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DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media (www.latimes.com)
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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

HDDs are not designed to last very long. Neither are SSDs. That's one reason to prefer dedicated physical media.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You can still keep the CDs around for archive purposes, but to me CDs are no longer a viable option for actual media playback.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    If you spend a lot of time sitting next to a CD player they're still OK for now. For music on the move, not so much. And when the player breaks it will be hard to replace. So they're definitely not perfect.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Even if you're at home and do have a CD player it's just not practical. Sure, if you only listen to a handful of CDs that's workable.

    But my current music collection would require 1400+ CDs .. and good luck finding a specific song in that pile, even if you do know the exact album it's on. It's so much better to just have a searchable library.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Ssds die randomly without warning. Ask me how I know. Then worrying about all your backups, are they going to work? Are those drives failing? Its a huge headache for a real world person that doesn't spend 24/7 talking about Linux on Lemmy.

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