Ever heard of things like external drives or USB sticks?
Just because people don't want to use antiquated storage medium that can't even be used on most computers anymore due to a lack of a optical drive, it doesn't mean people aren't backing things up.
>having an optical drive and burning CDs in 2024
based
>CD burner
This homie is living in early 2000s.
Ever heard of things like external drives or USB sticks?
Just because people don't want to use antiquated storage medium that can't even be used on most computers anymore due to a lack of a optical drive, it doesn't mean people aren't backing things up.
Except CD disks aren't even the best option for long-term data storage...?
optical disks have a real logical purpose. they are the cheapest gigabyte per whole unit. A 4GB flash drive is more expensive than 4GB DVD. Useful for anyone interested in serious archiving + organization by storage device.
CloneCD, altough pulled out by FEDS years ago, was the best, its original commercial version. The company is no longer allowed to sell it. But if you bought it in 2010 its golden.
Here's what you can do with it:
1. Make an one on one perfect image of copy protected CDROM from 2002
2. Burn that image onto CD-R with SCSI CDROM (NOT IDE, NOT USB but must be SCSI)
3. You have PERFECT COPY now, the year 2002 copy protected Windows XP game thinks you have the genuine CD altough its CD-R
4. Now play the retro game without getting a no-cd crack, you have the "real" CD afterall
If you need to burn an audio CD just use a music library software such as musicbee. Even iTunes or Windows Media player built into your operating system you can do that. Imgburn for everything else.
I just use PowerISO for browsing and burning disc images
Virtual CloneDrive for mounting virtual disc images
CloneCD for making CD disc images, PowerISO for making DVD images
ExactAudioCopy for ripping audio CDs, AnyDVD for ripping video DVDs and Blurays
Anon was asking why alcohol was the most popular, and it was the most popular because before win10, you needed an external program to be able to mount isos.
these progs had their heydey in 2005 precisely because the dinosaurs at microsoft refused to add trivial functionality like this >oh its cos of drm blah blah
bullshit they were just lazy fricks
Yes. And before any windows evangelist comes around - no, you can't mount these types of images on windows:
- CDRWin .cue
- CloneCD .ccd
- Alcohol .mds
- Nero .nrg
- and many others
i use optical discs because i don't trust hdds. i have had a few get corrupted because i ejected them improperly.i had reformat them to get them to work again. reformating removes all your data
i like that when i burn something to a cd-r or dvd-r or bd-r it's read only. nothing can be written to it
with flash drives and hdds you don't have that. i know you can sudo chmod -R 555 the drive but it isn't permanent . you can undue that and write to it.
i don't know anyone who has had the same data on the hdd for more than a decade
eventually their hdd fricks up and they have to reformat it deleting all their data
He's correct in this case. I've burned all my CD/DVD at slowest speed for best burn since 1999. Malware cannot molest them and making duplicates is trivially cheap as it testing them every couple of years.
the fact is your data will not be safe on hdds
i don't know anyone who has had the same data on the hdd for more than a decade
eventually their hdd fricks up and they have to reformat it deleting all their data
They should have followed the rule of threes. Owning multiple hdds isn't hard either. Disc space is so cheap that when I update to a fresh LTS distro (at EOL of the previous) I install a larger hard disc and save the old one as additional backup. It doesn't cost enough per use year to matter.
Thank you for this thread. I just purchased a fully loaded 1999 Toyota Avalon with 60k miles. It has a cassette and cd player. It’s in mint condition. The previous owner was 101 and she hasn’t been driving it since 2019. I got it for $3000. I want to burn traditional CDs to listen and leave everything factory.
Her son. He’s in his 70s and doesn’t drive. He didn’t want his kids or grandkids to have it. This thing is truly majestic. Picrel is exactly how it all looks.
i record sports events like football and golf from a tv set top box and obs. i use adobe premiere pro to cut commercial breaks out, media encoder and adobe encore to make them dvds. i have a full bookshelf full of tv archives
Imgburn
imgburn cant burn audio CDs last time I checked. has it improved?
