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?
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Physical media I use constantly, but because burning Blu-ray and above is a bit trickier, I haven’t burned anything in more than a decade I’d say.
But yeah, using disks is at minimum weekly. Any movie I want to own is the fanciest, most comprehensive version available
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.
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. 👍
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)
I burned a selection of Expedition 33 songs as a Christmas present for my mother.
the last time I burned a disk was probably almost 9 years ago now. It was Ubuntu server because at the time I had the concept of "well I should have a hard install source in case I need to do a full reinstall. I dropped that mentality almost instantly though as I realized that it was better for me to just do backups because there was way too much contents for a DVD and I didn’t wanna have to reconfigure if it messed up.
I burned a HeXEn dvd last year for modding purposes on the original Xbox. Only thing I’ve burned in years. Still have a stack of blanks and an external USB disk drive, just in case.
I backup stuff on blurays and DVDs a couple times a year. I also wrote a copy of FreeDOS and some software onto a stack of floppies recently.
Burned, was probably a Linux ISO about 15 years ago. I still prefer to buy physical media (CDs and DVDs), just haven’t had a need to burn any in a while.
I can’t even remember the last thing I burned, had to have been over 10 years ago and it was likely install media for some Linux distro. I haven’t had a functional audio CD player in a very long time.
I did, however, rip a couple audio discs a few months ago. I was surprised that my USB disc drive still functioned.
edit: just read the other comments and I find it hilarious how almost everyone burned some distro install media
