In late November of last year I moved out of the apartment in Hoffman Estates like my ass was going to catch on fire. The move was pretty disorganized and a lot of things got forgotten, lost or thrown out in the rush to vacate the premesis. Amidst all the confusion one of the two Cult File CDs went missing and has been absent ever since. I only really thought about it recently when I was ripping my CD collection to high-bit-rate MP3 for storage on the new drive.
Needless to say I was a little surprised to receive word from
Now that I'm home I took a bit of time to examine the disc. I'm sure it wasn't in pristine condition to begin with -- almost none of my CDs ever were -- so I wasn't terribly worried when I saw a few spots and scratches on the underside. The reflective coating appeared to be completely intact and I've been listening to it for the last 25 minutes or so without any ill effects. Since I'm about halfway through the disc with no mishaps I'm left to think it has survived and will withstand an encoding into MP3 as long as I don't let the CD go to some ungainly speed like 40x. Once the tracks are encoded I'll be home-free and the CD will serve the rest of its term in my collection as backup physical media should something happen to the sound file.
Thanks again, Twan. I appreciate it.
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