Same. Hi-MD was the closest we got, but it was too little, too late, especially against the monolith that was the iPod.

Just checked, you're right. It was the longest streak. Now Kingdom Hearts will break it. So Emile's actually right here.

Wasn't Bowser's Inside Story a nonstop streak not counting the bonus video?

And iirc this is the last championship under this playoff format.

FULL SEASON POINTS OR BUST

Plus, with streaming services, you have the possibility of your favorite music being taken away from you at any moment. You don't get that with CDs. You have the disc, and, as long as it doesn't get disc rot or heavily scratched to where it won't play, you own it practically forever.

Plus, CDs are dirt cheap nowadays. People don't want them anymore since Spotify exists. They're selling them for peanuts on Discogs and eBay. That's where I got the majority of mine from. I have been hearing rumors of a CD comeback, though... yet I've been collecting for over a decade now!

And as for the snobs that say "vinyl is better!" vinyl only has two advantages: the tactile experience of putting the stylus on the record, and the distortions naturally occurring from the cutting process/stylus which can be perceived as "warmth." In all other aspects, CDs absolutely wreck vinyl.

CDs are awesome! It's a happy medium of being fully digital, and being a dingus that spins. (Quoted from DankPods, go watch his stuff!)

Buying a CD also gives you a free lossless rip (FLAC in my case) to use to convert to whatever format you can use on your phone or other device (I use AAC myself).

Some really early CDs (especially those from CBS Records, such as Journey's Frontiers and others) have what's called "pre-emphasis." If played on modern devices, they can sound way too bright and harsh.

Fortunately, there is a fix, per the linked page:

Case in point, Journey's 1983 album "Frontiers." While the 2006 version that's on the streaming services sounds enticing, especially since it has four bonus tracks, it's brickwalled to absolute smithereens. I feel the original '80s CD is better to my ears. However...

Sometimes there are some weaknesses (ex. the original CD of Zeppelin IV has some tape dropouts on some songs, notably "Rock and Roll," and they can come from later-generation tapes, especially the super early CDs), but they're not brickwalled to death like the modern versions are.

Pro tip: if you collect CDs like I do, avoid modern "remasters," with rare exceptions (such as The Beatles' 2009 remasters, of which I have the full box set of). Get the original '80s/'90s pressings if you can. They can sound fantastic with modern equipment.

Its SNR of 96db baseline is excellent, which can be extended to almost 110db via noise shaping and dithering using modern mastering gear.

I have over 1,000 CDs. Most of them are original pressings from the '80s, '90s and early '00s.

As much as hardcore audiophiles will say I'm wrong, 44.1 KHz is well-tailored to the range of human hearing. It can reproduce perfectly frequencies up to 22.05 KHz per the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem, which is above the upper limits of human hearing. Myself, my hearing caps out at 18.5 KHz.

1984. DADC. The first discs made there were the one OP mentioned, and a compilation CD containing recordings Thomas Edison made on his original cylinder phonograph.

Not a platform issue, but an operating system issue.

Windows 10 shows the white flag and the trans symbol, whereas Windows 11 shows the trans flag. Just for an example. Both Android 11 and 16 (the versions I can test) show the trans flag.

What OS are you using?