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Do you prefer CD-R or CD-RW for music? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by lseif@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For those who use CDs for music, which writable CD type do you use, and why?

Main differences:

CD-R can only be written once
CD-RW is more expensive

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What good are discs that last a couple of centuries when optical drives have already pretty much died out by this decade?

[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That "pretty much" is doing a lot of lifting. They're not commonplace in laptops now, but industrially they're still quite common. Same is true of tape backups, which the average consumer would swear is dead tech. If you want to store your files perpetually on disc, you'll be able to get a reader for that disc easily enough 50+ years from now. It just may not be installed by default.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

CD technology isn't even 50 years old at this point. Making such confident predictions about its availability in 50+ years is ridiculous.

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Considering we still have vinyl players and that techs over 50 years old, it's not too far of a stretch to believe cd tech will still be around in another 50 years.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Over 50? Technically true I guess but I’m still offended

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

1973 was 50 years ago, vinyl fully replaced shellac around the 60s, but the flat circle records that we know of have been around since like the late 20s or so. So way over 50 years.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Vinyl mainly still exists because it is the one lasting technology that is analog music recording technology. CD on the other hand is the first technology of the digital age there when it comes to music. It has no real benefits or distinguishing features over other digital storage (of music or data) to keep it alive.