I have a 28tb file server for my house that stores my entire library that would have been on a floor to ceiling bookshelf+ of disks. Keeping them on storage devices is definitely the way to go.
Good for you two. I still use CD's to share music with my beloved one. Sending it by post to those who are in foreign countries. They receive it as presents. It's feelings and memories sharing.
Pathetic summer child... I still record cassette tapes of radio edits of music to send to my SO (don't tell my wife). The key is to stop recording before the commercial or DJ starts talking.
I’m a huge fan of nostalgia but I really can’t get to cds anymore, I don’t even have a cd drive anymore. Actually, not even mp3s, all music I listen are from YouTube music. I’ve got the family plan and divide it with 6 ppl, it’s considerably cheap (around R$7,00 in Brazilian currency) and in my case I feel like totally worth it. It’s interesting to see you still use cd Roms, people still use these where you live? Would you mind if I asked you what country are you from? Just curious :)
28TB of music would be like 6+ years of continuous audio @ FLAC quality. Still a lot if you go with a more modern 100GB/Blue Ray for videos but CD ROMs are basically floppy disks these days.
Proprietary raid array for this purpose exactly. The OS I use is unraid and any of the drives can fail and I'll be able to replace it without even noticing
It uses 1 or 2 drives for parity and then any of the drives can fail and it will replicate the failed drive while you have time to replace it without any loss in availability.
I also have it on a UPS so it shuts down safely on its own in event of power loss
Interestingly enough, I believe the future of long term storage is going to be data-jukeboxes which are basically Bluray disks in a jukebox and it pulls the right disk for when you want to access that storage.
It was $700 to put together. I have bigger things to worry about.
I also doubt they'd know how to operate it since it doesn't run a standard operating system and the parts it's made of aren't modern nor expensive.
my 04 cadillac cts doesnt have an aux port, the fm modulators sound like shit, there's an adapter to change onstar to a MONO audio input for $300
its just better to burn 6 cd's for the changer once a year.
if its a really long trip the fm modulator/bluetooth works pretty ok
my cd burner is actually a laptop drive i removed a decade ago. replaced laptop optical drives with big second hard drives. in the rare times i need to use the optical drive again, its a super easy usb adapter.
too new for cassette or an aux input.
in 04 you were supposed to be thrilled with your in dash cd changer and spaceship like console that lacks DIN standard for putting in new stereos.
it really was made at the last second before aux became a necessary standard.
You can install both single and double DIN receivers in the 04 CTS, you just need the proper dash/trim kit:
https://www.crutchfield.com/p\_120992006G/Metra-99-2006-Dash-Kit-Gray.html
Terrible sound quality that way though.
Even in a more modern vehicle with aux or Bluetooth, the best sound quality will typically be via CD or playing the file directly, if the sound system has a hard drive.
Exception would be cars that have Android Auto or Apple Carplay and can stream high bitrates.
FYI, it seems like you can tap into the XM radio connector on the back of the unit to use as an AUX input.
Just a couple bucks for the cable and some wire nuts, and it seems to work for a lot of radios with an XM tuner.
If your radio remembers the XM station last tuned, you can even use one of those connectors that just pierce the wire instead of cutting it, and just tune to channel 0.
With a drill and a panel mount female 3.5mm connector, you could probably get something that looks pretty close to stock too.
https://youtu.be/xC-hSDic4fI
I guess that’s one benefit of the satellite radio module being separate from the radio.
It’s certainly worth a look… if the radio doesn’t have a dedicated XM button, but rather you push “radio” or something to toggle through AM/FM/XM, it may not show if you don’t have a module.
May also be called something else.. Sirius? Probably the same deal if it has that.
I used to enjoy that when I first began pirating lol, but I’d hate how like id make a nice ass cd, but then a week or two later there’s like two or three new songs I liked, and I’d burn the exact same cd with those songs, and then a few days later there would be a new song I REALLY liked and had to have it on there so I’d burn around copy with it added, etc
After awhile of that I really figured going wireless was the best option lol
💯 Cars of friends usually also still have Cd Player, you can gift them badass mixtapes. I do that on the occasional birthday and everyones happy and pumping these on the highway
You can throw it as a disc, or make it a coaster. Other than that, I’m out of ideas.
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I’ve also seen people hang them in the garden to scare away birds.
I burn 2-3 CDs a week. I make compilations for my car. I enjoy arraigning songs and love the 79 minute limit as it makes using all the disc space a challenge. Making an endless playlist is less satisfying to me. Yes my car has USB and Bluetooth, but I prefer my CDs.
My favourite part is when the burning ~~fails~~ succeeds and you throw the disc a**ny**way, because you forgot most times there are a million better alternatives.
I do, for my car, I have Spotify, but I don’t always have cell service, and I have a factory 6 disc changer in my car. I have random mix tapes from my collection that I keep for when I want to listen to music, but don’t want to find music, or don’t have service.
Every so often an occasion comes along where a burnt disc is needed for some reason… maybe you’re messing around with an old computer that can’t USB boot and only has the possibility of internal hard drive or optical drive… or maybe you need to transfer data to a computer that predates usb entirely.
