My friend and I got an old optiplex and upgraded it with a burner so we can make CDs. It’s actually quite nice to have a physical medium for music in the car, and make mixes for different moods that you can switch between. We also know some people with older cars that only have CD and radio or the Bluetooth sucks so we’ll make CDs for them too. Tons of fun and you can buy a usb CD / DVD burner for like $10 or $15 and CD-Rs are fairly cheap.
Building a dedicated machine for this is such a cool idea. It’s a great reminder that ‘outdated’ tech still has so much value and can bring people together. Those friends with the older cars are lucky to have you!
You can make a million other hand-made things. But sure bring back obsolete tech.
lets not bring back the worse tech in history, k thanks.
Why do you consider it the worst? I’ve burned a fair share of coasters in my time but once the data is on there, CDs/DVDs are pretty reliable
lets see, they take forever to burn, they burn error rate is huge, they are physically large and have tiny capacity, they scratch, you have to handle them carefully, they often stop working due to scratches or just the top of the cd getting a chip or bubble.
increase the capacity of minidiscs and bring them back, a format everyone loved
Can’t tell if a AI slop article, or just really bad writing
Ok clearly it’s not literally about making CDs and people saying “just make your own streaming service” are both missing the point and vastly over estimating the capacity of the average person.
The important part that’s largely missing from today’s music environment is the personal touch and investment. Many people, as the author says, just comfortably coast through an algorithmic smoothie of familiar music. That is inferior to a friend saying “I made you this mix” and then you actually listen to it, attentively, more than once.
It doesn’t have to be a CD. It can be a zip file. But the intention and focus was important.
I’m an outlier in that I never let “the algorithm” choose what plays. Sometimes I still make mixes for friends, though lately they’ve just been a collection of links. That process of choosing is meaningful. My friend still listens to the mix I made for them when their job laid them off, sometimes.
It can be a zip file.
Or just a playlist you made on one of those streaming services. Ain’t no difference.
Memory sucks. Having a physical token as a reminder is very helpful.
I generally agree, but it was special to have a physical tape or CD that you got to keep around. Felt more like an actual gift.
this is a good reminder to finish that mix CD I’m halfway through putting together
Only if burned from FLAC or similar. But also no. 700MB and super slow. Take an old Android phone with an SD card in it and turn it into a WiFi server. Let people connect to it and take what they want. iPhone, Android, Windows, macOS, doesn’t matter, it’ll connect to it.
No, we need transferable digital licenses. I want to both own my software and download it on the go
What no love for the mixtape? We have to go straight to CD?
This is stupid. Just make your own streaming service.
Bring back that whole timeframe. We weren’t all so stuck up our phone’s ass.
Yeah, growing up as a teen it was the opposite. I was burning CDs and had this phone stuck up my ass
CDs and had this phone stuck up my ass
Kids will think you’re joking, but the vibration on those things was a proper… well, vibrator.
Nothing like getting a text from your crush with your phone in your crotch for her/him having indirectly caused you sexual pleasure.
(Also we did actually have contests on who’d throw their phone the highest without failing to catch it. And the throw were easily 5-15 meters high. And lots of misses. But not a single disabled phone. Small scratches on the covers maybe, but you could also buy new covers so it was no problem.)
Posted in r/teachers yesterday:
I took my own children to a park, there were about 8-10 kids running around between the ages of 1 and 6. The children were feral. The parents were on their phones the entire time. None of the bad behavior was noticed, let alone corrected. A three year old boy sat in a tunnel and screamed and pushed anyone who came near. Mom was oblivious. She wasn’t watching her kid, she was on her phone. Another girl (about 5) was being extremely rough around some of the toddlers (kicking towards them, jumping over a one year old at one point). Her dad didn’t correct the behavior. He didn’t see it. He was on his phone. I could go on. Besides the occasional glance, parents were completely disengaged from their children.
The reason I got a cd burner was the frustration of dealing with Bluetooth in my car. I got a Bluetooth capable, simple, CD compatible head unit. The best part about using a CD is it begins immediately when the car starts, versus fumbling with a phone. Though swapping CDs obviously isn’t as great as using digital / streaming.
I used to connect my celeron laptop running madrake 6 to my tape deck and use a usb game controller to control xmms while war driving 802.11b networks with a pcmcia Orinoco silver that I had hacked up to gold. Those were the days…
When I first burned my first CDs(after long time), I was happy, and I quite liked, but but since I buy CDs, I don’t do that anymore. When I found my burned CDs after some time, I was intrigued to listen what was in it.
I never stopped. How else am I going to burn PS1, Dreamcast, and 360 games?
I think all of these have sdcard mods now (and the 360 has long had HDD mods from memory).
PS2 for DVD-R
360 wasn’t DVD?
It was.
I think people undervalue cd/dvd/bluray. Up to this day it’s best format for giving away data like family photos.
With any usb device there’s much larger security risk. Also people want to get storage back.
