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TIL: 20 years ago was just yesterday. Go buy CDs! They still make them!
My whole music library is local and DRMless. I find CDs highly impractical in the age of cheap high-capacity storage. I would rip them anyway, as using normal copies is just far more convenient, after which they'd need to either waste space, be resold or be thrown out. If I were insistent on paying and there was no DRMless option, I'd rather buy a DRMed copy corresponding to the one I downloaded.
Of course, but it's worth pointing out that PCs phased out the addition of ROM drives, which allowed the layperson to rip their content. Naturally, this allowed Apple and ilk to introduce streaming access, as though it was a fucking boon. No CD/DVD-Rom, no ports, just an enshittified processor, display, and a cloud. Because THAT'S WHAT WE ARE TELLING YOU YOU WANT.
Enshittified processor? What are you talking about? Processors are vastly better than they used to be, have much wider functionality, and they're cheaper than they used to be.
Screens are so much better than they used to be that I feel like you're trolling. Do you want to go back to shitty smeary 16:9 768p TN panels with terrible accuracy, viewing angles, refresh rates, contrast, huge light bleed? Because I sure don't.
PCs got rid of disc drives because nobody used them and they used up a huge amount of space.
USB disc drives exist. They are cheap. There's nothing stopping you from using CDs.
They may be, but you're missing the larger perspective by harping about the processor.
When the technology was ubiquitous, it didn't require specialized equipment ie USB disc drives, because the necessary gear was already built in. Which means more people had access and more sharing was happening.
Of course there's nothing stopping ME, I already know about CDs. But ask the average teenager where they get their music. Ask them how they would share an album. Do any amount of critical thinking about this, and my original premise holds true. But nah, you'll probably revert back to internally screaming that some guy on the internet insulted your processor speed, because THAT is the point.
People stopped ripping CDs and instead started downloading them (legally) via iTunes or (illegally) via napster or similar software more than a decade before disc drives became obsolete. Even the launch of Spotify predates the removal of disc drives from mainstream PCs/laptops.
Also, teenagers still know about CDs. They just don’t see a reason to use them and to some degree, I agree. While not having to worry about monthly payments and availability of your own library, music discovery has never been easier. I don’t want to buy a whole album from an artist that has maybe one good song. I also want to be able to listen to whatever song comes to mind, whenever it does. I don’t want to be limited by the CDs I have in my collection or whatever my friends might be able to send me.
With my shared family subscription to a streaming service, I can listen to whatever song I like, whenever I like for the price of 4 CDs a year. And I’m definitely adding more than 4 albums to my library every year.
Yeah, then everyone stopped using it. Disc drives were on PCs for years after people stopped using them. People took the piss out of new systems with them. It'd be like laptops coming with 5.25" floppy readers.
You're the one displaying a lack of thinking here.
That gear is necessary for a vanishingly small subset of PC users. It makes absolutely no sense to put them in PCs anymore. As a child of the 80s, you're reminding me very much of the people that decried the advent of the CD, and pined for the days of vinyl dominance. I'm guessing you think cars should still come with tape decks too.
My newer laptop doesn't have a CD drive and I never once felt the need to use it. Why do so if an external SSD fits multiple times more data, takes up less space and is rewriteable?