{"id":6855,"date":"2017-12-30T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2017-12-30T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T19:55:24","slug":"the-longevity-of-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6855","title":{"rendered":"The Longevity of CDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Just a few years ago, CDs were still ubiquitous and one of the things the Geekier elements worried about was that they would become unreadable over time. That was probably a reasonable concern, especially for CDs that the user burned himself on his computer. <\/p>\n<p> As for professionally manufactured CDs, we still don&rsquo;t know and as Kontra points out we&rsquo;re not apt to find out. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">People used to worry Compact Disks would lose all their data due to delamination and oxidation within a coupe of decades. The format didn\u2019t last long enough for us to test. Sad!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kontra (@counternotions) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/counternotions\/status\/946032939787259910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> Yes, yes, we all still have CDs but when was the last time you used one? My laptop doesn&rsquo;t even have a built in player, something that was unthinkable just a couple of generations ago. Even for music, I don&rsquo;t bother anymore. I ripped the CDs at a high bit rate and listen to the result. Some people will tell you that they can hear the difference and I have no reason to doubt them but I&rsquo;m not one of those people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few years ago, CDs were still ubiquitous and one of the things the Geekier elements worried about was that they would become unreadable over time. That was probably a reasonable concern, especially for CDs that the user burned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6855\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6856,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions\/6856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}