Subj : Re: Vinyl vs CD
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Feb 15 2022 09:20:44

  Re: Re: Vinyl vs CD
  By: boraxman to Nightfox on Tue Feb 15 2022 10:27 pm

 bo> I've yet to see a CD go bad that I've purchased, and the oldest I have is
 bo> from 1996. Even the CD-ROM's I've burned, going back to 2001 work. The
 bo> only ones that eventually failed where the ones on cheap media, and a few
 bo> from a faulty spindle which is obviously a manufacturing defect. 

I think I still have a couple music CDs that I got in 1992.  They still worked the last time I played/ripped them, but it has been a while.  I also have a CD-R I burned in 2000 (my original BBS backup) and I was still able to read it a couple years ago.

 bo> CD's are best stored in a cool, dry area, and stored on their side I
 bo> believe. 

Yeah, I tend to store mine in a fairly cool dry area.  I usually have mine on a shelf, though for a while I've had my CDs packed in boxes due to moving and have just left them in the boxes.

Nightfox
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