>>20786914>The thing with CDs over a long enough time is that disc rot is a thing, even when they're just sitting there. And even if you avoid disc rot, the packaging itself can go bad for CDs in a way that vinyl packaging doesn't. Case in point - I once lost a bunch of rare late 80s, early 90s opera because the 'protective' foam inside the cases degraded into this chemical sludge that stuck to the discs and destroyed them.I fucking hate that you just reminded me.
Lost so many old symphonies in Deutsche Grammaphone cases where they insisted on using that fucking foam. Now I'm mad at the memory.
I bought a cheap mp3-cd player once back when they were a thing after accidentally destroying a gen 2 ipod and a minidisc recorder.
Used and reused the same cd-rw i'd burn and erase tracks from.
In maybe 6 months the disc just disintegrated off the clear plastic circular base lmao.
I'd accelerated disc aging that usually takes a few years at the very least to manifest.
>they last forvever!>uh no, dvd's last a century!>uh, now this new disc tech lasts at least a decade!!>uh... 
