CD Rot

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Those of us who combine our love of Throbbing Gristle with membership of the National Trust will have seen an advertisement in our members only magazine fora a CD file system, kind of like a posh leatherbound version of the famous CD book/album/call it what you willl that we have discussed before. What alarms me is that the manufacturers refer to something called "CD rot", which they claim is caused by the plastic boxes CDs live in. I think they are trying to take advantage of gullible pensioners, and should be reported to the ASA ASAP.

What do you think?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

And here's me thinking this was a thread about the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

.. or gullible TG fans?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

Disc Rot is real, I've got a couple of older Coil and Foetus CDs that have it. They start to turn copper coloured near the outer edge and skipping occurs near the end of the albums. It isn't caused by the plastic boxes though.

http://foetusized.org/cdrot.html

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 May 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, Stan.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 May 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

CD rot / wear

my copy of Gigantic 2 suffers from this rendering that last Birdland song (more) unlistenable.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

The search was so slow so I hope there isn't a thread already about this if so a link would be great, anyway...

Yeah, what a loser.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

So how do the record companies store their original recordings? Perhaps we should have the same system. Personally I am very happy that my wife's "Best of Cliff Richard" CD is now unplayable
Alan Parsons, Burton on Trent

No wonder Freddie Starr moved to Burton.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

I have a CD of Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' performed by the English Concert (Archive) that was issued as the very first batch of commercially available CDs; in fact I bought the disc in order to have one of the fist issues. In fact it was another six months or so before I bought the CD player in which to place it. I am pleased to say the CD after all these years is still playing as it always has.
Roger Lawrence, Yatton, North Somerset

All round to Roger's!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

I have stopped borrowing audio books on CD from my local library. Invariably one of the CDs gets stuck half way through the story, with the narrator repeating a phrase over and over again.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

This happened to Skullflower's Xaman due to manufacturing errors. Really unfortunate in that case, since it's OOP and there are 3 songs on it that aren't on the vinyl version. I've read that almost all copies of Xaman are now unplayable.

Thank goodness for S!sk.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for starting this thread - just this Monday, a friend returned some CDs to me after a few years and I noticed my Ruts Peel Sessions had rotted. I checked the disc, and it turns out it was made in 1990 by P.D.O., so I'm going to try returning it to them for a replacement. I'll check my Gang of Four one when I get home.

― Ricki Belloni (Pangolino 3), Thursday, 11 May 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

"Eventually the corrosion will cause sound problems not unlike LP surface noise..."

So I'll end up with a 'vinyl' collection after all these years!

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, how do you italisize on this thing?

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

With 'i' inside it.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 11 May 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

ithankyou

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Bollocks!

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

To start italics, type a left-pointing angle bracket (less than sign), i, right-pointing angle bracket (greater than sign). No spaces between them. When you're done, do the same thing only with a forward slash (/) before the i.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Like this

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Thankyou, guv!

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

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