Who uses music CD's?
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I am slowly coming round, but second hand cd's are cheaper than mp3's so I am split on buying 2nd hand and converting or straight digital!
Out of curiosity, where're you buying from/what are you buying? Other than filling in a few holes in collection of music from when I was a teen on Amazon I've generally found used CDs+shipping ending up around or above the mp3 album price (and I've had enough hassles with cheap scratched CDs in prior years that ripping to save a single dollar or so was more hassle than it was worth). Until a few years ago I was buying a fair amount of European metal via CD; but only because they were charging crazy/silly prices for the mp3s.
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Out of curiosity, where're you buying from/what are you buying? Other than filling in a few holes in collection of music from when I was a teen on Amazon I've generally found used CDs+shipping ending up around or above the mp3 album price (and I've had enough hassles with cheap scratched CDs in prior years that ripping to save a single dollar or so was more hassle than it was worth). Until a few years ago I was buying a fair amount of European metal via CD; but only because they were charging crazy/silly prices for the mp3s.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
I am a recent convert to MP3, so I use either apple google or amazon to buy them but generally Amazon. I feel i get a better deal on second hand cd's as i can get a copy of an older CD for $5 and that is half the cost of an mp3! I generally buy alternative rock or big beat trip hop electronic music. the reason for my question is I just got the new Radiohead Album and I will not buy the CD, as i have a digital copy and I only listen to music on my IPOD or phone! I pose the question to see how others get their music!!
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
I buy all my music on CD or equivalent quality, then rip them to 10" vinyl disks for proper playback. MP3s are for the deaf.
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I buy all my music on CD or equivalent quality, then rip them to 10" vinyl disks for proper playback. MP3s are for the deaf.
Will Rogers never met me.
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rip them to 10" vinyl disks
From where do you buy your blank vinyl disks? :laugh:
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
I do. I always keep a physical, original copy of the good albums I come across. Usually if I buy only the electronic version is because I like the band but not THAT much, so I want to save some good hard-earned money. Also for videogames - I have at least 3 versions of The Elder Scrolls - Oblivion, all original.
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I can rip my own MP3s, thank you very much. If I insisted on MP3s only, I could get them already from any number of sources. So, to this day I still insist on buying physical media. Then I rip them myself. Most of the CDs I own have been in a player exactly once. Call me old school, but if I spent money on goods without getting something physical in return, I feel like I'm essentially throwing money away.
You're old school. So am I :thumbsup:
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
My car has a CD player, so yes, I use them. It would be a waste not to make use of my CD collection. Otherwise I just have a big collection of expensive coasters.
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
I buy them and then convert them to MP3 for mobile devices and also convert to wav/ogg for my computer. I also like having the little booklets and the artwork - which is why I mainly buy music CD's. If there is a DVD along the CD, even better. Steven Wilson and Opeth have been doing a bit of an interesting thing with their last few albums - make a 5.1 mix, which is also something I like to listen to. But can't do that on my portable devices.
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I buy CD's in order to have guaranteed, unequivocal access to the music I purchase. I rip to MP3's and load those to my various devices. On occasion I've purchased MP3's online, but then backed them up to optical media.
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I do. I like liner notes, graphics, list of musicians, song writers. It's something tangible that I can hold in my hand, kinda like a vinyl record (got plenty of those too).
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Same here, but I only listen to them on the car. Once I get a new CD it is immediately ripped to FLAC and MP3.
Regards, João Paulo Figueira
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
I buy CDs and rip in Windows Media Player using the Windows lossless format. I still enjoy the album art and liner notes. I was happy to find my new vehicle accepts a 64GB flash drive and have 3000+ songs on it. Also has a SD slot with 32 GB where I keep favorite custom song mixes. Sure beats the old days of ripping vinyl onto cassette for custom mixes or swapping out CDs. The music interface in the vehicle is buggy with a lame design though. I'd like to smack the crap out of whoever built it.
