No no, the disc changer was in the glove box. The radio had a cassette player. I used it with one of those cassette adapters to connect my iRiver mp3 player.
I'm no lepidopterist, but from context I'd guess that it is indeed Nero.
A much maligned Roman emperor, Nero supposedly (but almost certainly not actually) haughtily played some instrument or the other during the Great Fire of Rome.
Hence, "burning a CD-ROM" is easily associated with him even though the story is almost certainly not true and "ROM" (read only memory) was the suffix of the CDs that COULDN'T be burned đ¤ˇ
FYI: unless you have a very specific model of CD drive, your PS1 backups aren't perfect copies. They will work but the copy protection might not have been read properly. It's not important in 99.9% of use cases. If you need a perfect copy, download NoIntro dumps.
Good info. Mine have been working well. But I still keep the hard copies I dont get rid of them. But yes disc rot is a thing though ive not experienced it
You had to monitor the computer, if any program started or did anything weird, it could cause the entire disc to be destroyed, and you had to start over
I'm a school bus driver and I'm not even joking when I say I blew my kids' minds with a burned CD the other day. My daughter asked me to make one of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One kid asked how I got it on CD and when I showed him a burned disc complete with sharpie label his response was just, "Wait you can do that?!"
A CD is a Certificate of Deposit. You see, back in the 1900s, our parents had this thing called DISPOSABLE INCOME thought to be a myth, but trust me, it was real. People had so much money they wouldnât starve to death if they didnât work overtime.
Anyway, they needed a place to put it, so get this: they could deposit it into an account, and it would actually grow! Then theyâd get a Certificate of Deposit to verify they really gave the bank the money becauseâguess whatâit wasnât a scam! They got the money back! I know, right? Amazing.
Cds are digital data storage discs that are etched in microscopic 1's and 0's in a microscopic spiral with a laser, and then later read back with lasers. You can only write them once but you can read them a million times. So grammatically, in the same way you "nuke" food in a microwave, you "burn" a cd in a cd drive that is capable of writing cds.
Maybe someday we can have cheap (cheaper than other storage media per gb), durable (last at least my lifetime), terabyte, fast read optical media. I would love to permanently store lots of stuff that doesn't ever need to be rewritten.
Well you etch pits you don't actually use numbers. Also it's not a spiral, it's not a record player it's not been read by physical stylus so you don't need a guide, they're just concentric circles.
You start the disc off as a zero, then whenever you need to transition to a one you etch a pit, then it will continue to read that as one until you etch another pit and flip back to zero. So the sequence 0111001 would be etched as _.__.__.
Discs can also be overwritten, and used multiple times, you just wipe the entire top layer off and start again on the layer below, only really cheap CDs were single use.
As for the future there are already experimental crystal storage solutions (made out of artificial diamond so it would be essentially indestructible) which really are single use, but they can store hundreds of petabytes of data so you would probably just treat them as if they were rewritable. There's also DNA storage but the equipment to save and read the data is nowhere near commercially viable yet.
The pits just represent numbers. A 1-bit memory cell typically stores high or low voltage. The numbers 0 and 1 only exist as a platonic ideal, and there are many ways to represent them in the real world.
Ngl, i didn't know it was concentric circles. I always thought it was a spiral like a vinyl record.
Also the encode is pretty neat, I didn't know that.
I DID know about RWs being rewritable, and you could sort of brute force some supposedly single write discs.
To be clear, I wrote that to be as simple as possible like if a person read it who really didn't have any idea, they could have a relatively quick understanding in plain terms. Guess even I learned something today!
There's a Bluray media called MDisc that's supposed to be more durable. It says 1000 years so I give it 100 based on the fact that the 100 year rated Verbatim AZZO DVD+R's that I burned and verified to have low PIO errors had errors after 10 years stored in black cases in my temperature controlled basement.
People claim their burned DVD's are all fine but I've never heard a post back when I asked if they've actually verified all the bits. "It reads when I put it in." doesn't mean there isn't data corruption.
I recently learned of MDisc (there's a CD and DVD version, too, iirc) and decided to get a burner and convert my old data CDs.
While I haven't verified every single bit, I did check that the files copied off of it were still functional and didn't see any issues. Also didn't get any errors. I was surprised because I've had some of them for over 20 years now and didn't do more than put them in CD binders to protect them (during the days when I didn't even consider the longevity of the media, other then obvious things like scratches.
