Huge Half-Life discovery found from a decades-old CD sitting in a storage unit - eviltoast
  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Don’t worry, I’m old too, and I got you fam.

    Burning is creating disks by etching the data onto the metal disc below the plastic layer, and ripping is extracting the data into a digital format, like an ISO, or in the case of music or video discs, usable media files (often includes a transcode because who uses CD/DVD format anyway?).

    I’ve burned dozens if not hundreds of disks in my day, but haven’t burned anything for years. I most recently ripped my entire DVD and Bluray collection onto my Jellyfin server so I don’t have to deal with those ancient discs that keep getting scratched anymore.