The CD Revival - So wrong on so many levels

After the vinyl revival and the cassette revival, surely must come the CD revival. There are many good things about CD, but it isn’t perfect and it’s hard to love its problems. Will the CD come back into fashion again? Watch the video and decide for yourself. Check out the Audio Masterclass Music Production and Sound Engineering Course at Update on CD rot, mentioned in video... There have been a lot of comments on CD rot and I can’t reply to them all. On further investigation it seems that CDs that suffered from rot or bronzing mostly came from one factory in the UK from 1988 to 1993. Being based in the UK, this factory would have been where a lot of my CDs came from back in the 1980s and 1990s. You can read more at and DM ERRATUM I made a verbal typo when explaining NICAM. NICAM stands for Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex. I said ’digital’ instead of ’audio’ which of course makes no sense. DM MORE REVIVALS (ALL SO WRONG)... The cassette revival - The vinyl revival - The CD revival - The cassette, vinyl, and CD revivals revisited - The computer audio revival - The analogue tape revival part 1 - The analogue tape revival part 2 - The analogue tape revival part 3 - The analogue tape revival part 4 - The analogue tape revival part 5 - The film photography revival - If new old tech became available, would you buy it? Would you use it? (Revival series) - CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:20 LEVEL 1.1: What CD gets right - 16 bits 3:09 LEVEL 1.2: What CD gets right - Robustness, duration, tracks 3:51 LEVEL 2: Scratches and fingerprints 6:51 LEVEL 3: Damage to the label surface 7:48 LEVEL 4: CD rot (bronzing) 8:31 LEVEL 5: The jewel case 10:25 LEVEL 6: No proper provision for mono 11:30 Summary and conclusion CREDITS CD image in thumbnail: Sakurambo~commonswiki, file derived from Compact by Kulshrax Typical Compact by Noclip Stonehenge by Gareth Wiscombe CC BY 2.0 Soft toy cat: Bagpuss Quadriga by Johann Gottfried Schadow CC BY-SA 2.5 Captain Scarlet by Century 21 Television Production Digipack: Bronzed CD: theJudge Jewel case: Ramon Vasconcellos GNU Free Documentation Licence