KᑌᔕᕼIᗩMusic too
psycho_driverMade for a good haul for the junkies breaking into your car in the apartment parking lot every three months.
speaking from experience?
You kept you DVD movie collection in the car, even when it was stolen before?
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
OK, but where are they going to sell 53 CDs of burned One Piece?
I got my CD binder stolen from my car once. It was a big one too, like 75 CDs
downpunxxAnd Games, and Warez
of course movies are all digitall now but I still have a CD wallet of classic games like roller coaster tycoon, la noire, etc that I got on CD and refuse to pay for again on steam. I built my PC with a CD bay but these days a USB optical drive should be fairly cheap anyway.
music depends - I have a few early unsigned demos from a few of my favorite obscure punk bands that ended up being better than half their late catalog despite never being published that I refuse to give up
sincerely, a geriatric millenial
genoxidedev1I still have like three of those but haven't looked inside them for at least a few years. Last time was when I needed my Windows disc that I only out of habit put in there in the first place. I just use USB sticks neow~
I still have my old games case. I sometimes browse through it just for the nostalgia. Even just looking at the discs brings memories.
ObiniceDo 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
I haven’t used a CD or DVD for years. Most of my devices have no disc drive. Streaming has won, at least for lazy people like me.
r00tyI updated my PC just a week or so ago. Finally moved away from a case with external drive bays. That case was just not able to keep a 3080 cool.
Honestly, I had a Bluray drive in there that was not used in so long, that on my previous upgrade four years ago, in that case I forgot to reconnect it and only found out last week when I was taking it apart for the re-used parts.
President_PyrusI have a blu-ray drive that I use once or twice a year to rip a movie. 5 years or so ago I was the weirdo that has both a blu-ray and dvd drive in my computer, as I was ripping my entire movie library.
I bought a CD from a band I enjoyed and got home to realize I couldn’t play it
I would have to put it in my old laptop-the one with a disk drive and bluetooth to the speakers
Similar situation, someone gave me a live album of a band I love as a gift and I was psyched to listen to it, only to realize at home I had no way of playing it…
Gradually_AdjustingImmortan Joe ain’t spraying your teeth metallic
DreamButtWhich is everyone willing to pay
But how do you load the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows 🤓 hehe
I’m in the same boat honestly, I have a lot of stuff on disks still but I just pull out an old optical drive from the box if I need to read them, or an old laptop or tower or whatever that’s got an optical drive.
I do wish booting live USB was a little more universally easy though, it can be a bit of a pain in the arse compared to live CDs, these bloody TPMs and weird bios stuff getting in the way are a real pain. But overall, disks have had their day.
I do still use long term Blu-rays for bulk 10-plus-years cold storage backup though! Wouldn’t trust flash or HDDs for that.
TimeSquirrelNo, the most convenient way is ripping them and turning them into media files that I can copy to anything I want.
NoStressyJessieI had limited run CDs that spent their life temperature controlled and out of sunlight and they still had parts of the data layer “rot” away to the point they aren’t listenable at all anymore.
After I found those I started getting records on vinyl instead.
seitanicIt is, but it isn’t the most convenient way to store movies.
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.
The D QuuuuuillIts not that we found a better way to store media disks. Its that we found a better way to store media thanks to storage devices getting cheaper
i find the cloud and various nefarious streaming services are more effective these days
LucyLasticI 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
Those things are so useful
Still do. Have bookshelves full of them.
I know I’m getting old because that sounds normal to me.
Altima NEOThat’s a CD folder
llamaActually I just started doing this and got a 7 DVD changer. Same as what I spend in a month for all these random streaming services.
CysioI need to finally yeet my wallet full of outdated Linux distros
It’s upside down! Why are we not taking about the real issue. The disks will slide out…
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!
Discs, and they won’t slide out if your CD wallet is of good quality!
Destroyer of Worlds 3000mp3 mix cds for my car
a rose for me I lost one of those between house moves, with many cds in it
Little me was devastated.
eletesI found one in a parking lot after 4th of July fireworks. Had mostly original CDs instead of copied CD-Rs. Was quite a collection
kamenladySomeone 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.
Ildsaye [they/them]:they-live-sunglasses-off: haha, millennials are no longer young
:they-live-sunglasses-on: entrust your secrets to the cloud
im still using mine in my car from 2001
Kultronxi never cared for these, I feel like they scratched the discs faster than leaving them in the cases
yeah but discs were a lot cheaper if you bought them in bulk without the cases.
Honestly don’t remember anyone using these for DVDs. They were for (MP3) CDs and burned PS1 games.
Burned Dreamcast games too! It had no copy protection, so you could just download Ikaruga or a bunch of NES or Gameboy ROMs and play them with no modifications.
The DC did have copy protection, it would’ve made no sense to release a disc-based console in the late 90s without it considering CD burners were becoming ubiquitous (some early CD-based consoles like Sega CD didn’t have copy protection because nobody really had the means to write CDs at home). Sega believed their proprietary GD-ROM format would prevent piracy, but ironically it was another format called MIL-CD Sega introduced with the DC that allowed it to be exploited and cracked games to be run without the need to modify the console. Info here.
Am I remembering it wrong? I was huge on DCEmulation back in the early 2000s. Also I’m too lazy to read that link. I recall having to burn a weird music track… partition? To have my CD read. But I was able to play NEA/GB/SNES (with frameskip, unfortunately) and the only way my young broke butt could play Ikaruga was to pirate it and burn it to a CD.
We have maybe 4 or 5 of these babies loaded with dvds and TV series. We basically lived so rural we couldn’t stream for years at our old place. But we did have dvds and used these cases since we could haul them from the bedroom to the living room or basement depending what our plan was.
Now we’re lucky enough to have starlink (yes, initiate the Musk circlejerk) and we still sometimes will go through the albums and watch dvds occasionally.
holygon [he/him, comrade/them]I kinda miss the days of pirating a movie, burning it to a disk, and then popping it into a DVD player. Like it’s objectively more convenient now, with Jellyfin/Emby/Plex media servers that can stream to any device in your home, but it has lost some of the analogue charm of feeling like a hackerman dressed like Neo when you gave a friend or a family member a DVD with sharpie writing on it, and them thinking you were some tech genius lmao.
I remember some software where you could do include like a custom DVD menu, where you could press chapters and subtitles and stuff before starting the film, and thinking I was the coolest person in the world when I showed my friends hahahha. Ah good times. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Hell yeah. And before DVD burners, you could burn Invader Zim eps to a VCD and pop that into a DVD player, amazing your friends!
Early piracy was just so fun. Like I’m glad that it’s more simple, and accessible now, and that you are less likely to use your dial-up internet to download a virus over 3 days… But, it was so exciting lmao. Like it felt like you were stepping into some underground club that no one knew about - even though you were a 12 year old nerd with no prospects of a girlfriend in the near future hahahaha. But it was really fun, and it helped me learn to like problem-solving, and the idea of piracy, and open-source software def also helped me develop some ideas about the world around sharing, and stuff.
Anyway I think that’s enough gushing about that hahaha, just wanted to indulge in my nostalgia for a minute.
Are you absolutely me?
Did you spend 33 minutes downloading an MP3 of “Eyes on Me” from FFVIII, praying that nobody picks up the phone, then nearly crying while listening to it because your family computer plays MIDI files so poorly compared to your friends’ family computers?
Early piracy for me was getting PC games on floppy disks from friends and relatives. It was kind of just accepted everyone who had a computer would copy their games and software for everyone else.
It owned tbh.