Only disc I wasn't able to get the data from was a packet CD, which was a special format that facilitated treating the disc more like diskettes, where you could read or write at will via the filesystem rather than writing the disc as a special package from the start (or having multiple sessions if there's still room on the disc after one such write). I was able to find references to the tech, though not if it was a standard or just a name a few different companies used for different implementations, but I wasn't able to find Linux drivers that could do anything other than rip the ISO and a few strings or tell me it can't find anything. Though it's possible that corruption is really what happened here because I'd expect RW CDs to last a shorter time than the write once ones.
Though I suppose I could try it on my old windows machine and see if drivers are more readily available there.
Yeah, those were CDs. I don't think I got to the DVDs, since my sense of urgency faded after I saw the older ones seemed ok. I'll have to check them out after you said that, though lol.
My guess is that there's not much use case beyond archival backups. That's not going to get the economies of scale that CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays have. It'd be priced for the enterprise market, but they already have perfectly good archival backup solutions. You'd also have to prove that it can be durable for at least a few decades, but even for commercial duplication, previous optical formats are just OK at best on longevity.
huh, I could have sworn there was a format for long-term archival, like 50+ years. I guess the GitHub Arctic Code Vault project went with microfilm using some very custom equipment to produce it all. but maybe everyone just uses tape (which is fun! but a bit less durable, and more finicky about being stored well)
When I was your age, we used to own our music. It worked offline and we could copy it to other devices.
Tangent
Why aren't Normies speaking up about everything needing internet? Street navigation, music, videos, reading, games, etc. Are all things that would work brilliantly normally, no server required. Why does no one realise, that if the server disappears, so does in effect their personal property? If it is tethered to a server, it's broken, because the server will disappear, the question is only when.
They dont care. Speaking as a normie-convert, so long as it works right now idgaf. When it doesn't work tomorrow I'll cry about it then and demand to speak to the manager, but right now? Summer will last forever.
Normies dont understand the abstraction layer between all their data being stored in offline data banks and being mined for illegal ai use and surveillance.
Ill keep my physical media thanks. Never was on the cloud bandwagon, I wont be on the ai bandwagon.
I'm the most bland person you'll ever meet and I kept all my CDs and DVDs. I would never buy something only as digital/cloud format that I couldn't burn on a disc. It gave me anxiety from the beginning. I have multiple external storages with the same copies of photos and I still print the most precious ones out. I'll have music and memories if the internet ever breaks down, I just need a power generator.
I also absolutely don't see physical copies of books, music, or movies, as clutter. Booklets in CDs are to die for, and I think it makes for great room decor. If I burn a CD I usually make some collage artwork as a cover to accompany the disc.
I told my dad I want cassette tapes to come back. He laughed and said how he remembered how crystal clear CDs were when he listened to them for the first time. What can I say dad, I like a little wow/flutter in my music.
Not having lived through it is fine; being unable to google a couple of words is just virtue signalling how lazy you are, especially considering this is probably coming from someone who's glued to their phone all day.
See, I had a 6 cd rack for burning but I never learned why it was called burning. Every time I asked in irc, they said something to the effect of âhead to the doctor, you should get that looked at.â Any kind lemming care to elucidate me?
Edit: finally I can rest in peace (and go to the doctor)
Sure! It's called "burning a CD" because you are literally burning it. You are using a laser to burn or etch a texture into the CD that can be read by the lasers in other CD drives.
Anyone more knowledgeable than me is more than welcome to add details and correct whatever I got wrong. I know the basic concept, but I'm no CD engineer.
Edit: The original explanation I had here was that a laser burns pits in the CD material but that was wrong, apparently only pressed discs use physical pits in the material. The laser used in a home CD burner changes the color of a photosensitive dye on a recordable CD. So I think actually "burning" is due to a misunderstanding (which I had until I just looked it up) of how a home CD writer works.
Back in the day here in Finland we ordered bulk of cd/dvd r and rwâs from Ă land Islands (autonomous region of Finland). They were cheaper thanks to taxes loophole. I still had 20 pcs of dvdâs from those days and burned them all to save some space on my pc.
Straight from the radio. How I hated DJs talking over intros. ESPECIALLY Bat Out of Hell. Took me so many attempts to get Roy Bittan without the monologue .
