CD Rule

*will
And have few days ago. I like spinny media.
Oh, I also have a half destroyed portable CD player (previous battery leak, damaged screen, broken stop button) that can even play mixed mode CD with MP3 files. That means I can combine lossy and lossless on the same disc. It can even shuffle between the 2 parts, albeit with a slight delay.

To quote Mr. Bringus Studios: "Optical media bad."
I did back up all my discs though, physical media backups are awesome.

My LightScribe drive was the best investment of 2011
- Oh man I forgot about LightScribe! I remember being like 10 and working my butt off for a summer to be able to afford one. Good times
- Pretty sure I still have some media for mine here even. Software might be a hunt to find where it got stored at though.

ngl i feel safer digging through CDs while driving than digging through a music library on some phone touchscreen. probably if i learned to use voice controls i'd feel better about the phone but i'm at that age where i'm comfortable enough with my ways that i'd rather not have to change them.
- Voice controls are worse and more frustrating still.

Unless I die in the next month, I plan on burning more CDs. Added a bunch of new albums to my MP3 player a few months ago
- I think you’re using burn when you mean rip.
- Why are you still burning CDs?

I actually do know when my last disc was burned (it was a DVD though--)
One of my video prod professors demanded we turn in our group assignments in DVD format
........... This was in 2018
I was the only person in the entire class that even had a DVD burner. Everyone pooled together to buy a spindle and a Disc Marker and I spent all afternoon burning everyone's DVDs

I still burn CDs for my dad all the time, (I also have a few of them for myself too) since our cars have CD players in them, and while I usually play Music through the Aux it's good to have CDs for when there's spotty connection and nothing good on the Radio.
- Also still use CDs for my car! CDs just feel like the right solution to local music, sometimes I just want to keep my phone in my pocket (or not on me at all) and drive. USB drives feel too easy to lose

I still do burn CDs but it is much less common. Mostly just for retro computers which use CD-ROM. I burn DVDs slightly more often since you can fit larger ISOs on them and they're more durable (seriously, CDs are so fragile it isn't even funny, their data layer is completely unprotected, just a thin film on the top).

I keep my old SATA DVD-RW but I haven't had it installed in anything for years. I finally recycled my USB floppy drive. I'd kept it to potentially help people with data recovery but decided that floppy data anyone might have lying around had already degraded.

I'll continue to burn Sega Saturn games to CDs for some years still. Especially considering how much it costs to get some of them now.

laughs in gen z
(I've ripped cds, but never burned one)
- I'm also gen z, and the last CD I burned was last year a debian install CD for a computer that couldn't boot off of USB

I still have my old DVD burner, which I only plan to upgrade to a BD drive once I get the money for it.
Getting rid of physical media because cloud drives, steam, netflix, etc. is like amputating your legs because cars and motorized wheelchairs.

I wish. I have to burn some media every few months for work. Sometimes CDs, sometimes dual layer DVDs.

There's like a 95% one of the last CDs I burned was a The Prodigy album. I was super into them the last time I had a computer with a burner installed and I can't think of anything else I would have burned during that time. It's possible it was a cracked version of office or something.

Mine was around 2016 and IIRC I said something like "Never thought I'd be burning a CD in 2016!" because some Autodesk software required it and we had to fish a CD-RW drive out of storage in the client's closet.