Are CD's dead, yet?

[RTFirefly]

Are CD’s dead, yet?

Well, nobody’s got 'em in the Death Pool, so it doesn’t matter.

[Trinopus]

@friedo

That’s got nothing on What is Love on the eight-voice floppy drive.

Spectacular! Thank you!

@LSLGuy

Do share about the motors. I’ve heard the dogs. . . .

Here’s a YouTube excerpt from Toolbox Classics. Not just power tools; also the traditional “warped saw” and some percussion bits.

[Mama_Zappa]

@Thudlow_Boink

Obviously they’re not dead yet, since they’re still being produced and sold. I’d be really interested to know how Amazon’s sales of physical CDs compares to their sales of digital music, both in total and for specific titles and genres; but I don’t know where to find such information…

They’d have to separate out the digital-only sales from digital downloads of music you’ve purchased on CD (if you buy a CD from them, you automatically have the right to listen to it via their streaming service).

That said: I’ll still usually buy a CD vs just the digital download. I know that Amazon’s MP3 files don’t have DRM, so they can’t take it away on a whim like they can with ebooks, but I still like having the physical backup. The CDs get loaded into iTunes then stuffed into a chest in the depths of the basement.

[jz78817]

@LSLGuy

Do share about the motors. I’ve heard the dogs.Tres cool. Thanks. But I don’t recall ever hearing any floppy drive make those sorts of noises. So the overall effect (for me) is fake rather than amazing.

yeah I think they use a MIDI device and motor controllers to operate the drive mechanisms directly, rather through the disk drive controller.

[Wonderful_Woodhall]

I still use CDs quite a bit admittedly, I rip them to my computer in mp3 format and use that the most , but I still use CDs. They’re not dead yet, if anything, cassettes and vinyls are.