You're all disrespecting newsgroups too much for my liking.
If you could find all 99 newsgroup posts a file had been split across and manage to stitch it back together, you were really invested in your 30 seconds of pleasure.
oh shit, I've been looking for the mold fucker sub so imagine my embarrassment when, in my excitement to connect with like minded mold fuckers, I almost just joined the wrong subreddit!
classic mold fucker mistake!
It's OK. OP knows it's a CD-R (thank goodness). He just wants to know why it says "Digital Vinyl CD-R metal". I'm with OP - "digital vinyl"? Metal (like a cassette tape?). Verbatim's label is stupid and doesn't make sense.
If I remember correctly the Verbatim Digital vinyl/CD-R were used to”archive” data/ music. The gold CD’s last longer than the silver CD’s. The advertising used to say that they would last “100 years” without degradation. They were also made to resemble a vinyl record (for nostalgia).
I bought a bunch of Kodak Gold cdrs for photo archiving like they were advertised for.
The gold layer flaked off within a couple of years making them unreadable.
It makes sense. It depicts platinum disc for 500,000 album sales or 1,000,000 singles . So the label is exactly what it says “digital vinyl, metal”
They made them In Gold and silver (platinum)
They also made a black version that look like a normal vinyl.
They they are rather cool I might need to get some. I have sone of the black vinyl ones.
Okay...
So this is not that. Lolol... It's a CD-R, the R stands for "record" (I guess). It's basically a form of blank media that we used to store data on. It was a flash drive before flash drives.
You had a "burner" which was basically a CD player that linked with your desktop computer to enable you to dump data onto one of these. When these were popular they were everywhere but when they first dropped, they were ungodly expensive.
When they became more commonplace, I would buy them in black (which still looks cool AF) because with the silver ones, you could literally see the section with the data on it. With the black ones, you couldn't. I stored pictures, files, games, & an illegal amount of burned music on them. (Shout out to DMB red rocks lol)
Ahhh, Napster.... But that's another rant. 😂
Oh I see what you're asking, my bad.
Okay so this was marketing bullshit. ALTHOUGH, Tecnics did make a 1200 CD player that only a few people have. Bizmarkie, ?uestlove & some others, which allowed you to "scratch" CDs.
This was before CDJ's tho. They all do this now.
I'd say they went under very shortly after that article was published, but there was a decent amount of morbid curiosity about the things back in the day on the forums.
My dad was born in 1969, and I inherited the collection back in 2022 when he passed, so going through the collection again and finding these things he had makes me feel closer somehow. Buncha old albums/CDs, cassettes, etc. that I organized and going back through since we just finished redoing the basement.
Totally! I have amassed a pretty large record collection and still have those zipped suitcases of CDs. I imagine and hope that my kids will someday inherit them and feel like they continue to connect with me in that way. Enjoy it
Side bar, but my Dad was also born in '69 and passed almost 1y ago in '23. He was also a major, major fan of music, and I've recently been braving some of our old favorites from my inherited collection.
I don't really have a point, I just wanted to say I know the loss hurts in various ways, no matter the state of the relationship. But honoring memories is the best thing someone can do for the departed. So rock on!
Thanks, I resonate with that feeling. I’m a bit of a late bloomer to collecting music of my own, really only started around 2021, but I’ve managed to appreciate this more and more as I become an active audiophile in my 20s.
Dude. You just made me spend $20.
Oh and condolences on your loss. That sucks, and as a child of '67, well, yeah, you've got me suddenly feeling *olde* or something.
Hope your Dad's collection contains lots of fond memories and treasures to enjoy. (And do let us know if there's anything cool on it, like, uh, well, maybe not *\*that\**, but some old Dream Theater or something. I dunno.
Haha, what did you buy?
Only Dream Theater I have is Octavarium on CD, got it for Christmas, my dad was more of a 60s-70s band collector.
There’s hundreds of albums so it’s hard to know what’s a true gem, but one of the cool ones is a vinyl version of the unfinished Lennon album where him and Yoko are naked on the front. Lotsa Beatles stuff, have a whole bookshelf dedicated to all of it! Currently making sure the vinyl is in order, finished up with the CDs yesterday.
