*will

And have few days ago. I like spinny media.

Oh, I also have a half destroyed portable CD player (previous battery leak, damaged screen, broken stop button) that can even play mixed mode CD with MP3 files. That means I can combine lossy and lossless on the same disc. It can even shuffle between the 2 parts, albeit with a slight delay.

Mine was around 2016 and IIRC I said something like “Never thought I’d be burning a CD in 2016!” because some Autodesk software required it and we had to fish a CD-RW drive out of storage in the client’s closet.

I actually do know when my last disc was burned (it was a DVD though–)

One of my video prod professors demanded we turn in our group assignments in DVD format

… This was in 2018

I was the only person in the entire class that even had a DVD burner. Everyone pooled together to buy a spindle and a Disc Marker and I spent all afternoon burning everyone’s DVDs

To quote Mr. Bringus Studios: “Optical media bad.”

I did back up all my discs though, physical media backups are awesome.

And when was the last time you dubbed a compact cassette? (For me it was 2 hours ago)

i have never burned a single CD or DVD in my entire life

ps: i’m 19

I keep my old SATA DVD-RW but I haven’t had it installed in anything for years. I finally recycled my USB floppy drive. I’d kept it to potentially help people with data recovery but decided that floppy data anyone might have lying around had already degraded.

There’s like a 95% one of the last CDs I burned was a The Prodigy album. I was super into them the last time I had a computer with a burner installed and I can’t think of anything else I would have burned during that time. It’s possible it was a cracked version of office or something.

A few months ago I started moving most of my audio media over to CDs. I don’t trust streaming services to maintain extensive libraries and/or continue to exist.

We’re already seeing video streaming services remove content from their platforms despite having the rights to it.

I doubt that Spotify or Apple Music won’t do the same in the near future.

That was… two days ago.

Without us realising, Nero burned Rom 😥

Well now I’m gonna burn one of my RW disks just to make this wrong.

My LightsScribe drive was the best investment of 2011

I still burn CDs for my dad all the time, (I also have a few of them for myself too) since our cars have CD players in them, and while I usually play Music through the Aux it’s good to have CDs for when there’s spotty connection and nothing good on the Radio.

ngl i feel safer digging through CDs while driving than digging through a music library on some phone touchscreen. probably if i learned to use voice controls i’d feel better about the phone but i’m at that age where i’m comfortable enough with my ways that i’d rather not have to change them.