look on my 25 year old black flip CD keepers, ye mighty
There's never been a better time to pirate stuff
I still regret the one CD and vinyl purge i did in the early 2000s, but now we have more of both than ever.
And relating to power outages, one project that i need to get back to is the battery- and solar-powered portable 78 player that i started. It's sitting half done in the basement somewhere.
And relating to power outages, one project that i need to get back to is the battery- and solar-powered portable 78 player that i started. It's sitting half done in the basement somewhere.
@MackReed Notes from having re-ripped around 1k CDs recently:
1) Polishing grubby, scratched CDs with toothpaste, and then rinsing and drying, made them playable far more often than I expected. Like more than 90% of the time.
2) Box sets with CDs that should have been pristine, having probably only been ripped once and then put away in jewel cases stored inside boxes (a opposed to discs that probably banged around on the floor of my car for years), were frequently unplayable until being washed. What's up with that??
3) Self-burned backup data CD-Rs were 100% trash.
1) Polishing grubby, scratched CDs with toothpaste, and then rinsing and drying, made them playable far more often than I expected. Like more than 90% of the time.
2) Box sets with CDs that should have been pristine, having probably only been ripped once and then put away in jewel cases stored inside boxes (a opposed to discs that probably banged around on the floor of my car for years), were frequently unplayable until being washed. What's up with that??
3) Self-burned backup data CD-Rs were 100% trash.
Also part of the Xennial/Oregon Trial Generation. The only physical media I ever got rid of were dud albums back in the days before you could try before you buy. Still have hundreds of CDs in a couple of big tubs in the basement, dozens of tapes, and plenty of vinyl I've been buying since the 90's (when vinyl wasn't cool). Digitizing all the CDs and tapes has been on my to-do list for many years, I'll get to it eventually.
Also probably a few hundred more CDs, and a couple dozen more tapes still at my parent house. I should probably finish moving out of there sometime (I last slept there in 2003).
Also probably a few hundred more CDs, and a couple dozen more tapes still at my parent house. I should probably finish moving out of there sometime (I last slept there in 2003).
@poorusher *
Left my records on the street when I left NYC (INSTANT vanishing in between bringing armfuls downstairs), sold off my CDs when I left SF in 2006, no regrets. Ebooks over paper, too.
Left my records on the street when I left NYC (INSTANT vanishing in between bringing armfuls downstairs), sold off my CDs when I left SF in 2006, no regrets. Ebooks over paper, too.
I have a beefy desktop gaming computer with CD player, lots of usb ports, fire wire ports, 32 gigs of ram. All kinds of card readers, and a very old printer which prints off of many sizes of film cards.
@katiefox valuable tips - thanks!
i'm at the tail end of the "oregon trail generation"/"generation catalano" divide, just young enough to be a proper Elder Milllennial time-wise but culturally teetering, hah. (don't @ me, i'll make up as many microgenerational nicknames as i like and you can't stop me!)
i'm so glad i never gave up on my CD/LP collection. aside from the occasional trade-sell-lend, i have almost everything i've bought since the 90s. (apologies to the tapes that disappeared into the maw.) it's really come in handy with albums that fell out of print, weren't licensed to stream or download, or only got re-released with a weirdly different master or a different tracks sequence.
also, heck yeah on the CD player! i also recently got a proper CD player again for the first time in ages. an old macbook plugged into the stereo receiver sufficed for a long time, but damn it feels and sounds good to have a dedicated machine that's not connected to All The Internets And Distractions. both the CD player and the turntable are so great for active, focused listening, which is something i really need more of in my life.
i'm so glad i never gave up on my CD/LP collection. aside from the occasional trade-sell-lend, i have almost everything i've bought since the 90s. (apologies to the tapes that disappeared into the maw.) it's really come in handy with albums that fell out of print, weren't licensed to stream or download, or only got re-released with a weirdly different master or a different tracks sequence.
also, heck yeah on the CD player! i also recently got a proper CD player again for the first time in ages. an old macbook plugged into the stereo receiver sufficed for a long time, but damn it feels and sounds good to have a dedicated machine that's not connected to All The Internets And Distractions. both the CD player and the turntable are so great for active, focused listening, which is something i really need more of in my life.
My new CD player is just wonderful. @nikkuneko Focus is right!
The only bad news is that I slimmed down the CD collection a few years ago, on the basis that I should only keep those that I really want to hear again, in full. Now I flip through what I kept...meh, meh, meh....
sigh
I need some new CDs.
The only bad news is that I slimmed down the CD collection a few years ago, on the basis that I should only keep those that I really want to hear again, in full. Now I flip through what I kept...meh, meh, meh....
sigh
I need some new CDs.
That said, CDs are only slightly more archival than cloud services.