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The awful truth about CDs, do they have the same shelve life as LP's ?

The answer is properly not. Recent studies have shown that the chemicals used in their manufacture of CDs have reduced their life expectancy to ten years, not all but many, as per Paul Mcgowans email. The suggestion was given that if you have suspect CD's they should be re-copied. But my question is how do you identify these? I can tell you that I have a great deal of LPs and I can play anyone of these with great success and some are 40 years old. This no doubt would give some audiophiles another good reason to hold onto their belief that LPs are the way to go.
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I have around 300 CDs.  They are stored indoors, in sleeves, not in the car. Truthfully, I don’t listen to them very often any longer. But I do have a few that have deteriorated. When I’ve played them, they sound sort of like an album with something sticky on them. Like a "fuzzy" sound in the playback. It’s a few... less than ten... but it’s still there, for sure. Someone above commented that you can just rip them onto a new CD/R, but that doesn’t work. It just records the "fuzzy" sound.

So, I think that like anything else, they aren’t truly a "forever" medium.
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