• Bluewing@lemmy.world
    10·
    10 hours ago

    Ahh, all you sweet summer children and your fancy CD burners and MP3 players…

    I remember the OG “mixtapes”. Sitting on our bedroom floors for hours with a 9V 6 transistor radio and listening to the local rock and roll station hoping to hear your favorite group’s new song being announced by the DJ so you could press the play and record buttons on that cheap portable cassette player to record the latest songs. All just so you could have a shitty mono recording to listen to.

    If your Girlfriend gave you a tape filled with all her favorite music, it was like both of you were half ways down the aisle and headed for marriage. It was that serious.

  • JuliaSuraez@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 hours ago

    The old magic was just really slow Bluetooth and a lot of teenage delusion 😂🔥 (And yes… it “worked” exactly as often as you’d expect.)

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 day ago

    The secrets will not be exposed… Unless you are willing to join the black parade…

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
    20·
    1 day ago

    There was also a software to burn pictures in the disc via the burn patterns. There’s a open source project now but it didn’t work for me.

    Edit: i don’t mean the label side but the data side. But has similiar problems with supported players.

    • Aganim@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 day ago

      The first laptop I bought had a DVD burner which came with support for LightScribe, which required discs with a special coating. You designed a cover, put the disc in your drive upside down and it would burn the image into the disc. You could only do grayscale as far as I know, but I still thought it was pretty neat at the time.

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
        1·
        12 hours ago

        I think the one i used was named different? Maybe i’ll try again, thanks!

        You know what would be magic? If you could boot Linux from that. Should theoretically be possible, no?

    • PKscope@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 day ago

      I had one of those “LightScribe” burners. I think I only used it a couple of times because the media was much more expensive than standard CD-R and I didn’t care enough to get good at it. It was just a slow extra step when I’m trying to burn a quick cd before I head to the bus stop in the morning.

      Funnily, burning the lightscribe cd was faster than the first mp3 player I had. My first mp3 player was a Creative something or other with 32mb of storage. Adding the ~15 songs you could fit on it took fucking donkey’s years.

  • Shamber@lemmy.world
    22·
    2 days ago

    Burning CD’S aside, does she think we did this to get a text? 🤣🤣 this shit was before mobile phone were a thing, and when you had one as a teen you still couldn’t afford to text for hours on end

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      and when you had one as a teen you still couldn’t afford to text for hours on end

      And neither could my parents as it turned out

  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    181·
    2 days ago

    We Gen Z get called “the first digital kids” but I clearly remember the last days of physical and optical media. My sister and I would burn CDs with songs we would download from LimeWire.

    • Amberskin@europe.pub
      1·
      10 hours ago

      Meh.

      You didn’t experience the thrill of taping music from radio stations.

      Nor the compulsion to swear out loud when the radio guy started talking 10 seconds before the song ending

    • ragas@lemmy.ml
      9·
      1 day ago

      Pysical is not the opposite of digital.

      Analog is the opposite of digital.

      A CD is a digital medium, just like an SSD is.

      If you want a rotating disk medium which is analog, you would need to get a vinyl.

      • Zink@programming.dev
        2·
        1 day ago

        Haha yeah, I think SpiceDealer’s comment inadvertently supports the notion it’s meant to dispel.

        But to be fair, the media world has been using the word “digital” to mean “electronic delivery” for a long time.

        • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          12 hours ago

          I posted a scathing reply to their post, but then lost confidence in it when it occurred to me they might have been joking, like deliberately getting it wrong to join in the joke OP posted.

  • RotSteinFinke@feddit.org
    90·
    2 days ago

    Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor

      • ch00f@lemmy.world
        32·
        2 days ago

        On the mac, there was Toast (it burns), and Nero had an ad that said that they “Eat Toast for Breakfast.”

        What a great era for software branding.

        • Zink@programming.dev
          2·
          1 day ago

          The naming is one thing I legitimately like about the whole Linux/GNU/FOSS world.

          Things are still named by nerds/enthusiasts who have some spark of joy and fun left in their hearts. Could you imagine a sanitized corporate software product released today with a name that directly refers to the established product it is meant to displace?

          For example, things like GNU’s Not Unix or my favorite remotely accessible text/terminal based email client I used around the turn of the century, PINE Is Not Elm.

          Then you get fun second-order software names like GIMP, too.

          It’s all so preferable to the commercial software branding world where even though the visual presentation is extremely samey (everybody switching to the same popular boring fonts and removing logos/artwork), the actual brands are often made up silly words that are easy to get the domain name and the social handles for.

          Be sure to follow BONTO! on all your favorite trillion dollar propaganda and surveillance platforms!

