"CDs are an irrelevant technology." YES. Yes you're starting to get it. Look how stupid relevant technology is. You're so close to realizing that CDs are awesome
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Bro. We moved into the house at the beginning of the pandemic. Internet dude wouldn’t come out. So, sincerely, to anyone who mocked me for my CD and DVD collection, 🖕🏻.
My kid’s know it as ‘90s and ‘80s weeks. It’s a thing going on 5 years now.
I spin a few of my old CDs weekly on my Sony 5 disc changer music station from the mid 90s. But if I'm being transparent my Eve 6 gets a little more spin than others since realizing how much comedic genius you guys put out there on social media lol.
It sucks that they're an extremely high quality archival format that doesn't lose fidelity with use and I can easily rip them into whatever portable digital format I want with no copy protection
I prefer the greater inconvenience and expense of vinyl.
There is plenty of room for every musical format as long as people enjoy what they are listening to - tho what there isn't on my shelves is much more room!
Oh yeah? Well, I'm listening to 70s music alright...
1170s
I'll never forget when Joseph Thaddeus XVII did that vocal solo on that Gregorian Chant concert... he was truly the Ian Gillan of his time. Shame he died in that crusade...
Eh, was too overproduced. 1770s was where it was AT. Back when we recorded music with the ancient technique of remembering, all that "reliable technology you can actually listen to" ruined music smh.
one of the coolest gadgets I ever saw was a short loop magnetic tape recorder (with I think some mild degaussing) to simulate the natural compression from old tapes 🤌
God it sounded so good. a nostalgia you never knew you had.
I had over 26,000 of them (all legit purchases). Keeping them organized & swapping them to DJ sucked. Ripping everything to lossless on my RAID was a decision I’ll never regret. The only thing better is high-bitrate lossless, which we now have on multiple services. 24-bit 96/192KHz is glorious! 🧘🏻♀️🫶🏼
IDK. I was in Columbia House, got free choices, unaware that I was also in RCA. For albums, then cassettes, then CD's. If you didn't send a reply immediately you received and were charged for the "Album of the month" and were charged top dollar for shit you never listened to. I like YouTube!! 🤣
Someone recently balked at me having a CD case in my car. I had to drop my explanation back several levels to "I don't have an aux cable or Bluetooth on this thing, so it's that or the radio."
I already have more vinyl and CDs than I’d care to admit. But that is also what came with being a Gen Xer. And I do cheat with CDs since I ripped them all in FLAC to a home server. But I can’t throw them away either. The server may not last as much as them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm glad I kept all my CDs.
And I was around when Colombia House was slamming so I have a good few.
I rewarded myself for an entire year by buying a CD a week for quitting smoking in the early 2000s.
What a great investment.
Unfortunately, they will eventually abandon you. CDs suffer from disc rot in a way that formats like Blu-ray do not. I’ve got lots of CDs from the 90s that don’t work anymore, they start delaminating and degrading, even if they’re sitting there in a case locked away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
sorry that happened to you but as a counter anecdote, i've never seen disc rot in person, ever. unreadable discs have always been extremely scratched and/or label damage.
User experience here: I just bought a cheap new cd/dvd player to test my 20 yo cd collection, both bought and burned discs for audio cd tracks or mp3, and mp4/avi/dvix, even mkv. Everything plays. I just play in vlc or whatever. But much less discrot than I expected.
"Certificates of Deposit, US trade, stocks and bonds, the US dollar as the standard currency reserve, NATO, US Artificial Intelligence, and American futures - all irrelevant technology!" - said former US trade partners. "White House tapes, on the other hand..."
I went in hmv yesterday. The same albums were £30 on vinyl or £10 on cd in the deserted first floor. Much as I love vinyl, when CDs are so much cheaper and are more flexible (more portable, can be digitised etc) I'd rather go with them.
Burning playlists onto CDs is absolutely FIRE! Like you're telling me I can burn these songs to this disc FOREVER very easily and then I can play them on my PS1??? Wild
Buying a CD for one song you like from the radio and then realizing as you listen to the whole album that the heart in a blender song isn't even close to your favorite track is an incredible feeling and society is worse because we don't have it anymore
there are SO many cases of this that ive witnessed as a CD collector
most recently, 'and justice for all' by metallica (thought it would be one, ended up being to live is to die)
I’m a graphic designer and years ago designed a few of CDs for friends’ bands (tray card, disc design and booklet). When the first one was released another friend saw it and was like, “This looks like a real CD! With the tiny type for the lyrics!” Heh … So he got what I was going for.
CDs are so relevant to those of us who grew up with them! How unsatisfying it is now to just open an app and have songs there. No waiting in line to get the latest releases, no liner notes, no artwork, no new CD smell...what is even the point now?
