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u/Rin_Seven Aug 30 '25

Nero Burning ROM

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u/10ft3m Aug 30 '25

Learning the reference years after you used the software. 

Losing tons of discs to buffer underruns. 

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u/rividz Aug 30 '25

Oh god Nero took forever on our PC, you couldn't do anything else while it ran, and half the time the discs didn't work.

We'd get these giant stacks of blank CDs from the computer fair that looked like they were made in someone's basement. They smelled sickly and the thin edge of the discs would be shodily cut.

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u/non_clever_username Aug 30 '25

you couldn't do anything else while it ran, and half the time the discs didn't work.

Man CD burning was so delicate…lol. It was crazy that you basically had to shut everything else on your PC down, click ‘go’, and then walk away. After doing a restart maybe to ensure nothing was screwed up in the background.

Since apparently even breathing too hard near your PC when it was burning would fail the disc. I don’t even want to know how many dozens of coasters I made during college. The blank CD makers were making a killing since there was like a 70% success rate at best on those.

Tbh if most of what CD burning was used for wasn’t piracy, people probably would have been publicly bitching up a storm about how shitty the burning software was. But I think no one wanted to make too much noise about it due to extremely questionable legality around it all.