Why have CDs not had a comeback

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This is something I'm curious about why have records comeback when they can only be played in your house yet CDs which are not only cheaper but can be played in your car haven't had a comeback
 
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cheaper to pay a subscription every month for access to any song you want than buying every individual song
 
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Optical media is kind of ass. I say this as someone who used to burn a lot of CDs and DVD-Rs back in the day. If you're going to keep an archive of pirated music/movies/games and such keeping it stored on external drives is a lot better for most purposes.
 
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Town Drunk said:
Supposedly records sound better than digital. Also, CD players are not old enough to be hipster, records are.
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This nails it they are not old or hipster enough
Jeff Q. Anime said:
the appeal of records for recordfags is the fact that they are extraordinarily expensive and inconvenient to use.
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If I could give two solutions I would give you one you also nailed it
ToroidalBoat said:
CDs and DVDs can be destroyed by corrosion if they're not made right.

(If you see a bunch of tiny holes in the disk when holding it up to light that's not a good sign.)
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Records are the same no?
ScamL Likely said:
Optical media is kind of ass. I say this as someone who used to burn a lot of CDs and DVD-Rs back in the day. If you're going to keep an archive of pirated music/movies/games and such keeping it stored on external drives is a lot better for most purposes.
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Yeah that makes sense I like having CDs as items and I like that I can get the full album unlike YouTube having unofficial and usually varying quality and Spotify costing money
 
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Records are old so they have the nostagliafag meme going for them, combined with the old boomer and "audiophile" talking point of "muh warmer sound". Plus, as a bonus the art is bigger.

If mastered and manufactured right, CDs are the superior format and always have been. Unfortunately, most people putting stuff onto CDs are halfheads, which only furthered the "records are gooder" meme. This article on Wikipedia (yes, I know) discusses some of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
 
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ScamL Likely said:
Optical media is kind of ass. I say this as someone who used to burn a lot of CDs and DVD-Rs back in the day. If you're going to keep an archive of pirated music/movies/games and such keeping it stored on external drives is a lot better for most purposes.
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Optical media is dying in part because of consumer choice, but also because companies figured out that locking people into streaming subscription models is more lucrative. There is a floor on the cost of stamping and packaging a disc which will end up laden in the WalMart bargain bin. The cost of transferring a few gigabytes of data continues to fall over time, and new codecs can help to cancel out the data increase from higher resolutions. Although Netflix charges the cattle more for 4K anyway.

We were supposed to get better discs long before now. I remember reading about optical and holographic discs in the lab in the early 2000s that could store 1 or more terabytes. I think you can buy 128 GB BDXL blanks in 2023, at a shit price compared to hard drives and even SSDs. Make a new disc that can store a terabyte per dollar and we're back on track, but the market for it has been crushed and the MAFIAA members don't want to hand out high quality sources that are vulnerable if the DRM+encryption scheme is cracked.

I know someone with binders full of hundreds of burned DVDs with pirated movies. I hope the majority of them are still working in 20 years.

Give the people DVD-Audio.
 
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It's basically the same problem dvds/blurays have, it's just easier to select from the shit available on your pick of digital services then owning every individual movie or album.
A lot of people only really buy physical copies when it something of genuine quality that you want to display on a shelf and at that point your basically using it as a collectable, so a big ass vinyl record covered in large artwork does a much better job at that than a cd. The movie equivalent to vinyls is stuff like the criterion collection and arrow films, the really high quality or niche movies filled to the brim with extras in great packaging that essentially celebrates the movie over just being a way to watch a film. People are happy to shell out 20-40 bucks for a huge "limited edition" record or bluray to show there love for there specific interests while the 5-10 buck mainstream cd and dvd are ignored in favor of just streaming it.
 
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Originally I think the cause of the "vinyl revival" was the novelty of vinyl records to a generation which had grown up without directly experiencing them. If you were born in the mid-to-late 90s then you would be very familiar with CDs, somewhat vaguely familiar with cassette tapes, and not at all familiar with vinyl records. This would also explain why there has been a revival of cassettes, albeit not nearly as large or substantial. It's all about novelty value.
 
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