• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 days ago

    I still have a BD-RE drive in my current setup. It almost never sees any use, but it’s definitely nice to have the option should I ever require it.

  • uberfreeza@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days ago

    It’s easy for me to remember. I made a cute soundtrack for an anniversary. I miss that relationship sometimes, but I try to convince myself leaving helped me grow.

  • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Every person you meet will eventually be seen for the last time. It’s odd how casual those departures can be.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    81·
    3 days ago

    Nah - CD’s are great.

    Everyone should be burning Parenti lectures and leaving them in public spaces. Very fun past time.

  • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one
    13·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • oppy1984@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        My co-worker’s car was broken into while he was moving house. His cd collection was in the car and the only cd left was the one in the cd player. So we listened to who’s next by the who all summer. Nothing quite like coming back from a rave at 6 in the morning with baba O’Riley blasting. The soundtrack to a perfect wasted summer.

  • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    4 days ago

    Amusingly, I think I remember some of my last ones, though maybe not my absolute final one.

    For the most part, I’d already moved away from CDs, but I got a job driving vans which didn’t have Bluetooth or an aux port. I ended up burning a few mp3 CDs für that job some time in late 2014.

    Fun fact: one of those CDs contained brony music which I accidentally left in my van one night. I came into work the next day to hear it blaring on the warehouse speakers until I heard someone saying “what is this?” before changing the CD.

    The drivers were all talking about it during lunch and I sat there quietly, amused by them trying to figure it out 😂

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      5·
      4 days ago

      I’m assuming you’ve moved on, but if not, there are FM transmitters for when you want music or navigation instructions from your phone to play over the vehicle’s speakers. Bluetooth or 3.5mm jack ones are both available.

      • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Oh god yeah you’re bringing back some memories there 😂

        So I already knew they were a thing, but annoyingly on some of the vans there was only a single 12v socket, and we had to use that socket to plug in the navigation system/manifest.

        So CDs were the easier choice until I got hold of one of those 12v splitters.

        The one I had was far bulkier than the one shown.

        A lot of the time it didn’t matter anyway because people don’t take care of the vans so a lot of the guys played their shit in the loading bays at full volume and would regularly blow the speakers out.

        Sometimes I was going out with a Bluetooth speaker jammed between the dash and windscreen.

        I had 100 solutions, it seems. The CDs were just one of them 😂

        I taught one of my friends to drive. She now has her first car - a 15 year old Mini - so now she has my old FM transmitter 🥰

        • boonhet@lemm.ee
          1·
          3 days ago

          I hope she enjoys the Mini! Though at this point that’s a fairly modern car. 15 years old is 2010 and many of those allow retrofitting factory options for sound. I’m looking to get Carplay in my brand new 18 year old German shitbox that’s both falling apart and in excellent shape at the same time. Mr12volt has kits for a lot of those, but sadly no Minis.

  • thisNotMyName@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 days ago

    Hah I knew it exactly. 2019 when my university required to hand in all (raw) data used for creating my thesis on a CD or DVD. I had to buy a new one of these things where you get like 50 disks stacked on a stick (to use 3 of them) and had to borrow my mom’s old laptop, because it was the only one available with a dvd drive. I knew it then and I’ve been right since then: This was the last time.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      I think for me it was before I moved counties and my disc was full so I put all my torrents on a couple DVDs. Early 2009.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days ago

    I’ve kept my Blu-ray burner in service from the past few rebuilds, probably had it about a decade or so

    Though I’m not sure I’ve actually ever burned anything with it—used it to back up some old DVDs recently though