Did anyone ever have a Lightscribe burner? I always wanted one. It seemed pretty dope being able to etch a label onto the disc with the same device that wrote data to it.
Most people thought you had to snap them in half to destroy the data, and that the data was on the "down side". No no my friend, the data is the shiny label part and you can wreck the disc by just flaking some off with a pointy metal thing.
True, but im also reusing a shit ton of stuff and not buying into the "i need new all the time I need the latest thing" I dont even hace a set of wireless headphones because they are A: stupid, and B: my 15 year old headphones work perfectly. My car is 13 years old and i do most repairs. Never had a new car.
You have headphones and a car? Disgusting consumer behavior, you just NEED to have the latest technology don't you. I ride a horse and use my voice to sing if I want to listen to music.
I don't even have a phone because they are A: stupid, and B: sending letters in the mail work perfectly. My horse is 13 years old and I do most reshoeing. Never had a new horse.
118 Comments
Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works · 101 pts · 312d
"We used to mark them 'summer mix' and put them in a soft case full of them in the car, which was the style at the time"
skooma_king@piefed.social · 46 pts · 312d
You would change your disc at a red light, as tradition tells
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 312d
Pah, I had a CD-changer for 6 discs!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 312d
Is that the thing that holds the phone mount?
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 310d
No no, the disc changer was in the glove box. The radio had a cassette player. I used it with one of those cassette adapters to connect my iRiver mp3 player.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
I did it at 80 for style points
Nikls94@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 312d
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 312d
Help me out here
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 63 pts · 312d
Nero Burning Rom was a popular program for burning CDs
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 311d
I used Nero. Is this person I'm supposed to be aware of in the picture named Nero or something?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 311d
I'm no lepidopterist, but from context I'd guess that it is indeed Nero.
A much maligned Roman emperor, Nero supposedly (but almost certainly not actually) haughtily played some instrument or the other during the Great Fire of Rome.
Hence, "burning a CD-ROM" is easily associated with him even though the story is almost certainly not true and "ROM" (read only memory) was the suffix of the CDs that COULDN'T be burned đ¤ˇ
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 311d
Honestly, this was some A-tier wordplay, especially considering that the company who made it is was German.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 311d
Absolutely!
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 311d
Is that last bit a dig at German humour?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 311d
I hear it's not a laughing matter.
Matthew@midwest.social · 2 pts · 311d
I thought they studied butterflies?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 311d
They do, yes. I'm just doing a variant of the "I'm no geologist but (says things that have nothing to do with geology)" meme đ
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 311d
The best name for a piece of software I've ever read lol
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
Omfg I just got that đ¤Ś
Mr_Fish@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 312d
"Look grandpa, I found this box full of save icons in your old stuff"
Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
And omg soo much retro porn which is now banned in the us
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 312d
CDeez Nutz Burninâ
ch00f@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 312d
You like tapes and CDs?
How 'bout I tape my dick to your head so you can CDs nuts!?
funkajunk@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 312d
There's a cream for that
PixeIOrange@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 312d
And a weed strain
SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 311d
CDs nuts!
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 311d
Got em.
littletranspunk@lemmus.org · 23 pts · 312d
Wait until they hear we ripped them after burning them
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
Never. The audio equivalent of "Needs More JPEG"
callouscomic@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 312d
I burned a CD just a few days ago.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 312d
I just punched a card yesterday.
beneeney@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 311d
I inscribed a clay tablet just this morning
Jerkface@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 311d
I recited a saga an hour ago
charonn0@startrek.website · 12 pts · 311d
I'm painting a cave wall right now.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 311d
It's about that scumbag Ea-nÄᚣir, isn't it?
ramius345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 310d
His copper is subpar.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 312d
Why? What did the card ever do to deserve that?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 311d
It was a nasty piece of card.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 311d
They're particularly nasty at this time of year
transfluxus@leminal.space · 22 pts · 311d
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 311d
Winamp! (Winamp!) Winamp! It really whips the lamma's ass!
IMALlama@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 311d
;)
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
Yeah, it's probably best you maintain some distance from winamp, especially if it's been drinking.
Zomg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
This CD is not for your Stereo, it's for your Computer!
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 311d
Back in my day we burned a lot of CDsâŚ
kamen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 311d
Funny to think that the same number of drives would fit into maybe 1/4 of this height if made in the slim form factor.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 312d
I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.
All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I'm amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.