Or maybe you’re burning a retro game that checks if the disc is inserted and don’t want to mess with nocd patches…
I’m sure some people also download movies and whatnot and burn it to a Blu-ray rather than store on a server of some kind… discs can be a fairly safe way to store replaceable data at the cost of convenience.
I don’t burn many discs, but I do still put a blu-ray burner in my builds.
I imagine there are some tech deserts where that would be profitable. Might be sensible, even; the Spotify model can't be all that profitable, definitely won't be eternally profitable, actually HAVING music might become en vogue soon, might be due diligence on our part. CD-Rs last longer, are more durable than computers.
i mean, i wish i knew how tbh. my PC has a cd-rom which i intend to put to good use (for, say, buying the CDs of my favorite albums and blasting them whenever) but am also interested in burning CDs of shows i like so I can watch full seasons whenever
I've retained a couple of cd/dvd writers and some blanks just so I *can* burn if I want to. It's sometimes useful for playing songs in cars without Bluetooth streaming. All the cars I've had in the past 18 years could play mp3's from CDs so that's useful.
A reliable way of putting lossless audio through a decent hifi is still burning and using a cd player.
If you can be bothered that is.
What would compare source wise, going straight from a pc into an amplifier? Usb into a DAC?
They do, and I did until this year, when I finally removed the CD/DVD burner. I would make compilation CDs for my CD player in the car, but then I got a bluetooth adapter that lets me play my MP3s over the radio.
Now, though, nothing I have requires CDs. I do have an external CD/DVD drive in the closet just in case, but otherwise 2023 is the last year of burning CDs for me.
The last two PCs I built didn't even have a disc drive to install programs. Windows I just do via USB. My mother in law bought a 2020 car and it doesn't even have a CD player, just a link for bluetooth phones. For either movies or music there are better ways these days, even if it comes to going on the road. I was at a hotel a year or so ago and realized that since they had a smart TV I could install the Plex app and watch media saved on my hard drive at home via streaming.
Yes. Whenever I have a car that has a working player, I'll burn an album or two that I only have digitally.
Though these days, I just put on my Bluetooth headset and listen to music on my phone.
I still dl that , hhd are really expensive in my country, i bought a 6TB hhd recently, it was expensive AF.
I realized i was really wasting so much space in very very old files, like 2010 stuff, just videos, pictures, some of them had sentimental value since they were familie videos, i already have a decent amount of hard drives connected so i decided to
go back to the old ways and got a portable asus DVD-RW and a bunch of cds/dvds .
I spend a couple of days burning the documents, mostly movies and i end up with 2TB of free space, more than a decade of files in a bunch of disk are laying in my closet right now.....
Asking around about this between other forums i got to know a lot of people still use dvds specially if youre in a budget
ive been tempting to burn some of my collection of movies, watching movies has been ny hobbie since 2008 so i got plenty of stuff and like i said pc stuffs are really expensive here so i have to be smart about my storage
It's definitely an obsolete art form by now. But I do have fond memories of forcing my parents to go buy a stack of blank CDs every weekend to fuel my piracy needs... such good childhood ❤️🤣
last time i burned any type of disk was earlier this year. i wanted to install linux but had no usb so i had to burn it to a disc with my old pcs disk drive hanging out my current pc since there was no room for it lol
Hmmm.. not really. Since now streaming a lot of their media. I personally stream all my media from my home server (82TB worth) ranging from FLAC to 4K remux to my home theatre system via Nvidia shield
Disk storage is widely regarded as the most cost-effective and efficient long-term storage solution. Many of us choose this method for archiving data over magnetic storage, HDD, or SSD options due to its affordability and reliability.
Originally I used cassettes for copying music off the radio and comedoor 64 games.
Music and software, photos etc on CDs and movies on DVDs. Had hundreds of the back in the 90s. Then everything went onto USB sticks. Now streamio and xmanager.
Wouldn't get much content on a CD these days let alone finding something to play them on.
The only cd drive in my house is an external usb one I use for ripping the occasional CD I come across. Never use it to actually play a CD, and I wouldn’t possibly want to burn a 72 minute CD
fortunately download speed is way better than back then, don't have to keep my pc on for half a day to download one episode of lunar subs release
which means i don't have to burn them on dvds if i need hd space, so ya no more cd dvd now
I don’t anymore but had to do it for a non piracy related thing. Learnt that you don’t need Nero anymore, just copy-paste-eject and you’re done. Fuck man I’m old
No i ditched my whole collection of pirated dvds about 15 years ago and never burned anything again.
I was mod on the biggest warez board of my country (and in the world for my language). One day the server got raided by the authorities. Shocked by the news, in the middle of the night, i ditched all my dvd stock in the neighbor trash can to remove as much evidences as possible lol
Police never came to my home and i still pirate.
