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Do you prefer CD-R or CD-RW for music? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For those who use CDs for music, which writable CD type do you use, and why?

Main differences:

CD-R can only be written once
CD-RW is more expensive

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[–] kava 20 points 10 months ago (4 children)

CD-RW is superior. It's more expensive but you could use it as many times as you need. So if you were for example a 13 year old who loved to distro hop Linux distributions.. it's very useful to be able to rewrite whatever you were doing.

The price difference is quickly made up for with the re-usability factor.

Although I don't understand why anyone would burn a CD anymore. You can buy flash drives with a ton of storage for really cheap these days. You have all sorts of cloud options. You can even rent your own VPS for less than $5 a month.

[–] SteakRipums 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Although they are supposed to be forever rewritable I could only ever get quality brand RWs to do 3 to 5 rewrites before burns would fail verification. Source: lots of data migration between servers where USB sticks and networking was restricted.

[–] kava 2 points 10 months ago

i think a lot of it depended on your cd burner. i've had differing amounts of success with different burners.

still though, the price was not 3-5x higher if i remember correctly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The price difference is quickly made up for with the re-usability factor.

I don't think that's true, CD-Rs cost pennies. You have to rewrite every CD-RW 4 or 5 times before it's comparable in price. In practice, across every CD-RW ever made, the approximate number of times it is written is probably about 0.5

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My 02 Toyota Camry doesn't have a USB slot and I don't feel like changing head units unless I'm wiring in subs, CDs and tapes still run. Also surprisingly the 02 Toyota Camry doesn't integrate with Nextcloud so no cloud service for my car.

[–] kava 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

there's all sorts of options there too if you have an old car

for example there are those CD -> aux or CD -> bluetooth convertors so you can play music off your phone

but i guess if you do have an old car sometimes it can be nostalgic to put in some CDs. i remember having a belt of CDs on my sun visor. so i get it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Never seen a CD version, just a tape version. But yeah honestly fuck it, burning CDs works fine and always has, if it ain't broke don't fix it! I don't have the visor one I just have the giant fake leather binder haha.