Divesting from CDs

[Perd Hapley]

For about 17,000 years now, I've been planning to rip all of my hundreds of CDs to my hard drive, but I've only ever done about 90 of them. I had always planned to keep the CDs themselves. But storing the physical media is a bit of a pain, so I'm thinking I'll just go completely digital, and back up the digital files to a second hard drive.

Will I regret doing this?

[RoadKingLarry]

Yes.

[TommyGunn]

I don't give a flip about cds ....I WANT TO KNOW YOUR SECRET FOR LONGEVITY!!

[dogmush]

Welcome to 2008.

Go digital, back up the files, don't look back.

[lupinus]

Damn dude, I was doing this when dial up was still a thing....

Get um digital. Back them up. Have fun. Heck back up to a few different thunmdrives if you want to really be secure.

Oh and buy future music digital also. Cheaper and you don't have to buy the whole album if you don't like or want all of the songs on it. I highly recommend Amazon, itunes is the devil.

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[Ben]

I highly recommend Amazon, itunes is the devil.

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One great thing about Amazon: Probably ten years ago now, I one day opened up Amazon Music and found that Amazon had taken every CD that I bought from them over the years that also later had digital rights, and put all those CDs into my Amazon digital content without me lifting a finger. 

I thought that was pretty cool. Though I had already done around 50 of them by hand only a year or so before that happened. 

I actually do still keep a CD full of MP3s in the player in each of my vehicles just in case the USB or Bluetooth craps out for any reason. Gives me about 8 hours of backup music.

[Perd Hapley]

Oh and buy future music digital also. Cheaper and you don't have to buy the whole album if you don't like or want all of the songs on it. I highly recommend Amazon, itunes is the devil.

That's exactly what has kept me from buying music digitally. If they're 99 cents per song, I'll be buying songs right and left. "Oh, it's only a dollar."

So I go to Half Price Books, and buy albums on CD for $2 each.

The other reason is that I used to drive a car with a CD player, but no aux jack or Blue Tooth.

[230RN]

I've been trying to keep  up with storage media since 360 floppies.*  Absolutely maddening.  So what happens when current digital storage becomes obsolete?



*ETA: Come to think of it, make that "since cassette cartridge storage."   Forgot about that.

Terry

[Perd Hapley]

Yes.

Relate to us your tale of woe.

[Jim147]

I made good money on CD's until November 2008. I got rid of all of them before January 1st 2009.

[freakazoid]

I still buy CDs, and vinyls. Just something about actually having the object. But I also rip them all onto my computer. I use MediaMonkey and have it linked to the Discogs.com library to pull all the album information when ripping.

[RoadKingLarry]

Relate to us your tale of woe.

No.

[K Frame]

At various times I've ripped a bunch to my phone so that I can use it as a music player, but since I've started listening to Iheart radio regularly, not so much. I wouldn't get rid of them even if I were to rip them to an all electronic format, though.

[Ben]

I still buy CDs, and vinyls. Just something about actually having the object. But I also rip them all onto my computer. I use MediaMonkey and have it linked to the Discogs.com library to pull all the album information when ripping.

I broke out a bunch of vinyl a few years ago. I've actually just been listening to most of if on the turntable, though have downloaded some older songs that I rediscovered and liked. Many of them were on Prime, so it was a free switch*. I did find some really old German vinyl that my parents had that no longer exists as physical or digital media, and used Audacity to convert them and clean up the scratches.


*I've been a bit disappointed with Prime Music. It used to be really good, but in the last year or so, I notice that Prime Music on my playlists is always disappearing on me, or switched to being available on some "album" different than the link I used to get them. I'm kinda thinking Amazon is doing crap like that to just get people to buy unlimited music subscriptions. I can foresee a time when they just ditch Prime Music.

[brimic]

What is all this talk about crossdressers?

[RoadKingLarry]

What is all this talk about crossdressers?

Something fistful wanted guidance about.

[MechAg94]

I still buy CDs, and vinyls. Just something about actually having the object. But I also rip them all onto my computer. I use MediaMonkey and have it linked to the Discogs.com library to pull all the album information when ripping.

Thanks for the steer.  I need to rip a bunch of my CD's to my computer.  For some reason Windows Media player is unstable on my computer so I need something else to rip the CD's.  

I don't plan on getting rid of my CD's.  If space becomes a premium, I figure I will get a few of those stacks that new blank CD's come in and trash the cases.  The plastic books with jackets to slide the CD's into work okay also. 

[Brad Johnson]

*I've been a bit disappointed with Prime Music. It used to be really good, but in the last year or so, I notice that Prime Music on my playlists is always disappearing on me, or switched to being available on some "album" different than the link I used to get them. I'm kinda thinking Amazon is doing crap like that to just get people to buy unlimited music subscriptions.

It's the iTunes "we understand you bought that album version for a reason but here's an album version we think is better and if you don't like it, screw you" model.

I still buy CDs, and vinyls. Just something about actually having the object. But I also rip them all onto my computer.

I do the same. I like the redundancy of physical media.

Brad