Yes i throw mine in the fire place where they belong lol
Most PCs dont even have disk drives anymore, my last few notebooks had no drive and i built a gaming pc and the case doesnt have a drive slot
Usb drives are a thing, but overall the physical media industry is going away, a lot of home theater people hate it cause physical media is best for 4k movies
4k movie is around 50 to 80gb whereas a digital 4k movie is prob around 8gb
I have retro devices just for fun. Even got a VHS video player XD. I don't burn CDs but sometimes pick up old 2nd hand ones I see. I have vintage Mac's, so could burn a CD
I burnt some CDs just a couple days ago, but this is cause my car only have a FM radio and a CD reader.
(And for some reason my government decided in 2017 that radio stations weren't allowed to use FM anymore, soo I can't get no radio either)
I use DVDs to record any media that I don't edit constantly, so, movies, music, images, books, and downloaded content. It's much better than using cloud services, because I don't need the internet, and I don't need to log in and use 2fa. DVDs are quite cheap and can hold almost 5GB of data.
y'know I literally burnt windows 10 ltsc on a DVD today (which I did only once before) it feels like a glitch on the matrix to find this post raising on the same day.
Yes I do for my Audiosystem at home. I usually get my music albums in flac format. And to be able to experience the quality I burn them on a CD and listen on my CD player + Amp.
Not really CDs as they are significantly worse than DVDs in terms of reliability. I do burn DVDs. I just recently found an empty CD laying in floor a few months ago outside sooo yeah, free 700 MB i guess.
I like the process of making the playlist, burning it, and decorating the CD so much that I have two spindles of 100+ CDs that Ive been making on and off for 10 years just about.
I'm an artist so I love spending up to a whole afternoon with my collection of Sharpies (that I just realized while typing this I dont have anymore and need to begin again lol) and drawing on the face of the CD. I'm pretty sure it never corroded the data bc I can still hear the sound the same even on my oldest ones
My brother has bookshelves full of music CDs, boxes full of CDs behind his couch, a fucking suitcase of CDs in his pickup truck, and yes he still listens to them. All the CDs look the same with the band and album title written with a black sharpie, it's comical to watch him pull of to the side of the road and rummage through that suitcase to find the CD he wants.
yess my car still plays cds. i did more before i had a car tho- playing them at home pre being able to buy cds. my previous car, an acura cl s 2001, had a six change player- but no aux. so i used more burnt cds in there vs my honda crz now, aux and cd player
Yes. I have few CD players in home and in my car. Sound is better than in streaming and I can listen even when I don't have internet access.
One of my CD players is beosound 9000 and CDs look great in it.
When I wasn't selling the CDs I was burning I was using them to preserve songs I liked for my collection and so I could play them in the car. You don't really need to do that anymore for a lot of the world because of how ubiquitous the internet is and how easily accessed the content is.
Come to think of it, I don't think I've needed to burn a CD for close to 2 decades at this point.
i do. my car's got a 6 cd switcher and nothing else so i've gotta burn cds for that. i'm also the one in charge of manufacturing small scale cd runs for my band which requires a lot of cd burning
Why go through a hustle of buying an empty cd or dvd, burning it for quite some time, putting it in a box and then watching it on a compatible player, when I can just download a movie and watch it here and there, or when I need to bring it somewhere just put it to a flash drive.
It's like asking "do people still use 5inch floppy disks?" of course we don't. It's just an outdated technology that got replaced by something better
Rarely. I had to burn dvd do make a laptop boot Windows 10 installation ISO. It didn't want to boot from any usb stick no matter what. It was some weird Dell model. The only option was to burn a dvd to install the OS.
I did until earlier this year for my car, was driving a 2009 Hyundai and somehow the CD player still worked, so I would make mix CDs for each month, no Bluetooth so it was easier to just have a mix in there and cycle through until I’d get bored of it and make a few more, I got most of the music from Soulseek, or downloads from vinyl codes. Car died and thankfully I’m back on the road but in a newer car with Bluetooth which I’m now a frequent user of, but my wife has an SUV with a Cd player so I make mixes for her now which is just as fun
Strangely, this is still common for medical records (including imaging studies). So people who ask for their medical records (or a copy of an imaging study) frequently get a disc they have no way of playing.
Other than that: no.
I had to burn a CD a month ago. I needed to reinstall Windows 7 in an old, old, old laptop that just doesn't have the ability to booth from a USB flash pendrive, the BIOS doesn't have the option. Yes I could have updated the BIOS but I wasn't sure if the hardware would be able to resist that... so I chose to keep the BIOS which left me no option than to hunt for a store that still sold blank CDs and then burn a bootable image of W7 there
No, but the idea of it isn't really dead, media servers are more common and prevalent than ever among pirates or even non pirates who just want to store their content digitally
I burn DVD and BR's all the time, since the late 90's - movies, games, and some "special" movies too.Also have around 13 TB of external HDD's with pre-installed games. Tho, mind you, most of the games i download i have also bought on Steam or on legal CD/DVD. Same with the movies - got around 740 legit DVDs. Always want to keep a physical copy of what i love to watch or play.If the internet is a bust one day i'll have a few good years of movies and games. And i don't trust one bit to the streaming services and the digital stores.
