I knew the Dire Straits fact. That album was the first pop record to sell more on CD than any other format, partly because it was recorded completely digitally and the album was longer on CD than Vinyl. As a holdover from the Vinyl mastering days, there were allegedly two different masters sent out on different pressings: one mastered by John Dent and the other by Bob Ludwig. I have a promo copy of the original John Dent pressing, where the front cover is amended to say "Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms: A Full Digital Recording"
Something I learnt about CD burning at home is that when the burning software asks what speed you want to burn at, usually 2x - 24x, it's better to burn at slower speeds where the etching is "stronger" and more likely to be playable on older drives with a weaker reading lazer.
Jewel cases are much better than digipacks. Digipacks are very fragile, the paper wears easily. Every digipack in my collection that wasn’t in a protective sleeve is scratched and has abrasions, and there is no way to fix it. Jewel cases can be easily replaced, giving you a brand-new looking album.
I once had these cheap cd-r's that after you burned them. They smelled like celery. 22 years old and still play fine. I will have to check if they still smell. Like how a fresh Maxell cassette is when you unwrap it. Where's that Febreze flavor?!? Digipacks have always been the worst. Good luck ever finding a mint one in a used store.
The pits and lands in a mass-produced CD-ROM are not like the grooves in a vinyl record. Vinyl grooves are direct physical representations of frequency and amplitude (width and depth, respectively), and are a form of analog recording. The pits and lands of a CD-ROM are uniformly wide and deep, and do not represent physical waveforms, but rather bits of information in a digital audio source. CD-Rs and CD-RWs don't have pits and lands. During burning, the LASER alters the color of a light-sensitive dye. Burning doesn't refer to changing the plastic. Anyone who claims to be able to tell a difference between a CD-ROM and a CD-R/RW, in terms of the medium, and not the specific burn, by sound alone is delusional. There's not room for disagreement. CDs are data. If a CD-R has write errors, it doesn't degrade audio quality, but rather cases skipping, and sometimes seeking problems. There is literally no audio quality difference. You can confirm this yourself by ripping a CD-ROM to a digital file (and verifying that it's 100% accurate before proceeding), burning that file to a CD-R (also verifying the burn accuracy before proceeding), ripping that CD-R to a digital file (again, verifying it's an accurate rip), and then comparing the two files. They should be identical. And I mean, exact same file, down to the bit, the only differences being the created/modified dates, and the name. The reasons one might care if a disc is a CD-ROM or a CD-R are related to players. Very old players can have troubles with discs burned using the "track at once" method (as opposed to "disc-at-once"). Some players, regardless of age, have trouble with CD-Rs burned at higher speed, because as speed increases, relative precision decreases, and things might not quite line up the way the player expects, or can account for. This can be reliably prevented by performing error-checking on the burned disc. If you get reports of errors, it _might_ be a problem for playback. A local band, wanting to crank out 50 copies of their demo might well not take the additional time to verify each disc's data integrity, and are not the most likely to be using a great quality drive, and are not the most likely to be using great quality CD-Rs, and are very likely to be burning them at maximum speed, and not the most likely to deliberately pick "disc-at-once" mode for their burns, all of which combined results in a higher-likelihood of playback problems. In addition, an "audiophile" is more likely to have very old audio playback equipment (for... usually dumb reasons), and as such, a higher-likelihood of having problems with playback, even if the disc is burned flawlessly. It's also worth noting that CD players typically feature error correcting capabilities, which are limited. If a disc does exhibit errors (either in write, or because a disc is scratched, or w/e else may interfere with proper reading), those errors can be accurately corrected on the fly, up to a point. I don't remember the exact limits, but it's less than a thousand bytes (~1KB). If errors are substantial enough, the error-correcting can interpolate that missing data (as opposed to correcting), which may or may not be identical to the data that was originally present. (The idea being that a listener is much more likely to care if their disc fails to play at all, or skips heavily, than if the playback is 100% bit-accurate.) So, in specific cases, when a disc is really, really badly burned, or really beat-up/dirty, but not so much as to be unusable, there is a possibility of degradation of audio quality. This is where the "most people can't tell" part actually comes into play with CDs. However, it should also be noted that in order to tell from sound alone, a person would need to be beyond intimately familiar with that specific rendition of an audio track, and also in possession of demi-superhuman audio differentiation capabilities (well above and beyond that of a child with perfectly undamaged hearing), such that anyone claiming to notice a difference is by far more likely to be fooling themselves. Keep in mind, these people are also the ones that will sometimes claim that de-ionizing a disc improves sound quality, or that shaving a bevel into the edge of the disc improves sound quality. In almost all cases, they can safely be ignored on these matters.
Cds forever 2024 still selling and buying them like crazy Better sound quality u own the music and support the artist 💿💿💽📀📀📀👍👍👍streaming is garbage 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮
@@bloodfirejeff of course I’ve been supporting cds since I was young in the 1990s when streaming never existed To me streaming dosent exist just to have all the music in the world 🌎 I’d not better it’s lazyyyyyness and that’s not the true form to listen to music like a book from begging to end Let’s keep physical media alive guys
I knew the Dire Straits fact. That album was the first pop record to sell more on CD than any other format, partly because it was recorded completely digitally and the album was longer on CD than Vinyl. As a holdover from the Vinyl mastering days, there were allegedly two different masters sent out on different pressings: one mastered by John Dent and the other by Bob Ludwig. I have a promo copy of the original John Dent pressing, where the front cover is amended to say "Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms: A Full Digital Recording"
Something I learnt about CD burning at home is that when the burning software asks what speed you want to burn at, usually 2x - 24x, it's better to burn at slower speeds where the etching is "stronger" and more likely to be playable on older drives with a weaker reading lazer.
