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I collect CDs for over thirty years now; my first ones were Intrada's ISLANDS IN THE STREAM and the Bernstein conducted Rózsa album for ist 80th birthday. Both still play just fine.
I encountered a few bad discs over the years, some of them brand new, but I don't think any of them were defect because of age.
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Jul 9, 2019 - 1:40 PM
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w-dervish
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CD rot is a myth.
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=19770&forumID=1&archive=1
excerpt: The rotting can be due to poor manufacturing, said Jerry Hartke, who runs Media Sciences Inc., a Marlborough Mass., laboratory that tests CDs. The aluminum layer that reflects the light of the player's laser is separated from the CD label by a thin layer of lacquer. If the manufacturer applied the lacquer improperly, air can penetrate to oxidize the aluminum, eating it up much like iron rusts in air.
In Hartke's view, however, it is more common that discs are rendered unreadable through poor handling by the owner. "If people treat these discs rather harshly, or stack them, or allow them to rub against each other, this very fragile protective layer can be disturbed, allowing the atmosphere to interact with that aluminum"...
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I have had to re-buy a few CDs from the late 80's, but we're talking maybe three or four out of thousands of CDs. That's a really good ratio.
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Jul 9, 2019 - 3:27 PM
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Rameau
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I love CDs as much as I did when they first arrived, 1984 I think (in the UK anyway) & I've only had one that failed, & that was on the Unicorn-Kanchana label (& I think nearly all of them went kaput). It old technology now, but in many ways that's a good thing, the highway with all the pits in is very wide compared to modern stuff like Blu-rays, so they're very rugged & will play in any machine (& no region coding). I wish I bought more of them these days, but I have nearly all the recordings I want, & there's only about 12 recordings I'd like on CD (that's the trouble the record companies have, once you've bought a disc, if you take care of it you have it for life). Saying all that, I mostly listen on my iPod these days (laziness on my part), but I'm keeping hold of those hard copies.
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