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butsbutts ,

im still using mine in my car from 2001

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

Ildsaye ,

:they-live-sunglasses-off: haha, millennials are no longer young
:they-live-sunglasses-on: entrust your secrets to the cloud

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.

Fran ,
@Fran@lemmy.ml avatar

I lost one of those between house moves, with many cds in it

Little me was devastated.

DestroyerOfWorlds ,

mp3 mix cds for my car

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!

Cysioland ,
@Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml avatar

I need to finally yeet my wallet full of outdated Linux distros

llama ,
@llama@midwest.social avatar

Actually I just started doing this and got a 7 DVD changer. Same as what I spend in a month for all these random streaming services.

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

That’s a CD folder

ipkpjersi ,

I know I’m getting old because that sounds normal to me.

BearJCC ,

Still do. Have bookshelves full of them.

yeather ,

Those things are so useful

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 ,
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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 ,
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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

genoxidedev1 ,
@genoxidedev1@kbin.social avatar

I still have like three of those but haven't looked inside them for at least a few years. Last time was when I needed my Windows disc that I only out of habit put in there in the first place. I just use USB sticks neow~

TrustingZebra ,

I still have my old games case. I sometimes browse through it just for the nostalgia. Even just looking at the discs brings memories.

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