Your CD collection is "dying"

http://m.slashdot.org/story/202019

I still have all of ours - I had intended to recapture them in high definition mode (in 2009 I used the "best" iTunes) had to offer.

I wonder how many are still readable ... 30 years on from my first CD purchases

This had been already discussed many years ago and still then I was afraid that some of my CDs won't work anymore. But till today all my CDs are working well, especially the oldest from the 80ies. So I believe some people like to create some panic.

Greets

Räuber

Yes, I also remember these same news from at least 10-15 years ago.

But I have one CD I have actually witnessed deteriorating; you can see it clearly with the naked eye, it starts to discolour from the outer edge just as if the layers were separating.

Ripping and backing up your CDs was a problem 20 years ago, and in 1984 it would've been next to impossible. Now it is an afternoon job, so do it whether you think it would be necessary or not.

Old recording, orginal masters have the orginal dynamic. the music is alive.

More or less all the new "re-masters" are compressed to meet the higher competition in the bloody commersial radio, yes they might appear have better transperency becuase of better used A/D converters, but after the horrible compression the music is killed, to my opinion

Old Cds might actually have value in the future....... 

As Mika writes, this was also a topic some years ago. The 'bronzing' of CDs was a particular issue. But it seemed to be related to the manufacturing standards of particular factories.

An independent British classical record company - Hyperion - seemed to have problems with CDs manufactured in a British factory. The CDs they had produced by PDO on mainland Europe were fine.

They offered a returns policy to any of their customers with 'Bronzed' CDs, even those purchased years before.

I have a number of their CDs manufactured in both the UK and Europe, some bought back in the very early days of CD. Some have clear evidence of 'Bronzing'.

They all still play

Cleve

Isn't everyones vinyl collection dead but secretly coming back?

My first CD, Invisible Touch by Genesis that i had to save all my pocket money for to get it from the Patterson Lakes cd store is readable even though it has more scratches than the kitchen sink. 

I still buy CD's (physical media) and now think twice before filling up the coffers at Apple with my music purchases. 

I have 'buried' all cd's to the loft, next to my vinyl collection. Convert all my music to high resolution AIFF or FLAC files, and now only buying music from site's as HDtracks, Qobuz, Linn... Using a lot http://www.findhdmusic.com to search. I'm mostly buzzy carefully looking to buy not over-compressed recordings.

MM

Christian Christensen:

Old recording, orginal masters have the orginal dynamic. the music is alive.

Christian Christensen:

More or less all the new "re-masters" are compressed to meet the higher competition in the bloody commersial radio, yes they might appear have better transperency becuase of better used A/D converters, but after the horrible compression the music is killed, to my opinion

sadly I have to agree

Christian Christensen:

Old Cds might actually have value in the future....... 

like LPs