I'm pretty old! :^D I was a fairly early adopter to cds, and I still have a ton of vinyl I never listen to, well, cause it's vinyl. I need to see if there's anything particularly interesting in that format, and "rip" it via bittorrent.
Would be pretty interesting if those CDs are still readable. Maybe the earliest ones are since they must've been made with good quality material. The ones when CDs went mainstream were pretty low quality. Would get scratched easily and become unreadable with a single scratch in the wrong place. I have a frickin' brand new Batman Begins trilogy Bluray set where the first BD gets stuck halfway and there's no visible scratch I can see on it. Probably a stupid pressing defect.
As an extensive user of CDs for decades, this is not my experience with them.
Never had an unreadable CD? Even if you take the best care in handling them, the hardware itself can scratch them.
Very, very rarely. I did have to replace my Dark Side of the Moon CD after 15 years, but it was also one of my most frequently played CDs. I have hundreds of CDs that still play without issue, I recently played through 3 different CDs from the 90s without issue. Maybe you don't take as much care as you think.
Maybe it's different with audio CDs? I went through so much angst with data CDs. It would always be the CD I badly wanted to read that would have an issue. Other CDs, even badly scratched ones, would get a clean bill of health from ISOBuster. In my teens, there wasn't much of any online shopping sites so there was this one CD "scrubber" I badly wanted that would scratch off a thin layer from the data side of the CD in some kind of a pattern that was scientifically proven to make the CD readable again. I think PC Magazine did a review of that product and it had a success rate of 70 to 90%.
Cheap CD-Rs, yeah, that's an entirely different beast than retail audio CDs.
It was bought through a shipper. It's the only one I had a problem with. All others I bought directly from US stores worked fine. Though I haven't checked them since 2020 at least.
I had the 6 disc magazines, but I was going broke buying magazines. They cost as much as a cd, and it was a hassle if you wanted to hear something that wasn't loaded, or spanned multiple magazines, I ended up getting a single disc adapter and used that most of the time.
I really like the Risk of Rain 1 and Endless Space soundtracks for that kind of chill feeling.Been looking around on youtube for atmospheric music. Going more for feel than real noteworthiness. That means a lot of is computer or AI, but it's good for maintaining a consistent vibe, kind of like white noise that has a bit of flow.
Dark Academia is a style/vibe/subculture??? that's pretty cool. Goes well with cooler weather, and I like the aesthetic.
Dark academia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Depending on how long it's been since you bought it, I would personally still contact the studio (WB?) about the issue, if it's been less than a year they may offer a replacement. Even if longer, they may still, hard to say.
Bought before 2020. I doubt they would care about an overseas buyer who bought a US region protected BD. I have a US region locked BD player for this specific purpose. I've mostly retired from getting more BDs anyway. Already have at least a 100 I think.
I ordered a 26TB external drive for under $250 recently, so... yeah, 50GB doesn't seem like so much these days.
Whatever helps you sleep at night with your lowly 500GB drive
When I was regularly watching on my OLED TV, I would curse when I had to download something more than 4GB because there wasn't a download option available. Either low quality 1.4GB that looks like crap on 4K TV or direct 12GB 4K download
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