This disc and above I used to have only on ROIR cassettes and thought I would finally preserve them with all this disc rot going on in my collection but yeah those two were my favorite tapes ever!
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Monday, October 29, 2018
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Disc rot? Really? So, it's not an urban legend, it really exist? Does it attack a large percebntage of your collection or is it just some exceptions? I remember when i first heard about CD rot almost 15 years, i made some research and was told that it wasn't not real, that people lied for some reason. I thought maybe these people who talked about CD rot were the people who hated CD's and wanted to create a bad reputation for that format. I've never found any CD in my collection but the truth is that i barely listen to them as i put my favorite CD's on my computer in order to have the music ready for my USB key to play in my car. CD rot is really dissapointing!
Cheers,
Claude
Yes Claude,
I wish it were not true but I have been ripping quite a few CD's lately to fill in on some vinyl posts where I am missing an artist release (don't worry, I always label CD's as CD and not LP or EP which is the vinyl). To further my case, I look at the CD for scratches which don't appear to be on just a certain song thus I must conclude that each play of a CD, the light slowly deteriorates the data within the plastic...why would only one or two songs not rip/play and believe me I try cleaning with certified method and try to rip it several times. Sometimes this works eventually but certain songs or whole CD's just will not play. I really wasn't that harsh with them you know...always keeping them in the cases. I may still have this tape (more frequencies--better sound) and if I do I will rip that and replace the non-CD only tracks in the future as much better sound since tape captures all the frequencies and CD's are just a higher sample rate (1400 kb/sec) than MP3 top rate (320 kb/sec). This CD rip sounds hollow and echoey to me...not as good as when I listened to the tape all the time.
What does CD rot look like? I have the Fang CD on Boner that can't play on my CD player and it is in mint condition, absolutely zero scratches, zero finger prints or dirt and data (silver) looks perfect. I guess it's not CD rot as there is no physical damage at all. The CD format was advertised as the best format ever when it came out, as immortal, and now it look like it's the worst! I have cassettes older than CD's and they all oplay perfectly. Records can still be played after decades and decades. I'm gonna go through my CD's this weekend and see if i have some rot. Oh well.
Cheers, Claude
Yeah, I held out until 1987 before going CD and damn they duped me because I got rid of some vinyl because of it. I think we need a class-action lawsuit over this! Pisses me off but if ya think about it a 320 kb/sec sampled MP3 doesn't sound much different me than a 1400 kb/sec sampled CD which they all are at that rate and MP3 stopped at 320 when they figured that out I think. Thus good news is you can go find a blog post to replace your CD's and if it's from vinyl then that is an improvement usually but it is all in how many frequencies they originally captured when recording. Doing the rips here my way and having them all conveniently as MP3 all sound better then my CD's so I just give 'em to Good Will once I photograph and preserve them and hey you can stretch my cover and sleeve shots to be bigger than albums even because I chose a resolution above 400.
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