Bring Back the Clay Tablet— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.
Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.
Submitted 2 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/03/13/Bring-Back-Burned-CD/
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gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 minutes ago
ftbd@feddit.org 42 minutes ago
And why is burning an audio file onto a CD better than having the same file on flash storage?
krisevol@lemmus.org 18 minutes ago
Being old does that to people
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 minutes ago
Elitism
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
Cassettes would like to have a word.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
felbane@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The word is “shutterst*ck”?
sefra1@lemmy.zip 41 minutes ago
I find that most my old cassettes still play, can’t say the same for the CDs.
rozodru@piefed.world 2 hours ago
imho in a weird way cassettes were better/more fun. Like wanting to record a song you like so you’d sit in front of the tape deck for hours on end listening to the radio waiting for that ONE song to come on so you could record it. It would take you hours, maybe even days, to make that mixtape of songs you didn’t own.
Also when I was a kid I had one of those fisher price tape decks that had the microphone attached to it. I wanted to make a mix tape of all my favourite songs from my NES games or games that I would rent (like the Battletoads theme song, or the music from the Batman videogame) so I would pop the game in then hold the microphone up to the TV speaker and record the songs.
Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Um no. Having to rewind the tape was annoying. If you had a janky player it would eat it.
db2@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Cassettes are making a comeback much like vinyl but to a lesser extent. I’ve got 800 or so cassettes and probably 3/4 of them were made in the past 6 years.
MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Vinyl made sense because of its high fidelity. Cassettes do not make sense unless you enjoy dogshit audio quality
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Cassettes are a great way to play ambient and lo-fi hip-hop music.
Magister@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Sure you can burn a CD, but I think I have nothing to play them anymore. My car (2020) does not have a CD player anymore. Nor my PC nor my laptop have one. I may have in my drawer an old BD reader DVD burner/reader with a SATA plug or something, I remember I plugged it on my laptop with a USB adapter yearsssss ago to rip my LOTR BD. It has been used 1 time in like 10 years.
worhui@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
In audio circles stamped cd’s have been making a comeback. It’s much like the last decades vinyl revival.
It’s not the older generations getting nostalgia, it’s the younger generations looking for ‘experience’ over content. Buying a physical thing, storing on the shelf, having a visible collection of disks to show off.
Additionally it is a revenue stream for artists, where else spite the costs of mastering a d pressing a cd, they can get more money from a cd release than from streaming. So artists have been incentivized do make releases a big deal since they money goes straight to them. It’s a bit like a ‘buy me a coffee’ but with a physical item.
You can buy brand new cd players, not just blueray players or vintage units that need service.
It’s a thing.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
What a dumbass article. It’s way too easy right now to burn a CD, we need another 25 years before were nostalgic about this one.
Humanius@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I think the majority of people at this point don’t have a computer with a CD / DVD burner anymore. And at least over here the supermarket also does not sell blank CDs / DVDs anymore.
Most people would have to go out of their way to acquire the means to burn their own CDs
Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I disagree. Find a prebuilt PC that ships with a drive. Extremely rare unless you custom order it.
On my desk sits a usb CD/DVD writer. Majority of my non tech friends might have an old bluray or DVD player laying aroung or a PS3/4.
With your statement, you can say floppies are too easy to burn since you can buy a usb writer and a stack on amazon.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 minutes ago
AI slop article, through and through
etherphon@piefed.world 2 hours ago
Surely the what the world needs right now is more plastic.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 59 minutes ago
That is a downside.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’m not sure if they’ve degraded, but I’ve got one of those CD-R spindles with a few disks left on it somewhere
I could burn a mix CD this afternoon if I felt like it?
Thing is if I gave half of the people I know a mix CD I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t actually have a means of listening to it
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 hours ago
Nothing’s stopping you from burning a CD right now. But ultimately, these kinds of nostalgic memories are less about the tech itself and more about remembering the happy times of youth. Bringing back the burned CD won’t bring those back I’m afraid.
homes@piefed.world 1 hour ago
What’s stopping me is that I haven’t had a CD burner in like 12 or 15 years
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 32 minutes ago
External USB ones are free in boxes of Frosted Flakes these days.
I have a genuine honest to goodness 5.25" bay mounted Blu Ray burner in my tower right now. Hey, you never friggin’ know. It comes in handy every once in a while. There’s a machine in my basement with an LS-120, a Zip drive, and a 5.25" floppy drive in it that all still work. Occasionally I still find myself needing to get some monumentally important ancient file off of some kind of floppy disk or other for somebody.
krisevol@lemmus.org 17 minutes ago
They still sell them
exu@feditown.com 1 hour ago
A tiny laser and steady hands should work