I still buy CDs. Do I listen to them directly? No, I rip them and go with the FLACs, but it’s still nice to have something physical, especially if buying directly from the artist (e.g. at a concert).
and you have a physical backup.
Yes, but that’s hardly something I rely on. I prefer just copying my whole music library across several hard drives, some of them staying outside of my home. If I have to rip everything again, it would be quite a lot of work.
I used to have 128 GB MicroSD that I would plug into my phone/laptop/Tablet with movies and music.
But since we can’t have nice things anymore - almost no modern devices support it.
I have a 128gb smart phone with bluetooth and wifi. Can literally listen to anything everywhere any time the battery is charged
Yes, but your audio will sound shit compared to listening to lossless audio with wired headphones. Oh, you also probably don’t own that music also, once those servers go down you’ll lose everything.
Yeah those are good points, sure. I shouldn’t wear headphones while driving, and the door speakers are basic anyway, so I don’t see that a priority right now, but have considered that before. TBH, the only music I do listen to via steaming service is the stuff I haven’t bought physical copies of yet, and copied over.
Filled a couple of these with 10p DVDs from charity shops and it’s low-key amazing
I know I’m getting old because that sounds normal to me.
I lost one of those between house moves, with many cds in it
Little me was devastated.
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?
Sure but would you hold them that way on purpose?
Depends how sober I am!
The OfficeMax special, only $4.99
Discs, and they won’t slide out if your CD wallet is of good quality!
revealing ones age lol
mp3 mix cds for my car
I found one in a parking lot after 4th of July fireworks. Had mostly original CDs instead of copied CD-Rs. Was quite a collection
Someone 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.
:they-live-sunglasses-off: haha, millennials are no longer young
:they-live-sunglasses-on: entrust your secrets to the clouduntil i figured out i could rip them to mp3s and put them on a stick. usb plugs on car stereo was a revolution
Only to find out later that 128kbits doesn’t quite cut it and have to restart the process
Yep, first did my entire cd collection to 256k ogg vorbis files. Then went back and reripped them to flac, used musicbrainz Picard to tag everything and just did conversations to mp3 so my car stereo could play them.
Now I’m about to go back through my dvd/blueray collection and do full rips without transcoding.
How would one go about doing this? I’ve been maintaining my bluray collection because I want my favourite films always available but I haven’t tried to rip anything in over a decade and I think I did it badly even then.
A software recommendation would be brilliant. Cheers.
MakeMKV is what I’ve been using.
If you want to rip 4k blueray you have to do a bit more work, like buying one of a few specific drives, and possibly flash open source firmware on it.
1080p is fine for me. That’s great, thanks mate :)
Gmusic would let you upload 128 and dowdload w/e their default was, 256kb? i’ve got thousands https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hMU9Pc2bQADGj76FNb7ZovgoU7vMXVvS?usp=drive_link
I have an entire room full of DVDs
That’s a lot. 8 Stops 7?
CDs for sure but I owned over 2000 DVDs and I never would have done this with any of them.
I bought heavy duty drawers to store my DVDs in inside their cases.
Well… I guess you are talking about legal DVDs, this although maybe people did it as well with originals, pretty sure it was more common for not authorized copies.
If you were fancy you’d buy a stack of DVD-Rs that came in jewel cases. For the stuff you didn’t care so much about you’d keep them in paper sleeves.
Or do like everyone else: store them on the spindle they came on.
YoU wOuLdN’t StEaL a CaR!
I had a disk wallet full of pirated PS2 games. That was the coolest shit
I had several full of pirated Dreamcast games and it was glorious.
We lived the sweet spot of time when internet piracy, crackable consoles and home cd burners converged
Honestly don’t remember anyone using these for DVDs. They were for (MP3) CDs and burned PS1 games.
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.
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.
My wife still has her zip up trapper keeper full of random albums, burned CDs, movies, unsolicited dick polaroids. You know, the usual. definitely a treasure trove of 80s-90s female singers/groups.
