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NooneAtAll3today at 12:43 AM4 repliesview on HN

> Much less prone to degradation to vinyl

huh... and I thought the vinyl craze happened because it's more durable out of ye old formats

CDs are well known to oxydize in the span of decades of storage


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bluGilltoday at 1:33 AM

Pressed cds last well in general. Burned cds have a lot of issues. vinyl also wears out from using it, while cds are listen as much as you want with no issuse.

I have ripped all my cds to flac on my NAS and put them on usb in whatever format as needed.

Bratmontoday at 2:08 AM

Vinyl was infamous for degrading during use to the point where you could identify whether an album had been played more than a dozen times by the reduction in sound quality.

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icehawktoday at 3:11 AM

CDs can oxidize in the span of decades. I've got hundreds of burned CDs that are from 2003 that are fine (even if they have changed color) because i store them in a climate controlled environment.

A vinyl record degrades every time you play it in a normal turntable.

seg_loltoday at 1:20 AM

Pressed CDs do not fail in this way.