Bought this the other day. Didn't really need to as I have both Zeppelin box sets and I can check the album out from hoopla, but it called to me (it sounded rather like Robert Plant).
their fidelity is technically higher but offer no practical benefit over CDs, are harder to find equipment that supports them. flash and mechanical storage is more fragile than a CD in its case and require regular backups but can serve as backups for CDs
There was a summer that Ben Folds Five's 'Whatever & Ever Amen' CD kept me alive and sane(ish). But I'm not sure if that's a solid argument for CDs given my own general lack of relevancy.
Let’s not forget the ubiquitous “hidden track.” The one you’d usually come across after you fell asleep with your headphones on. You wake up to some random clanking wondering what’s going on. Don’t get that with streaming… LAME.
Those were advanced! Like the ones that counted down track numbers at the end. I think Marilyn Manson had a hidden track numbered at 99. And I’m pretty sure it sounded like a microwave being tortured.
That’s cool. I’ll take being called old, instead of listening to a never ending streaming playlist. I’ll take my stack of CDs, memorizing each one, listening on my Sony Discman, reading through the liner notes. Way back in the 20th century 😎😂
I purchased a Van Halen (first album) CD today and it fucking rocks. You can't turn the bass up with records. CD can be loud and in charge, and there's never any pressing issues. Quality is almost always on par. The ability to "crank it up" is maximum abilities.
Not to mention, a significant amount of new records are cds on vinyl anyway. Oftentimes, with lower volume and punch. The stylus dropping on to the wax shouldn't be the loudest sound on the album. Nor the dead wax ticks.
This album was definitely vinyl first, and was better than the almost simultaneously released 'Scream, Dracula, Scream' which had their pop hits on- On A Rope & Young Livers.
I OWN my CDs and Vinyl. Other than the police charging in and forcibly taking them (OK house fire/acts of gods) they are mine. No new licencing can take them away.
It's not data.
It's music.
They're recordings that I paid for, to play privately. The same goes for my DVDs/Videos/Discs and vinyl. As long as I don't broadcast for public consumption, charge to listen or view, I don't owe anyone anything.
And I own how it makes me feel.
I wish albums were sold as little tiny flash drive thingies that could plug into anything and play the music. Then I could have almost like a DS carrying case of them and it would barely take up space. That is peak.
Hell, that could easily become some sort of indie trend, and not just for music. Imagine selling your game, movie, or album, on an sd card with custom artwork for the label! Obviously we'd have to use regular sized sd cards to see the label, but other than that, it's very feasible.
Literally buying a cd or some album directly from one of your favorite artist(s) will support them more than streaming a song a hundred times no matter how many times an idiot convinces themselves
I mean, what's the downside to CDs? Artists get more money, you can still rip it to your computer for a convenient digital version, and it sounds the best.
I got one of those giant CD wallets for the first time in like 15 years and it feels so good to have in the car with me. I only need three more REM albums and I have them all baby, I'm back big time.
I miss my visor cd case in my 1983 Pontiac Bonneville. I had a tape deck adapter for my discman and I played Open Road Song as my first song ever after I got my license 😅
My daughter and all her friends are 16-17 and now driving, and all inherited their parents' slightly older cars with cd players, and they are INTO IT. Mine could definitely stream off her phone in the car, but never does. And I'm loving buying her new stuff on cd!
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My kid’s know it as ‘90s and ‘80s weeks. It’s a thing going on 5 years now.
There is plenty of room for every musical format as long as people enjoy what they are listening to - tho what there isn't on my shelves is much more room!
maybe we'll invite all six 8 track fans...
Vinyl is worse, very fragile.
1170s
I'll never forget when Joseph Thaddeus XVII did that vocal solo on that Gregorian Chant concert... he was truly the Ian Gillan of his time. Shame he died in that crusade...
God it sounded so good. a nostalgia you never knew you had.
*Seriously though if that thing ever dies I want back whatever is trapped inside.
And I was around when Colombia House was slamming so I have a good few.
I rewarded myself for an entire year by buying a CD a week for quitting smoking in the early 2000s.
What a great investment.
My CDs need me…
I recommend qBittorrent, given it's open source and not adware.
you need an ADC, and need to take good care everything is high-quality, to make a good digital rip of an analog medium like vinyl
most recently, 'and justice for all' by metallica (thought it would be one, ended up being to live is to die)
SACD and DVD Audio are significantly superior with no downsides.
There’s also lossless compressed audio which is identical to CD audio and even better.
It's music.
They're recordings that I paid for, to play privately. The same goes for my DVDs/Videos/Discs and vinyl. As long as I don't broadcast for public consumption, charge to listen or view, I don't owe anyone anything.
And I own how it makes me feel.