CD Rot

[_nicolai_]

While re-ripping some of my older CDs to round out the music collection in my car, I have recently found that several of my mid-1990s CDs are suffering CD rot. Mostly due to oxidation from a flawed outer edge seal, as far as I can tell.

So far replacements have been available on eBay or Amazon. So far :-/

Comments

[zotz]

Only one of mine, as far as I know - Laibach, also mid-nineties. Thee Ackurssed Witchipedia claims one plant is mostly to blame. (See Compact Disc bronzing)

[sweh]

Yeah, I have a number of these. I ripped them to mp3 (VBR Joint Stereo) before I knew of the issue, but a few years back I tried to re-rip them to lossless format and failed.

Of my 493 CDs, 19 aren't rippable; most (not all) are due to that bad plant :-(

[hatter]

That reminds me to bump something up my todo list, I should be going in the opposite direction - I ripped raw, scraped some metadata, encoded, then dumped batches of raws to tape each time disk space was getting scarce. Disk's just not all that scarce now though, so should commit it all to spinning rust and reencode. I think I'm happy to leave it on multiple disks, though somewhere further down that list is look at more modern tape options.

the hatter