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‘Algorithms make everything predictable’: why the CD is making a comeback (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 5 points 6 days ago* (2 children)

My CD collection, each and every single album I purchased since, what, the early 90 or the late 80s, never left me. Maybe they did not get the memo informing them they were declared obsolete and replaced by streaming? ;)

Thinking about it, I wonder how much I would have had to pay in monthly sub in order to listen to any album I purchased one time, say in 1990, and still can listen to this very day at no extra cost?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    I'd suggest you back them all up, CDs don't last forever, they are susceptible to "rot", especially if the manufacturer cheaped out or self burned ones

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    You're right. And they're all backed up (I finished the backlog somewhere around 2008 or 2009 and then only had to slowly add each new album)

    I've had a a few rotten discs already. Not enough to disqualify the entire concept of CDs as a pointless medium but too many of them no matter what as back then they were not sold to us as 'time limited medium'.

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