i got rid of my dvd collection once streaming became a thing, but not my dvd collection -- maybe it'll appreciate too. lol

I pulled out the CD Burner and we're gonna buy a pack of CDs next time the kids are here so I can show my youngest the ancient technology she heard about 😂 she's got a CD player she jams with all the time, obsessed with the damn thing, so it'll be fun to show her how we used to do it. Her jaw dropped when I told her about the books of burned CDs we had, all downloaded from Napster and limewire til torrents finally came around big time and we could get discographies at a time.

What? Optical discs are a horrible storage medium. One slight scratch on the film and the whole thing can be ruined.

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You do get most of those with files : owning it, trading it, and you can build a community around file sharing. The problem is not in the file concept but in the capitalistic ecosystem built on top of it, where they try to prevent you from easily accessing or using the files.

Its also a pretty high quality version as well. Streaming gives you lossy mp3, you can make a decent flac out of a CD. Not 24 bit, but much much better than streaming. Oh yeah and I own it forever.

the community building aspect is really fun. You dont get any of that with files.

Back in the day I was huge into music communities on Soulseek. Files can build just as much community, just saying.

CDs are considered lossless.

"Lossy" and "lossless" are descriptors applied to data compression systems. So no one referred to CDs as "lossless" until MP3 (which is lossy) became popular, because there was nothing to contrast it with. CDs are not compressed at all.

If you buy music on BandCamp, FLAC (lossless) is often (always?) one of the download format options. FLAC is decompressed into a bitstream that matches the original exactly. You can put those files wherever you like.

I don’t miss carrying around or worrying about having stolen my cd collection, so smaller definitely would be better imo. I really liked the size of mini discs but they were too thick. Maybe about a quarter of that size and thinner cartridges made with solid state technology, made bigger than current tech allows in exchange for longer lifespans.

It sounds like by "quality" you are talking about the physical fragility of the CD. True, a more modern format might be nice, with a bump to 24 bit depth. I would want something a little more collectible than a thumb drive though.

I say this as an avid CD buyer who rips full quality to a Plex server. Also download from Bandcamp.