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Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. (thetyee.ca)
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Just brought out my old dvds and put them on hard drive. They were burned 18 years ago and used organic dyes. I recovered avout 50% of them. Old me should have spent more on nonorganic discs... but old me couldn't afford them back then, so he gets a pass I guess. Plus new me can easily dl most of those discs in an hour or two now.