@@itsPenguinBoy yes!!
Great quality content, I hope you break through on TH-cam, man!
@@Riggy2k3 thank you!
CDs are 12cm
though I am anti-digipak this is an incredible video
Thank you!
Jewel cases are much better than digipacks. Digipacks are very fragile, the paper wears easily. Every digipack in my collection that wasn’t in a protective sleeve is scratched and has abrasions, and there is no way to fix it. Jewel cases can be easily replaced, giving you a brand-new looking album.
I love what you've done with your mom's basement.
@@allengator1914 thank you!
I once had these cheap cd-r's that after you burned them. They smelled like celery. 22 years old and still play fine. I will have to check if they still smell. Like how a fresh Maxell cassette is when you unwrap it. Where's that Febreze flavor?!?
Digipacks have always been the worst. Good luck ever finding a mint one in a used store.
@@PrankZabba I remember then smelling weird but def not celery 😂 almost want to burn one again just for the nostalgia
The pits and lands in a mass-produced CD-ROM are not like the grooves in a vinyl record. Vinyl grooves are direct physical representations of frequency and amplitude (width and depth, respectively), and are a form of analog recording. The pits and lands of a CD-ROM are uniformly wide and deep, and do not represent physical waveforms, but rather bits of information in a digital audio source.
CD-Rs and CD-RWs don't have pits and lands. During burning, the LASER alters the color of a light-sensitive dye. Burning doesn't refer to changing the plastic.
Anyone who claims to be able to tell a difference between a CD-ROM and a CD-R/RW, in terms of the medium, and not the specific burn, by sound alone is delusional. There's not room for disagreement. CDs are data. If a CD-R has write errors, it doesn't degrade audio quality, but rather cases skipping, and sometimes seeking problems. There is literally no audio quality difference. You can confirm this yourself by ripping a CD-ROM to a digital file (and verifying that it's 100% accurate before proceeding), burning that file to a CD-R (also verifying the burn accuracy before proceeding), ripping that CD-R to a digital file (again, verifying it's an accurate rip), and then comparing the two files. They should be identical. And I mean, exact same file, down to the bit, the only differences being the created/modified dates, and the name.
The reasons one might care if a disc is a CD-ROM or a CD-R are related to players. Very old players can have troubles with discs burned using the "track at once" method (as opposed to "disc-at-once"). Some players, regardless of age, have trouble with CD-Rs burned at higher speed, because as speed increases, relative precision decreases, and things might not quite line up the way the player expects, or can account for. This can be reliably prevented by performing error-checking on the burned disc. If you get reports of errors, it _might_ be a problem for playback. A local band, wanting to crank out 50 copies of their demo might well not take the additional time to verify each disc's data integrity, and are not the most likely to be using a great quality drive, and are not the most likely to be using great quality CD-Rs, and are very likely to be burning them at maximum speed, and not the most likely to deliberately pick "disc-at-once" mode for their burns, all of which combined results in a higher-likelihood of playback problems. In addition, an "audiophile" is more likely to have very old audio playback equipment (for... usually dumb reasons), and as such, a higher-likelihood of having problems with playback, even if the disc is burned flawlessly.
It's also worth noting that CD players typically feature error correcting capabilities, which are limited. If a disc does exhibit errors (either in write, or because a disc is scratched, or w/e else may interfere with proper reading), those errors can be accurately corrected on the fly, up to a point. I don't remember the exact limits, but it's less than a thousand bytes (~1KB). If errors are substantial enough, the error-correcting can interpolate that missing data (as opposed to correcting), which may or may not be identical to the data that was originally present. (The idea being that a listener is much more likely to care if their disc fails to play at all, or skips heavily, than if the playback is 100% bit-accurate.) So, in specific cases, when a disc is really, really badly burned, or really beat-up/dirty, but not so much as to be unusable, there is a possibility of degradation of audio quality. This is where the "most people can't tell" part actually comes into play with CDs. However, it should also be noted that in order to tell from sound alone, a person would need to be beyond intimately familiar with that specific rendition of an audio track, and also in possession of demi-superhuman audio differentiation capabilities (well above and beyond that of a child with perfectly undamaged hearing), such that anyone claiming to notice a difference is by far more likely to be fooling themselves. Keep in mind, these people are also the ones that will sometimes claim that de-ionizing a disc improves sound quality, or that shaving a bevel into the edge of the disc improves sound quality. In almost all cases, they can safely be ignored on these matters.
Cds forever 2024 still selling and buying them like crazy Better sound quality u own the music and support the artist 💿💿💽📀📀📀👍👍👍streaming is garbage 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮
@@RobertQuant this guy gets it
@@bloodfirejeff of course I’ve been supporting cds since I was young in the 1990s when streaming never existed To me streaming dosent exist just to have all the music in the world 🌎 I’d not better it’s lazyyyyyness and that’s not the true form to listen to music like a book from begging to end Let’s keep physical media alive guys