Got burned (pun intended) with an CD-R from Amazon

[rcarlberg]

Sorry, you said "data discs, not audio." I wasn't aware that you'd had audio CD-Rs fail.

[Progatron]

Sorry, you said "data discs, not audio." I wasn't aware that you'd had audio CD-Rs fail.

I haven't - I don't make or buy them, because I don't want them. One look at this hack job with its garish, pasted-on label and uneven photocopied insert is all the proof I need that I've made the right decision all these years in buying proper CDs.

[rcarlberg]

One look at this hack job with its garish, pasted-on label and uneven photocopied insert is all the proof I need that I've made the right decision all these years in buying proper CDs.

That's your choice. However it's well documented that pasted-on labels are the only cause for CD-R failure, in everyone's experience. So pardon me if I accept an unlabeled CD-R at par.

And every time I download an album I burn a copy "for safekeeping."

[Progatron]

So pardon me if I accept an unlabeled CD-R at par.

Hey, that's dynamite. I'm never doing that.

[rcarlberg]

Fine, don't. I guess I'd be disappointed too if I bought one, thinking it was going to be a factory CD, and it turned out to be a CD-R copy with a "garish label" and poorly-reproduced artwork. But the music is 99% of why I buy albums, so I'd only be slightly disappointed.

By the way, I notice that iTunes has that Hancock/Williams/Carter album available for download for $5.99.

[Steve F.]

By the way, I notice that iTunes has that Hancock/Williams/Carter album available for download for $5.99.

Yes, but you KNOW that that is a mediocre res mp3.....

[rcarlberg]

Meh, maybe you're right. Alright I withdraw the dickhead comment. That was a dickhead thing to say.

[Gruno]

Meh, maybe you're right. Alright I withdraw the dickhead comment. That was a dickhead thing to say.

I'll edit out your quote out of respect.

[Trane]

i A CD-R will last as long as, or longer, than a CD. And it's a bit-perfect copy, so it sounds EXACTLY as good as the CD. You bought the album for the music, right?.

My experience is that I've never lost a CD (over almost 30 years), but I'm starting to lose some CDRs, less than 20 years after finalizing them.
They are more fragile (to sunlight, water and scratches), but yes, they do sound just as good as the original CD and the vinyl that you engraved without fucking around with intermediate remastering softwares.