Who uses music CD's?
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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?
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
Yes, since march 1988 I buy, borrow (sometimes) and listen to music CDs. Together with my wife we have more than 2500 CDs. Mostly classical from medieval, renaissance to romantic era and 20th century and modern. Some jazz-CD. And a few hundreds of pop, a big part of it is hardrock / metal. Of course we look and listen to YouTube sometimes, out of curiosity mostly. But when we are really interested, we just buy the CDs. My favourite CD-stores have passed away unfortunately. Online purchase is still possible and a very good and old pop music store (Pop Eye) is still around in Hengelo (Overijssel, Netherlands), and one of the best in the country (as far as I know). Since 2009 I have a very fine iPod Classical with more than 100 GB so I always convert my music CDs to MP3 320 bps. I can listen my music CDs on travel, on the bicycle, in the garden at home. And of course when I'm at home on my HiFi stereo (Van Medevoort equipment and self-built loudspeakers) when I like to have a really good listening-experience. I hope there will be CDs for ever, at least as long as I live.
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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!
The loudness wars[^] are one good reason to get music as used CDs. Grab your headphones and listen to the ~3 minute video where they demonstrate the difference.. then consider that the "Thriller" MP3 you purchase won't be made from the 1982 mastering of the song. :((
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
For me, it really depends on what the music is, where I am getting it, age of the album, etc. There is a ton of music out there, at least for my tastes, which was never re-released to CD - or even cassette tape - never mind online. That stuff, you can only get the physical form. Sometimes, I will download a track or album from youtube, then later buy the CD from the artist to support them. I enjoy getting the liner notes, the physical media, and the knowledge that if for some reason google play or whatnot goes away (never say never - I've seen tons of companies just disappear that had been around for over 100 years - remember Montgomery Wards?), I still have the data. My favorite way, though, to get music, is via Amazon - in more than one case, I can grab the CD, and also get a digital DRM-free MP3 download of the album, and also listen to it on their cloud music service. Not all titles are available this way, but many are. I also like buying and getting music off bandcamp - 100% digital, but I always try to get the data - then that gets backed up to my fileserver and a separate external drive. I always try to support the artists there, but I also love it when they give out freebies and name-your-price. If I can afford it, I pay - if not, then I try to make it up later. There's been times when I purchased the digital and the physical album from them (one time, I got floppies of the MP3s! That was a promo). I like the fact, also, that the MP3 files come as a ZIP, sometimes with extras inside (and always a graphic "cover" image - great for many purposes). Bandcamp also allows you to re-download the files if you want a higher-res (audio-wise) of the file (lossless FLAC, etc) - but I don't have the space (or really, given my age, the ears) to bother with that, so a standard MP3 at 320VB or whatever is perfectly fine for me. But I also like browsing old CDs and LPs at Goodwill and resale music stores - there's tons of great stuff there to be found. Sometimes the CDs will be scratched, but if it is in really bad shape, a run through my CD polisher device will fix most anything. For the records, I have a turntable that can play and dump an MP3 via USB. Ultimately, all of my music ends up as a digital file in some manner - but I do like physical media. I even have a few stereo tape reels from my father (RIP) who collected such back in the 60s; unfortunately, I don't have a player that works to play them (though I do have his old player - but it needs to be fixed).
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Do you buy the to convert to MPS or just buy the MP3 or WAV or ogg version?
For me, it really depends on what the music is, where I am getting it, age of the album, etc. There is a ton of music out there, at least for my tastes, which was never re-released to CD - or even cassette tape - never mind online. That stuff, you can only get the physical form. Sometimes, I will download a track or album from youtube, then later buy the CD from the artist to support them. I enjoy getting the liner notes, the physical media, and the knowledge that if for some reason google play or whatnot goes away (never say never - I've seen tons of companies just disappear that had been around for over 100 years - remember Montgomery Wards?), I still have the data. My favorite way, though, to get music, is via Amazon - in more than one case, I can grab the CD, and also get a digital DRM-free MP3 download of the album, and also listen to it on their cloud music service. Not all titles are available this way, but many are. I also like buying and getting music off bandcamp - 100% digital, but I always try to get the data - then that gets backed up to my fileserver and a separate external drive. I always try to support the artists there, but I also love it when they give out freebies and name-your-price. If I can afford it, I pay - if not, then I try to make it up later. There's been times when I purchased the digital and the physical album from them (one time, I got floppies of the MP3s! That was a promo). I like the fact, also, that the MP3 files come as a ZIP, sometimes with extras inside (and always a graphic "cover" image - great for many purposes). Bandcamp also allows you to re-download the files if you want a higher-res (audio-wise) of the file (lossless FLAC, etc) - but I don't have the space (or really, given my age, the ears) to bother with that, so a standard MP3 at 320VB or whatever is perfectly fine for me. But I also like browsing old CDs and LPs at Goodwill and resale music stores - there's tons of great stuff there to be found. Sometimes the CDs will be scratched, but if it is in really bad shape, a run through my CD polisher device will fix most anything. For the records, I have a turntable that can play and dump an MP3 via USB. Ultimately, all of my music ends up as a digital file in some manner - but I do like physical media. I even have a few stereo tape reels from my father (RIP) who collected such back in the 60s; unfortunately, I don't have a player that works to play them (though I do have his old player - but it needs to be fixed).