Amusingly, I think I remember some of my last ones, though maybe not my absolute final one.
For the most part, I’d already moved away from CDs, but I got a job driving vans which didn’t have Bluetooth or an aux port. I ended up burning a few mp3 CDs für that job some time in late 2014.
Fun fact: one of those CDs contained brony music which I accidentally left in my van one night. I came into work the next day to hear it blaring on the warehouse speakers until I heard someone saying “what is this?” before changing the CD.
The drivers were all talking about it during lunch and I sat there quietly, amused by them trying to figure it out 😂
I’m assuming you’ve moved on, but if not, there are FM transmitters for when you want music or navigation instructions from your phone to play over the vehicle’s speakers. Bluetooth or 3.5mm jack ones are both available.
Oh god yeah you’re bringing back some memories there 😂
So I already knew they were a thing, but annoyingly on some of the vans there was only a single 12v socket, and we had to use that socket to plug in the navigation system/manifest.
So CDs were the easier choice until I got hold of one of those 12v splitters.
The one I had was far bulkier than the one shown.
A lot of the time it didn’t matter anyway because people don’t take care of the vans so a lot of the guys played their shit in the loading bays at full volume and would regularly blow the speakers out.
Sometimes I was going out with a Bluetooth speaker jammed between the dash and windscreen.
I had 100 solutions, it seems. The CDs were just one of them 😂
I taught one of my friends to drive. She now has her first car - a 15 year old Mini - so now she has my old FM transmitter 🥰
Can you daisy chain those?
hey ^^ time to listen to some brony music :) i totally forgot that exists 😂👍
If you haven’t kept up, I’d recommend some of the “Ponies at Dawn” albums
Recollections was one of my favourites. Some absolute bangers on there
https://poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/recollections
Ignite starts off insanely strong as well
Brony music is legit! Heck even just the songs by Daniel Ingram are great stuff. I always liked Aurelleah and Jyc Row.
This is Lemmy bruh. We still be burning discs on the reg.
Seriously though, I still like to listen to CDs in my car. Something about making that perfect 20 song banger mixtape just hits different. And then slotting old CDs and having no idea what songs are on there but usually being pleasantly surprised. Spotify/Bluetooth is too easy and casual, I tend to pay more attention and enjoy the music more when listening to CDs.
I have a visor CD holder with a few burnt copies of albums I always enjoy. Yes my car has Bluetooth and yes I use it, but sometimes it’s just easier to pop in a CD. It’s also more legal, a couple of years ago a coworker got ticketed for distracted driving because the cop saw him switching albums on his phone while driving. I doubt you’ll get pulled over for swapping CDs.
Man you ain’t lying about having random songs on them. I’m always equally impressed and disturbed by some of the CDs I’ve made in the past.
I shit my pants once when I was 32, I did not know that wouldn’t be the last time.
It might not be.
In the North of England that’s called ‘shittin yer keks’.
Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?
Huh, I just got blank CDs yesterday.
I’m wasting untold amounts of optical media on trying to install a FOSS OS on an iMac G5. PPC64be is a pain in the ass nowadays
I never knew that “road mix 17” was going to be the final release
Until you find a reason to do it again. I burned a cd like last year because my car has a cd player.
Hah I knew it exactly. 2019 when my university required to hand in all (raw) data used for creating my thesis on a CD or DVD. I had to buy a new one of these things where you get like 50 disks stacked on a stick (to use 3 of them) and had to borrow my mom’s old laptop, because it was the only one available with a dvd drive. I knew it then and I’ve been right since then: This was the last time.
I think for me it was before I moved counties and my disc was full so I put all my torrents on a couple DVDs. Early 2009.
I still have a BD-RE drive in my current setup. It almost never sees any use, but it’s definitely nice to have the option should I ever require it.
Nah - CD’s are great.
Everyone should be burning Parenti lectures and leaving them in public spaces. Very fun past time.
I might just go and burn one more when I get home, just for the heck of it ;)
I was thinking the same but I realized I am not sure I have a computer with a CD drive or a mother board that supports my old IDE drive
I have though, just need to install a rom burning SW again :D
Nero burning ROM :)
That wouls be suitable for nostalgia’s sake, but I’ll probably go for xfburn or whatever that name was ;)
lol I didn’t
I haven’t burned my last one yet
Screenshoting this thread to burn it onto a disc later.
I’ve written to a CD last year.
Holy hell
