For what purpose do these still exist and are offered for sale in the year 2018?

They're less vulnerable than flash drives. The information won't perish accidentally.

The CD was a major leap over the vinyl disc but we've hit a technological wall since and there hasn't been any technology to come along since then which offers enough advantages to replace it.

Does anyone have experience purchasing these off AliExpress? Seeking for some that are of decent quality.

While I enjoy using CDs for music in the car and for boot CDs, I’ll have to disagree on this. It’s way easier to scratch them than to accidentally erase a flash drive.

So I can burn PSX games.

You're not going to find Chinese media of any acceptable quality. Damn, just get a pack of Sonys and call it a day.

Backups. M Discs are very cheap and reliable backup options.

>corrupts randomly or decays
>can't recover shit
Nothing personnel, kyd.

>it's another "Why is it legal to use less than newest product" episode

I wish Jow Forums didn't hate technology so much.

My car has a 6disc changer so I'm burning cds all the time.
Also my SegaCD roms

The CD will never die as long as Japan cannot into downloading music.

AESTHETICS

run from ISO

>thumb drive
>for a 1 year old kid
>good idea

How do I play ISOs on my console?

I like to throw them at people, it's fun you should try it.

retarded government agencies that accept "electronic format submissions" but not through email or website upload

mam-a.com

Mitsui Advanced Media, America.

Best archival optical media in US, made in US.

Burn ISO on CD, duh.

Wait.... what..?

My 2007 Ford Focus is too old to have an aux port and too young to have a tape deck, so I have to burn whatever I want to listen to. These come in handy for that.

thanks for that blatant advertisement

>buy a flash drive once
Yeah people only buy a flash drive once haha

Burning audio CDs to listen to in your car.
Booting your computer from the optical drive when necessary.

So I can listen to lossless music I downloaded from streaming services in my car without dicking around with my phone. I still buy them but I've taken to finding older ones on ebay people just have laying around. I think a lot of the CD-Rs we used to have kicking around in the early 2000s were better, but not all. Depends on the brand.

>think a lot of the CD-Rs we used to have kicking around in the early 2000s were better
You are correct. You can't find any CD-R's meant for long term storage or durability any more.

CD-ROM simply offers a higher fidelity, crisper sound than modern digitial media. I'll take a CD over a usb with music on it any day.

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I miss when you could fit a Linux ISO on one of these bad boys, before everything became bloated as shit. Even the fucking Lubuntu ISO is at 1 GB right now.

Wav or flac files on a USB drive are the same thing as CD audio... But a CD is way cheaper.

I disagree, IMO there is a fidelity to unedited original CDs that can't be beat by digital encodes.

Nice trolling attempt

>digital encodes

hilarious

>In my opinion
Come back when you can back your "opinion" with facts shitlord.

Why is there zero interest in turning KolibriOS into something useful?
It's been around for over a decade and is still being developed by mostly one single russian dude.

lol no shit

The facts: Audio CDs contain 16 bit 44.1 PCM digital audio. This is able to be losslessly ripped into wave files using a computer's CD rom drive. Databases exist to allow for checking the checksums of your rip of a disc against rips made by others. FLAC and wav files sold by web shops and streamed by streaming services are usually the same and sometimes actually higher quality. Some of them offer 24 bit audio occasionally with higher sample rates.

>You can't find any CD-R's meant for long term storage or durability any more
CMC makes professional grade media.

Isn't the manufacturing cost of a typical CD less than $1? There's no way that'll ever be beaten for price.

Real men buy zip disquette

costs more than legit brands but isnt not better

>isnt
>not
sorry i can't into English

I have 3TB of storage. I would need nearly 4,300 CD-R's to store that on. I'm sure I could find a better way to back things up.

What the fuck are you storing that needs 3TB? 1080p hardcore porn movies?

I have a home media server and store a lot a movies. Sure it's not important data and I don't really need to back it up but backing it up on cd-r is silly.

dude, a decent quality movie is like 15GB
hell, my camera takes pictures that 30MB+ each

CD-Rs don't have much of a reason other than for burning redbook compliant music to play on your old CD player. DVD-R and BD-R exists and they're objectively superior to CD-R in every way.

ps2: yes
ps1: no

Also burning games to play on old consoles

I burn CD/DVDs all the time, either for my console, or for handing out files to people without risking them loosing mah flash drive, cutting and pasting instead of copying, or giving it back full of viruses.

On some older motherboards boot from USB is either non-existent or flaky as fuck.

Also, when people ask me if I have the Windows installation media when they want to reinstall their computer themselves I say, sure, and hand them a DVD. Cuz I sure ain't gonna give them a flash drive that they will never give back.

Fuck them if they don't have a dvd drive a USB dvd drive is 15bux.

old people always get angry when i tell them were out of stock of cd's. like dude just buy a hdd

I have relatives that still use the camcorders that record directly to DVD, and then they pop it into their DVD player.

most of these people are making backups. for the cost of the media you're better off updating the hardware. i get why they dont but they always take their aggression out on me.