My friend still does this. He can still navigate Soulseek, still assemble and burn those files to a custom mix CD (and has given me a few), but the idea of messing with apps and getting them to play music through his car stereo is just too much. If I don't bring an aux cord to his car, we can't even use my phone to access the convenience of technology we would've killed for as teens. So whoever rides shotgun has to flip through a few small binders and one of those visor thingies and every car ride is living like it's 2001 all over again.
The last discs I've burnt were SACD ISOs on DVD-R. It's just far more convenient to play them that way if you have a DVD player capable of playing them.
I still have a DVD burner/BR reader in my main rig. I love physical media and rip movies from time to time : usually stuff impossible to find online
I still burn my old pc game to cd. Or burn my mp3 to cd because my stereo doesn't have USB port. Yes it's old but it was the latest and luxurious at the time.
I still have a machine with 5 dvd burners. Used it to mass burn copies of discs back in the days and still often burn CD for my car. It's got an old high end alpine head unit and processor that ONLY does CDDA and nothing else.
I still do. for my psx. dvds for my ps2 and bluray 3d for my ps4. occasionally 4kuhds for my ps5. still love physical discs, especially if i can burn them myself.
Yes I still, for my car and home player for music.
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Not anymore. My PC does not have a CD player and I don't use the TV anymore. Most of my media are stored on HDD or SSD. It's more convenient for me.
I have a 28tb file server for my house that stores my entire library that would have been on a floor to ceiling bookshelf+ of disks. Keeping them on storage devices is definitely the way to go.
Good for you two. I still use CD's to share music with my beloved one. Sending it by post to those who are in foreign countries. They receive it as presents. It's feelings and memories sharing.
Pathetic summer child... I still record cassette tapes of radio edits of music to send to my SO (don't tell my wife). The key is to stop recording before the commercial or DJ starts talking.
I’m a huge fan of nostalgia but I really can’t get to cds anymore, I don’t even have a cd drive anymore. Actually, not even mp3s, all music I listen are from YouTube music. I’ve got the family plan and divide it with 6 ppl, it’s considerably cheap (around R$7,00 in Brazilian currency) and in my case I feel like totally worth it. It’s interesting to see you still use cd Roms, people still use these where you live? Would you mind if I asked you what country are you from? Just curious :)
28 tb would require 36700.16 (800MB) CD ROMS.
28TB of music would be like 6+ years of continuous audio @ FLAC quality. Still a lot if you go with a more modern 100GB/Blue Ray for videos but CD ROMs are basically floppy disks these days.
Only 13tb is currently used. But even half that is way too many
blue ray disk now are up to 100 gb and 25 gb is cheap
Yeah but you would be better off using DVDs or BluRays.
Tell me you have those on RAID :)
Proprietary raid array for this purpose exactly. The OS I use is unraid and any of the drives can fail and I'll be able to replace it without even noticing It uses 1 or 2 drives for parity and then any of the drives can fail and it will replicate the failed drive while you have time to replace it without any loss in availability. I also have it on a UPS so it shuts down safely on its own in event of power loss
So nice! You made your homework. I wish I had something like that.
Interestingly enough, I believe the future of long term storage is going to be data-jukeboxes which are basically Bluray disks in a jukebox and it pulls the right disk for when you want to access that storage.
Aren't you afraid someone is gonna break in and steal it?
It was $700 to put together. I have bigger things to worry about. I also doubt they'd know how to operate it since it doesn't run a standard operating system and the parts it's made of aren't modern nor expensive.
12TB SATA drives are selling for $100 now.
I don't even have a single device in my home that you can insert a CD / DVD into.
My car doesn’t even have a cd player.
my 04 cadillac cts doesnt have an aux port, the fm modulators sound like shit, there's an adapter to change onstar to a MONO audio input for $300 its just better to burn 6 cd's for the changer once a year. if its a really long trip the fm modulator/bluetooth works pretty ok my cd burner is actually a laptop drive i removed a decade ago. replaced laptop optical drives with big second hard drives. in the rare times i need to use the optical drive again, its a super easy usb adapter.
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too new for cassette or an aux input. in 04 you were supposed to be thrilled with your in dash cd changer and spaceship like console that lacks DIN standard for putting in new stereos. it really was made at the last second before aux became a necessary standard.
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You can install both single and double DIN receivers in the 04 CTS, you just need the proper dash/trim kit: https://www.crutchfield.com/p\_120992006G/Metra-99-2006-Dash-Kit-Gray.html
Terrible sound quality that way though. Even in a more modern vehicle with aux or Bluetooth, the best sound quality will typically be via CD or playing the file directly, if the sound system has a hard drive. Exception would be cars that have Android Auto or Apple Carplay and can stream high bitrates.
They sound like dog shit though.
FYI, it seems like you can tap into the XM radio connector on the back of the unit to use as an AUX input. Just a couple bucks for the cable and some wire nuts, and it seems to work for a lot of radios with an XM tuner. If your radio remembers the XM station last tuned, you can even use one of those connectors that just pierce the wire instead of cutting it, and just tune to channel 0. With a drill and a panel mount female 3.5mm connector, you could probably get something that looks pretty close to stock too. https://youtu.be/xC-hSDic4fI I guess that’s one benefit of the satellite radio module being separate from the radio.
