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

submitted 11 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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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm a mid-to-older millennial. My elders would say shit like "What? You don't know how to use a gramophone? You young whippersnappers are completely worthless." And I find that behavior absolutely abhorrent.

If you were here in person, I'd offer to spend some time burning some CDs. I've still got a computer with some pretty decent optical drives laying around. I can probably even scare up some blank discs. We'd find some music, burn it to a disc and then try it out on my old boom box.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As long as you gave them the full experience with tossing a disc in the trash because of a buffer overrun. Damn Nero software!

[–] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And weird bugs like Windows audio somehow creeping into audio CD burns. Or the times in Linux where the tray would refuse to open or close. I used to keep a paper clip next to my next to force it open sometimes....

I don't miss that hardware.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I had pretty good luck burning discs, they would occasionally fail.

I had a CD-RW I used for my mp3 player, and the software I used (Roxio) had this mode where you could treat the disc like any other mass storage device, you could add a single file.

For our young friend SagXD, burning a CD usually had to be done as a whole. You'd arrange all the files (if a data disc) or audio tracks (if an audio disc) in a buffer, and then burn the entire disc in one shot. If done at "1x" speed, it could take an hour, but "8x" speeds were pretty common, if more error prone. With my rewritable CD, I could add a single file if I wanted to and not have to rewrite the entire disc. Adding a single song to the iPod I got in college wasn't much less rigamarole.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I suspect they were trying to rib you, and you were too young to grok that yet.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're an asshole to a kid ironically, and the kid thinks you're an asshole, you're just an asshole. An entire generation wasn't taught that, and look at the world they built.

[–] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Baby boomers got burned more than Nero ever did!