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  • InnerSpaceInnerSpace 443 Posts
    I sold some import CD's yesterday that I got in China on a trip about a decade ago and the store employee was drooling over them. It was Beck, Bruce Springsteen and Sade. I was happy with the Ulysess that I left with and the fact that they weren't in my house anymore. That money went straight back to some vinyl finds.
  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    I have a few first generation CDs(circa 84) and they are unplayable...if you hold them to the light, the silver portion has bazillions of tiny little holes.
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    Not noted in this article was the huge (and expensive) undertaking by the Library Of Congress to transfer all of their recordings to DAT tape.
  • ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts
    Yup. CDs are garbage.
  • InnerSpaceInnerSpace 443 Posts
    A little write up on CD-R's and their longevity:
    http://www.myce.com/news/cd-recordable-discs-unreadable-in-less-than-two-years-6450/
  • kalakala 3,361 Posts
    prankster rule #1 everything is impermanent


    i was tasked to source a major label artist's pro tools sessions stored on hard drive from a vault for remastering
    this project was from 1999
    the grease inside the drive froze up ,drum wouldn't spin and the data was unrecoverable and ruined
    good thing we had a DAT reference to save the day
    the DAT played fine but it wasn't the protools sessions with the multis that we needed
  • tabiratabira 856 Posts
    CDs are dead any way - everything's going onto USB keys and memory cards. Are they more reliable? CDs = Crap sound, crap reliability and pain the arse to burn. Good riddence.
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