It can, but you are just a noob homosexual: https://forum.imgburn.com/topic/5555-how-to-write-an-audio-cd-from-music-files-using-imgburn/
>18 stages and pages of guides on how to burn an audio CD
fricking kek, what a badly designed piece of shit
Then fricking use BurnAware or something else moron.
Who still uses audio CD? Don't you just put mp3s on it?
what kind of hardware can't read mp3 discs in 2014?
A vintage Denon CD player from 1991 that sounds better than anything anyone has ever made since.
Post pics. I need to fap.
my car
It can since 2007 at least
I like the jingle
wodim
who the frick has an optical drive and burn CD in 2024?
spotify remove 200 songs a day, anything you like now may be gone within 10 years.
backup your music you morons
Ever heard of things like external drives or USB sticks?
Just because people don't want to use antiquated storage medium that can't even be used on most computers anymore due to a lack of a optical drive, it doesn't mean people aren't backing things up.
Except CD disks aren't even the best option for long-term data storage...?
I have never and will never use spotify, I just know my long term storage solutions better than you
optical disks have a real logical purpose. they are the cheapest gigabyte per whole unit. A 4GB flash drive is more expensive than 4GB DVD. Useful for anyone interested in serious archiving + organization by storage device.
me
Adults
I've been an adult for 20 years.
I haven't used optical media in a decade or so.
i was gonna burn some movies till i was reminded there's internet at the cottage
what if your internet goes out?
i have a whole spindle of data so i don't have to worry my internet going out
well the solution was to usb everything so we're okay on that front
iirc there's also stacks of dvds anyways
zoom zoom
CloneCD, altough pulled out by FEDS years ago, was the best, its original commercial version. The company is no longer allowed to sell it. But if you bought it in 2010 its golden.
Here's what you can do with it:
1. Make an one on one perfect image of copy protected CDROM from 2002
2. Burn that image onto CD-R with SCSI CDROM (NOT IDE, NOT USB but must be SCSI)
3. You have PERFECT COPY now, the year 2002 copy protected Windows XP game thinks you have the genuine CD altough its CD-R
4. Now play the retro game without getting a no-cd crack, you have the "real" CD afterall
does that work for like ps1 games?
is the same for dvds?never heard of that
No, it doesn't work for PS1 games because the PS1 CD has a calibrated wobble that CD burners cannot reproduce.
Tonyhax is your friend: https://orca.pet/tonyhax/
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRB7iUCX4KQ
>CloneCD
Surely there's a torrent, What.CD must have had it
What.CD is dead for a looong time homosexual.
I burn CD's to listen to in my car. And you?
CloneCD
Windows XP was comfy
Disk Destroy
cdrtools, cdrdao
Sir
k3b for data storage
>having an optical drive and burning CDs in 2024
based
>CD burner
This homie is living in early 2000s.
not Nero , holy frick. its gone to levels of bloat never thought possible and is about as propietary as it comes.
even pirating that junk is wrong
Alcohol and it's not even a contest
alcohol had virtual iso mounting
If you need to burn an audio CD just use a music library software such as musicbee. Even iTunes or Windows Media player built into your operating system you can do that. Imgburn for everything else.
you can burn audio cds with imgburn too
there's no need to use anything else imo
If you're regularly using a music library software it's a lot more convenient to burn from there.
i personally hate cdroms all my computers ive removed them for real drives i have a stack of like 20cd/dvd drives in my closet
I just use PowerISO for browsing and burning disc images
Virtual CloneDrive for mounting virtual disc images
CloneCD for making CD disc images, PowerISO for making DVD images
ExactAudioCopy for ripping audio CDs, AnyDVD for ripping video DVDs and Blurays
just use dd you bunch of Black folk
cat
Copy/paste with your favorite file manager to a USB flash drive, boomer
It just werks.
