Submitted 13 hours ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to technology@lemmy.zip
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/cd-sales-are-making-an-unexpected-comeback-amid-a-retro-tech-boom/
REMINDER: CDs degrade over time and eventually become unreadable.
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!
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!
I love you for providing this information that helps us own our data forever!
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!??
An ownership boom*
People are tired of being upcharged on rentals. Because any digital “purchase” is a rental with no consumer protections.
A few CDs for $5? I wish. In my area, the local CD shop was around $9 for individual CDs. I mean, I am willing to pay if it keeps them open, though. And despite thrift stores being cheaper, it’s almost always extremely hit or miss to find anything I’d want.
LP vinyls are great fun to hunt for a bargain, one of my best finds was a Double Album of Joe Cocker for 8€! Last vacation found Prince’s first album- original pressing, and I didn’t grab, and regret not getting the George Burns album (which would have been an interesting one just for it being unique)
Always go hunting when visiting other cities and on vacations, always fine one or two interesting ones.
We actually own the discs
I always find it funny how companies like Spotify talk about “Lossless audio” and “Maximum quality”, but if you look at the numbers, they really just mean “The same quality you used to get on a CD 25 years ago, and if you don’t pay for the most expensive plan, CDs are going to be better.”
25 years ago
Nearly 44, actually.
That squeaky sound is from resellers rubbing their greasy hands.
I’ve been buying them since the 90’s. Those old CDs still work too.
Main problem now is that many artists don’t release CDs anymore.
Or when they do they have some arcane copy protection that fucks up the file if you try and make mp3s.
Imagine spending MONEY on CDs when you could bolster the numbers of your local library instead
Local town library -> interlibrary loan -> hard-to-find CD -> rip to my HDD -> return to local town library
Literally how I got half of my music library
Any good websites you all enjoy getting physical media at? Ive picked clean the thrift stores around where im at.
Try libraries. Borrow the disc and rip it to a hard drive.
It’s not physical, but band camp allows you to download your bought music in flac and mp3 and you could rip the files to a cd or just put it on a hard-drive.
One of the best parts about that site is when the artist releases their album not only digitally, but in a limited physical release as well. It’s how I got my Specters CD album from nostraightanswer.
Yeah but I like having the physical media too. Covers and such. I like bandcamp too.
LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Just saying…you can still checkout CDs from the library and rip them to digital.