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
I have a very huge CD collection, grown from ca. 1990 to 2010 - ca. 4,000CDs with ca. 60,000 tracks. I didn't buy MP3s for a long time, because there have been too many objections against or objections by the sellers making it difficult to "use" them on several devices with a good degree of "freedom", downloading (and burning them eventually). Since 2010 I bought a lot of MP3s, because: 1. Amazon allowed me to download and use them on any device I want 2. I have not enough space left in my flat to keep collection CDs. ;) Currently I only buy CDs from artists I still want to collect physically! But mostly I buy MP3s at Amazon and download them onto my NAS. Why I don't stream from a service (e.g. Amazon)? Because I do not see a reason to "pollute" the network with streamed audio data, if I can download once and listen n times, without the need to stream again, narrowing the bandwidth unnecessarily. Currently I see an effect like in the 1980-1990 with using electricity. We needed more and more and no one really seemed to care what this would cost! Today everybody streams this or that and our network needs to grow enormously in magnitudes, that I doubt, that it is really "good"! At home I mostly play CDs - scrobble them via a web application to Last.FM. I still like this haptic thing of searching for a CD, taking, opening it and putting the CD into the tray. Very often I listen to streamed audio - mostly newer music - from my NAS, which also contains all my CDs ripped to MP3 files. And all this audio streams get scrobbled too, but primarily to Libre.FM, which pushes to Last.FM. During travels/journeys, I listen to music stored onto my devices and do not listen to any streamed any audio. When do I buy MP3 albums?` Only if it is cheap enough to be worth bought. If the price is not higher than the price of the CD! If I won't buy the CD, the MP3 album needs to be much cheaper. While I still buy often second-hand/used CDs, if I collect the releasing artist. I often only pay 5 to 7EUR for a MP3 album or wait until it gets cheap enough!
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No CD's, DVD's, or Blueray's in my home. My entire collection is on a SAN and streamed by Plex Media Server. For music, I choose FLAC as the format as it is lossless. MP3 is unacceptable for me when using good headphones. I do not buy "mp3" versions because the quality / bitrate is complete crap and un-listenable. The other benefit of Plex is that anyone in the household can listen or watch anything in the collection, on a multitude of devices, any time they want. Kids can even listen to music while on sleep-overs at another house, via VPN into the Plex server. Took me years to encode all the media, though. Short answer: FLAC.
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Been a long time. Never had much of a CD collection Back in the day had vinyl.
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
I use a streaming service. For the amount I would spend on cd's or mp3s, I think its the cheapest alternative. I still have hundreds of cds and lps from decades ago and I'm not sure if I'll ever bother to convert them.
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I buy CD's at garage sales or thrift stores for $1.00. I get an entire CD for less than one online song, then rip them to FLAC or MP3 for use on my home media server. then I can stream, or copy to any device.
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
The only CDs we buy anymore are when we hear an acoustic group live, and they're selling CD's to raise money. I ripped all my classical CDs to flacs after finding several going bad due to bronzing. I play them with quodlibet- that gives me the opportunity to differentiate between composer & performer. In the car, I listen to mp3 audiobooks I copy to a usb stick. My wife would rather turn on the amp and CD player than use the computer. I picked up a used player that holds 100 CDs for a few bucks, so she can use that. I'll have to swap out the discs when she gets tired of them.
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
I buy them, I've been collecting CDs pretty much since they began. Nothing else offers the same level of clarity and dynamic range. I can't stand listening to MP3s, I've spent my life listening to CDs on hi-fi stereos and it makes me sad that the kids today have no idea how good music can really sound. I still listen to the actual CDs at times, but these days I rip them to a lossless format and play them from a media server with my receiver. But I still want the physical CDs in any case, they are the backups of my digital music collection. I have CDs going back to the mid '80s that still play perfectly, and some of them are now out of print and unavailable as a digital download.
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?