It's upside down! Why are we not taking about the real issue. The disks will slide out...
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Discs, and they won’t slide out if your CD wallet is of good quality!
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Made for a good haul for the junkies breaking into your car in the apartment parking lot every three months.
You kept you DVD movie collection in the car, even when it was stolen before?
OK, but where are they going to sell 53 CDs of burned One Piece?
Hey, do you think these junkies go back to their crack houses & make mixtapes for each other?
Now that's what I call smash & grab music
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Do people not still do this? Isn't it the most convenient way to store loads of DVDs and CDs?
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.
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.
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.
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anyone that has any amount of physical media now also probably likes having the cases and art to look at
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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.
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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.
It is, but it isn't the most convenient way to store movies.
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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).
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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: 
The future is here, and it looks a lot like the past.
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?
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.
The past is now.
That's a CD folder
I kinda miss the days of pirating a movie, burning it to a disk, and then popping it into a DVD player. Like it's objectively more convenient now, with Jellyfin/Emby/Plex media servers that can stream to any device in your home, but it has lost some of the analogue charm of feeling like a hackerman dressed like Neo when you gave a friend or a family member a DVD with sharpie writing on it, and them thinking you were some tech genius lmao.
I remember some software where you could include like a custom DVD menu, where you could press chapters and subtitles and stuff before starting the film, and thinking I was the coolest person in the world when I showed my friends hahahha. Ah good times. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Hell yeah. And before DVD burners, you could burn Invader Zim eps to a VCD and pop that into a DVD player, amazing your friends!
Early piracy was just so fun. Like I'm glad that it's more simple, and accessible now, and that you are less likely to use your dial-up internet to download a virus over 3 days... But, it was so exciting lmao. Like it felt like you were stepping into some underground club that no one knew about - even though you were a 12 year old nerd with no prospects of a girlfriend in the near future hahahaha. But it was really fun, and it helped me learn to like problem-solving, and the idea of piracy, and open-source software def also helped me develop some ideas about the world around sharing, and stuff.
Anyway I think that's enough gushing about that hahaha, just wanted to indulge in my nostalgia for a minute.
Are you absolutely me?
Did you spend 33 minutes downloading an MP3 of “Eyes on Me” from FFVIII, praying that nobody picks up the phone, then nearly crying while listening to it because your family computer plays MIDI files so poorly compared to your friends’ family computers?
Early piracy for me was getting PC games on floppy disks from friends and relatives. It was kind of just accepted everyone who had a computer would copy their games and software for everyone else.
It owned tbh.
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
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im still using mine in my car from 2001
And Games, and Warez
of course movies are all digital now but yep I still have a CD wallet of classic games like roller coaster tycoon, la noire, etc that I got on CD and refuse to pay for again on steam. I built my PC with a CD bay but these days a USB optical drive should be fairly cheap anyway.
music depends - I have a few early unsigned demos from a few of my favorite obscure punk bands that ended up being better than half their late catalog despite never being published that I refuse to give up
sincerely, a geriatric millenial
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.
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T H E C L O U D is enshittified pretty badly, so maybe it's time for that to go back into style.
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.
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.
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I lost one of those between house moves, with many cds in it
Little me was devastated.
revealing ones age lol
Filled a couple of these with 10p DVDs from charity shops and it's low-key amazing
mp3 mix cds for my car
until i figured out i could rip them to mp3s and put them on a stick. usb plugs on car stereo was a revolution
Only to find out later that 128kbits doesn't quite cut it and have to restart the process
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I need to finally yeet my wallet full of outdated Linux distros
i never cared for these, I feel like they scratched the discs faster than leaving them in the cases
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:they-live-sunglasses-off: haha, millennials are no longer young
:they-live-sunglasses-on: entrust your secrets to the cloud
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.
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