I still store offsite backups on CD and DVD disks
Mdisks are a viable offline long term backup solution, and cheaper to get started with than tape drives.
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.
No way crazyyyy this generalization didn’t apply to SOMEONE on the internet. no wayyyyyy
You know 4chan is back online, right?
Yeah you should head back.
LMAO that just sent me
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$.
Even my kids haven’t complained about the lack of streaming, they seem perfectly happy using my physical media library.
Whoa, you sound exactly like an improved version of me!
Where do you get .wav files these days??
I get them by ripping CD:s or digitizing vinyl albums.
EDIT: Typo.
Yep, don’t give in to ease of streaming, that’s how they win, and take it all from you. Everyone needs to own what they pay for.
Yep. My brother has at least 4 streaming subscriptions that add up to closer to 100$ 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.
And not even owning it…and they’ll keep upping the price little by little, slowly sucking us dry
i sure was fucking hoping it was though
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
Plexamp is also good for this
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?
It was Armin Van Buuren’s Intense. Burned it for a road trip.
I’m gonna burn a bunch of music to cd this week just because I can. Might even archive some movies.
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.
All a part of corpos plan to make it so you can never own anything ever again. Subscriptions only. Drink a verification can to skip song.
I have a CD player in my 2004 car and I burn CDs regularly.
I have a 2005 car, but I don’t burn CDs. I plug my phone into a cassette adapter.
Maybe there’ll be a revival in twenty years or so 😁
Haha maybe! Like with vinyl
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!
I have an old android phone running lineage and I host a hotspot if I want it to have data, it’s amazing how well Android Auto works without Internet access compared to having data though.
High school kid: Burned a what?
I laugh when people think cds are old. They’re still the best form of digital physical media. Now I prefer analog media of course, but convenience and portability of digital is nice.
Compact Disc Digital Audio is difficult to improve upon in terms of quality. For day to day listening I’ll either use mp3 or FLAC but especially as the streaming services enshittify I’ll take my media on CD, thanks.
Both of my cars have CD players, I probably ought to burn some discs to listen to. I often drive in silence these days.
It depends, I believe actual tape keeps data usable way longer than CDs.
I mean, most likely any pirated ZX Spectrum software on old audio cassettes will work.
That’s so cool. I do a lot with audio tape (mostly 1/4" 7.5ips and 15ips), but never data tape.
