Im just wondering what was the last dvd or cd you burned and what was it for? So you all still use dvds or cds? or have you found a alternative media?
I just bought 3 used dvds yesterday, haven’t burned them yet. I bought a CD last year, and I burned it… it was an album of Rihanna’s greatest hits
Haha I talked to my kids about burning CDs in the way of talking about old tech they’ve never encountered. They wanted a CD burner after that to try it out, so I found an external USB burner and a cheapo little boom box. They ended up downloading songs from our media server and some stuff from NewGrounds and burning a bunch of mix CDs. It was fun!
That sounds like a fun activity to do, neat idea.
CT Scan imagery. Apparently medical clinics have finally graduated from faxes to optical media. This was in 2025.
I recently purchased an older vehicle that came with a standard CD player and no AUX input. Setting down to plan and burn a dozen CD-Rs was quite nostalgic. I was surprised the local mega-mart actually had them in stock.
I had a car stereo like this and I soldered a 3.5mm jack to where the audio comes into the main board from the CD player. The pins were even labelled.
A CD had to be playing for the amplifier section to be activated, so I burned a CD of silence that I made in Audacity. 👍
This is a memory trip haha! I never had to do this because I had cars with cassette decks, but folks with newer cars (maybe 07 or so?) were doing this. Auto forum days.
My car has a CD player also, and burning CDs is certainly more convenient than using the cassette player. (I did purchase the car new, but I guess I’ve had it a while)
Do the cars also lack radio? Bluetooth to radio transmitters have been around and are decent
Where I live there are few unused radio frequencies.
And if you drive for 20 minutes to another region you’ll find that whatever frequency you were on is being used…
I doubt that’s a problem in the USA though.I forgot ppl live in denser areas, definitely not an issue here, Id have to change the station every 2-3 hours of driving
I…I have never heard of these. Unfortunately, the car’s antenna was damaged years ago, so I’d have to work the corroded, broken remains out of the socket before attaching a new one. Might do this, thanks.
Gotta be easier to use a 10$ bluetooth to radio transmitter?
I’m no audiophile; but I’d rather jam toothpicks in my ears.
So you never tried it?
I used to work at a car audio store. I’ve installed literal hundreds of them. I guess it’s better than nothing; but I would almost rather sing to myself. The only decent ones are the ones that physically plug inline with your antenna. The broadcast style are so limited in power that they don’t work very well with the crowded local FM band (I swear some of these stations are broadcasting way above their limit)
I guess I am probably pickier than most when it comes to sound quality.
I burned a custom johnny cash cd for my mom using some of her favorites. She played it for about 9 years before accidentally leaving it in the cd player when she sold her old car
Cool stuff. I did that with a USB stick which is objectively better but has less swag (as it is smaller lol)
I had a college sports team reunion and several teammates asked for a copy of a championship game. I still had the digital file, so posted it in a Dropbox thinking that would be easy enough for people whose hobbies don’t involve computers.
Nope, I was spending too much time on tech support so offered flash drives with video files.
Nope, still too much for two teammates so after a phone call to understand what tech they had at home and were comfortable with, I burned them each DVDs.
It didn’t get that far, but I was prepared to use my library’s digital-to-VHS-to-digital workstation to copy them an old-timey VHS tape if the DVDs didn’t work. The library even has a stash of never-unwrapped VHS tapes they’ll sell you.
I still used CDs, I recently got out all my music CDs again since I setup a new hifi system. But I haven’t burned a cd or dvd in about 15 years. In fact as I came across copies of burned cds in my collection I have gone and bought cheap used copies to replace them.
No idea, it was a long time ago. If I have to guess it would probably was a linux distro, I remember some problems making a bootable usb or booting a laptop from usb so I might ended up burning a cd.
Mine was a live CD of Ubuntu about 3 years ago. It was an older computer and the front USB ports weren’t plugged in so no USB drive.
I backup stuff on blurays and DVDs a couple times a year. I also wrote a copy of FreeDOS and some software onto a stack of floppies recently.
I burned a HeXEn dvd last year for modding purposes on the original Xbox. Only thing I’ve burned in years. Still have a stack of blanks and an external USB disk drive, just in case.
I burnt a Windows 7 install disc about a month ago. A guy I work with found his old PC and wanted a fresh install so he could give it to someone.
I discovered Ventoy about a week ago…
I burned an audio CD just last week. My old Chevy truck has some mid 2000’S radio swapped into it and it doesnt have bluetooth or aux (well, has aux but it’s buried in the back of the dash). So I burn a CD once in a while to pop in and enjoy.
I keep asking this, but do yall also lack radio? Bluetooth to radio transmitters were what I used in these situations years ago
I do have radio but I’m lazy and haven’t gone to get a retransmitter. I find the act of burning CD’s kinda fun anyway, and they sound better.
I do miss the act of burning cds, made computers seem cooler.
Once ventoy became a thing i stopped needing optical media. The last one i burned was most likely a linux distro.
I do remember the last bluray i burned was a bunch of roms for Mame and other emulator to mail someone. I think i burned all of maybe 4 bluray discs with that burner, it seemed like a good thing to get when i built the pc in 2010,but i almost never used it.
Some years ago I burned a quadrophonic bootleg version of Dark Side of the Moon, the original Alan Parsons mix (which sounds much better then the official version) so a friend can listen to it on his 5.1 home cinema.
Besides that I haven’t used DVDs in more than a decade, harddrives are cheaper, reliable, always online, run btrfs with realtime checksums and are easy to backup. Besides last time I checked most DVDs don’t read anymore.
