CD bit-rot
15 February 2012 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeTried to listen to some of my CD albums this afternoon (having got tired of turning over records) and discovered that at least three of my albums have contracted some form of CD bit-rot which makes it all but impossible to play them -- and quite impossible to enjoy listening to them even where they will play with frequent jumps and blurps. This includes my precious and probably irreplaceable original French recording of Les Misérables.
Not at all amused, especially as the LPs from the 1950s still play back perfectly. It's not a question of surface damage or, so far as I can tell, of dirt: they have simply dissolved somewhere beneath the surface and no longer contain usable data. Thus the legacy of the throwaway culture of the 1980s (perhaps I should think twice before trying to buy the soundtrack to The Artist on CD; and I'm certainly not going to buy it as a download).
Not at all amused, especially as the LPs from the 1950s still play back perfectly. It's not a question of surface damage or, so far as I can tell, of dirt: they have simply dissolved somewhere beneath the surface and no longer contain usable data. Thus the legacy of the throwaway culture of the 1980s (perhaps I should think twice before trying to buy the soundtrack to The Artist on CD; and I'm certainly not going to buy it as a download).
