Mastodawn

artemist Aug 1, 2023

Hot take:
The Compact Disc is still the most futuristic audio format. Forget streaming, files, or the vinyl resurgence, CDs output music at near the top of the quality a human can hear by shooting LASERS at a mirror spinning 8 times per second. This somehow just works and you can read a $0.10 disc with a $20 drive.

When I buy music, I prefer to have it on a CD. I can rip it into my computer easily and if I ever lose that copy I can just rip it again, bit perfect every time. There's no subscription and no DRM that can take it away from me, I have a physical thing.

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Biohazard

@artemist

Aye, it definitely was an improvement when they came out, & the sound is top notch - but that capacity though. IIRC like 74 minutes for a vanilla CD.

Once I got a CD-R drive I was mostly ripping down to 320kbps MP3's. Could fit so much more music on the same disc, still sounded good in my car.

Skipping was also an issue. With ripped files the read-ahead buffer could also effectively be longer too for less skipping.

I liked them but still immediately jumped to flash memory.