I found that I still had two plastic tubes of DVD+Rs!
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 311d
Linux has built-in in dvd burning and ripping tools that work amazingly. Been ripping all my ps1 and ps2 games.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 311d
FYI: unless you have a very specific model of CD drive, your PS1 backups aren't perfect copies. They will work but the copy protection might not have been read properly. It's not important in 99.9% of use cases. If you need a perfect copy, download NoIntro dumps.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 310d
Good info. Mine have been working well. But I still keep the hard copies I dont get rid of them. But yes disc rot is a thing though ive not experienced it
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 311d
DVD-R or DVD-RW?
darkreader2636@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 311d
not the dvd+r dvd-r shit again
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d
+R.
If you'd asked me, I'd have said that I always bought -R, but I guess I was different person back then.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 312d
You had to monitor the computer, if any program started or did anything weird, it could cause the entire disc to be destroyed, and you had to start over
dumbass@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 311d
99% finished
*Critical error, disc burning failed.*
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 312d
Maybe itâs finally time to throw out the half finished pack of blank cds away. Theyâve been sitting on my bookshelf for 20 years
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 312d
I had a pack like that, tried to use them last year and every one of them failed to burn. Must have hit their shelf life somewhere along the way
gerowen@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 311d
I'm a school bus driver and I'm not even joking when I say I blew my kids' minds with a burned CD the other day. My daughter asked me to make one of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One kid asked how I got it on CD and when I showed him a burned disc complete with sharpie label his response was just, "Wait you can do that?!"
Made me feel old as hell.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 312d
A CD is a Certificate of Deposit. You see, back in the 1900s, our parents had this thing called DISPOSABLE INCOME thought to be a myth, but trust me, it was real. People had so much money they wouldnât starve to death if they didnât work overtime.
Anyway, they needed a place to put it, so get this: they could deposit it into an account, and it would actually grow! Then theyâd get a Certificate of Deposit to verify they really gave the bank the money becauseâguess whatâit wasnât a scam! They got the money back! I know, right? Amazing.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 312d
Cds are digital data storage discs that are etched in microscopic 1's and 0's in a microscopic spiral with a laser, and then later read back with lasers. You can only write them once but you can read them a million times. So grammatically, in the same way you "nuke" food in a microwave, you "burn" a cd in a cd drive that is capable of writing cds.
Maybe someday we can have cheap (cheaper than other storage media per gb), durable (last at least my lifetime), terabyte, fast read optical media. I would love to permanently store lots of stuff that doesn't ever need to be rewritten.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 22 pts · 312d
CD-RW has entered the chat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-RW
echodot@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 312d
Well you etch pits you don't actually use numbers. Also it's not a spiral, it's not a record player it's not been read by physical stylus so you don't need a guide, they're just concentric circles.
You start the disc off as a zero, then whenever you need to transition to a one you etch a pit, then it will continue to read that as one until you etch another pit and flip back to zero. So the sequence 0111001 would be etched as
_.__.__.Discs can also be overwritten, and used multiple times, you just wipe the entire top layer off and start again on the layer below, only really cheap CDs were single use.
As for the future there are already experimental crystal storage solutions (made out of artificial diamond so it would be essentially indestructible) which really are single use, but they can store hundreds of petabytes of data so you would probably just treat them as if they were rewritable. There's also DNA storage but the equipment to save and read the data is nowhere near commercially viable yet.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 312d
The pits just represent numbers. A 1-bit memory cell typically stores high or low voltage. The numbers 0 and 1 only exist as a platonic ideal, and there are many ways to represent them in the real world.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 312d
Ngl, i didn't know it was concentric circles. I always thought it was a spiral like a vinyl record.
Also the encode is pretty neat, I didn't know that.
I DID know about RWs being rewritable, and you could sort of brute force some supposedly single write discs.
To be clear, I wrote that to be as simple as possible like if a person read it who really didn't have any idea, they could have a relatively quick understanding in plain terms. Guess even I learned something today!
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d
There's a Bluray media called MDisc that's supposed to be more durable. It says 1000 years so I give it 100 based on the fact that the 100 year rated Verbatim AZZO DVD+R's that I burned and verified to have low PIO errors had errors after 10 years stored in black cases in my temperature controlled basement.