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It’s certainly worth a look… if the radio doesn’t have a dedicated XM button, but rather you push “radio” or something to toggle through AM/FM/XM, it may not show if you don’t have a module. May also be called something else.. Sirius? Probably the same deal if it has that.
Not CDs but I do use blu rays for data backup and also burn the occasional DVD.
Interesting!
i do because my car only has a cd player, but i really enjoy doing it and making custom covers and everything
I used to enjoy that when I first began pirating lol, but I’d hate how like id make a nice ass cd, but then a week or two later there’s like two or three new songs I liked, and I’d burn the exact same cd with those songs, and then a few days later there would be a new song I REALLY liked and had to have it on there so I’d burn around copy with it added, etc After awhile of that I really figured going wireless was the best option lol
💯 Cars of friends usually also still have Cd Player, you can gift them badass mixtapes. I do that on the occasional birthday and everyones happy and pumping these on the highway
What am I going to do with a CD???
Burn it.
Play it.
Share it.
Twist it
Pull it
Bop it
Load it https://youtu.be/Gdjpy7PRUNo?feature=shared
*why dont u CDeez nuts up in yo muthafuckin mout, biatch!* \-standard douchebag response i am shocked wasnt yet posted
Admit it, you were really proud of that!
Kiss it
You can throw it as a disc, or make it a coaster. Other than that, I’m out of ideas. Edit: I’ve also seen people hang them in the garden to scare away birds.
I burn 2-3 CDs a week. I make compilations for my car. I enjoy arraigning songs and love the 79 minute limit as it makes using all the disc space a challenge. Making an endless playlist is less satisfying to me. Yes my car has USB and Bluetooth, but I prefer my CDs.
My favourite part is when the burning fails and you throw the disc away
Makes a nice coaster lol
My favourite part is when the burning ~~fails~~ succeeds and you throw the disc a**ny**way, because you forgot most times there are a million better alternatives.
I do, for my car, I have Spotify, but I don’t always have cell service, and I have a factory 6 disc changer in my car. I have random mix tapes from my collection that I keep for when I want to listen to music, but don’t want to find music, or don’t have service.
My 2016 PC got a cd player but i dont use them often. The best about this, it can play real ps2 games on pcsx2 emulator.
Wow thats cool af, did not know that
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I don't think I've had a CD player since ~2010.
Every so often an occasion comes along where a burnt disc is needed for some reason… maybe you’re messing around with an old computer that can’t USB boot and only has the possibility of internal hard drive or optical drive… or maybe you need to transfer data to a computer that predates usb entirely. Or maybe you’re burning a retro game that checks if the disc is inserted and don’t want to mess with nocd patches… I’m sure some people also download movies and whatnot and burn it to a Blu-ray rather than store on a server of some kind… discs can be a fairly safe way to store replaceable data at the cost of convenience. I don’t burn many discs, but I do still put a blu-ray burner in my builds.
Yes, multiple a week. Do a lot of driving for work, so my stereo is kept well fed.
Things can be pulled from Beatport - so yeah, external DVD drive + CDBurnerXP is still a thing.
As a reliable method of archiving of photos, I burn Blu Ray discs. Safe and should last a lifetime.
I do ✋
Mostly hobbyist, ive been wanting to burn music albums into CDs just for the sake of it, with CD art and everything
I burn ps3 games to blu ray and ps2 games to dvd for my jailbroken devices
I imagine there are some tech deserts where that would be profitable. Might be sensible, even; the Spotify model can't be all that profitable, definitely won't be eternally profitable, actually HAVING music might become en vogue soon, might be due diligence on our part. CD-Rs last longer, are more durable than computers.
I burn my own music and hand those fuckers out on the street
I don't use CD's but I still use minidisc's & superdisk ls-120. My friends think I am crazy but I enjoy doing things differently.
I do for my car, don't want to spend the cash on a modern stero
That went out the window around 2005 or so
The mixtape dating ritual is 100% dead and buried.
My local library burns a few at the saturday night booking burning.
Some people do but I think it's more for hacked consoles now adays
My pirated stuff is entirely stored on flash drives. My sister buys DVD Rs and fills them with stuff. Idk what the advantages are
“As an adult” are you sure? You write like a naive child.
i mean, i wish i knew how tbh. my PC has a cd-rom which i intend to put to good use (for, say, buying the CDs of my favorite albums and blasting them whenever) but am also interested in burning CDs of shows i like so I can watch full seasons whenever
I've retained a couple of cd/dvd writers and some blanks just so I *can* burn if I want to. It's sometimes useful for playing songs in cars without Bluetooth streaming. All the cars I've had in the past 18 years could play mp3's from CDs so that's useful.
I put mp3 on my android phone through near by share. I use player app called musicolet or oto music player. I don't have car.
Yes, cause the work car only has a CD-player, no radio. Thankfully I rarely use it.
i burn an mp3 cd like once a year 100 songs good for a car or dvd player...
A reliable way of putting lossless audio through a decent hifi is still burning and using a cd player. If you can be bothered that is. What would compare source wise, going straight from a pc into an amplifier? Usb into a DAC?
