It's upside down! Why are we not taking about the real issue. The disks will slide out...
Made for a good haul for the junkies breaking into your car in the apartment parking lot every three months.
You kept you DVD movie collection in the car, even when it was stolen before?
OK, but where are they going to sell 53 CDs of burned One Piece?
Hey, do you think these junkies go back to their crack houses & make mixtapes for each other?
Now that's what I call smash & grab music
speaking from experience?
I got my CD binder stolen from my car once. It was a big one too, like 75 CDs
Do people not still do this? Isn't it the most convenient way to store loads of DVDs and CDs?
I haven't used a CD or DVD for years. Most of my devices have no disc drive. Streaming has won, at least for lazy people like me.
I updated my PC just a week or so ago. Finally moved away from a case with external drive bays. That case was just not able to keep a 3080 cool.
Honestly, I had a Bluray drive in there that was not used in so long, that on my previous upgrade four years ago, in that case I forgot to reconnect it and only found out last week when I was taking it apart for the re-used parts.
Immortan Joe ain't spraying your teeth metallic
Which is everyone willing to pay
But how do you load the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows 🤓 hehe
I'm in the same boat honestly, I have a lot of stuff on disks still but I just pull out an old optical drive from the box if I need to read them, or an old laptop or tower or whatever that's got an optical drive.
I do wish booting live USB was a little more universally easy though, it can be a bit of a pain in the arse compared to live CDs, these bloody TPMs and weird bios stuff getting in the way are a real pain. But overall, disks have had their day.
I do still use long term Blu-rays for bulk 10-plus-years cold storage backup though! Wouldn't trust flash or HDDs for that.
anyone that has any amount of physical media now also probably likes having the cases and art to look at
Honestly yeah, I like having my CDs in their cases on the shelf so if I want to listen to a specific CD I can take it out and play it in a CD player. Sure I have so much music at my fingertips thanks to streaming, but there’s something really personal about taking a disk to listen to it. I guess I understand now what people used to say about vinyls back in the day
No, the most convenient way is ripping them and turning them into media files that I can copy to anything I want.
Archiving them like this also helps fight against bit rot. They aren't getting any younger (and by the CD/DVD's last days, they weren't exactly made out of the most high quality materials). I'm already experiencing this with floppies and retro computer stuff.
I had limited run CDs that spent their life temperature controlled and out of sunlight and they still had parts of the data layer “rot” away to the point they aren’t listenable at all anymore.
After I found those I started getting records on vinyl instead.
I have one that i last updated in 2012 still. I had a nexflix subcription with 3 movies mailed to me that I'd rip in DVDfab and burn to another DVD and mail back the same day i received the movies.
It is, but it isn't the most convenient way to store movies.
Its not that we found a better way to store media disks. Its that we found a better way to store media thanks to storage devices getting cheaper
i find the cloud and various nefarious streaming services are more effective these days
I do, because DVDs can't get pulled from streaming services or be region locked, and it's worked out cheaper to buy discs than subscribe to yet another service
I still buy CDs. Do I listen to them directly? No, I rip them and go with the FLACs, but it's still nice to have something physical, especially if buying directly from the artist (e.g. at a concert).
and you have a physical backup.
Yes, but that's hardly something I rely on. I prefer just copying my whole music library across several hard drives, some of them staying outside of my home. If I have to rip everything again, it would be quite a lot of work.
My kids have a music player called Yoto. It takes little cards which tells it which playlist to use. This is easy for kids to understand, and lets them listen to stories and music without adding more screen time. The cards don't actually store the music, just tell the player where to download it from.
My wife recently realized we had quite a few of these cards now. So she bought this:
The future is here, and it looks a lot like the past.
On that one hand, that's kind of cute and cool. But on the other, I find it a bit depressing that the main difference between this and CD wallets of the past is that the CDs actually did store the data.
With the CDs, you literally were holding the information, and you could use it as you wish without reliance or permission from anyone else. Whereas the cards, as you say, they just point to where the data is. You still need to rely on a whole chain of different services to get access to it. Access can be revoked at any time, either deliberately, or by some error, or by some critical service shutting down. It's just like the past, but worse. Isn't it?
Yeah, pretty much. In their defense they're more resilient to greasy kid fingers and being dropped behind the couch, but I still wish the data was actually stored on the card, or on some form of local storage. We had an mp3 player with an SD card before that, but then you can't switch playlist as easily.
The past is now.
That's a CD folder
I kinda miss the days of pirating a movie, burning it to a disk, and then popping it into a DVD player. Like it's objectively more convenient now, with Jellyfin/Emby/Plex media servers that can stream to any device in your home, but it has lost some of the analogue charm of feeling like a hackerman dressed like Neo when you gave a friend or a family member a DVD with sharpie writing on it, and them thinking you were some tech genius lmao.
I remember some software where you could include like a custom DVD menu, where you could press chapters and subtitles and stuff before starting the film, and thinking I was the coolest person in the world when I showed my friends hahahha. Ah good times. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Hell yeah. And before DVD burners, you could burn Invader Zim eps to a VCD and pop that into a DVD player, amazing your friends!
