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3. Too bad those CD-R's might only last 5 years.

Sun Feb 2, 2025, 05:40 PM

Feb 2

Factory CD's use a different mechanism to encode the audio data and are good for 50-100 years.

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I have recordings on vinyl that are out-of-print. no_hypocrisy Feb 2 #1

Too bad those CD-R's might only last 5 years. Shermann Feb 2 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author LiberalArkie Feb 2 #4