People claim their burned DVD's are all fine but I've never heard a post back when I asked if they've actually verified all the bits. "It reads when I put it in." doesn't mean there isn't data corruption.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 311d
I recently learned of MDisc (there's a CD and DVD version, too, iirc) and decided to get a burner and convert my old data CDs.
While I haven't verified every single bit, I did check that the files copied off of it were still functional and didn't see any issues. Also didn't get any errors. I was surprised because I've had some of them for over 20 years now and didn't do more than put them in CD binders to protect them (during the days when I didn't even consider the longevity of the media, other then obvious things like scratches.
Only disc I wasn't able to get the data from was a packet CD, which was a special format that facilitated treating the disc more like diskettes, where you could read or write at will via the filesystem rather than writing the disc as a special package from the start (or having multiple sessions if there's still room on the disc after one such write). I was able to find references to the tech, though not if it was a standard or just a name a few different companies used for different implementations, but I wasn't able to find Linux drivers that could do anything other than rip the ISO and a few strings or tell me it can't find anything. Though it's possible that corruption is really what happened here because I'd expect RW CDs to last a shorter time than the write once ones.
Though I suppose I could try it on my old windows machine and see if drivers are more readily available there.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 311d
Were they CD or DVD? My CDs have lasted. It's the DVD's that had bit errors.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 311d
Yeah, those were CDs. I don't think I got to the DVDs, since my sense of urgency faded after I saw the older ones seemed ok. I'll have to check them out after you said that, though lol.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 312d
I think there are some optical media like that. the discs are cheap but the readers are made of mithril.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 312d
M-disc, I presume?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 312d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc - This one floundered and died before coming to market
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_optical_data_storage - A bunch of different solutions, and it looks like they were all being developed independently circa 2008, and then went nowhere
My guess is that there's not much use case beyond archival backups. That's not going to get the economies of scale that CDs/DVDs/Blu-rays have. It'd be priced for the enterprise market, but they already have perfectly good archival backup solutions. You'd also have to prove that it can be durable for at least a few decades, but even for commercial duplication, previous optical formats are just OK at best on longevity.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 311d
huh, I could have sworn there was a format for long-term archival, like 50+ years. I guess the GitHub Arctic Code Vault project went with microfilm using some very custom equipment to produce it all. but maybe everyone just uses tape (which is fun! but a bit less durable, and more finicky about being stored well)
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 312d
Low effort joke
When I was your age, we used to own our music. It worked offline and we could copy it to other devices.
Tangent
Why aren't Normies speaking up about everything needing internet? Street navigation, music, videos, reading, games, etc. Are all things that would work brilliantly normally, no server required. Why does no one realise, that if the server disappears, so does in effect their personal property? If it is tethered to a server, it's broken, because the server will disappear, the question is only when.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 312d
They dont care. Speaking as a normie-convert, so long as it works right now idgaf. When it doesn't work tomorrow I'll cry about it then and demand to speak to the manager, but right now? Summer will last forever.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 311d
Normies dont understand the abstraction layer between all their data being stored in offline data banks and being mined for illegal ai use and surveillance.
Ill keep my physical media thanks. Never was on the cloud bandwagon, I wont be on the ai bandwagon.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 312d
I'm the most bland person you'll ever meet and I kept all my CDs and DVDs. I would never buy something only as digital/cloud format that I couldn't burn on a disc. It gave me anxiety from the beginning. I have multiple external storages with the same copies of photos and I still print the most precious ones out. I'll have music and memories if the internet ever breaks down, I just need a power generator.
I also absolutely don't see physical copies of books, music, or movies, as clutter. Booklets in CDs are to die for, and I think it makes for great room decor. If I burn a CD I usually make some collage artwork as a cover to accompany the disc.
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
I told my dad I want cassette tapes to come back. He laughed and said how he remembered how crystal clear CDs were when he listened to them for the first time. What can I say dad, I like a little wow/flutter in my music.
kamen@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 311d
Not having lived through it is fine; being unable to google a couple of words is just virtue signalling how lazy you are, especially considering this is probably coming from someone who's glued to their phone all day.
stratoscaster@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 307d
Bruh it's clearly meant to be a joke lmao
Calm down gramps
dellish@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 311d
Well of course the first step is to tie an onion to your belt. You can't burn CDs if you're not stylish.
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 311d
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 312d
See, I had a 6 cd rack for burning but I never learned why it was called burning. Every time I asked in irc, they said something to the effect of âhead to the doctor, you should get that looked at.â Any kind lemming care to elucidate me?
