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I still like having CD's of local bands. You never know when they'll come or go online, and it's a nice momento to have from "a place and time". As a musician

I still like having CD's of local bands. You never know when they'll come or go online, and it's a nice momento to have from "a place and time". As a musician myself, I just last night recorded on cassette using a 1970's Magnavox personal recorder I have. I do modern recording techniques too, but for B sides or just a novelty, it is so nice to just press a button and record. No DAW, interfaces, amps. Just a cheap mic in a 1/8" port, play until you run out of tape.

INTPenis 6y ago
Good idea. I "woke up" after 10 years of streaming servies and realized that all my favorite artists are out of print and I've just payed X amount of monies during the last 10 years to own absolutely nothing. 2020 has been my year of buying up music I grew up with. So far this year alone I have a whole shelf of CDs that I OWN and I've only payed about half of what I did to stream music I don't own for 10 years. Unfortunatley some albums cost 140 dollars and up to 300 dollars for me to import, because they're so hard to find. In some cases it's actually easier to find the vinyl print than the CD, in good condition or new. Makes me wanna get a record player.
- qz2 6y ago
  When my wife and myself got together approximately 20 years ago we had a combined CD collection of about 1200 CDs with a ton of overlaps. Eventually the iPod came along and we ripped them all, kept the CDs for a couple of years but eventually sold them on ebay laboriously. This was augmented with various things from mp3 sellers such as 7digital etc. Then along came Apple Music and the convenience lead to the realisation that dragging this huge chunk of data around as unnecessary. One day naively, we had a discussion and then deleted the whole collection as we hadn't touched it for about a year. In January this year, one of my favourite tracks disappeared from Apple Music, I assume to a licensing dispute. Regret is a terrible thing. I haven't worked out where to go yet but streaming services are not the answer.
  - girvo 6y ago
    Apple Music constantly removes my tracks despite my paying for and uploading through the Match service. Frustrating as all hell.
tkgally 6y ago
I started buying CDs around 1986 and ended up with maybe two thousand in all. In the early 2000s, I converted most of them to mp3. Since then, I have been listening to those mp3s as well as to online radio and streaming services. A few days ago, I decided I wanted to listen to some thirty-year-old CDs that I hadn't ripped, so I got them out of the cupboard and started converting them to mp3. Most are converting without any problem, but about twenty percent are unplayable because the plastic in the CD has decayed. The decay occurred most often in CDs that had foam liners in the package; the foam seems to have caused some kind of chemical disintegration in the CD itself. Most of the unconvertible CDs I've found so far have been classical music from major labels, and I've been able to buy and download digital versions from prestomusic.com. CDs made by indie bands years ago are less likely to be available online. If you want to keep not only the physical CD but the music as well, you might want to rip them sooner rather than later.
- fuball63 6y ago
  Interesting, I have been meaning to rip more of them to set up a media server, so this information is just another extra nudge to do so.

INTPenis 6y ago

Good idea. I "woke up" after 10 years of streaming servies and realized that all my favorite artists are out of print and I've just payed X amount of monies during the last 10 years to own absolutely nothing. 2020 has been my year of buying up music I grew up with. So far this year alone I have a whole shelf of CDs that I OWN and I've only payed about half of what I did to stream music I don't own for 10 years. Unfortunatley some albums cost 140 dollars and up to 300 dollars for me to import, because they're so hard to find. In some cases it's actually easier to find the vinyl print than the CD, in good condition or new. Makes me wanna get a record player.

qz2 6y ago
When my wife and myself got together approximately 20 years ago we had a combined CD collection of about 1200 CDs with a ton of overlaps. Eventually the iPod came along and we ripped them all, kept the CDs for a couple of years but eventually sold them on ebay laboriously. This was augmented with various things from mp3 sellers such as 7digital etc. Then along came Apple Music and the convenience lead to the realisation that dragging this huge chunk of data around as unnecessary. One day naively, we had a discussion and then deleted the whole collection as we hadn't touched it for about a year. In January this year, one of my favourite tracks disappeared from Apple Music, I assume to a licensing dispute. Regret is a terrible thing. I haven't worked out where to go yet but streaming services are not the answer.
- girvo 6y ago
  Apple Music constantly removes my tracks despite my paying for and uploading through the Match service. Frustrating as all hell.

tkgally 6y ago

I started buying CDs around 1986 and ended up with maybe two thousand in all. In the early 2000s, I converted most of them to mp3. Since then, I have been listening to those mp3s as well as to online radio and streaming services. A few days ago, I decided I wanted to listen to some thirty-year-old CDs that I hadn't ripped, so I got them out of the cupboard and started converting them to mp3. Most are converting without any problem, but about twenty percent are unplayable because the plastic in the CD has decayed. The decay occurred most often in CDs that had foam liners in the package; the foam seems to have caused some kind of chemical disintegration in the CD itself. Most of the unconvertible CDs I've found so far have been classical music from major labels, and I've been able to buy and download digital versions from prestomusic.com. CDs made by indie bands years ago are less likely to be available online. If you want to keep not only the physical CD but the music as well, you might want to rip them sooner rather than later.

fuball63 6y ago
Interesting, I have been meaning to rip more of them to set up a media server, so this information is just another extra nudge to do so.