I don’t even have a device with an optical reader
This is Lemmy bruh. We still be burning discs on the reg.
Seriously though, I still like to listen to CDs in my car. Something about making that perfect 20 song banger mixtape just hits different. And then slotting old CDs and having no idea what songs are on there but usually being pleasantly surprised. Spotify/Bluetooth is too easy and casual, I tend to pay more attention and enjoy the music more when listening to CDs.
Man you ain’t lying about having random songs on them. I’m always equally impressed and disturbed by some of the CDs I’ve made in the past.
I have a visor CD holder with a few burnt copies of albums I always enjoy. Yes my car has Bluetooth and yes I use it, but sometimes it’s just easier to pop in a CD. It’s also more legal, a couple of years ago a coworker got ticketed for distracted driving because the cop saw him switching albums on his phone while driving. I doubt you’ll get pulled over for swapping CDs.
Since I have to deal with an older system that has not yet been replaced (and isn’t slated to be for a variety of reasons), combined with some security requirements that the clients IT team had put into place…
I still have blank CDs and have burned them relatively recently. Probably will be doing so again in about 2 months…
I didn’t really ever burn any CDs myself (though I have a few burnt ones). But just end of last year I ripped a CD
I shit my pants once when I was 32, I did not know that wouldn’t be the last time.
It might not be.
In the North of England that’s called ‘shittin yer keks’.
CD, yes…
DVD? Man, I still keep recovery disks for repair jobs. Hiren’s is still a thing.
It probably contained Linux
If I had to guess? Ubuntu Studio 14.04
I don’t know when it was specifically, but I know it was to make a music CD for my old car that could play MP3s off of CDs. 15 years ago, maybe?
Every person you meet will eventually be seen for the last time. It’s odd how casual those departures can be.
Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?
lol I didn’t
Until you find a reason to do it again. I burned a cd like last year because my car has a cd player.
Nah - CD’s are great.
Everyone should be burning Parenti lectures and leaving them in public spaces. Very fun past time.
Yep, it was the 10th time i was attempting to burn a clients files to DVD’s. I swore i was never going through that again. Then after i got a successful burn prompt, i went to hit ok and a fatal error had occured, and lo and behold the burn failed after verification. Joined the Navy within the week.
I thought about this a lot after the last time I saw this post. I am almost positive it was a The Prodigy mix that I made for myself. My little sister got a car with a CD drive in it as her first car and she asked for my old CDs and that’s the latest one I can recall making.
Crazy to think that 10+ years after I made that CD now my little sister is listening to it haha. And I was already listening to many cd mixes my mom and father had given to me over the years. That CD case probably has illegally downloaded music burned to CDs from over 25 years ago in it. Not to mention several actual CDs that are probably almost 50 years old at this point. My father loved the classics and after he ripped his entire library to cram into his digital magic box he let a lot of the physical CDs go to his son’s. at least 1 or two ended up on that cd case of mine.
