Comment by Tangurena2

Only if you kept the disk in a refrigerator. Bits are stored by melting the plastic slightly and the dye seeping in. Over time, the warmth of "room temperature" will cause the pits to become less well-defined so the decoder has to spend more time calculating "well, is that really a 1 or is it a sloppy 0". There's a lot of error detection/correction built into the CD specs, but eventually, there will be more error than can be corrected for. If you've ever heard the term "annealing" when used in machine learning, this is equivalent.

Living in South Florida, ambient temperatures were enough to erase CD-Rs - typically in less than a year. I quickly started buying the much more expensive "archival" discs, but that wasn't enough. One fascinating "garage band" sold their music on CD-Rs and all of my discs died (it was a surfer band from Alabama).