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more about #cds HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Anna, you're a pirate. Commenters, you're all pirates. Sadly, this is the world we live in. more » DennyCrane: I'm going to get killed for this, but .... this makes me miss Muxtape. That is all. more » otko: Here's the thing, if someone gave you a mixtape back in the day, it meant they really went through a lot of trouble to do something special for you. F... more » Xagest: I thought a Mixed CD was the gift you would give when you're too poor to get something good... more » dingus: What better way to say I love you than XLII. more » CSX321: We taped songs off the radio. I'm old. more » Notsewfast: I used to be the Mix CD master. I bought a Sony external CD burner in '98 for $500 and was the first guy in school to be able to make CDs from other C... more » TonyWonder: iTunes and the iPod have single handedly ruined music for me... I consume music at an alarming rate. By the time the record is actually out, I've kill... more » slickrick23: My car just has a CD player (no ipod of aux input...yet) so I have had a new revival of my mixCDs. I like taking a stroll around memory lane but once ... more » Phatric: Friendship is ripping a CD in 20mins... LOVE is making a 90min+ Mixtape at 2x dub speed. . . love i tell you. ...ok, juvenile infatuation of a psy... more » Kaiser-Machead: Dear Mix CD and Mix Tape: You'll all somehow end up in me anyway. Signed, iPod. more » lolbrbnvm: Mix CDs were my first attempt at capitalism - we were among the first families I knew to get cable internet when I was in 10th grade, and I quickly ad... more » MarcusMaximus: Bah, all these newfangled mix-playlists, mix-cd's and mix-cassette tapes. Back in my day we made mix-records. You took a blank record and by hand carv... more » Charles Frisby: I wooed my now wife with a mixed CD. In all honesty, Mixed CD's really trained you to focus on the flow of a CD as well as the quality of the song. S... more » bainelaker: The beautiful part of the pre-MP3 mixtapes (CDs, cassettes, whatever), was the built-in time limit, depending on your format. That really let you be m... more » korybing: My only problem with Mix CDs is that they don't last very long. I have drawers full of Mix CDs that define whole swaths of my high school and college ... more » Jacubious: Mix tapes and CDs make me think of my siblings' Newboys and DC Talk phase. I'll keep my playlists and Last.fm thank you very much. more » Aetius: I always play my House mixes off CDs in my car. They are just better than MP3 players for quality. Simple. more » The Lab: That point about using VBR when encoding MP3s cannot be overemphasized. I wish that were the default setting. more » JeffEd: I'm fairly late on this but just to add an anecdote to the Lossless conversation. For anyone who keeps their music on their built-in hard drive and ha... more » -
#y2k10
Dear Mixtape and iPod: You Suck. Signed, Mix CD
Armed with stacks of blank CDs and the original outlaw Napster, I spent my college years giving and receiving mixes. As a member of the post-mixtape pre-playlist generation, I'd like to say a word in defense of the mix CD. More » -
#howto
How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
For most people, dropping a CD into their disc drive and clicking "Import" in iTunes is good enough. For music freaks, though, it's not—and with good reason. Here's how to digitize your tunes, the right way. More » -
#architecture
Stunning Shanghai Corporate Pavilion Made From Used CD Cases
With the Shanghai World Expo 2010 fast approaching, architects are jumping in on the "Better City, Better Life" theme with concepts like this Shanghai Corporate Pavilion. The plans include many green features, including a structure made from recycled CD cases. More » -
#diy
How to Build Your Own Iconic Muji CD Player for Way Less Than $178
Muji's simple, iconic CD player, designed by Nato Fukasawa, costs $178. (I heart Muji.) Fortunately, its simplicity means that you can roll your own damn fine iteration way cheaper using a CD player, speakers and some cardboard: [Vvank via BBG] -
#storage
GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
Sheinhardt WigsGE engineers have announced a breakthrough in the formerly retardedly-expensive field of holographic storage: by making the holograms smaller, they can squeeze 500GB on standard-sized optical discs. More » -
#listeningtest
How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats
Humans have been writing music for at least as long as we've been recording history. It was storing it that took a little more time. Here are all the ways we've done it to date: More » -
#listeningtest
My First Album
Who the hell is Richard Marx? Being another baby of Gizmodo, I'm sure I've still got a lot to learn about music, especially since I'm one of those kids who's completely brainwashed by The Mouse. More » -
#listeningtest
Cool Album Art and Packaging: Records, Cassettes, CDs Then Nothing
CDs originally came in long boxes with amazing art. Word went around that they'd go away, since hippies—like Sting—were pissed off about killing trees, but I was sad. Music packaging says a lot about music. More » -
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#listeningtest
My First Album
I bought my first two albums, Beck's Odelay and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Let's Face It, both on CD, when I was about 11 or 12. Yeah, I'm younger than Jason and Mark. More » -
#listeningtest
Why We Need Audiophiles
This is Michael Fremer. He's listening to "Avalon" by Roxy Music on his $350,000 stereo system. It sounds excellent. He's a bit crazy, but if you love music, you need him. More » -
#cds
CD Turntables Are Possibly the Product of the (Last) Century
Pete Verrando has himself some CD turntables and, as you can see in the images, these beauties are patent pending. More » -
#saving
There's No Great Solution for Data Rot
Anyone who reads Giz probably knows that even though your data is "saved," it's still susceptible to the decay of whatever medium is storing it. According to one expert, the problem is nearly unsolvable. More » -
#retromodo
Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!
Compact discs weren't always impromptu drink coasters. Once, in the not-so-distant past, they played music, contained pictures, and let people play video games with tacked-on FMV sequences. And today, the venerable CD turned 30.
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#audiophiles
$900 Contraption Trims Your CDs to Make Them Rounder, You Poorer
We've certainly seen our fair share of insane, overpriced equipment aimed at overmonied audiophiles (usually from Furutech), but this is a new one to me. The Audio Desk Systeme from Germany takes your CD, spins it at a super-high speed, and uses a blade to cut it down to a more perfect circle. Apparently, this prevents very slight wobbling as it spins, which can create a jitter in the digital stream that affects the sound, according to idiots. It's a mere $900, which, in these circles, is a total bargain. [Ultra System via Dvice] -
#art
Sound Wave: The Vinyl Strikes Back
Did you think that records would stand idly by while MP3s took over the music industry? Sure, they turned a blind eye to 8-track and cassettes. Then CDs got a pass, too. But those were physical mediums, brothers-from-another-mothers. And if compact discs don't have the cojones to stand up to the digital music revolution, vinyl will just have to come back from the dead and start kicking some 1s and 0s butt. More »