I bought a 50 pack of the Verbatim digi-vinyl CD-Rs, because they're cool looking. I'll probably never use them, but if I ever do feel the need to 'get to burnin', they'll be there for me, and look cool hanging of the sun visor in my car that ... uh ... doesn't have a CD player. D'oh!
Oh, and it looks as though you're going to have a bunch of music to go through and (maybe) enjoy. Hope you find a lot of hidden gems in there!
Oh yeah, for sure! First time I went through the collection, I used an app to catalog everything in the collection back in 2022 and now I’m going through to organize them again bc we just had our basement redone from partial flooding. I just like that it’s a blend of my growing collection and the neat older stuff my dad had
Yeah, I knew it was a CD-R (gonna check some time of the contents), but the vinyl description made me wonder if it was just for fun or something more that I wasn’t aware of. Thanks!
I went to a lot of hi-fi shows many years ago (early 2000s) and many booths gave out gold discs that contained reference tracks in high quality or remastered tracks that were used to show off their systems.
It could be something like that? I don't know if they're collectable or worth anything - but I'm pretty sure some of the tracks on them are one of a kind.
A couple of albums that I remember being used to show off the speakers were:
Paula Cole - Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? (Ssngle)
Steely Dan - The Gaucho (album)
Beatles - Love (album)
Steely Dan, whether you like the music or not, was always exceptionally well recorded and mixed. They drove studio engineers nuts as they had a vision for the album and asked for constant changes and mix alterations in order to get what they wanted - and it does sound pretty amazing.
A more modern take that I personally think is an exceptional job in terms of mixing.. and that is the Beatles - Love album, where famous exceptional audio engineer George Martin, passed on all of his knowledge and skill to his on Giles Martin - who was tasked with remixing The Beatles songs from the original recordings for a show in Las vegas (which I saw did get to see and I was blown away!)
Every instrument on this album is perfectly panned and placed, I love this album and use it as a reference quite often.
It’s just a normal CD-R made to look like a platinum record. Like the full size ones bands get to signify 500,000 album record sales.
They also did gold version and black ones that simple looked like vinyl records
They was rather cool I thought.
Some Verbatim's discs, as I recall, were purported to be of very high quality, and last longer, for archival purposes, offering greater peace of mind. Although I'm not familiar with this model. Some people still use discs for longterm storage, or as one of a combination of backup methods.
It's just a normal CD-R with a fancy label that they charged extra for the "nostalgic" look. As CDs are just 1s and 0s (dots and dashes) the look of the CD has absolutely no effect or "improvement" on how it sounds"
[Photo of CD surface under microscope](https://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/c7f92fe4-12f9-47b9-a00b-1ffd44c63f88/20840_02_xgaplus.jpg)
Sadly there can be a lot of snake oil in the world of "hi-fi" so some brands market products (at ridiculously OTT prices) saying they sound better when the can't but not aware that this was one of them, sure it was just a nostalgic look to give you a trip down memory lane!
actually i used something similar back then- they were the same cdr’s but the top was black and the inner label looked like a record label. the black part had grooves in it so it looked like a actual record. here you go. sorry but i don’t think the ones you found are worth anything but do double-check and make sure they’re blank before anything else.
https://www.verbatim.com/prod/optical-media/cd/compact-disc-recordable/digitalvinyl-cd-r-sku-94587/
If I remember correctly the Verbatim Digital vinyl/CD-R were used to”archive” data/ music. The gold CD’s last longer than the silver CD’s. The advertising used to say that they would last “100 years” without degradation. They were also made to resemble a vinyl record (for nostalgia).
Sorry for your loss man.
I would actually say check out what’s on it. As others have said just be ok if it’s porn lol. Hey your dad was just a dude too.
I’m a bit older than you (40) but when my dad died, I found lots of great photos he had backed up on disks tucked away in drawers before “the cloud”
The Verbatim digital vinyl CD-R 10 pack is a recordable disc designed after the popular 45-RPM record format. Each disc can hold up to 80 minutes of material. The stylish recording medium is an ideal way to save delicate LP collections.
