Who uses music CD's?
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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).