What are you doing with your CD collection?
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How do you decided the opportune moment to go to the bar during a live gig?For me its a doddle, even my fave bands are guilty pos producing plenty of filler and when the opening keys of filler start up I know I am safe to wander to the bar knowing I am not missing out.
. rehab71 said:
Buying more! I'm 32 and I think I'm in the minority in age group. Like others have said I like to be able to look through a collection and take pleasure from selecting and playing an album, something I fear we're loosing.
Definiteley.MP3 has made us all lose sight of albums in the entirety Im sure.
Being very much of the old fogey generation, I still play vinyl and CD's. Many thanks to those of you who give your CD's to charity. mostly classical on CD and Rock/Punk/ Prog/ Blues on Vinyl. I still think ( and it is subjective) that there is no sound like music played through a powerful 80's amp, pre amp, floor standing Definitive Tech speakers in the main room and Mission 752's in the rest of the flat, especially vinyl.
katz said:
Being very much of the old fogey generation, I still play vinyl and CD's. Many thanks to those of you who give your CD's to charity. mostly classical on CD and Rock/Punk/ Prog/ Blues on Vinyl. I still think ( and it is subjective) that there is no sound like music played through a powerful 80's amp, pre amp, floor standing Definitive Tech speakers in the main room and Mission 752's in the rest of the flat, especially vinyl.
This post is the winner. Much respect. I use this http://www.dvdae.com/ on DVD's
On Pulse there is a 640K High quality mix which is fantastic
On Pulse there is a 640K High quality mix which is fantastic
I'm still listening to mine! And have them on display,probably 1500 albums and 200 singles growing all the time. I'm not especially old school either (36) and I do listen to the majority of my music on either phone and portable speaker at work or iPod in the car,but they sound rubbish. I've tried lossless etc but it it's not the same as a cd in a decent player. I like to listen to a full album on cd (and vinyl),as people are now realising with the vinyl revival there is no substitute for hard copies of stuff. The artwork is also a good reason. One of the other reasons I keep it all is that after a laptop rebuild I no longer have all of it backed up anywhere,so if I lost or damaged my iPod it would all be gone. Years of investment down the drain. As others have mentioned it's nice to look at people's collections too,back in my earlier working days which was mostly in strangers houses it was always interesting to see what people had sat on a window sill or in a cabinet in the corner. There were usually some horrors but some eye openers too,generally it would be some random old lady with a massive collection of metal or similar!
schuey said:
As others have mentioned it's nice to look at people's collections too
Since having a kid we get invited to a lot more parties at other people's houses. First thing I do is surreptitiously clock the CD collection to see if they have good taste or not! Good obviously being 'same as mine' 
PurpleTurtle said:
schuey said:
As others have mentioned it's nice to look at people's collections too
Since having a kid we get invited to a lot more parties at other people's houses. First thing I do is surreptitiously clock the CD collection to see if they have good taste or not! Good obviously being 'same as mine' 
similar thought process to me,usually results in a look of disgust and a shake of the head when I spot a Coldplay album!schuey said:
I'm still listening to mine! And have them on display,probably 1500 albums and 200 singles growing all the time. I'm not especially old school either (36) and I do listen to the majority of my music on either phone and portable speaker at work or iPod in the car,but they sound rubbish. I've tried lossless etc but it it's not the same as a cd in a decent player. I like to listen to a full album on cd (and vinyl),as people are now realising with the vinyl revival there is no substitute for hard copies of stuff. The artwork is also a good reason. One of the other reasons I keep it all is that after a laptop rebuild I no longer have all of it backed up anywhere,so if I lost or damaged my iPod it would all be gone. Years of investment down the drain. As others have mentioned it's nice to look at people's collections too,back in my earlier working days which was mostly in strangers houses it was always interesting to see what people had sat on a window sill or in a cabinet in the corner. There were usually some horrors but some eye openers too,generally it would be some random old lady with a massive collection of metal or similar!
Indeed, I have every one of my CDs and vinyl albums. I play the CDs because, to me, the sound quality is so much better than stuff downloaded from somewhere and played through a bluetooth system. occasionally I will play the vinyl and it's fun to reminisce about buying my first albums. I'm 60 now and some of my purchases were quite esoteric. Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa etc as well as more normal stuff like the Who and the Beatles. It's nice to still have, and play, my copy of Tommy or Hot Rats, reminds me of when I was 16! 
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