Edit: finally I can rest in peace (and go to the doctor)
ShenanigansMcGee@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 312d
Sure! It's called "burning a CD" because you are literally burning it. You are using a laser to burn or etch a texture into the CD that can be read by the lasers in other CD drives.
Anyone more knowledgeable than me is more than welcome to add details and correct whatever I got wrong. I know the basic concept, but I'm no CD engineer.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 312d
Edit: The original explanation I had here was that a laser burns pits in the CD material but that was wrong, apparently only pressed discs use physical pits in the material. The laser used in a home CD burner changes the color of a photosensitive dye on a recordable CD. So I think actually "burning" is due to a misunderstanding (which I had until I just looked it up) of how a home CD writer works.
ShenanigansMcGee@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 312d
Huh, you learn something new everyday. Thanks!
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 312d
No you don't! You can't make me!!! I'LL NEVER LEARN!!!
continues being American
Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 312d
My understanding was that it had to do with the laser in the CD/DVD/bluray drive "burning" the data onto the disc.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 312d
There was a downloader called lime wire, it was a simpler time.
Lootboblin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 312d
Back in the day here in Finland we ordered bulk of cd/dvd r and rwâs from Ă land Islands (autonomous region of Finland). They were cheaper thanks to taxes loophole. I still had 20 pcs of dvdâs from those days and burned them all to save some space on my pc.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 311d
I grew up with cassette tapes. I know what the connection is between a cassette and a biro....
Almacca@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 311d
The original music piracy!
TomArrr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
Straight from the radio. How I hated DJs talking over intros. ESPECIALLY Bat Out of Hell. Took me so many attempts to get Roy Bittan without the monologue .
Almacca@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 311d
Or if one of my friends bought an album, we all had that album.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 312d
I still burn CD's.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 311d
Light one up for the homies, will ya
ignotum@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 312d
It's what nazis and christians burned before books were invented
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 311d
Good ol alcohol 120%
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 311d
Did anyone ever have a Lightscribe burner? I always wanted one. It seemed pretty dope being able to etch a label onto the disc with the same device that wrote data to it.
rothaine@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 311d
Yes. It was neat, but actually sucked because the contrast was so low. Switched back to Sharpie after a few
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 311d
It would take less time to just search âburning cdsâ than even posting this.
Krudler@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 312d
Most people thought you had to snap them in half to destroy the data, and that the data was on the "down side". No no my friend, the data is the shiny label part and you can wreck the disc by just flaking some off with a pointy metal thing.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 312d
And here's me planning my album release and obsessing over how much vinyl and CDs to order
Spoiler alert: it's next to none, but not cause I don't love'em or they're out of style, but cause I am broke
m3t00@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 311d
have a stack of blanks. no cd drive. almost bought a usb burner but thumb drive is better. cds only hold like 600mb
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 310d
I've still got CDs I burned back in 08. Nowadays its blurays
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 310d
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 310d
Yeah went there too, but all of those have not survived here
Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 311d
Your CD is ready!
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 311d
Your sound card works perfectly!
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 311d
Lol, consumerism.
Still burning cds and making tapes here. Nothing changed. You got sucked into consumer capitalism
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 311d
Have you ever heard of something called a hard drive?
buttnugget@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
Thatâs like uphill, right?
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 311d
No it's at the computer store
buttnugget@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 311d
Thatâs literally true. I was making a joke.
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 311d
But is it figuratively true? (I was being stupid just for humor)
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 311d
Are you manufacturing your own CDs and tapes, or are you buying them as a consumer?
Good job not being a consumer I guess.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 310d
True, but im also reusing a shit ton of stuff and not buying into the "i need new all the time I need the latest thing" I dont even hace a set of wireless headphones because they are A: stupid, and B: my 15 year old headphones work perfectly. My car is 13 years old and i do most repairs. Never had a new car.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 310d
You have headphones and a car? Disgusting consumer behavior, you just NEED to have the latest technology don't you. I ride a horse and use my voice to sing if I want to listen to music.
I don't even have a phone because they are A: stupid, and B: sending letters in the mail work perfectly. My horse is 13 years old and I do most reshoeing. Never had a new horse.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 309d
True true, you are a purist! Hahaha
eve@evecodes.com · 1 pts · 311d
I still have the DVDs and CDs I burnt back in the day. I will never give up my music