i remember alcohol 120% being the best but don't remember why
you could use it to mount isos
you can also just natively mount isos... it's not 2005
Anon was asking why alcohol was the most popular, and it was the most popular because before win10, you needed an external program to be able to mount isos.
my bad, I'm a little moronic
these progs had their heydey in 2005 precisely because the dinosaurs at microsoft refused to add trivial functionality like this
>oh its cos of drm blah blah
bullshit they were just lazy fricks
It can make images of protected games, which iso images do not support. Later on, you can mount these images and the DRM thinks it's the real thing.
that's what I thought it was. i remember some copy protections or something only working on alcohol
Yes. And before any windows evangelist comes around - no, you can't mount these types of images on windows:
- CDRWin .cue
- CloneCD .ccd
- Alcohol .mds
- Nero .nrg
- and many others
Brasero
If you're just burning cds and not much else maybe infra recorder would do.
k3b is the best disc burning software. you can even burn blurays with it
even though it's kde software you can use it on windows
https://apps.kde.org/k3b/
i use k3b to burn ps1 disks. great success!
i use optical discs because i don't trust hdds. i have had a few get corrupted because i ejected them improperly.i had reformat them to get them to work again. reformating removes all your data
external hdds*
i feel my data is safer on discs
i like that when i burn something to a cd-r or dvd-r or bd-r it's read only. nothing can be written to it
with flash drives and hdds you don't have that. i know you can sudo chmod -R 555 the drive but it isn't permanent . you can undue that and write to it.
undo*
>i feel
Facts don't care about your feelings.
the fact is your data will not be safe on hdds
i don't know anyone who has had the same data on the hdd for more than a decade
eventually their hdd fricks up and they have to reformat it deleting all their data
He's correct in this case. I've burned all my CD/DVD at slowest speed for best burn since 1999. Malware cannot molest them and making duplicates is trivially cheap as it testing them every couple of years.
They should have followed the rule of threes. Owning multiple hdds isn't hard either. Disc space is so cheap that when I update to a fresh LTS distro (at EOL of the previous) I install a larger hard disc and save the old one as additional backup. It doesn't cost enough per use year to matter.
y no cdburnerxp?
>yuua
Explorer.exe
CDBurnerXP
Thank you for this thread. I just purchased a fully loaded 1999 Toyota Avalon with 60k miles. It has a cassette and cd player. It’s in mint condition. The previous owner was 101 and she hasn’t been driving it since 2019. I got it for $3000. I want to burn traditional CDs to listen and leave everything factory.
bro you won the car lottery lol. who sold it to you, her grandkids? i would have paid $6.5k for that
Her son. He’s in his 70s and doesn’t drive. He didn’t want his kids or grandkids to have it. This thing is truly majestic. Picrel is exactly how it all looks.
Use case unclear.
Paid:
Burn ready images? Alcohol 120%
Compose images: Nero
Non-paid:
Burn ready images? cdrdao for bin/cue files, cdrecord for isos
Compose new images? k3b, mkisofs, ffmpeg, your favorite text editor
>CD
>size of LD
Maybe Nero was a manlet? That would explain why he was so angry all the time
It would also explain why he burned everything to the ground.
it's nice having an archive of data at your finger tips because you internet or power could go out
with no data you won't have anything to do
i record sports events like football and golf from a tv set top box and obs. i use adobe premiere pro to cut commercial breaks out, media encoder and adobe encore to make them dvds. i have a full bookshelf full of tv archives
which brand sells new cd-r today? like do they got the blueray like scratch resistant plastic?
i need to make new cds for the car
should have been the one built into windows if Microsoft bothered to make decent utilities
Like IE6? Default anything besides space cadet was cancer.
>n
yes and it shouldn5t have been Microsoft should have been forced to provide an OS full of useful utilities
an older Windows Media Player had MP3 CD writing capabilities
what year is it?
>mfw I used to burn movies in DVD for my dad to watch back then
he's dying right now