>all my music is on it for eternity
Yeah... now listen through all the files on it and take note on how many of them are ALREADY corrupted.

LVMs

I buy CDs for access to FLAC files when the album isn't on HDTracks or Bandcamp.

i made cdr's of all the trappin in japan/trappin in heaven playlists and filled my car's cd changer and just let it play randomly. it's nice, i don't have to fuck around with my phone while driving anymore

my 2007 cadillac dts has an aux port but i'd rather just put the same music in the cd changer than fuck with my phone

>getting CDs scratched
What kind of a caveman are you?

650MB? Ehhh...it's not huge but still not bad. Consider that a floppy disk gave you less than 2MB of space. That's waaayyyy too small for today's needs.

>Sonys
Don't do this Sony optical media is soo fucking shit even though they supposedly pioneered it(problably philips did all the work lol)

I burn Cd's for my car.

They're cheaper than dvd.
Imagine you have to phisically include digital documentation to over 10000 paper reports, because some ancient rules and regulations.
I did literally burned those cds last year over ~2 week period. Thank god for command line options so I didn't had to make every compilation "by hand". Idiot before me did it.

Legacy.

Did you really ask such dumb question right now?

Are there any CD player boomboxes or mini systems that have dvd drives to play mp3s? Otherwise I guess it's just for legacy stuff like CD players, PSX, Dreamcast, and.... That's it.

>ps2: yes
Are you talking about running them off a hard drive or a zip disquette?
If you're talking about latter, then you're retarded.

I'm a piratefag and I keep burning dreamcast games to this day

>this is considered "piracy"
>someone cares about paying a premium for a second-hand old product that will get rarer because people will keep scratching discs
>wanting to risk damaging a disc with a system that might fuck it up (especially PS2 slim, I'm glad the ribbon cable failed when I had a backup in)

>Japan cannot into downloading music
More like they actively choose not to download and instead buy physical media

most wholesome thing I've probably ever read on this website

my car only has a cd player and a radio

I bought a spindle of 50 Philips CD-Rs. They look pretty nice and do their job. I notice they have "multi speed" on them under the CDDA logo, no idea what that means. Verbatim is also good.

>The facts
>sometimes actually higher quality
I think you mean placebo quality.

With a CD you know what you're getting. I bought an obscure album recently on bandcamp and it turned out to be an MP3 - FLAC conversion. I already had an MP3 of it and it matched up perfectly. I got a refund, and apparently they did it because its so obscure and impossible to find aside from the MP3. Still though.

>that hellraiser kill scene with the dvds

In some 3rd world countries, they are still used for music piracy. Yep, the sell burned music discs.

Maybe (You) don't use them, but still there's a market for those things.

Fucking Japanese music releases. They are so fucking cool...

They're cheap and are excellent for backup. You can shard your files and distribute them across multiple disks for a fraction of what it costs to store them all on tape.

Combined with a robotic loader like Dextrix, the whole process can be automated easily.

emulators
i run from ISO for PS1 & PS2

>emulators

Shut the fuck up child

>there is a fidelity to unedited original CDs that can't be beat by digital encodes.
you're right, but probably not for the reasons you're thinking
CD is itself a digitally-encoded format, so you're saying also that a CD cannot beat itself, which is true, as CD is capable of saturating the limits of human hearing, so any digital format can only sound as good as a CD (as good, not beat)

it's much less than that, considering you can get CD-R's for only a few cents each in larger quantities

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I have been using flash memory in its various guises for over twenty years and have never had an issue with file/data corruption/degredation. Not once.

That said, ive little chinkshit experience.

Cheap, highly portable media that is only need to write once.

fuck post that list

you are part of the problem
movies need to be 720p and 650mb
>goddamn whippersnappers

>Cheap, highly portable media
Because a USB stick is expensive and not portable?
or you know, the internet?

Same here w/my 2005 corolla. plus if burnt disc gets damaged or stolen I can just burn another copy and go on with life.

you could always just use the ubuntu mini, it's only 64 MB

>optical media
>best media

another hard disk

>movies need to be 720p and 650mb
>Jow Forums - Technology

>Modern pirates don't even know what verbatims are anymore
;_;

Same here, I got a massive media collection. Also got a decent sized porn collection to. While I could re rip my DVDs/CDs and re-download content via torrent (if said torrent still exists/works) why waste all that time redoing it all if I don't got to? Hell of a lot quicker to restore from backup than the other way I can tell you that. Then the rest of my data on top of it all. Fuck it took me 3.5 months alone to rip my box set of Law and Order (20 seasons @104 discs). While yeah torrent did exist, the quality sucked, burnt in subs,etc. So I did my own rip.

Explain why?