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CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 68 points 2 months ago (8 children)

REMINDER: CDs degrade over time and eventually become unreadable.

  • Burned CD-R's can last as little as 5-10 years(!)
  • CD-RW discs generally last 20–50 years
  • Factory-pressed CDs generally last 50 years

Rip your disks to your permanent HDD storage, which ofc should be on a RAID mirror and backed up regularly. Always store a copy in a separate location in case of fire/flood/etc.

I LOVE YOU AND WANT YOU TO OWN YOUR DATA FOREVER!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you for doing the lord's work.

    I love that physical media is getting new life, but CDs are not archival in nature. It's a drastically different problem from not owning anything, but I don't want unreadable CDs to push people back to streaming.

    I'll also mention that a major benefit of vinyl records -- despite cracks and pops and quality turntables being generally expensive -- is that they are so dirt simple as to be effectively immune from similar issues. Not trying to sway opinions at all, but as physical media goes, it still exists for a reason.

    Personally, I have both CDs and vinyl. And tapes!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I have my original CD-RW.

    I've saved a copy (HDD) of all my library onto an external hard drive that I've lost in the move.

    I have a second copy on my PC (SSD) that I have operational.

    Then my old laptop (HDD) has my original library and thats lost somewhere at my parents home (remote location)

    Am I doing this right!??

    Oh big edit immediately: I LOVE YOU TOO AND ALL MY OTHER LOVELY LEMMY FRIENDS

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'll recommend one more tool I use for off site backup: iBroadcast

    I already have a NAS, my original discs / records, and Plex running Plexamp for music streaming, but iBroadcast has been my music locker for streaming / storing in case my home system goes down. You can re-download Your original music and keep the quality (FLAC) so nothing is lost.

    Free accounts (which I use) have unlimited upload space but You are limited to 128kbs for streaming. If you pay their monthly (or annual) subscription, you can stream full quality. So it depends on what you want to use them for.

    Hope this helps someone!! :)

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