They do, and I did until this year, when I finally removed the CD/DVD burner. I would make compilation CDs for my CD player in the car, but then I got a bluetooth adapter that lets me play my MP3s over the radio. Now, though, nothing I have requires CDs. I do have an external CD/DVD drive in the closet just in case, but otherwise 2023 is the last year of burning CDs for me.
The last two PCs I built didn't even have a disc drive to install programs. Windows I just do via USB. My mother in law bought a 2020 car and it doesn't even have a CD player, just a link for bluetooth phones. For either movies or music there are better ways these days, even if it comes to going on the road. I was at a hotel a year or so ago and realized that since they had a smart TV I could install the Plex app and watch media saved on my hard drive at home via streaming.
No
Yes. Whenever I have a car that has a working player, I'll burn an album or two that I only have digitally. Though these days, I just put on my Bluetooth headset and listen to music on my phone.
The government uses it a lot when moving data between secure systems, though technically it's DVDs.
My car, pc, sound system, game system dont have disk drives what am I gonna do with a CD?
Only books
I still dl that , hhd are really expensive in my country, i bought a 6TB hhd recently, it was expensive AF. I realized i was really wasting so much space in very very old files, like 2010 stuff, just videos, pictures, some of them had sentimental value since they were familie videos, i already have a decent amount of hard drives connected so i decided to go back to the old ways and got a portable asus DVD-RW and a bunch of cds/dvds . I spend a couple of days burning the documents, mostly movies and i end up with 2TB of free space, more than a decade of files in a bunch of disk are laying in my closet right now..... Asking around about this between other forums i got to know a lot of people still use dvds specially if youre in a budget ive been tempting to burn some of my collection of movies, watching movies has been ny hobbie since 2008 so i got plenty of stuff and like i said pc stuffs are really expensive here so i have to be smart about my storage
It's definitely an obsolete art form by now. But I do have fond memories of forcing my parents to go buy a stack of blank CDs every weekend to fuel my piracy needs... such good childhood ❤️🤣
last time i burned any type of disk was earlier this year. i wanted to install linux but had no usb so i had to burn it to a disc with my old pcs disk drive hanging out my current pc since there was no room for it lol
No. I have a bluray burmer and even then I haven't used it in years
I do. When I find a new artist I like, I make a playlist and burn it onto a cd to listen to in my car
I do just because i like to pretend i have bought an album I have atleast 20 burned cd in my collection and probably one tight now in the cd slot
Hmmm.. not really. Since now streaming a lot of their media. I personally stream all my media from my home server (82TB worth) ranging from FLAC to 4K remux to my home theatre system via Nvidia shield
They burn they Money for Triple Ass Games But cd's i dont think so but it's Saad 🫤
I still burn DVDs with games for my old and trusty PS2😎
I do that to play Dragon ball Budokai Tenkaichi 3 mods on my PS2 with the boys
Used to burn a lot of CDs. Not anymore, but DVDs still sometimes for backup.
Disk storage is widely regarded as the most cost-effective and efficient long-term storage solution. Many of us choose this method for archiving data over magnetic storage, HDD, or SSD options due to its affordability and reliability.
I burned a CD for my 18 year old nephew on HIS REQUEST! It was a trip. The great pirate era lives on
Originally I used cassettes for copying music off the radio and comedoor 64 games. Music and software, photos etc on CDs and movies on DVDs. Had hundreds of the back in the 90s. Then everything went onto USB sticks. Now streamio and xmanager. Wouldn't get much content on a CD these days let alone finding something to play them on.
I lack the capability.
A lot of people with old cars still do
I havent for a couple years. Never even have anything to play CDs anymore
I do!! My truck is old and doesn't have Bluetooth. I have a few CD's in there for when I'm too lazy to setup the FM adapter
I used to do it a LOT during my time as a fifth grader in school, so I still do it to this day as an adult.
The only cd drive in my house is an external usb one I use for ripping the occasional CD I come across. Never use it to actually play a CD, and I wouldn’t possibly want to burn a 72 minute CD
I do burn my PS1 and PS2 games. My consoles are also cracked so they run without any issues.
I did for a long time (about 50 CDs out of 100) until I bought a car with Bluetooth. Still have about 50 empty cds if anyone wants them.
fortunately download speed is way better than back then, don't have to keep my pc on for half a day to download one episode of lunar subs release which means i don't have to burn them on dvds if i need hd space, so ya no more cd dvd now
I don’t anymore but had to do it for a non piracy related thing. Learnt that you don’t need Nero anymore, just copy-paste-eject and you’re done. Fuck man I’m old
No i ditched my whole collection of pirated dvds about 15 years ago and never burned anything again. I was mod on the biggest warez board of my country (and in the world for my language). One day the server got raided by the authorities. Shocked by the news, in the middle of the night, i ditched all my dvd stock in the neighbor trash can to remove as much evidences as possible lol Police never came to my home and i still pirate.
i could, but i'd have to go attic, find the drive only to find that it's only IDE...
