I've just sold 3000 CDs - and i don't care!!

[struth]

I still play mine when in mood I like the labour of picking and playing discs just like vinyl but have to admit I use files and streams more due tbh my health

[r100]

I've been Spotify streaming for a couple of years and I've had a good CD clearout recently.
Probably about 500 gone to Oxfam charity shop, leaving me with about 2000 I guess..

Must admit I'm a bit wary of dumping the whole lot even though I don't play them now.
Not sure why but who knows what the future will bring!
I guess it's that a physical collection is not dependent on anyone else's whim.

If something goes horribly wrong (3rd WW for example), I'll pull out my guitar again.

[walpurgis]

I use CD's more than anything else, so they're certainly not worthless to me. Why should I change? I get excellent sound quality and have CD's of all the music I want.

[dave2010]

The 25gb disks are now pretty affordable and a good size for archival. If used to archive cds ripped in flac format one should get more than 50 lossless discs on a single Blu-ray M-Disc (at a media cost of less than 10p per cd).

Doesn't the archive cost drop even further if hard drives are used? You should be able to get drives which work out at around £40-£50 per Terabyte, so about 4p per Gbyte, and lossless compression should get 3 or 4 CDs per Gbyte. The downside is the "all eggs in one basket" aspect, so multiple drives would be needed to protect against data loss.

I have been wondering about selling or just getting rid of all my CDs, but so far haven't. I'm afraid I have well in excess of 3000.

One other thing, I think that ripping and then getting rid of them if they have copyright material is technically illegal - at least if they are sold on or sent to charity shops. Not sure if that applies if they go to landfill.

[Sherwood]

Doesn't the archive cost drop even further if hard drives are used? You should be able to get drives which work out at around £40-£50 per Terabyte, so about 4p per Gbyte, and lossless compression should get 3 or 4 CDs per Gbyte. The downside is the "all eggs in one basket" aspect, so multiple drives would be needed to protect against data loss.

I have been wondering about selling or just getting rid of all my CDs, but so far haven't. I'm afraid I have well in excess of 3000.

One other thing, I think that ripping and then getting rid of them if they have copyright material is technically illegal - at least if they are sold on or sent to charity shops. Not sure if that applies if they go to landfill.

Yes hard drives are much cheaper but unreliable. A hard disk will fail at some point, either partially or catastrophically. The M-Disc media is a special archival quality storage medium with a claimed 1,000 year storage life. If it survives 25 years that would be good enough for me.

Geoff

[Pete The Cat]

I find that digital doesn't inspire me to select music to play as much as record or CD. It may seem strange but I don't find that browsing, say, on Amazon makes me want to buy half as much as if I'm in a record shop. Similarly, I can stare at this screen and not feel like doing anything with all the pixellated music files, yet with shelves of record or CDs the urge to make random selections is overwhelming.

Pete

[RMutt]

I often put my Squeezebox on random song play. It can be a pleasant surprise what comes up. I can always quickly skip a song if l’m not in the mood, but it’s my music so usually it’s pretty good.

[TazSob]

Still enjoy playing CDs myself and after reading some posts on this thread think I may be a little crazy having gone out and recently buying a 200cd Sony jukebox... Only own a couple of hundred CDs and am looking to get more as they're going for pennies nowadays.
Can't seem to enjoy ripped music as much, find myself skipping tracks and albums more often than if they were on a hard copy for some odd reason.

[bobvfr]

Can't seem to enjoy ripped music as much, find myself skipping tracks and albums more often than if they were on a hard copy for some odd reason.

To me that is the biggest problem with digital formats, I really do prefer to play an album, but it is so easy to skip a track, then half way through an album something comes to mind so you jump to something else.

Unfortunately it comes down to a bit of self discipline or do as you are doing, stick to the albums on a hard format. I am trying the discipline route at the moment.

[Clive]

I agree about skipping around with files based music....it does for me in the end become less meaningful. It's too tempting to select the most instantly fun music and ignore the ups and downs of full albums. Deep and moving complex music seems to lose out. A sign of the times I suppose.

Grumpy.