What are you doing with your CD collection?

[Gompo]

Adam B said:

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)?

Agree with you, much of the music I listen to is designed as an album and to be listened to in one go. Not easily a lot of the time but I try to, rather than pick out any favourite tracks. Admittedly most of the pop artists just have their first singles taking up the first handful of album spaces, some filler and then perhaps a cover at the end.

There's only monetry value in CDs if they're rare (and desirable..), so you might even be lucky to get 50p each for most of them - no offence! I don't intend to get rid of any of mine, some of which are valuable and some I'd struggle to give away.

[anonymous-user]

Adam B said:

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)?

I can see your point and have friends who will only listen to 1 album in full at a time, but looking back I was always waiting for the technology and models to change without realising it. I cant recall a single album where I have enjoyed every track, the usual for me is to enjoy between 1-4 tracks on a album and the rest being filler.

[Adam B]

For modern and chart albums that doesn't surprise me as they pander to modern taste and that is to listen to the 3 or 4 singles and nothing else, so why bother create anything else other than filler for the rest?

But in the past it was not so, and artists gave thought to an album being a journey and how it would flow.

In some ways I am lucky being in my 40s and entering old fart territory - I have little need for additional music in my collection, so am very selective when buying new stuff, and listen to albums the old fashioned way.

I am glad I experienced the thrill of finding new bands and trying to find their albums on trips to London - when availability wasnt guaranteed and instant.

[anonymous-user]

Adam B said:

For modern and chart albums that doesn't surprise me as they pander to modern taste and that is to listen to the 3 or 4 singles and nothing else, so why bother create anything else other than filler for the rest?

But in the past it was not so, and artists gave thought to an album being a journey and how it would flow.

Am in the same age group, and it isn't a modern phenomenon for me, ever since I have bought my first record I have been disappointed with 'the journey' being broken up with IMO filler.

I just checked one of my hard drives and my version of Dark side of the Moon only contains 4 tracks and OK computer only 3 tracks I had gone through all the albums and deleted the filler tracks.

I cant really explain it other than my ears like what they like.

[Hoofy]

Give your CDs to a local charity shop. They can sell them and make £1 per CD.

[Ste1987]

Gompo said:

Adam B said:

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)?

Agree with you, much of the music I listen to is designed as an album and to be listened to in one go. Not easily a lot of the time but I try to, rather than pick out any favourite tracks. Admittedly most of the pop artists just have their first singles taking up the first handful of album spaces, some filler and then perhaps a cover at the end.

There's only monetry value in CDs if they're rare (and desirable..), so you might even be lucky to get 50p each for most of them - no offence! I don't intend to get rid of any of mine, some of which are valuable and some I'd struggle to give away.

For me, I have so much music on my computer I find it very difficult to pick an album to listen to in full. I'm very fond of creating playlists, and I have smart playlists with songs I haven't either listened to for over 2 years, only listened to once or twice, or never at all. I'll listen to one of these on random on my commute so, if I do rediscover a particular artist, I may listen to the album that track came from (if I remember it).

[tankplanker]

I ripped all of mine to flac years ago and put the flacs on a NAS and the cds into the loft. I then sync'd what I wanted to listen to my iPods (one per car) and later phones as I had far too many albums to fit all of them onto portable storage from that era.

Last couple of years I haven't bothered with the flacs as I stream all of my music as it is much more convenient. Tidal is the same quality as flac with the top subscription and will be better quality if they go ahead with the DSD format.

I should really get round to selling all of my CDs, I'm not going to make much per disc as an average price, but I have so many it would still be worth the effort.

[Marty Funkhouser]

tankplanker said:

I ripped all of mine to flac years ago and put the flacs on a NAS and the cds into the loft. I then sync'd what I wanted to listen to my iPods (one per car) and later phones as I had far too many albums to fit all of them onto portable storage from that era.

Last couple of years I haven't bothered with the flacs as I stream all of my music as it is much more convenient. Tidal is the same quality as flac with the top subscription and will be better quality if they go ahead with the DSD format.

I should really get round to selling all of my CDs, I'm not going to make much per disc as an average price, but I have so many it would still be worth the effort.

I got £120 for 250 CD's from Music Magpie. Gave the rest to charity.

[Crackie]

I sometimes use them on a system in the dining room and, weather permitting, a garden system. There are 170 of them, with the most interesting cover artwork, on display on a delph rack bordering the lounge. The remaining 900 or so are on shelving in the lounge. These original discs only get played approx. 25 times a year.

For day to day use on the main system they are stored, using WAVs, on a 2TB Novafidelity server. They are also held as lossless WMAs on a laptop.

