![]() 'We're trying to predict, in terms of collections, which of the types of CDs are the discs most at risk,' says France. ![]() ![]() But it's a tricky business, in large part because manufacturers have changed their processes over the years and even CDs made by the same company in the same year and wrapped in identical packaging might have totally different lifespans. And so is yours.'įenella France, chief of preservation research and testing at the Library of Congress is trying to figure out how CDs age so that we can better understand how to save them. ![]() My once-treasured CD collection - so carefully assembled over the course of about a decade beginning in 1994 - isn't just aging it's dying. 'While most of the studio-manufactured albums I bought still play, there's really no telling how much longer they will. Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Adrienne LaFrance reports at the Atlantic that if you've tried listening to any of the old CDs lately from your carefully assembled collection from the 1980's or 1990's you may have noticed that many of them won't play.
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