What are you doing with your CD collection?

[Puggit]

Ripped them all to MP4. Left CDs in loft despite selling DVDs to Music Magpie.

Which was fortuante because Mrs Puggit pulled the power from our NAS without shutting down and killed it.

[Hoofy]

Oh, I forgot to mention, I've started buying CDs again (mainly from charity shops)!

[droopsnoot]

Currently scanning down spines and compilation albums looking for band and artist names that might fit into the cunningly difficult quiz / pointless social experiment of some kind (delete as applicable) that is discussed here: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Lucas CAV]

Hoofy said:

Oh, I forgot to mention, I've started buying CDs again (mainly from charity shops)!

This.

[Alex_225]

I'm a total collector of CDs, have been since I was a teenager and have almost a thousand in total.

Admittedly I do tend to rip them to my Mac and use them digitally but I will stick with buying 'proper' albums as I like the art work and actually owning the music.

[essayer]

Almost all went to Music Magpie apart from a few favourites.

[Patch1875]

essayer said:

Almost all went to Music Magpie apart from a few favourites.

All mines went to them for buttons, put them on a NAS first but never used it due to Spotify and Sonos.

[sjg]

Ripped them all about 10 years ago.

Lived in my parents loft for a while until they got sick of seeing them so my dad picked through for stuff he wanted and the rest went to a local secondhand record shop for not a lot (which went to charity).

Before the last move I did the same with all the DVDs, saved bringing several boxes with us. Blu-Rays next.

[essayer]

Patch1875 said:

All mines went to them for buttons, put them on a NAS first but never used it due to Spotify and Sonos.

Of course I deleted all digital copies after selling the CDs.

Just checked my receipt from them .. 141 CDs and PS2 games .. totalling £80

The one good thing is that some classic compilation CDs not on Spotify etc are a few quid on eBay.

[anonymous-user]

I gave the 800 CDS to a mate who does car boot sales after they cluttered my loft up for years and flogged off my audiophile separates

Was pointless having them after the iPod changed my listening habits, I never listen to a full album any more, the ripped files don't get used any more and now I just use Deezer and Sonos.

The way I listen to music has been really affected by disruptive technology.

[Tom_C76]

Vandenberg said:

I gave the 800 CDS to a mate who does car boot sales after they cluttered my loft up for years and flogged off my audiophile separates

Was pointless having them after the iPod changed my listening habits, I never listen to a full album any more, the ripped files don't get used any more and now I just use Deezer and Sonos.

The way I listen to music has been really affected by disruptive technology.

This is why everyone needs a turntable and nice 12" LPs. It makes you listen to music rather than hearing it in the background.

[toon10]

I still use mine. I have Spotify Premium for the Zeppelin dock in the lounge and listening on my phone, masses of CD's and Vinyl which go through my hi-fi setup in the family room and a hard disk full of MP3's for copying to thumbnail USB to run in the car. Always room in my life for music of any format as long as I can play it. I listened to a record last night, been on Spotify today and will no doubt stick a CD on later when having dinner. The only collection I got rid of was my tapes as they sound awful and I'd have to drag an old hi-fi system out the garage to play them.

Edited to add, I also have a collection of iTunes stuff but I tend not to use now I'm on Spotify.

[Some Gump]

Still in regular use. I'm sure that proper hifi quality digital exists now, but I don't have it, and don't have the botherance to find it.

CD is easy, jjst put in and play. MP3 has always been a bit of a ball ache, e.g my windows media rips of cd's always plays mixes out of track order. Drives me insane. Otherwise you search by album, but then they're all spelled differently depending on source - you you get 1/2 an album each time. Search by artist? They class "x feat y" as different to "x".

As mentioned, sure it's got better since 5-7 years ago. Thing is I'm not looking for easy but lower quality - the quality aspect is more important to me than the ease (given it takes about a minute to go to the shelf, get a CD and play it).


In other news, if any PHer is finished with their music collections and have all the CD's I lost in a car fire years ago, I'll happily buy em!

[offspring86]

Adding to mine still, although I never play them. I instantly rip them to my computer then put them into storage. There's something nice about having a physical copy. Once I'm in a place large enough they'll be put on the shelves and used regularly.

[anonymous-user]

Tom_C76 said:

This is why everyone needs a turntable and nice 12" LPs. It makes you listen to music rather than hearing it in the background.

Thanks but no thanks, it doesn't fit my listening needs anymore.

The pink triangle and 2 x technics decks went to a mates kid who wanted to learn how to DJ and my records went to the charity shop bar for a mint copy of Babylon by Bus live album.

[entropy]

Still adding to mine though storage is becoming a bit of a hassle now.

I hardly bother with charity shops as I never find anything that tickles my fancy. Pretty much buy from the internet but try to support a good record shop if I can find one. I love it when I find stuff incorrectly priced on Ebay!

[Johnnytheboy]

Having stopped listening to them regularly when I copied all the good tracks to my pc a few years ago, I'm now revisiting them and am surprised by what I now like that I didn't previously think worth copying.

Even at 43 my taste is evolving.

[irocfan]

entropy said:

Still adding to mine though storage is becoming a bit of a hassle now.

I hardly bother with charity shops as I never find anything that tickles my fancy. Pretty much buy from the internet but try to support a good record shop if I can find one. I love it when I find stuff incorrectly priced on Ebay!

Problem with charity shop stuff is it tends to be music I don't like (dancey stuff/now whatever/pop stuff) very little rock, classic or otherwise

[King Herald]

Fort Jefferson said:

Ours are with all the LP's and singles in the loft.

Yes, I have 70+ LP in the loft at my dads house. The 100 CD's I have are in a few CD books, untouched for years, somewhere in our own loft.

There was a time, years ago, when I had music on all the time, everywhere, in the car, at work, in the house, but now I simply flip the radio on in the garage or car, listen to whatever spews out, and that is it.

[Adam B]

Vandenberg said:

. I never listen to a full album any more, the ripped files don't get used any more and now I just use Deezer and Sonos.

Whilst I am sure you don't give a stuff, it's a crying shame to me that (young) people don't listen to full albums these days. Part of the instant gratification culture I guess.

Have a thousand or so CDs boxed up. Really need to rip them and sell them, presume music magpie will give me something offensive like 50p each (decent rock indie and alternative)?