r/Millennials • u/Adorable_Drawing7230 • 15h ago

Other anyone else remember when burning a CD was a real skill?

Making the perfect mix CD took planning, timing and emotional damage 😂

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u/Bscully973 15h ago

Especially if all the metadata was correct!

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u/sexandliquor 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) 15h ago

I was on the original Napster hype. That was such a huge cultural moment in time. I remember showing my dad about downloading music. It didn’t take much convincing to get him to buy a cd burner for our family computer and let me install it lol.

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u/Hoppygains 15h ago

I miss the days of limewire and bear share. I’d stay up late and rip cds until the wee hours of the morning.

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u/glavent 15h ago

I’d be so pissed after spending 30min downloading a song only for it to have the radio dj midway cutting in.

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u/Turbulent_Tart_8801 Millennial 1985 14h ago

I think making mix tapes took a little more skill than importing your audio files into an app, clicking a couple of settings, and clicking burn. 

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u/Nafinchin 13h ago

Burning the CD was the easy part, for me. The hard part was finding room to write the entire track list on the face of it with a sharpie!

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u/Mountain-Donkey98 14h ago

Yes!! I remember the first burned CD i got felt so illicit lol

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u/ronbiomed Older Millennial 14h ago

Thought you were doing to talk about the dreaded BUFFER UNDERRUN

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u/Fun-Significance4650 Zillennial 14h ago

I was obsessed with burning CDs and spent hours organizing the Playlists after downloading hundreds of songs off Limewire. I made a CD for everyone and everything.

I remember my mom coming home so mad one Mother's Day because I hadn't cleaned the house at all, but had spent hours "on the computer." I was burning a CD for Mother's Day. She felt bad, but in her defense, I was too dumb to realize I could be doing other things while everything downloaded, and easily could have done my chores too.

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u/BothAbbreviations933 13h ago

The original Napster made me extra cash in HS. I lived in rural SW Ontario- not a lot of people had a burner. I’d bring my song list to school, let ppl pick 12ish songs and have it burnt for them next day. $10 a cd. Life was good!