Early piracy was just so fun. Like I'm glad that it's more simple, and accessible now, and that you are less likely to use your dial-up internet to download a virus over 3 days... But, it was so exciting lmao. Like it felt like you were stepping into some underground club that no one knew about - even though you were a 12 year old nerd with no prospects of a girlfriend in the near future hahahaha. But it was really fun, and it helped me learn to like problem-solving, and the idea of piracy, and open-source software def also helped me develop some ideas about the world around sharing, and stuff.
Anyway I think that's enough gushing about that hahaha, just wanted to indulge in my nostalgia for a minute.
I found one in a parking lot after 4th of July fireworks. Had mostly original CDs instead of copied CD-Rs. Was quite a collection
Someone brought their most loved music to the party and instead of hearing those favorite songs and having future glimmers full of fond memories, they probably woke up with a devastating hangover, drenched in their own vomit, in the bushes of a garden in the front of some strangers house.
im still using mine in my car from 2001
T H E C L O U D is enshittified pretty badly, so maybe it's time for that to go back into style.
And Games, and Warez
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I used to have 128 GB MicroSD that I would plug into my phone/laptop/Tablet with movies and music.
But since we can't have nice things anymore - almost no modern devices support it.
I have a 128gb smart phone with bluetooth and wifi. Can literally listen to anything everywhere any time the battery is charged
CDs for sure but I owned over 2000 DVDs and I never would have done this with any of them.
I bought heavy duty drawers to store my DVDs in inside their cases.
Well... I guess you are talking about legal DVDs, this although maybe people did it as well with originals, pretty sure it was more common for not authorized copies.
If you were fancy you'd buy a stack of DVD-Rs that came in jewel cases. For the stuff you didn't care so much about you'd keep them in paper sleeves.
Or do like everyone else: store them on the spindle they came on.
YoU wOuLdN't StEaL a CaR!
I lost one of those between house moves, with many cds in it
Little me was devastated.
revealing ones age lol
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Got three of those monster sized books--
One each movies, music, and software. Plus two shelves of blurays and a further three old spindles of software.
You can pry my physical media out of my cold, dead, hand.
Archeologists will.
Same, but it's holding blurays
Me too! Most of em are movies and some of em are OS copies of windows and Linux
Filled a couple of these with 10p DVDs from charity shops and it's low-key amazing
i never cared for these, I feel like they scratched the discs faster than leaving them in the cases
yeah but discs were a lot cheaper if you bought them in bulk without the cases.
until i figured out i could rip them to mp3s and put them on a stick. usb plugs on car stereo was a revolution
Only to find out later that 128kbits doesn't quite cut it and have to restart the process
Gmusic would let you upload 128 and dowdload w/e their default was, 256kb? i've got thousands https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hMU9Pc2bQADGj76FNb7ZovgoU7vMXVvS?usp=drive_link
Yep, first did my entire cd collection to 256k ogg vorbis files. Then went back and reripped them to flac, used musicbrainz Picard to tag everything and just did conversations to mp3 so my car stereo could play them.
Now I'm about to go back through my dvd/blueray collection and do full rips without transcoding.
I need to finally yeet my wallet full of outdated Linux distros
mp3 mix cds for my car
:they-live-sunglasses-off: haha, millennials are no longer young
:they-live-sunglasses-on: entrust your secrets to the cloudHonestly don't remember anyone using these for DVDs. They were for (MP3) CDs and burned PS1 games.
Burned Dreamcast games too! It had no copy protection, so you could just download Ikaruga or a bunch of NES or Gameboy ROMs and play them with no modifications.
The DC did have copy protection, it would've made no sense to release a disc-based console in the late 90s without it considering CD burners were becoming ubiquitous (some early CD-based consoles like Sega CD didn't have copy protection because nobody really had the means to write CDs at home). Sega believed their proprietary GD-ROM format would prevent piracy, but ironically it was another format called MIL-CD Sega introduced with the DC that allowed it to be exploited and cracked games to be run without the need to modify the console. Info here.
We have maybe 4 or 5 of these babies loaded with dvds and TV series. We basically lived so rural we couldn't stream for years at our old place. But we did have dvds and used these cases since we could haul them from the bedroom to the living room or basement depending what our plan was.
Now we're lucky enough to have starlink (yes, initiate the Musk circlejerk) and we still sometimes will go through the albums and watch dvds occasionally.
I have an entire room full of DVDs
That's a lot. 8 Stops 7?
Actually I just started doing this and got a 7 DVD changer. Same as what I spend in a month for all these random streaming services.
I still have like three of those but haven't looked inside them for at least a few years. Last time was when I needed my Windows disc that I only out of habit put in there in the first place. I just use USB sticks neow~
I still have my old games case. I sometimes browse through it just for the nostalgia. Even just looking at the discs brings memories.
Still do due to bad packaging of DVDs and Blu-rays.
Those things are so useful
That's where I kept my PlayStation games.
I know I'm getting old because that sounds normal to me.
Still do. Have bookshelves full of them.
I have my PS1 collection in one of those.