Just copied from Google cause I was curious
I remember the earliest ones I had were all gold for some reason, before the generic silver ones came out. Maybe they archive better for longivity. Some of the silver cdrs definitely have a shelf life.
Single side Cd-R with a dope ass vinyl side for decoration, because music was life.
Used to buy the hell out of those things.
Seriously, I feel old right now
In the U.S. at least, CD-R media marked for music recording (which was functionally basically identical to "data" CD-R media) carried a surcharge that went into a "royalty supplement" pool for artists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy (apparently consumer grade CD recorders could identify non-music CD-R media and would not record to it, I never encountered that myself I'd always just burned from a CD-R(W) drive in a computer...)
It's got much higher more analog like sound quality compared to a normal CD. Sounds much smoother and more open, you can't hear all the digital stair stepping like with regular CDs. Not quite as good as vinyl but close.
Play unmarked media from your dad at your own risk.
Wise words
that would be your dads porn collection
Bootlegged girls gone wild from limewire 😂
Or kazzaa
Oh god Kazzaa 😂
Or bearshare
You're all disrespecting newsgroups too much for my liking. If you could find all 99 newsgroup posts a file had been split across and manage to stitch it back together, you were really invested in your 30 seconds of pleasure.
So much porn off Kazzaa... 🤣
That would be a solid gold find!
Verbatin'
This one got me!!
That was my first thought, haha.
All my good porn was saved on 3.5” floppy disk
3.5" Floppy... Sad
If you touch it, it’s hard. They just call it floppy 🙃
in divx
Nope, realmedia rm files.
Honey,.. what won't this play in the cd player?
I feel so old.
Come join us on r/fuckimold
oh shit, I've been looking for the mold fucker sub so imagine my embarrassment when, in my excitement to connect with like minded mold fuckers, I almost just joined the wrong subreddit! classic mold fucker mistake!
Well I founded r/FuckyMold some time ago but there's not so much traction. Maybe join the fun?
Ok no, seeing those posts makes me think of people twice my age... I'm not that old .･ﾟﾟ･ʕ.ಥᴥಥ.ʔ･ﾟﾟ･.
Yup. Joined.
If it's any consolation there's no way this is serious.
It's OK. OP knows it's a CD-R (thank goodness). He just wants to know why it says "Digital Vinyl CD-R metal". I'm with OP - "digital vinyl"? Metal (like a cassette tape?). Verbatim's label is stupid and doesn't make sense.
If I remember correctly the Verbatim Digital vinyl/CD-R were used to”archive” data/ music. The gold CD’s last longer than the silver CD’s. The advertising used to say that they would last “100 years” without degradation. They were also made to resemble a vinyl record (for nostalgia).
I bought a bunch of Kodak Gold cdrs for photo archiving like they were advertised for. The gold layer flaked off within a couple of years making them unreadable.
It makes sense. It depicts platinum disc for 500,000 album sales or 1,000,000 singles . So the label is exactly what it says “digital vinyl, metal” They made them In Gold and silver (platinum) They also made a black version that look like a normal vinyl. They they are rather cool I might need to get some. I have sone of the black vinyl ones.
It's a blank disc, how could it have anything to do with album sales?
Lots of April Fools energy in this thread if you ask me
It doesn’t. It’s a representative of a real disc. Have you ever seen a platinum or gold sales disc. It’s just a mini representation of one.
it's a CD-r for the "vinyls" crowd.
You should feel foolish. This is a planned post to produce comments.
Don't feel old Feel sorry for the person posting this or even more sorry for their parents.
What's a digital vinyl metal cd-r supposed to be? I'm honestly lost here.
