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Used audio CDs are so cheap (most are anyways) that I don't see any point in making your own, other than making a physical play list.
Thinking about it, I have two optical drives in my PC and never even used them to burn a CD...
if you listen to unpopular music and dont wanna pay a 20$ shipping cost per disc ๐
I've never paid that much for a used CD on eBay and I don't think I only listen to popular or well-known artists...
Try the Discogs Marketplace if you haven't had any luck on eBay, sellers there tend to know a bit more about how much their stuff is worth. It's pretty nice if you're looking for a particular pressing, too.
i live in australia, and i can only find sales from europe or america (even on discogs). even without shipping, the cheapest i can find are about 3โฌ or something, wheres a CD-R costs about 1$AUD each. also shipping can take about 2 weeks
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The only time it has ever seemed to matter is for live cds i.e linux. Anecdotally I had more issues with the rewritables than the write once and "if anything goes wrong get another disc" discs.
CD-R.
I think I bought some CD-RW a looong time ago and never, ever re-wrote with them. Hard to think of a scenario where I would do that.
Also, I just bought some Taiyo Yuden again recently. They're still available (scamazon).
I had to do a double take to see how old is this post.
I'll be honest. When I upgraded my PC I finally moved to one without any bays. So my rewriter that I've not used for probably 10+ years came out of my setup.
Funny story, I did some work on my old setup some 5 years or so ago. I must have unplugged the rewriter to get at some cabling and never re-connected it. I never noticed in those 5 years, until I was taking the parts out I was moving to my new system and saw it was just not connected.
Now, when I DID make CDs around 10+ years ago or more, I used CD-Rs.
i didn't think i ever used CDRW for music, only CD-R. not sure why
i find it much more reliable. its also cheaper
In the of mobile streaming, mobile storage or cars having usb / etc why would you still be using cds at this point? If you are doing this for a home stereo, use high quality stored audio on a pc and stream from there locally.
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CD-R for compatibility
If you already have a digital audio file... just play that on a computer?