Edited by Crackie on Monday 22 August 23:48

[Simes205]

We've got over 1800 and still buying them! They are a feature in our lounge!
I've transferred some to hd, mainly to play one car.

[Adam B]

Marty Funkhouser said:

I got £120 for 250 CD's from Music Magpie. Gave the rest to charity.

Think I will go down this route, it's the ripping to iTunes of all the CDs not ripped that I am dreading.

Does MM take CD singles or just albums? Some CD singles I have are more sought after/valuable than albums I suspect

[tankplanker]

Marty Funkhouser said:

I got £120 for 250 CD's from Music Magpie. Gave the rest to charity.

I've got thousands so I'd expect a considerable return in that case. Some of them I'll be ebaying as they are still worth a decent amount as they are still desirable:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Metallica-RARE-box-set-M...

I sold all my old records a couple of years ago and made over a grand doing do so for the same reason.

[PurpleTurtle]

I've got about 500 in CD tower stacks in the living room, mainly as something to look at these days, I might occasionally flick through the artwork.

Like others have said, I like to see other people's music taste so by association don't mind mine being on display. If you come into my living room, the top two lines tell you I was (am) obsessed with Morrissey, The Smiths and the Madchester/Indie/Britpop genre. I've got another 2,000+ in plastic storage boxes under various beds/in the loft.

My wife hates me storing them and would happily take the lot to a charity shop. Absolutely no way. I've got so many memories tied in with where I was living/what I was doing when I bought and was listening to many of these discs, collected over more than 25 years. There's part of me that thinks that when I'm retired (20yrs time) I might get time to sit and listen to a few more than I do at the moment.

It's all a bit bizarre, because 90% of my listening is done from my iPhone, either commuting or at work, having ripped them all to my laptop and synched my favourites from that.

To bring my CD buying under control last year I subscribed to Apple Music, so now download a huge amount from that. Only if I really like an artist will I buy their CD, usually via Amazon which autorips to my laptop, sending a physical CD copy through the post, which I'll listen to in the car.

Our baby son likes playing with the CD boxes and hasn't (yet) detroyed any booklets, they seem to keep him amused for ages, he loves nothing more than strutting around carrying The Rolling Stones 'Hot Rocks' double-CD box, whilst loads of expensive toys go ignored!

[TheExcession]

PurpleTurtle said:

Our baby son likes playing with the CD boxes and hasn't (yet) detroyed any booklets, they seem to keep him amused for ages, he loves nothing more than strutting around carrying The Rolling Stones 'Hot Rocks' double-CD box, whilst loads of expensive toys go ignored!

Just like mine then. The Mid-wife whispered in my ear when Little Ex was born 'He's one of the ones that's been here before, you'll be fine with that one...'.

How right she was

[popegregory]

Does everyone else have theirs in alphabetical order...?

[Let off some steam Bennett]

I have around 1500 cds, they are not in alphabetical order but they are in genre. It would be hard to find one if they were not in some sort of order. I think i will buy cds for as long as they are around

[Adam B]

popegregory said:

Does everyone else have theirs in alphabetical order...?

Might as well ask "do you have a penis?"

[marcosgt]

Adam B said:

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.

Absolutely.

Sure lots of albums are just a number of tracks, but some are put together with real care, tracks leading into other tracks, perfect opening and closing tracks for each side of a vinyl LP (ah, them were the days ), increasing/decreasing pace of tracks, etc.

I guess the CD, and even more MPx eras killed the art of developing a great album.

Those saying "I don't like the journey being broken up by filler" are pretty much saying that the think Gone With The Wind is a great war film broken up with too much romance filler... The 'artist' had a concept for the overall product, cherry picking is all well and good, but your missing 'a' point if you don't listen to the whole album (Not that a lot of albums DON'T contain a lot of filler, though. It's interesting to see an artist or bands arc of creativity - Often early albums contain little filler, but as time progresses that increases, although now and then the opposite is true!).

In response to the original question, adding to it, CDs are so cheap these days it's how I get music if I want something I don't already have... I usually rip them to MP3 too, but my car only has a CD player (no Aux input or blueteeth), so I've always got a few in the car.

M

Edited by marcosgt on Wednesday 24th August 08:49

[PurpleTurtle]

popegregory said:

Does everyone else have theirs in alphabetical order...?

Not in alphabetical order, but all CD's by the same artist are grouped together, but the artists are not grouped alphabetically.

I like the 'knowing' of where a disc is, without having to think about it too much, but also not hainv to alphabetise it. #Nerd

[Crackie]

popegregory said:

Does everyone else have theirs in alphabetical order...?

Not any more, such a pain to re-arrange everything after getting something new. Roger Waters - Amused to Death, ZZ Top - Tres Hombres but Above and Beyond - Tri-State