So you’re transferring your music to recordable CD’s so you’ll have them forever? Better think again. A Dutch magazine tested CD’s that had been recorded less than two years ago and discovered many of them no longer play. “It is presumed that CD-Rs are good for at least 10 years. Some manufacturers even claim that their CD-Rs will last up to a century. From our tests it’s concluded however that there is a lot of junk on the market. We came across CD-Rs that should never have been released to the market. It’s completely unacceptable that CD-Rs become unusable in less than two years.”