• lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz
    12·
    12 days ago

    I don’t burn CDs, I buy music on pre-owned CDs (Best Of albums, etc.) and rip them to my computer. Cheaper than some of the online music stores where you download the music files.

      • lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        12 days ago

        Tbh I don’t know. I torrented lots of stuff as a kid (including music on Soulseek), but now I feel like paying for stuff. I know, weird. I suppose when I do buy music on the internet I want to support the artists. Paying for used CDs is just whatever, they’re cheap.

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
          1·
          12 days ago

          When I want to support an artist, I’ll buy a vinyl or other merch. It’s kinda difficult to justify spending the money on the CD or download when I all i want is an unrestricted flac file.

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    8·
    12 days ago

    Joke’s on you. I have multiple spindles of blank optical media I use regularly. I am not putting a ODE on my Saturn unless I absolutely have to.

  • applemao@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 days ago

    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.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      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.

  • PeterisBacon@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    12 days ago

    I do the opposite now. I buy discs cheap from bin stores, rip them onto my desktop and then upload to my home library for more affordable ‘streaming’.

  • Limonene@lemmy.world
    3·
    12 days ago

    I knew. I had been meaning to buy an aftermarket car stereo with USB and MP3 support for a long time. I was on my last blank CD, and had to decide then whether I would buy more CDs, or whether I would buy a new stereo that didn’t need CDs.

    • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
      2·
      12 days ago

      People keeping old ass industrial equipment alive. I had to buy some CD-Rs recently because it was the only way to get files on or off an ancient Win95 machine that had no network or USB ports. The machinery it interacts with costs a million dollars, so replacing it is no small thing.

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      In some secure facilities it’s basically the only way to transfer data. USB drives aren’t allowed and there’s no direct peer to peer networking either.

    • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
      4·
      12 days ago

      On work we accumulate a wealth of pesonal notes, forms, links, articles etc. We are strictly forbidden to use USB-Sticks, but the DVD-Burner are still working…

      My last DVD was a Knoppix though, just for the fun of it.

      • addie@feddit.uk
        3·
        12 days ago

        We used to do that in industrial automation. If you make any changes to the PLC / HMI / SCADA software, burn a DVD with what you changed and leave it next to the rack. No danger of bringing in viruses on a USB stick (the whole system was air-gapped) and you’d still have a backup available.

  • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • KiESi@lemm.ee
      3·
      12 days ago

      Whoa, you sound exactly like an improved version of me!

      Where do you get .wav files these days??

    • applemao@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 days ago

      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.

      • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        11 days ago

        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.

        • applemao@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 days ago

          And not even owning it…and they’ll keep upping the price little by little, slowly sucking us dry

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    I’m gonna burn a bunch of music to cd this week just because I can. Might even archive some movies.

    • anguo@lemmy.ca
      2·
      12 days ago

      I was just about to comment that the last time I did it, it was because I had some lightscribe disks that I wanted to try, but already had no use for anything on a CD.

    • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      Wasn’t that the label making thing? I think I had a laptop once that had that as a feature but it was literally never used

  • homura1650@lemm.ee
    3·
    12 days ago

    I still burn DVDs. Ever since USB storage was deemed “not secure”, they are the easiest way to get data into and out of sensitive networks.