I’d love a tape drive but i’m poor
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.
A relative lately wanted me to burn an Audio CD on their Windows 10 PC. I had little to no idea how to do it, since last time I did that was on Windows XP.
It’s easy, you just have to sign up for Microsoft’s CD burning app for $6.99/month. Make sure to have your credit card, social security number, and birth certificate handy when you setup your account. You just have to watch a short advertisement before burning each CD.
Just don’t use the free version…
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Oh my God that’s evil. Better hope the Microsoft execs don’t see this.
Download ImgBurn or CD Burner XP
Nero or bust
Nero cost money tho
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’.
i burned a cd 2 weeks ago.
Ok, boomer
unneccessarily rude!
They might be just genX.
Ok dad
Ok zygote
holy cow, how are you still not in bed, kid! Off you go!
I’m a millennial and I burned a CD last month
everyone forgets about gen x
…who?
No we fuckin don’t, you lot wont let us forget you.
Okay Xoomer
That’s just zoomer again
It’s pronounced Ex-oomer
Exhume her? I barely knew her!
millennial. turned 40 this year.
No boomers are the ones reading the CDs not writing them. Their kids are writting them.
I don’t think burning CDs was much of a boomer activity.
CD players were first sold in 1982, when Boomers (if the baby boom started 1945) were hitting their 40s and established in every industry. I think they were actually the perfect demographic to be able to afford a CD player when it first came out.
First affordable CD burner was from 1995. 50 year olds tend to not adopt new technology, it’s a millennial thing.
https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/consumer-cd-r-drive-priced-below-1000/
As someone who worked sales in that time period, yes, it was the younger crowd (Gen X) that adapted much better to burning CDs. A lot of the baby boomers had difficulty with understanding certain key concepts and details. … And instructions to be honest…
As for the “Boomer” commenter above: the military and government in the USA still burns to CD for a variety of reasons (no, I won’t go into them). So if someone is military, a government employee, or even just a contractor, there is a chance that at some point they will need to burn a CD, regardless of age.
Really? Cause in my time in the army I never once saw any kind of military information being saved to cd. Not once. Never. Even in the early 2000s that was just never a thing. Ever.
Sounds like you might not have been part of a team that needed to do so. In the environments I had been part of, they had requirements for it.
I requested my medical records from my time in the military in 2014 and received them on CD. Which was funny because I didn’t have a computer that could read them at the time, and I still haven’t read them. Turns out the information i needed was already available to the people giving my c&p exam
Shut up. They’re supposed to forget about us.
In Germany MRI and CT images are regularly handed to patients on CDS.
Same in the US.
Germany is also technologically 30 years behind the rest of the world…
Yet again, GenX is overlooked.
It’s a gen-x thing, you know, the forgotten generation.
Lived through the “DOUBLE SPEED!!!” reader up to the 52 some read-write-rewrite.
I had several generations, and it was always a huge speed increase. 52x was like lightning
52x baby. Much speed. Such fast.
Yeah but burning CDs yourself wasn’t a thing until much later.
The phrase just means, “alright old person” now.
And I declare that calling someone a cunt now means that you like and respect that person. Please go ahead and use it on your boss next time you see them.
Cd…or DVD?
cd, thats why i said cd.
… and you didn’t know it was the last time
Every time is the last one, at least for a while
naw, we have a cd juke box at my work. pretty sure ill be burning them for the foreseeable future.
Still in denial, I see /hj
/hj? Did you just give him a handjob?
No, it means “half joking” /s
he did tho
Wait, so they’re only half joking about the handjob?
Did I get here too late?
the floaties got in the way
I still burn CDs. This whole streaming thing won’t last. Also, my back hurts…
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
I need to learn how to do this.
I plan to do so myself. Basically find a Linux package that streams audio on your LAN and get tailscale
Start with Plex and learn from there.
Jellyfin
That’s step two.
That’s the dream. Currently debating what to do with a spare laptop and “make it a server” sounds ideal.
The main thing you need to worry about in that case is the battery. It’s useful to have a built in UPS, but definitely keep an eye on it, especially after keeping it plugged in for long periods of time.
I suggest Navidrome
Yeah well… Can you set the time on a VCR?
Plexamp is also good for this
I still burn them sometimes for the car.
The car you downloaded? Because YOU would totally download a car?
I downloaded a dealership, and i don’t know where to put it.
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.
I miss lightscribe
I used to use the work lightscribe to burn my band’s cds.
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.
I microwaved a few from 2008 last month. They smell of cancer if you do that though.
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.
They do degrade naturally, so I hope you are redoing this every decade or so
Youll have all your coding projects, but nothing to read them with.
CDs and DVDs are the same size? (/s)
Unless I die tomorrow, you’re wrong.
I have a whole cake of 100 blank DVDs unopened from 10 years ago. Been looking for a reason for them. Maybe make a post apocalyptic art piece.
You could cut them into throwing stars. Or maybe take them to the nearest disc golf course.
