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[โ€“] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for doing the lord's work.

I love that physical media is getting new life, but CDs are not archival in nature. It's a drastically different problem from not owning anything, but I don't want unreadable CDs to push people back to streaming.

I'll also mention that a major benefit of vinyl records -- despite cracks and pops and quality turntables being generally expensive -- is that they are so dirt simple as to be effectively immune from similar issues. Not trying to sway opinions at all, but as physical media goes, it still exists for a reason.

Personally, I have both CDs and vinyl. And tapes!

vinyl records

... and ofc gold is not tractable for consumer-priced devices, but there's a very good reason the very best minds at NASA listened to Carl Sagan and added this to Voyager

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