It's upside down! Why are we not taking about the real issue. The disks will slide out...
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Discs, and they won’t slide out if your CD wallet is of good quality!
Made for a good haul for the junkies breaking into your car in the apartment parking lot every three months.
You kept you DVD movie collection in the car, even when it was stolen before?
OK, but where are they going to sell 53 CDs of burned One Piece?
Hey, do you think these junkies go back to their crack houses & make mixtapes for each other?
Now that's what I call smash & grab music
speaking from experience?
I got my CD binder stolen from my car once. It was a big one too, like 75 CDs
Do people not still do this? Isn't it the most convenient way to store loads of DVDs and CDs?
I haven't used a CD or DVD for years. Most of my devices have no disc drive. Streaming has won, at least for lazy people like me.
I updated my PC just a week or so ago. Finally moved away from a case with external drive bays. That case was just not able to keep a 3080 cool.
Honestly, I had a Bluray drive in there that was not used in so long, that on my previous upgrade four years ago, in that case I forgot to reconnect it and only found out last week when I was taking it apart for the re-used parts.
I have a blu-ray drive that I use once or twice a year to rip a movie. 5 years or so ago I was the weirdo that has both a blu-ray and dvd drive in my computer, as I was ripping my entire movie library.
Immortan Joe ain't spraying your teeth metallic
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anyone that has any amount of physical media now also probably likes having the cases and art to look at
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No, the most convenient way is ripping them and turning them into media files that I can copy to anything I want.
Archiving them like this also helps fight against bit rot. They aren't getting any younger (and by the CD/DVD's last days, they weren't exactly made out of the most high quality materials). I'm already experiencing this with floppies and retro computer stuff.
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I have one that i last updated in 2012 still. I had a nexflix subcription with 3 movies mailed to me that I'd rip in DVDfab and burn to another DVD and mail back the same day i received the movies.
It is, but it isn't the most convenient way to store movies.
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I still buy CDs. Do I listen to them directly? No, I rip them and go with the FLACs, but it's still nice to have something physical, especially if buying directly from the artist (e.g. at a concert).
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My kids have a music player called Yoto. It takes little cards which tells it which playlist to use. This is easy for kids to understand, and lets them listen to stories and music without adding more screen time. The cards don't actually store the music, just tell the player where to download it from.
My wife recently realized we had quite a few of these cards now. So she bought this: 
The future is here, and it looks a lot like the past.
On that one hand, that's kind of cute and cool. But on the other, I find it a bit depressing that the main difference between this and CD wallets of the past is that the CDs actually did store the data.
With the CDs, you literally were holding the information, and you could use it as you wish without reliance or permission from anyone else. Whereas the cards, as you say, they just point to where the data is. You still need to rely on a whole chain of different services to get access to it. Access can be revoked at any time, either deliberately, or by some error, or by some critical service shutting down. It's just like the past, but worse. Isn't it?
Yeah, pretty much. In their defense they're more resilient to greasy kid fingers and being dropped behind the couch, but I still wish the data was actually stored on the card, or on some form of local storage. We had an mp3 player with an SD card before that, but then you can't switch playlist as easily.
The past is now.
That's a CD folder
I found one in a parking lot after 4th of July fireworks. Had mostly original CDs instead of copied CD-Rs. Was quite a collection
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im still using mine in my car from 2001
I used to have 128 GB MicroSD that I would plug into my phone/laptop/Tablet with movies and music.
But since we can't have nice things anymore - almost no modern devices support it.
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And Games, and Warez
CDs for sure but I owned over 2000 DVDs and I never would have done this with any of them.
I bought heavy duty drawers to store my DVDs in inside their cases.
Well... I guess you are talking about legal DVDs, this although maybe people did it as well with originals, pretty sure it was more common for not authorized copies.
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revealing ones age lol
I lost one of those between house moves, with many cds in it
Little me was devastated.
Filled a couple of these with 10p DVDs from charity shops and it's low-key amazing
Still got mine!
Got three of those monster sized books--
One each movies, music, and software. Plus two shelves of blurays and a further three old spindles of software.
You can pry my physical media out of my cold, dead, hand.
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until i figured out i could rip them to mp3s and put them on a stick. usb plugs on car stereo was a revolution
Only to find out later that 128kbits doesn't quite cut it and have to restart the process
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I need to finally yeet my wallet full of outdated Linux distros
i never cared for these, I feel like they scratched the discs faster than leaving them in the cases
yeah but discs were a lot cheaper if you bought them in bulk without the cases.
Still do due to bad packaging of DVDs and Blu-rays.
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