Played your old CDs lately?

Bob-Dubery

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-library-of-congress-wants-to-destroy-your-old-cds-for-science/370804/

MoisteK

Yep, Led Zep, bought in 1984

strataxe

Yep, recently , Guns ...and ...Roses ....APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION!!!! Still f*(*(&( awesome ... great guitar work on every song . the person who wants to destory music, vinyl, cds, tapes...should be shot.

DaFiz

Sold my entire CD collection for dirt cheap.
Even those I searched long and had for and paid Amazon prices.
I did keep some old worn vinyls like Led Zeppelins and Pink Floyds,
but mostly the collection is on mp3 these days, with the iPod plugging into the PA, computer, lounge system, car audio and wherever else. I even load a selection to play between sets on stage.
It's a winner ?

Doomsower

I have a few Black Sabbath CDs that were released in 1986. (Got them second-hand, I wasn't baying CDs back then ?)
Play without a hitch.

I suspect that CDs will last longer if you just look after them. Don't expose them to temperature fluxuations, sunlight or high humidity....

I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to CDs. Putting on a album and listening to it properly as the artist intended is the way to do it. I fully expect to be on killed by a landslide of death metal albums one day.

DaFiz wrote: Sold my entire CD collection for dirt cheap.

If anyone else wants to do this let me know. 8)

AlanRatcliffe

Not at all any more - I've digitised just about all of them.

I realised CD weren't forever when King Crimson's Discipline died on me - one of the British pressing plants used the wrong plastic for a while for all the CDs they made (in 1994 IIRC), and that meant the aluminium surface oxidised. Disk turned golden over 5 years or so and wouldn't play. Stands to reason that any plastic they use would only slow oxidisation, and eventually they will all die. Another one of the great music industry lies...

DaFiz

Doomsower wrote:
DaFiz wrote: Sold my entire CD collection for dirt cheap.
If anyone else wants to do this let me know. 8)

I wanted to sell the vinyl collection as well but Madam insists they could be worth something...
Ja...right... When frizbees make a comeback... :-[
My Led Zeppelins were played so much the needle almost went through to the other side ?