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obinice ,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

Do people not still do this? Isn’t it the most convenient way to store loads of DVDs and CDs?

_number8_ ,

anyone that has any amount of physical media now also probably likes having the cases and art to look at

Zanshi ,

Honestly yeah, I like having my CDs in their cases on the shelf so if I want to listen to a specific CD I can take it out and play it in a CD player. Sure I have so much music at my fingertips thanks to streaming, but there’s something really personal about taking a disk to listen to it. I guess I understand now what people used to say about vinyls back in the day

Daqu ,

I haven’t used a CD or DVD for years. Most of my devices have no disc drive. Streaming has won, at least for lazy people like me.

r00ty Admin ,
r00ty avatar

I updated my PC just a week or so ago. Finally moved away from a case with external drive bays. That case was just not able to keep a 3080 cool.

Honestly, I had a Bluray drive in there that was not used in so long, that on my previous upgrade four years ago, in that case I forgot to reconnect it and only found out last week when I was taking it apart for the re-used parts.

President_Pyrus ,
@President_Pyrus@feddit.dk avatar

I have a blu-ray drive that I use once or twice a year to rip a movie. 5 years or so ago I was the weirdo that has both a blu-ray and dvd drive in my computer, as I was ripping my entire movie library.

RagingHungryPanda ,

I bought a CD from a band I enjoyed and got home to realize I couldn’t play it

collegefurtrader ,

I would have to put it in my old laptop-the one with a disk drive and bluetooth to the speakers

DashboTreeFrog ,

Similar situation, someone gave me a live album of a band I love as a gift and I was psyched to listen to it, only to realize at home I had no way of playing it…

Gradually_Adjusting ,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

Immortan Joe ain’t spraying your teeth metallic

tdawg ,

Which is everyone willing to pay

obinice ,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

But how do you load the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows 🤓 hehe

I’m in the same boat honestly, I have a lot of stuff on disks still but I just pull out an old optical drive from the box if I need to read them, or an old laptop or tower or whatever that’s got an optical drive.

I do wish booting live USB was a little more universally easy though, it can be a bit of a pain in the arse compared to live CDs, these bloody TPMs and weird bios stuff getting in the way are a real pain. But overall, disks have had their day.

I do still use long term Blu-rays for bulk 10-plus-years cold storage backup though! Wouldn’t trust flash or HDDs for that.

TimeSquirrel , (edited )
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

No, the most convenient way is ripping them and turning them into media files that I can copy to anything I want.

Archiving them like this also helps fight against bit rot. They aren't getting any younger (and by the CD/DVD's last days, they weren't exactly made out of the most high quality materials). I'm already experiencing this with floppies and retro computer stuff.

NoStressyJessie ,

I had limited run CDs that spent their life temperature controlled and out of sunlight and they still had parts of the data layer “rot” away to the point they aren’t listenable at all anymore.

After I found those I started getting records on vinyl instead.

seitanic ,
@seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

It is, but it isn’t the most convenient way to store movies.

Heikki ,

I have one that i last updated in 2012 still. I had a nexflix subcription with 3 movies mailed to me that I’d rip in DVDfab and burn to another DVD and mail back the same day i received the movies.

Quill7513 ,

Its not that we found a better way to store media disks. Its that we found a better way to store media thanks to storage devices getting cheaper

sock ,

i find the cloud and various nefarious streaming services are more effective these days

LucyLastic ,

I do, because DVDs can’t get pulled from streaming services or be region locked, and it’s worked out cheaper to buy discs than subscribe to yet another service

m3t00 ,
@m3t00@lemmy.world avatar

until i figured out i could rip them to mp3s and put them on a stick. usb plugs on car stereo was a revolution

Jok3r ,

Only to find out later that 128kbits doesn’t quite cut it and have to restart the process

m3t00 ,
@m3t00@lemmy.world avatar

Gmusic would let you upload 128 and dowdload w/e their default was, 256kb? i’ve got thousands …google.com/…/1hMU9Pc2bQADGj76FNb7ZovgoU7vMXVvS?u…

bufordt ,
@bufordt@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

Globulart ,

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.

bufordt ,
@bufordt@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

Globulart ,

1080p is fine for me. That’s great, thanks mate :)

FrancisFeliz ,
@FrancisFeliz@lemmy.world avatar

I have my PS1 collection in one of those.

aluminium ,

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.

CoolMatt ,

I have a 128gb smart phone with bluetooth and wifi. Can literally listen to anything everywhere any time the battery is charged

pineapplelover ,

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.

