I've been re-ripping all of my music CDs this month to lossless format for use with my hi-res audio player. About 200 albums and compilations, maybe 230 or so discs in total, the oldest bought about 1998 and the newest last year. Three are unreadable with no visible scratches, meaning likely bit rot, which is a good reminder to backup anything you have stored on CD/DVD/floppy as soon as possible.
@MossRC Yeah, I'm nervous about running into stuff like this as I'm backing up basically everything right now. Especially with indie stuff. So far I've been pretty lucky
@MichaelKlamerus What surprised me is that the three unreadable CDs were all bought new about 5-10 years ago. Everything older still works, except for one that's got a bad scratch. Made me nervous about my DVD collection and old games discs, and curious about my cassettes (especially the ones with recordings I made off the radio).
@MossRC Were they cds burned on someone's home computer? I'm worried about smaller bands doing things like that and just losing those albums. I haven't done many dvds yet but so far those have been perfectly fine.
@MichaelKlamerus Commercial pressings bought from a store. The only home-burned music CD I have was fine. I already know of two DVDs in my collection that are busted (both from a Sliders box set); hoping they're the only ones.
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@decryption Ooh damn, I'd hope they would last longer. Praying none of my Blu-Rays have died yet. I've got a few that would be nigh-impossible to replace.