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?
Burned a handful of DVDs a couple years ago, as backup of photos I took. Not the most convenient, but I actually do like having an album of discs with the dates written on them. Reliving memories this way hits completely different than browsing a directory tree
Probably like 2010, 2011 was my last time? It would have been movies for our dvd player in our bedroom when my (now) wife and I were in University.
I got an iPod Nano for my birthday in the fall of 2005, which brought the burning cd factory that was my computer to a screeching halt. I’d still back up files and stuff using CDs, but it went from like going through a carousel of blanks a month to going through a carousel of blanks in like 3 years, within a very short period of time.
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.
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!
Oh wow I have no idea it’s been probably at least 10 years since burning a CD. If I had to guess it was some kind of Linux distro maybe systemrescuecd or clonezilla.
I bought an external DVD burner and a small pack of DVDs in 2023. Pretty sure I was burning gparted or some other recovery type LiveCD. It was some sort of Hail Mary on a retro project, or something.
But yeah, optical media bad.
I mean death to the streaming companies, but yeah I don’t really miss optical media at all. My truck in high school you’d literally open up the door and CDs would be spilling out all over the damn pavement. They talk about distracted driving with the screens in modern day cars, but let’s actually talk about you flipping through pages and pages in those darn pouch books trying to find the CD you were after, back in the day. Now that was OG distracted driving.
I don’t think I ever burned a DVD (did rip some), but was making copies of my CDs for use in my car up to about 2010 before I got into the mp3 player game. Then it was just ripping. Still would be ripping, but no longer have a drive for that. That computer ate it a few years ago. I should have been more proactive. Maybe will borrow the one from work that has a Jimmy Buffet disc in it.
Last CD was probably back in 2011 and was Rise Against - Appeal to Reason and the last game I burned was probably back in 2009 and was Kingdom hearts 2. Have moved on to having “backups” on my HDD or getting them on Steam.
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.
oh wow uhhhhhh
I was an early mp3 adopter, I remember my first one was this little Chinese device that held about ten somgs, so I think the last time I burned a CD was when I pirated Final Fantasy Tactics on PS1.
Xubuntu 20.10(?) I think.
I went to college and no longer had any computers with disk drives or a need for one, so I haven’t used many since.
However, I do want to start backing up old VHS tapes my family has onto disks, and burn some of our favorite online movies/shows onto disks so we can watch them if the internet goes down.
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.
Gotta be easier to use a 10$ bluetooth to radio transmitter?
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
CT Scan imagery. Apparently medical clinics have finally graduated from faxes to optical media. This was in 2025.
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.
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)
