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Three or four years ago I decided to ditch music streaming and put my music budget towards buying CDs and unencumbered digital albums instead. No regrets. It can't disappear from your collection due to rights expiry if you've got the physical disk.

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@zip I thought this.

Then I discovered about 10 years ago that none of my CDs from the 90s would play any more. Optical discs are less durable than people think.

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@goatsarah That's something that has worried me as well, so I have embarked on the process of ripping all my CDs to FLAC files that live on my server.

I've ripped most of them, and they did seem to be mostly OK (with 1 or 2 exceptions) even though many of them were from the 90s. Sorting out the metadata to be consistent and helpful is one of those jobs I was hoping to get round to doing over the Christmas holidays but didn't. One day.

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@goatsarah that’s odd, my non-pirated ones still play, did you try multiple machines? Could have heen the laser on yours was only marginal (they go bad over time) and the combination of that with older discs didn’t fly. Of course, typing this out my adhd-ass self is slowly realizing you will have had this thought yourself so this reply is utterly useless
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@marlies @zip There was visible oxidation of the surface on pretty much all of them.
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@marlies @zip That was the day I permanently swore off optical discs. They lied to us about their durability. No better than hard disks, and possibly worse.
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@goatsarah magnetic tape disintegrates too, i think vinyl actually wins this one provided you don’t actually play it much. I still buy cds tho, and rip them. Hopefully either my rip or the disc itself persists
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@goatsarah I’m curious, how have you been storing them? My collection with a lot of 80s and 90s era discs hasn’t had any failures yet. Only burned discs.
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