Ssds die randomly without warning. Ask me how I know. Then worrying about all your backups, are they going to work? Are those drives failing? Its a huge headache for a real world person that doesn’t spend 24/7 talking about Linux on Lemmy.
If you spend a lot of time sitting next to a CD player they’re still OK for now. For music on the move, not so much. And when the player breaks it will be hard to replace. So they’re definitely not perfect.
Even if you’re at home and do have a CD player it’s just not practical. Sure, if you only listen to a handful of CDs that’s workable.
But my current music collection would require 1400+ CDs … and good luck finding a specific song in that pile, even if you do know the exact album it’s on. It’s so much better to just have a searchable library.
HDDs are not designed to last very long. Neither are SSDs. That’s one reason to prefer dedicated physical media.
Ssds die randomly without warning. Ask me how I know. Then worrying about all your backups, are they going to work? Are those drives failing? Its a huge headache for a real world person that doesn’t spend 24/7 talking about Linux on Lemmy.
You can still keep the CDs around for archive purposes, but to me CDs are no longer a viable option for actual media playback.
If you spend a lot of time sitting next to a CD player they’re still OK for now. For music on the move, not so much. And when the player breaks it will be hard to replace. So they’re definitely not perfect.
Even if you’re at home and do have a CD player it’s just not practical. Sure, if you only listen to a handful of CDs that’s workable.
But my current music collection would require 1400+ CDs … and good luck finding a specific song in that pile, even if you do know the exact album it’s on. It’s so much better to just have a searchable library.