          • ch00f@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 day ago

            Corporate word processing software: Word

            Apple’s photo management software: Photos

  • Freakazoid@lemmy.ml
    1042·
    2 days ago

    And burning cd/dvd’s is getting more popular due to disappearing content on streaming services. Some shows got removed and are no longer available to watch elsewhere legally. Such a shame.

    • prettybunnys@piefed.socialEnglish
      72·
      2 days ago

      I took a class on DVD creation back in the day, how to write the menus and link tracks and whatnot.

      Time to shake off the ‘ol bootleg machine.

        • prettybunnys@piefed.socialEnglish
          17·
          2 days ago

          it was cool, it wasn’t JUST on that but we spent a lot of time on that. It was an introductory digital video editing class.

      • Denjin@feddit.uk
        25·
        2 days ago

        I did one on how to design teletext pages. On a separate and unrelated issue, my joints hurt.

      • ttyybb@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        What do you use for burning blu-rays? I’ve recently been getting into it as a hobby.

      • blueduck@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        DVD Studio Pro was legit.

        I did the full Final Cut —> Compressor + Motion for menu animations —> DVD Studio Pro then burned a stack of discs and applied labels

        Completely unnecessary, but fun

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      24·
      2 days ago

      Also making a comeback because of things like Elsagate and YouTube Kids’ weird algorithms. Parents need to have reliable kid-friendly media that they can put on, without constantly needing to monitor it… And a DVD box set of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood won’t end up showing your kid softcore fetish content disguised as children’s videos, as soon as you walk away from the screen to make dinner.

      I run a small Plex/Jellyfin server, and have a library specifically for kids’ shows. And my users can lock their kids’ accounts down so they can only access that library. So my various friends and relatives can put something on via Plex, and trust that it will stay safe for their kids.

        • proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          2 days ago

          Not at all. One of my kids only likes to watch the same thing over and over and over. I think it must be comforting in the same way that we like to listen to the same music over and over; we recognize what comes next and there is a comfort in having that power.

        • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          Personally I use NAS for a similar setup. Over 100TBs of storage, but kids movies (2.1TB) and TV (6.6TB) is just a small chunk of that.

            • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              Whatever i can get for cheap that’s not utter garbage. Usually that’s WD, I dont trust Seagate (yes, I had that 3TB drive. 5 of them to be specific).

              And my enclosure of choice is whatever case will fit the shenanigans I want to put in, nothing specific. Well other than being rack mount or a case that fits neatly in my rack.

    • db2@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      Does this mean the case of 5.25" DVD burners I have will be worth something again?

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      You should know, depending on the type and quality of the media, that CD/DVDs degrade over time spanning from 5-20 years (very high quality presses/burns can last upward of 50, but you are likely not doing that at home). Probably doesn’t matter for most use-cases, but just so people don’t get the idea that it’s good for long term storage past those rough estimates.

      • dreugeworst@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 days ago

        this is how I ended up finding out there are now much better rips available for many of the shows I burned to DVD in the mid 2000s

    • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      If it hasn’t happened already, Netflix is dropping the new She-Ra show from their service, and they’ve never released a physical form.

      Therefore, it is illegal to watch She-Ra.

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      Got annoyed when things started coming and going as early as 2018 and started a Blu-Ray collection. About 80% of it is secondhand. I’ll admit I still have a couple streaming services, but all the stuff I know I like is readily and consistently available now.

  • robocall@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 days ago

    I had this application that would print a CD shaped stickers. I could upload and design any background, and add text with any font. It was when computers peaked.

        • ragas@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 day ago

          Also DDG have their own crawler, so they can deliver more results than Bing.

          • wischi@programming.dev
            5·
            2 days ago

            If it does was you need it to do you should definitely use it, privacy vise it’s obviously way better than google. Haven’t tried in in about 2 years, maybe the search results got better but the last time I tried it often presented me weird sites that technically contained the words I searched for but were completely irrelevant - entered the same question onto Google and immediately got me a stack overflow question that was practically the same question I had but phrased a bit differently. But as I said, maybe it’s no longer so bad as when I tried it.

            • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 days ago

              For a long time I used DuckDuckGo for everything except specific error messages, because Google was better at those, but Google got more shitty and so did stack overflow, so I don’t bother much with Google anymore.

          • Übercomplicated@lemmy.ml
            2·
            2 days ago

            I’ve tried everything and I really really really can’t use Google. It just never gets me what I want. DDG works ok, and is usually my default because it’s fast and simple.

            Recently (1 or 2 years) I’ve found Brave search to be fantastic though. You may want to disable the AI search summary (it’s better than Google’s or DDG’s ai stuff, but still ultimately ai). Now, I find myself reaching for brave search when I’m doing more serious searching. I have both DDG and Brave saved as search short cuts in librewolf. Highly recommend.