“We used to mark them ‘summer mix’ and put them in a soft case full of them in the car, which was the style at the time”
You would change your disc at a red light, as tradition tells
Pah, I had a CD-changer for 6 discs!
Is that the thing that holds the phone mount?
No no, the disc changer was in the glove box. The radio had a cassette player. I used it with one of those cassette adapters to connect my iRiver mp3 player.
I did it at 80 for style points
Help me out here
Nero Burning Rom was a popular program for burning CDs
I used Nero. Is this person I’m supposed to be aware of in the picture named Nero or something?
I’m no lepidopterist, but from context I’d guess that it is indeed Nero.
A much maligned Roman emperor, Nero supposedly (but almost certainly not actually) haughtily played some instrument or the other during the Great Fire of Rome.
Hence, “burning a CD-ROM” is easily associated with him even though the story is almost certainly not true and “ROM” (read only memory) was the suffix of the CDs that COULDN’T be burned 🤷
Honestly, this was some A-tier wordplay, especially considering that the company who made it is was German.
Absolutely!
Is that last bit a dig at German humour?
I hear it’s not a laughing matter.
I thought they studied butterflies?
They do, yes. I’m just doing a variant of the “I’m no geologist but (says things that have nothing to do with geology)” meme 😁
The best name for a piece of software I’ve ever read lol
Omfg I just got that 🤦
“Look grandpa, I found this box full of save icons in your old stuff”
And omg soo much retro porn which is now banned in the us
CDeez Nutz Burnin’
You like tapes and CDs?
How 'bout I tape my dick to your head so you can CDs nuts!?
There’s a cream for that
And a weed strain
CDs nuts!
Got em.
I burned a CD just a few days ago.
I just punched a card yesterday.
I inscribed a clay tablet just this morning
I recited a saga an hour ago
I’m painting a cave wall right now.
It’s about that scumbag Ea-nāṣir, isn’t it?
His copper is subpar.
Why? What did the card ever do to deserve that?
It was a nasty piece of card.
They’re particularly nasty at this time of year
Wait until they hear we ripped them after burning them
Never. The audio equivalent of “Needs More JPEG”
Winamp! (Winamp!) Winamp! It really whips the lamma’s ass!
;)
Yeah, it’s probably best you maintain some distance from winamp, especially if it’s been drinking.
This CD is not for your Stereo, it’s for your Computer!
Back in my day we burned a lot of CDs…
Funny to think that the same number of drives would fit into maybe 1/4 of this height if made in the slim form factor.
I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.
All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I’m amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.
I found that I still had two plastic tubes of DVD+Rs!
Linux has built-in in dvd burning and ripping tools that work amazingly. Been ripping all my ps1 and ps2 games.
FYI: unless you have a very specific model of CD drive, your PS1 backups aren’t perfect copies. They will work but the copy protection might not have been read properly. It’s not important in 99.9% of use cases. If you need a perfect copy, download NoIntro dumps.
Good info. Mine have been working well. But I still keep the hard copies I dont get rid of them. But yes disc rot is a thing though ive not experienced it
DVD-R or DVD-RW?
not the dvd+r dvd-r shit again
+R.
If you’d asked me, I’d have said that I always bought -R, but I guess I was different person back then.
You had to monitor the computer, if any program started or did anything weird, it could cause the entire disc to be destroyed, and you had to start over
99% finished
*Critical error, disc burning failed.*
A CD is a Certificate of Deposit. You see, back in the 1900s, our parents had this thing called DISPOSABLE INCOME thought to be a myth, but trust me, it was real. People had so much money they wouldn’t starve to death if they didn’t work overtime.
Anyway, they needed a place to put it, so get this: they could deposit it into an account, and it would actually grow! Then they’d get a Certificate of Deposit to verify they really gave the bank the money because—guess what—it wasn’t a scam! They got the money back! I know, right? Amazing.
Maybe it’s finally time to throw out the half finished pack of blank cds away. They’ve been sitting on my bookshelf for 20 years
I had a pack like that, tried to use them last year and every one of them failed to burn. Must have hit their shelf life somewhere along the way
I’m a school bus driver and I’m not even joking when I say I blew my kids’ minds with a burned CD the other day. My daughter asked me to make one of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One kid asked how I got it on CD and when I showed him a burned disc complete with sharpie label his response was just, “Wait you can do that?!”
Made me feel old as hell.
Low effort joke
When I was your age, we used to own our music. It worked offline and we could copy it to other devices.
Tangent
Why aren’t Normies speaking up about everything needing internet? Street navigation, music, videos, reading, games, etc. Are all things that would work brilliantly normally, no server required. Why does no one realise, that if the server disappears, so does in effect their personal property? If it is tethered to a server, it’s broken, because the server will disappear, the question is only when.
why aren’t normies speaking up
They dont care. Speaking as a normie-convert, so long as it works right now idgaf. When it doesn’t work tomorrow I’ll cry about it then and demand to speak to the manager, but right now? Summer will last forever.
Normies dont understand the abstraction layer between all their data being stored in offline data banks and being mined for illegal ai use and surveillance.
Ill keep my physical media thanks. Never was on the cloud bandwagon, I wont be on the ai bandwagon.
Why aren’t Normies speaking up
I’m the most bland person you’ll ever meet and I kept all my CDs and DVDs. I would never buy something only as digital/cloud format that I couldn’t burn on a disc. It gave me anxiety from the beginning. I have multiple external storages with the same copies of photos and I still print the most precious ones out. I’ll have music and memories if the internet ever breaks down, I just need a power generator.
I also absolutely don’t see physical copies of books, music, or movies, as clutter. Booklets in CDs are to die for, and I think it makes for great room decor. If I burn a CD I usually make some collage artwork as a cover to accompany the disc.
I told my dad I want cassette tapes to come back. He laughed and said how he remembered how crystal clear CDs were when he listened to them for the first time. What can I say dad, I like a little wow/flutter in my music.
