I miss Zip drives.
My favourite name for any application ever is Nero.
What does Nero do?
Burns (CD) ROM!
Not burning DVDs
Jeez… I’d record on a cassette the top 20 from the radio on friday nights!!
Me and my sisters got a cassette recorder we had to share between us for such things. There were a lot of hours spent listening to the local AM station doing homework and hoping you could catch your favorite song to record.
It took determination and time to fill a cassette doing that. Buying 45’s was faster but more expensive.
Difficulty 1000x https://youtu.be/KkZ-8gcgyCE
Hoping that the deejay wouldn’t talk some vapid shit over the end of the song while they fade it out
I burnt a cd like 3 weeks ago, this technology isn’t as archaic as you think
We’re on lemmy. Our opinions on how widely used tech is don’t count.
Personally my last 3 PCs haven’t had a disk drive and I can’t remember the last time I’ve SEEN a disc. It was almost certainly before college.
Circa 2017, I build my first desktop computer, I get the cheapest disc drive money can buy. Since then I’ve used it to burn one(1) CD. Any software disc I’ve tried using with it was too broken and out of date, leading me to download the driver instead.
I’ve tried using a friend’s game disc on it, assuring them that Wine for Linux supports 16-bit Windows games. Turns out they dropped that support months prior.
It now stands its silent vigil, waiting for its purpose to be truly fulfilled.
Anyone else remembers having to cook eggs to replace the ball on the mouse? It was ridiculous.
What happened to the original ball?
Its get used and dirt for the table. You can clean the ball but eventually it lost material and became too small to work functionally and you had to overcook an egg to replace it
Eh… What?! Certainly remember pre-optical mice, but replacing the balls with eggs was surely not a thing?
Ask your parents, sure they did it and never told you about.
Doubtful, I’m 49!
Maybe you forgot about it. Ask your parents, for sure they can help you remember
my brother (at the time 10yo) told me (4yo) that it would explode if i drop it on the floor.
Please don’t do animal cruelty
“Ripping CDs” was a concerning term for non-technical friends even back then. I had to assure them it wouldn’t ruin their discs. It does sound more violent than it really is.
There was a day when you inserted a CD into your computer for the last time and you didn’t even realise. Sad when you think about it.
I still have an optical drive, and i just put a disk in it about an hour ago.
The only sad thing is people foolishly abandoning physical media.
I didn’t find it sad. The writing was on the wall for physical media and I ripped it with the highest accuracy I could. I still have those albums in CD quality today.
That track at the end of Further Down the Spiral that relies on CD skipping is sort of lost to us, I guess. You can replicate it but kids won’t accidentally stumble upon it. Just like kids won’t accidentally stumble upon the “3rd spiral” of vinyl records. The Easter egg era is over.
Hey, I’m one of today’s ten thousand! I don’t think any of my LPs have a hidden groove but I want one now!
My Easter egg musical experience was with a CD, Guster’s Keep it Together. I was the first person in the family to get an mp3 player, and when I ripped the CD I found a minute long “Silent Track” before a hidden song, Two at a Time. When we saw them live next and I knew the lyrics to that song my parents were baffled lol.
Hidden grooves on records were not terribly common, as far as I am aware. I have Tool’s Undertow (which — if you have the CD version — you have already heard it) and a Monty Python record Tie and Handkerchief.
Not a terribly strong argument to preserve a format because I have no motivation to revisit either, but a fun little one time experience if you have either of those handy.
My old pc’s still have drives I use sometimes. Or well, only my previous pc. My oldest one, the one I built when I was 18 (21 years ago), still works but it’s a time capsule. Running state of the art XP and photoshop 7, Winamp, C&C red alert 2, age of empires 2.
Last time I burned a cd was to copy a CD a friend bought in North Korea. Maybe I’ll backup some photos on a dvd in the future. Because fuck cloud services.
I was bored one weekend and went through all the photos on my phone and sent a bunch them to Walmart to be printed into photos. Now I have an old school photo album in my living room that friends and family can look through when they come over.
When I upgradedy pc a few years ago I realised the case doesn’t have bays for my bluray burners. Instead I bought an external case with usb 3.something.
It’s not an amazing setup but it means on the rare occasions I need to use a disc I can. Usually it’s ripping CDs bought from charity shops and adding to my collection on my NAS or the occasional Blu-ray rip.
What was on the north Korean CD?
North Korean music. Typical propaganda music in North Korean style. Women singing about soldiers and the great leader (I assume, I don’t speak Korean but this is what I was told). If interested I can share, in September after my vacation in South Africa.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch, I was there when it was written.
My car is a 2001 and has a CD player. Normally, this would preclude playing phone music (without that FM transmitter bullshit, at least), but this CD player was built to accommodate a 6-CD changer in the trunk, and you can buy a little gadget that plugs into the port for this and allows an aux jack to feed audio into the player. This worked great for me until my latest phone which has no audio port. My USB-C to 1/8" jack technically works, but the volume is way too low. So I’m back to burning CDs for my car.
You can get Bluetooth to aux devices so you can send music over Bluetooth. Works great, did that for a long time myself.
I’ve got a similarly older vehicle. I ended up buying a little Bluetooth dongle that plugs into the aux jack for, like, $10.
I wish I had an aux jack. 2001 just predates that, I guess.
From waaaayyyyy back in the day, most cars didn’t have FM radio, just am band. You could buy an add-on FM band device that would receive the FM signals and then transmit them to the AM radio to hear.
Today, you can get a cigarette lighter powered unit to connect to your phone by bluetooth and then to an unused radio station to listen to your phone. About $10 to $20 or so. They work fine. I have one in a Jeep.
I’m actually considering going back to doing this… just with blurays.
My data hoarding illness is getting out of hand and m-disks are starting to look attractive to me.
We had to use these dammit.
I was referring to vinyl records sold in stores. That stuff is definitely copy written. I’ve never taped any radio stuff before so I don’t know the legality of that stuff.
