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Do you prefer CD-R or CD-RW for music? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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For those who use CDs for music, which writable CD type do you use, and why?

Main differences:

  • CD-R can only be written once
  • CD-RW is more expensive
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[โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Wow I did not know this. I was going to back up some photos onto CD-R as an extra safeguard. I have it backed up on a hard drive and cloud currently but wanted another back up. Will look into something else now.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    M-Discs will do the trick for a couple centuries, which should exceed the span in which the data needs to be stored. Requires a burner that can handle the discs though.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    What good are discs that last a couple of centuries when optical drives have already pretty much died out by this decade?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    That "pretty much" is doing a lot of lifting. They're not commonplace in laptops now, but industrially they're still quite common. Same is true of tape backups, which the average consumer would swear is dead tech. If you want to store your files perpetually on disc, you'll be able to get a reader for that disc easily enough 50+ years from now. It just may not be installed by default.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    CD technology isn't even 50 years old at this point. Making such confident predictions about its availability in 50+ years is ridiculous.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Considering we still have vinyl players and that techs over 50 years old, it's not too far of a stretch to believe cd tech will still be around in another 50 years.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago

    Vinyl mainly still exists because it is the one lasting technology that is analog music recording technology. CD on the other hand is the first technology of the digital age there when it comes to music. It has no real benefits or distinguishing features over other digital storage (of music or data) to keep it alive.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago

    Words carved into stone is your best bet. Have GPT-4 describe each picture in a thousand words, then carve those words into the wall of a very deep cave.

    Later if you need the picture back you can just put those thousand words in as a prompt to Dalle

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