It’s upside down! Why are we not taking about the real issue. The disks will slide out…
Discs, and they won’t slide out if your CD wallet is of good quality!
Yeah, that’s pretty fucked up. Whoever did the PS is a youngling.
All of my CD wallets are of good quality. I can hold them upside down with no slippage.
What kind of rubbish CD wallets were you both using?
The OfficeMax special, only $4.99
Sure but would you hold them that way on purpose?
Depends how sober I am!
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
I got my CD binder stolen from my car once. It was a big one too, like 75 CDs
speaking from experience?
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.
Do people not still do this? Isn’t it the most convenient way to store loads of DVDs and CDs?
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 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.
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 find the cloud and various nefarious streaming services are more effective these days
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 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
And Games, and Warez
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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.
YoU wOuLdN’t StEaL a CaR!
I had a disk wallet full of pirated PS2 games. That was the coolest shit
I had several full of pirated Dreamcast games and it was glorious.
We lived the sweet spot of time when internet piracy, crackable consoles and home cd burners converged
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
Yes, but your audio will sound shit compared to listening to lossless audio with wired headphones. Oh, you also probably don’t own that music also, once those servers go down you’ll lose everything.
Yeah those are good points, sure. I shouldn’t wear headphones while driving, and the door speakers are basic anyway, so I don’t see that a priority right now, but have considered that before. TBH, the only music I do listen to via steaming service is the stuff I haven’t bought physical copies of yet, and copied over.
revealing ones age lol
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I lost one of those between house moves, with many cds in it
Little me was devastated.
Still got mine!
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