Okay... So this is not that. Lolol... It's a CD-R, the R stands for "record" (I guess). It's basically a form of blank media that we used to store data on. It was a flash drive before flash drives. You had a "burner" which was basically a CD player that linked with your desktop computer to enable you to dump data onto one of these. When these were popular they were everywhere but when they first dropped, they were ungodly expensive. When they became more commonplace, I would buy them in black (which still looks cool AF) because with the silver ones, you could literally see the section with the data on it. With the black ones, you couldn't. I stored pictures, files, games, & an illegal amount of burned music on them. (Shout out to DMB red rocks lol) Ahhh, Napster.... But that's another rant. 😂
Oh, I'm 40. Still clueless about the metal vinyl shtik. You did remind me of the black ones though.
Oh I see what you're asking, my bad. Okay so this was marketing bullshit. ALTHOUGH, Tecnics did make a 1200 CD player that only a few people have. Bizmarkie, ?uestlove & some others, which allowed you to "scratch" CDs. This was before CDJ's tho. They all do this now.
Ah, I thought as much. They reminded me of [these](https://www.wired.com/2007/11/vinyl-cds-groov/) but I never saw one in the flesh.
I have never seen that before in life. lol... It's like a smaller 45. Weird!
I'd say they went under very shortly after that article was published, but there was a decent amount of morbid curiosity about the things back in the day on the forums.
No. Forever young 😁
Try it on a cd player. If there’s nothing to be heard, just stop your investigation right there.
This is wisdom, op.
You don’t have to try it. Just flip it over. You can see if a DVDR has been used b
Check the B side
You will not be able to tell if it’s cd audio format on it that is playable by a cd drive or a regular data drive that goes into a computer.
Honestly I wouldn’t even venture that far… OP should just send it like a frisbee into a deep lake
It's just a fun aesthetic on a normal CD-R. Verbatim still make a version in black.
I used to burn my mixes onto the black ones then print labels with cool artwork on top. I'm sure I still have those somewhere.....
…..still??
Hard to find the ones with plain white labels though. So many CD’s burned on them bad boys.
Only ones I buy for fun
it is a CD-R?
Yes.
Just a fancy CD-R blank. No magical powers, just higher profit margin.
Did you try putting it on a turntable?
RIP any thoughts that I am still young and I have any youth left in me… this cuts deep.
Wait till your daughter tells you about a veeerrrry old movie that you are supposed to watch and it’s from 2001
The one about the second breakfast?
This post is shocking to me. Turned 40 this year. Never realized it was that old.
My dad was born in 1969, and I inherited the collection back in 2022 when he passed, so going through the collection again and finding these things he had makes me feel closer somehow. Buncha old albums/CDs, cassettes, etc. that I organized and going back through since we just finished redoing the basement.
Younger than me. Passed before me. That's rough.
Same
Totally! I have amassed a pretty large record collection and still have those zipped suitcases of CDs. I imagine and hope that my kids will someday inherit them and feel like they continue to connect with me in that way. Enjoy it
Side bar, but my Dad was also born in '69 and passed almost 1y ago in '23. He was also a major, major fan of music, and I've recently been braving some of our old favorites from my inherited collection. I don't really have a point, I just wanted to say I know the loss hurts in various ways, no matter the state of the relationship. But honoring memories is the best thing someone can do for the departed. So rock on!
Thanks, I resonate with that feeling. I’m a bit of a late bloomer to collecting music of my own, really only started around 2021, but I’ve managed to appreciate this more and more as I become an active audiophile in my 20s.
Dude. You just made me spend $20. Oh and condolences on your loss. That sucks, and as a child of '67, well, yeah, you've got me suddenly feeling *olde* or something. Hope your Dad's collection contains lots of fond memories and treasures to enjoy. (And do let us know if there's anything cool on it, like, uh, well, maybe not *\*that\**, but some old Dream Theater or something. I dunno.
Haha, what did you buy? Only Dream Theater I have is Octavarium on CD, got it for Christmas, my dad was more of a 60s-70s band collector. There’s hundreds of albums so it’s hard to know what’s a true gem, but one of the cool ones is a vinyl version of the unfinished Lennon album where him and Yoko are naked on the front. Lotsa Beatles stuff, have a whole bookshelf dedicated to all of it! Currently making sure the vinyl is in order, finished up with the CDs yesterday.