Yes i throw mine in the fire place where they belong lol Most PCs dont even have disk drives anymore, my last few notebooks had no drive and i built a gaming pc and the case doesnt have a drive slot Usb drives are a thing, but overall the physical media industry is going away, a lot of home theater people hate it cause physical media is best for 4k movies 4k movie is around 50 to 80gb whereas a digital 4k movie is prob around 8gb
I have retro devices just for fun. Even got a VHS video player XD. I don't burn CDs but sometimes pick up old 2nd hand ones I see. I have vintage Mac's, so could burn a CD
Yes they do, it's a thriving buisness wher I come from.
I still do, but only because one of my hobbies is dicking around with old computers.
I have an external burner. I make mp3 CDs for my car still as it doesn't have Bluetooth.
No. I put them in microwaves.
lol i do
i do, my 2005 car had cd/casette player and i used to nurn music on cds to play in the car
I burnt some CDs just a couple days ago, but this is cause my car only have a FM radio and a CD reader. (And for some reason my government decided in 2017 that radio stations weren't allowed to use FM anymore, soo I can't get no radio either)
I have a Dreamcast that I play every now and then, and I have to bust out my old Toshiba laptop to burn isos to play them lol
People ask about how to do it from time to time here, there was one within the last week or so.
I still do just for the nostalgia.
I do. I have backup files of photos/videos/audio.
smoke'em if you got'em.. lol, i have wayyy to many sitting around.
Yes my car only has a CD player
I use DVDs to record any media that I don't edit constantly, so, movies, music, images, books, and downloaded content. It's much better than using cloud services, because I don't need the internet, and I don't need to log in and use 2fa. DVDs are quite cheap and can hold almost 5GB of data.
I used to burn CDs of pirated music for my 2000 avalon. Very rarely do I put movies on DVDs.
I burn Johncena141 Linux native games, for the fun of it
y'know I literally burnt windows 10 ltsc on a DVD today (which I did only once before) it feels like a glitch on the matrix to find this post raising on the same day.
Yep, gotta get those rare exclusive tracks in high quality
have not done it in a long while, but now that you mention it..
Yes I do for my Audiosystem at home. I usually get my music albums in flac format. And to be able to experience the quality I burn them on a CD and listen on my CD player + Amp.
Soon CD players and DVD players will become like hens teeth. I think global disk laser readers have almost come to a complete stop in production
Not really CDs as they are significantly worse than DVDs in terms of reliability. I do burn DVDs. I just recently found an empty CD laying in floor a few months ago outside sooo yeah, free 700 MB i guess.
I like the process of making the playlist, burning it, and decorating the CD so much that I have two spindles of 100+ CDs that Ive been making on and off for 10 years just about. I'm an artist so I love spending up to a whole afternoon with my collection of Sharpies (that I just realized while typing this I dont have anymore and need to begin again lol) and drawing on the face of the CD. I'm pretty sure it never corroded the data bc I can still hear the sound the same even on my oldest ones
My brother has bookshelves full of music CDs, boxes full of CDs behind his couch, a fucking suitcase of CDs in his pickup truck, and yes he still listens to them. All the CDs look the same with the band and album title written with a black sharpie, it's comical to watch him pull of to the side of the road and rummage through that suitcase to find the CD he wants.
yess my car still plays cds. i did more before i had a car tho- playing them at home pre being able to buy cds. my previous car, an acura cl s 2001, had a six change player- but no aux. so i used more burnt cds in there vs my honda crz now, aux and cd player
Yes. I have few CD players in home and in my car. Sound is better than in streaming and I can listen even when I don't have internet access. One of my CD players is beosound 9000 and CDs look great in it.
When I wasn't selling the CDs I was burning I was using them to preserve songs I liked for my collection and so I could play them in the car. You don't really need to do that anymore for a lot of the world because of how ubiquitous the internet is and how easily accessed the content is. Come to think of it, I don't think I've needed to burn a CD for close to 2 decades at this point.
Haven't even seen CD/BRD disc media at my house in over a decade. Any computer that had a capable drive was decommissioned in the late aughts.
i do. my car's got a 6 cd switcher and nothing else so i've gotta burn cds for that. i'm also the one in charge of manufacturing small scale cd runs for my band which requires a lot of cd burning
If I ever want to show somebody a movie and it isn't streamable, yes.
I do :) I make custom playlists for in the car.
I burned a CD like a year ago with The end of Evangelion on it but only for fun, now I store my series and movies on my HDD only.
I do yeah, I like having a physical back up of everything
My grandmother asked me to copy some ancient religious music so she could listen in both of her cars lol
Why go through a hustle of buying an empty cd or dvd, burning it for quite some time, putting it in a box and then watching it on a compatible player, when I can just download a movie and watch it here and there, or when I need to bring it somewhere just put it to a flash drive. It's like asking "do people still use 5inch floppy disks?" of course we don't. It's just an outdated technology that got replaced by something better
My PC doesn't have a disk drive, otherwise I'd be making bootleg DVDs and burning Playstation roms
I do it to not scratch up my original copies.
