I somehow have a bunch of blank cd and dvds that i got from thrift stores and parents. There good for some linux os’s but besides that im not sure what else to put on them or do with them. I would like to create a sort of binder for rainy days with various media but im stumped.
Im asking what type of media i should put on theses dvds/cds. I would do music but im not the biggest music fan sadly.
Well, since music is out of the question, it’s always possible to do things like finding old games you like online through places like MyAbandonware and attempting to burn them to a CD/DVD and seeing if they work. Not as convenient as just using something like DOSBox, but definitely rewarding in my opinion.
I like to keep a burned copy of my diagnostic tools for older PCs with optical disk drives. It saved me several times
If you have a car with a CD player, I’d recommend burning some CDs. It’s so refreshing having a small collection of banger CDs to choose from. Not to mention that you can insert and eject without being too distracted.
I used to go to Wikipedia and click the random article button to get a name for my burned mix CDs. I think my favorite was called “mountaintop removal”.
I recently found some CDs and DVDs that I backed files up on 17 years ago. Everything copied across no problem - they were as good as the day I burned them.
I’d say use them for data!
Problem with that is that the capacity of optical media is pretty small. I used to use optical media to back up my personal data but stopped pretty quickly as I was running out of space.
Yeah, I do have a lot of discs.
I used to pirate movies my older neighbour wanted to see and burn them on blank DVDs because she felt way more comfortable having discs than streaming. That could be an option if you have a tech-averse person in your life you care about.
She had a bunch of empty cases too, and would make customer covers for each movie with a sharpie and a piece of paper.
If you want to make a binder then do that.
You should wrap them in foil, vacuum seal them and store them in the freezer. Those things are harder and harder to find now, especially the rarer music cdrs and plenty of stuff needs them.
Put at least one of them in a microwave.
Pretty neat light show!
Technically, kind of, you are… burning the disk, in a sense, lol.
Large scale exterior wall art.
From personal experience, depending on how old they are, use them as coasters.
With very few exceptions, consumer grade optical media is really only good for sharing files.
Back in the 2000’s I had been using them to store backups of files. Found out the hard way that that was not a suitable use for them when I had a hard drive fail. Disk rot is a bitch if you’re not expecting it.
That said, if you and your family still have CD players, you might think about making them mix CDs. It’s also possible to burn your archived movies or tv shows onto them in DVD or Video-CD formats. I expect most DVD players can still read the Video CD format.
I’ve turned some into fidget spinners with hot glue and marbles.
I like to burn movies and shows to play on my CRT. It feels a bit more authentic than streaming.
I’ve kind of wanted to do this: https://imgur.com/haxorus-created-from-broken-cds-Uot1FSF
If you’ve got a lot of content on a Steam account, you can make physical install discs
Sega Dreamcast games
I use them as coasters for drinks.
But Blanks are still useful, I will literally never run out of unusable driver CDs, scratched CD-Rs, AOL cover discs, failed DVD burns, etc …
also floppy discs don’t shed foil flakes when they get wet, just superior coasters.