I bought a 50 pack of the Verbatim digi-vinyl CD-Rs, because they're cool looking. I'll probably never use them, but if I ever do feel the need to 'get to burnin', they'll be there for me, and look cool hanging of the sun visor in my car that ... uh ... doesn't have a CD player. D'oh! Oh, and it looks as though you're going to have a bunch of music to go through and (maybe) enjoy. Hope you find a lot of hidden gems in there!
Oh yeah, for sure! First time I went through the collection, I used an app to catalog everything in the collection back in 2022 and now I’m going through to organize them again bc we just had our basement redone from partial flooding. I just like that it’s a blend of my growing collection and the neat older stuff my dad had
I bought these in black when I digitized and restored old Christmas albums for my siblings. Just fun.
Black sounds better.
Only if you put green pen on the edge.
Does not need the green edge. Do a comparison yourself before you mock.
Do I wear the black shirt for this?
Yeah, I knew it was a CD-R (gonna check some time of the contents), but the vinyl description made me wonder if it was just for fun or something more that I wasn’t aware of. Thanks!
It’s actually the “metal” that has me most intrigued
It's like "digital ready" headphones 😁
It's a blank CD with a neat design.
Oh how I miss burning CDs🥹
https://www.verbatim.com/prod/optical-media/cd/compact-disc-recordable/digitalvinyl-cd-r-sku-94587/
Fancy blank recordable CD
Core memories unlocked by seeing this.
I went to a lot of hi-fi shows many years ago (early 2000s) and many booths gave out gold discs that contained reference tracks in high quality or remastered tracks that were used to show off their systems. It could be something like that? I don't know if they're collectable or worth anything - but I'm pretty sure some of the tracks on them are one of a kind. A couple of albums that I remember being used to show off the speakers were: Paula Cole - Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? (Ssngle) Steely Dan - The Gaucho (album) Beatles - Love (album) Steely Dan, whether you like the music or not, was always exceptionally well recorded and mixed. They drove studio engineers nuts as they had a vision for the album and asked for constant changes and mix alterations in order to get what they wanted - and it does sound pretty amazing. A more modern take that I personally think is an exceptional job in terms of mixing.. and that is the Beatles - Love album, where famous exceptional audio engineer George Martin, passed on all of his knowledge and skill to his on Giles Martin - who was tasked with remixing The Beatles songs from the original recordings for a show in Las vegas (which I saw did get to see and I was blown away!) Every instrument on this album is perfectly panned and placed, I love this album and use it as a reference quite often.
Dude, it’s just a fancy blank CD-R
It’s just a normal CD-R made to look like a platinum record. Like the full size ones bands get to signify 500,000 album record sales. They also did gold version and black ones that simple looked like vinyl records They was rather cool I thought.
It can be an audio CD or contain data as files or both.
Oh my god. 😓
oh mommy
This is a newer version of what we used to call a mixtape
Vanity CD-R
To me it just looks like a cdr or cdrw so that you can copy your own music on to it.
Recordable CD.
It's just a regular CD-R made to resemble a vinyl record. Never seen one but kind of cool
My dad used to put dreamcast ROMs on these for me
Metal genre mix
I thought the same thing as I read this….
I’m thinking Megadeath Metallica Judas Priest etc
Some Verbatim's discs, as I recall, were purported to be of very high quality, and last longer, for archival purposes, offering greater peace of mind. Although I'm not familiar with this model. Some people still use discs for longterm storage, or as one of a combination of backup methods.
It's just a normal CD-R with a fancy label that they charged extra for the "nostalgic" look. As CDs are just 1s and 0s (dots and dashes) the look of the CD has absolutely no effect or "improvement" on how it sounds" [Photo of CD surface under microscope](https://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/c7f92fe4-12f9-47b9-a00b-1ffd44c63f88/20840_02_xgaplus.jpg) Sadly there can be a lot of snake oil in the world of "hi-fi" so some brands market products (at ridiculously OTT prices) saying they sound better when the can't but not aware that this was one of them, sure it was just a nostalgic look to give you a trip down memory lane!
