Remember Burning CDs?

[killamch89]

Hey everyone! Who remembers the good old days of burning CDs? Whether it was making mixtapes for friends, backing up your favorite albums, or just trying out new software, burning CDs was a whole experience. Share your memories: What was your favorite CD to burn? Any funny stories or mishaps?

[Ravenfreak]

I didn't burn CDs that often because back in the day I didn't have a computer. I remember going over to a few of my friends houses who did have computers and watching them burn mix cds. I had a friend back in the day give me a burned copy of Green Day's American Idiot, and I remember listening to it off and on growing up. I even found a burned Yellowcard Ocean Avenue CD once in the field down the street from my house when I was a teenager. It barely played though since it was super scratched up. :V

[killamch89]

5 hours ago, Ravenfreak said:

I didn't burn CDs that often because back in the day I didn't have a computer. I remember going over to a few of my friends houses who did have computers and watching them burn mix cds. I had a friend back in the day give me a burned copy of Green Day's American Idiot, and I remember listening to it off and on growing up. I even found a burned Yellowcard Ocean Avenue CD once in the field down the street from my house when I was a teenager. It barely played though since it was super scratched up. :V

I used to burn mix CDs all the time. I used to give them to my friends all the time and I even had some special ones for certain occasions like a friend's birthday or playing it in the car while out on a date. Good times for sure!

[The Blackangel]

I still burn CD's. But I miss the days of missing the first couple words while you hit record to tape a song off the radio. Having a hundred blank cassettes that were all full of songs taped off the radio. Ninety of them having the same songs over and over.

[killamch89]

On 4/29/2024 at 6:35 PM, The Blackangel said:

I still burn CD's. But I miss the days of missing the first couple words while you hit record to tape a song off the radio. Having a hundred blank cassettes that were all full of songs taped off the radio. Ninety of them having the same songs over and over.

I remember that as well. the worst part about cassettes is that you might not remember if you taped a song on one and didn't remember to tag it and you tape another song n it. That used to annoy me so much.

[Debashis]

Yes, I remember burning CDs. I used to burn games like GTA Vice City, San Andreas into blank CDs and give to my friends. I also even used to sell some lol.

[Ajay25]

I used to have a whole stack of CD's in high school that I would burn off of Netflix (in the days when they still did mailer CDs).... good times

[killamch89]

On 5/25/2024 at 3:27 PM, Ajay25 said:

I used to have a whole stack of CD's in high school that I would burn off of Netflix (in the days when they still did mailer CDs).... good times

I used to download music off of Limewire in the mid 2000s and burn them onto CDs. I used to have tons of CDs in a case holder.

[Shortie]

I remember burning CDs very well! I used to spend hours downloading mp3s to my computer through Napster and then making playlists and burning them to a CD. I have always been someone who has been picky when it comes to albums, most of the time I would buy an album and some of the songs on the album I would never listen to, it made more sense to make playlists of my favourite songs and burn them to a CD.

 

[killamch89]

On 6/23/2024 at 12:26 PM, Shortie said:

I remember burning CDs very well! I used to spend hours downloading mp3s to my computer through Napster and then making playlists and burning them to a CD. I have always been someone who has been picky when it comes to albums, most of the time I would buy an album and some of the songs on the album I would never listen to, it made more sense to make playlists of my favourite songs and burn them to a CD.

 

Same here - most albums, I usually like one or two songs off it so burning CDs made sense to me. On another note, I forgot about Napster because I used to use that and Limewire to get the songs.

[Ajay25]

Who used to have those cd towers??  

I used to have a few hundred CD's that I burned of music and movies