Aria ,

Bluetooth is 1.4Mb/s. At 74 minutes, the recommended length of a CD per the standard, you will have transferred 777MB, or more than fits on a CD. Even ignoring all the massive advancements in audio compression, and massive advancements in computational power afforded to decompression hardware (thus allowing better compression to be used), you will have more bandwidth, or “quality” in a Bluetooth stream than a CD-player compatible CD.

bus_factor ,

Bluetooth audio codecs still leave a lot to be desired, and are pretty far from the cutting edge of compression to put it mildly. You can get good audio, but you have to be very careful with your combination of headphones and output device, because a lot of combinations don’t have the same codecs, and you end up with the lowest common multiple. There are new standards in development, though, so I think this will be largely solved in about 5 years.

pineapplelover ,

Yeah, what bus_factor said, the codecs compress it and loses a bunch of audio quality. I know because I along with friends who are not extreme audiophiles can tell the difference.

bus_factor ,

If it’s truly awful you might be in phone call mode. If the microphone is enabled it switches to the phone call profile which only supports a single, extremely shitty codec, so if it sounds like you’re listening to FM radio with very poor signal, you should probably switch to a microphone not attached to your headphones.

pineapplelover ,

It’s not terrible, it’s just noticeable. Like if you were to use the same headphones with the cable you’ll be like “yo, this is even better”.

CoolMatt ,

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.

son_named_bort ,

That’s where I kept my PlayStation games.

kamen ,

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).

hal_5700X ,
@hal_5700X@lemmy.world avatar

and you have a physical backup.

kamen ,

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.

hal_5700X ,
@hal_5700X@lemmy.world avatar

Still do due to bad packaging of DVDs and Blu-rays.

10_0 ,

Still got mine!

CCMan1701A ,

Same, but it’s holding blurays

breathless_RACEHORSE ,

Got three of those monster sized books–

One each movies, music, and software. Plus two shelves of blurays and a further three old spindles of software.

You can pry my physical media out of my cold, dead, hand.

Trarmp ,

Archeologists will.

TheWanderer ,

Me too! Most of em are movies and some of em are OS copies of windows and Linux

simin ,

revealing ones age lol

bus_factor ,

My kids have a music player called Yoto. It takes little cards which tells it which playlist to use. This is easy for kids to understand, and lets them listen to stories and music without adding more screen time. The cards don’t actually store the music, just tell the player where to download it from.

My wife recently realized we had quite a few of these cards now. So she bought this: a book with sleeves for the cards.

The future is here, and it looks a lot like the past.

ohlaph ,

The past is now.

blind3rdeye ,

On that one hand, that’s kind of cute and cool. But on the other, I find it a bit depressing that the main difference between this and CD wallets of the past is that the CDs actually did store the data.

With the CDs, you literally were holding the information, and you could use it as you wish without reliance or permission from anyone else. Whereas the cards, as you say, they just point to where the data is. You still need to rely on a whole chain of different services to get access to it. Access can be revoked at any time, either deliberately, or by some error, or by some critical service shutting down. It’s just like the past, but worse. Isn’t it?

bus_factor ,

Yeah, pretty much. In their defense they’re more resilient to greasy kid fingers and being dropped behind the couch, but I still wish the data was actually stored on the card, or on some form of local storage. We had an mp3 player with an SD card before that, but then you can’t switch playlist as easily.

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I have an entire room full of DVDs

ohlaph ,

That’s a lot. 8 Stops 7?

BelieveRevolt ,

Honestly don’t remember anyone using these for DVDs. They were for (MP3) CDs and burned PS1 games.

Rai ,

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.

BelieveRevolt ,

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.

Rai ,

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.

Justfollowingorders1 ,

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.

Xartle ,

It’s upside down! Why are we not taking about the real issue. The disks will slide out…

Potatisen ,

Yeah, that’s pretty fucked up. Whoever did the PS is a youngling.

Rai ,

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?

bobs_monkey ,

The OfficeMax special, only $4.99

cor315 ,

Sure but would you hold them that way on purpose?

Rai ,

Depends how sober I am!

Rai ,

Discs, and they won’t slide out if your CD wallet is of good quality!

scottywh ,

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.

XTornado ,

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.

Sunforged ,

YoU wOuLdN’t StEaL a CaR!

oatscoop ,

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.

MissJinx ,
@MissJinx@lemmy.world avatar

I had a disk wallet full of pirated PS2 games. That was the coolest shit

scottywh ,

I had several full of pirated Dreamcast games and it was glorious.

MissJinx ,
@MissJinx@lemmy.world avatar

We lived the sweet spot of time when internet piracy, crackable consoles and home cd burners converged

eletes ,
@eletes@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

kamenlady ,
@kamenlady@lemmy.world avatar

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.

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