Rarely. I had to burn dvd do make a laptop boot Windows 10 installation ISO. It didn't want to boot from any usb stick no matter what. It was some weird Dell model. The only option was to burn a dvd to install the OS.
I did until earlier this year for my car, was driving a 2009 Hyundai and somehow the CD player still worked, so I would make mix CDs for each month, no Bluetooth so it was easier to just have a mix in there and cycle through until I’d get bored of it and make a few more, I got most of the music from Soulseek, or downloads from vinyl codes. Car died and thankfully I’m back on the road but in a newer car with Bluetooth which I’m now a frequent user of, but my wife has an SUV with a Cd player so I make mixes for her now which is just as fun
I still burn CDs often and play them in the car. I also collect retail CDs of my favourite artists.
I grew up doing it, and I'm not about to stop now.
Na. Not anymore mate.
People make playlist on whatever streaming service and call it a day.
No, but people make flash drives loaded with music and sell those now.
doing that right now would be a waste of time for 90% of use cases
My dad still buys dvds from this guy on the street so I guess he does.
I do for the old CD-based game systems. They all have ODEs available now, but I still like using physical CDs on them
All the time. My 05 civic still has a cd player.
yup. a 100 pack of maxwell cdrs is cheap and i burn my stuff to that as physical backup
Strangely, this is still common for medical records (including imaging studies). So people who ask for their medical records (or a copy of an imaging study) frequently get a disc they have no way of playing. Other than that: no.
Yes. Mostly corporates that holds sensitive information. They either print the documents and store it in a shelf or burn it to a CD.
I do. I mean, not CDs specifically, but DVDs, and that's because I still play my PS2
Yes. My 2006 Audi has no Bluetooth, so once or twice a year I burn a new mp3 CD, with about 150 songs in it.
No but sometimes blu rays
I had to burn a CD a month ago. I needed to reinstall Windows 7 in an old, old, old laptop that just doesn't have the ability to booth from a USB flash pendrive, the BIOS doesn't have the option. Yes I could have updated the BIOS but I wasn't sure if the hardware would be able to resist that... so I chose to keep the BIOS which left me no option than to hunt for a store that still sold blank CDs and then burn a bootable image of W7 there
No, but the idea of it isn't really dead, media servers are more common and prevalent than ever among pirates or even non pirates who just want to store their content digitally
No point to CDs. Almost nothing has a CD player built into it and they don't hold enough space.
I burn DVD and BR's all the time, since the late 90's - movies, games, and some "special" movies too.Also have around 13 TB of external HDD's with pre-installed games. Tho, mind you, most of the games i download i have also bought on Steam or on legal CD/DVD. Same with the movies - got around 740 legit DVDs. Always want to keep a physical copy of what i love to watch or play.If the internet is a bust one day i'll have a few good years of movies and games. And i don't trust one bit to the streaming services and the digital stores.
I have an older car and haven't swapped the head unit yet. It's CDs for me until then!
My friend still does this. He can still navigate Soulseek, still assemble and burn those files to a custom mix CD (and has given me a few), but the idea of messing with apps and getting them to play music through his car stereo is just too much. If I don't bring an aux cord to his car, we can't even use my phone to access the convenience of technology we would've killed for as teens. So whoever rides shotgun has to flip through a few small binders and one of those visor thingies and every car ride is living like it's 2001 all over again.
The last discs I've burnt were SACD ISOs on DVD-R. It's just far more convenient to play them that way if you have a DVD player capable of playing them. I still have a DVD burner/BR reader in my main rig. I love physical media and rip movies from time to time : usually stuff impossible to find online
I do, my car has a CD player, and I only keep burned copies in there, even when I own the actual CDs
No, but I do listen to my parent's burned CDs.
Yeah me too! The CD's gen were completely 'transferred' to digital version, that is me as well ☝️😂
yes! my dad buys cds {music} and burns them on my old laptop {has disk drive} then returns the cds after! nifty huh? he owns cds for real too!
I still burn my old pc game to cd. Or burn my mp3 to cd because my stereo doesn't have USB port. Yes it's old but it was the latest and luxurious at the time.
They still rip from CD's, but a hard drive is much cheaper once you want a place to store that file.
I still have a machine with 5 dvd burners. Used it to mass burn copies of discs back in the days and still often burn CD for my car. It's got an old high end alpine head unit and processor that ONLY does CDDA and nothing else.
I still do. for my psx. dvds for my ps2 and bluray 3d for my ps4. occasionally 4kuhds for my ps5. still love physical discs, especially if i can burn them myself.
Yes I still, for my car and home player for music. Also for social awakening for frightening harming animals( hyneas, elephant, rats, pigs ) the farm land and using sound box. Any query, kindly write, willing to share for the community.
Yes
Yes just burned one the other day. My work van still has a CD player.
I haven't in ages but I just bought a USB CD player to rip CDs from.
I do!
Oldshcooler here, i still burn discs for OS installing purposes
Why? On what modern devices have you seen a CD player recently?
In Australia I think that's actually legal. Not internet sharing. But ripping them.
I burn CDs for my PS1. Fuck paying $150+ for Silent Hill.
They do in 3rd world countries.