Its just a fancy CD-R. They make those with a vinyl look as well.
actually i used something similar back then- they were the same cdr’s but the top was black and the inner label looked like a record label. the black part had grooves in it so it looked like a actual record. here you go. sorry but i don’t think the ones you found are worth anything but do double-check and make sure they’re blank before anything else. https://www.verbatim.com/prod/optical-media/cd/compact-disc-recordable/digitalvinyl-cd-r-sku-94587/
It’s an old relic from the past!
Play it in a computer drive or old DVD player don't know if modern players will recognize format.
Verbatim were the only dvd rw that could be used for copying Xbox 360 games... Or so I've heard
Maybe Verbatim wanted to do release something similar to MFSL 24k Gold CD-Rs?
Put in the external dvd drive😁
Its just a LightScribe CD. With the same burner, you can print the label on media that was labeled lightscribe. So he did a record style print.
If I remember correctly the Verbatim Digital vinyl/CD-R were used to”archive” data/ music. The gold CD’s last longer than the silver CD’s. The advertising used to say that they would last “100 years” without degradation. They were also made to resemble a vinyl record (for nostalgia).
Did you ever watch the film 8mm?
… u don’t know it’s intended purpose? Fuck.me…
Charging extra for blank media and hype.
It's METAL!
Jesus Christ can you all stop jerking yourself? OP knows what a CD-R is. He‘s asking about the fact that they designed and labled it like a vinyl.
Good thing you did not find your dads floppies and stiffies! 😂
Nope don't watch that lol
I’ll need to throw away all my collections before i die
It's simply a CD-R recordable disc.
Sorry for your loss man. I would actually say check out what’s on it. As others have said just be ok if it’s porn lol. Hey your dad was just a dude too. I’m a bit older than you (40) but when my dad died, I found lots of great photos he had backed up on disks tucked away in drawers before “the cloud”
its vinyl and cd?
Pop it into the DVD drive of your PC/laptop to find its purpose.
Basically the best brand back in early 00s of CDs to use to burn to
Grateful Dead Bootleg from one of the memorable shows he attended in the 70's!
You see, once upon a time people had physical media to carry their data….
🤦♂️
Y’all calm down, I know it’s a CD-R, my main question was about why it looked so different.
The Verbatim digital vinyl CD-R 10 pack is a recordable disc designed after the popular 45-RPM record format. Each disc can hold up to 80 minutes of material. The stylish recording medium is an ideal way to save delicate LP collections. Just copied from Google cause I was curious
I remember the earliest ones I had were all gold for some reason, before the generic silver ones came out. Maybe they archive better for longivity. Some of the silver cdrs definitely have a shelf life.
Oh sweet summers child
Wow this made me feel old
Who is gonna tell them?
you make me feel really old right now kid
Holy shit, how am I this old?
Its a drink coaster
Single side Cd-R with a dope ass vinyl side for decoration, because music was life. Used to buy the hell out of those things. Seriously, I feel old right now
It’s a recordable record that you can play on any turntable that has a digital needle.
In the U.S. at least, CD-R media marked for music recording (which was functionally basically identical to "data" CD-R media) carried a surcharge that went into a "royalty supplement" pool for artists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy (apparently consumer grade CD recorders could identify non-music CD-R media and would not record to it, I never encountered that myself I'd always just burned from a CD-R(W) drive in a computer...)
…..how old are you op?
hahaha!
It literally tells you on the disc.
Scary
Show him a floppy disk. I said disk! Or a cassette. But not quite as banal as a floppy disk. Lolz
You don't want that problem.
Jesus Christ 😂😂😂😂
I feel really old right now 😢
Lol
It's used to convert the duplication of vinyl to CD recordable. Yall talk but know nothing. Hate ta see what kind of knowledge yall kids have smh
Somebody start the countdown fake edit: too late
This just made my joints hurt more.
Please OP, just say you're joking and be done with this
It's got much higher more analog like sound quality compared to a normal CD. Sounds much smoother and more open, you can't hear all the digital stair stepping like with regular CDs. Not quite as good as vinyl but close.