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Anyone sell their CD player and CDs???

petes'picks said:
I have been building a music collection for 40 years so I am not going to pay anyone a monthly fee to rent music. I havent had cable TV in 25 years saving over $25k over that time compared to the average person paying over $100 a month for cable. Besides that, 90% of the hard copies of music I have purchased could easily be sold for what I paid for them. Try to get something back from a streaming service or passing down your streaming service to your friends and family.
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Fwiw, I actually regard the price of admission to Qobuz to be a bargain. If I have something on CD, haven’t yet ripped it but want to listen to it, and don’t feel like searching through the stacks, I can inevitably find it on Qobuz along with several CDs that I didn’t even know existed. The world’s largest music library is at your fingertips for $10/month? I’ll certainly keep my library, but it’s worth the $10/month to me just to have access to a library 1000 or more times the size of my own, but like the public library, there’s going to be a whole lot of cr@p that you’ll never listen to. True, such is also the case with cable TV, but Qobuz is a whole lot cheaper. I’ll sometimes spend whole evenings searching out favorite artists and discovering works by them that I didn’t even know existed. All at $10 a month? I said “Sign me up!” after the free trial, and don’t regret it a bit.
 
There is no wrong or right way to listen to music. I would pay the $10/month if I didnt already have a extensive music collection. I also like listening to FM (nice jazz station, college station for newer music and one station that changes genres every 2 hours) and that is still FREE as is listening for free on youtube..
 
Not really. Every once in a while I hear some interesting stuff on that college station then go listen to other tracks on the LP and mostly all the effort goes into the song getting airplay and the rest of the tracks are pretty meh.
 
spark1 said:
How is network-based music an illusion?
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The illusion is that the content is yours.
It can be erased or repriced with a single corporate decision.

Maybe you don't remember all the photo sites that were the rage some time ago.

I'm not sure how to "save" my 'likes' list from Amazon HD. Maybe just pay to download & save locally.
In less than 6 months there's already been a price increase. I won't stick around for too many of those.
 
Bob in WI said:
The illusion is that the content is yours.
It can be erased or repriced with a single corporate decision.

Maybe you don't remember all the photo sites that were the rage some time ago.

I'm not sure how to "save" my 'likes' list from Amazon HD. Maybe just pay to download & save locally.
In less than 6 months there's already been a price increase. I won't stick around for too many of those.
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There is no illusion that the music belongs to the subscriber. There is no such representation made by any of the music services.

I guess the service could erase all of their content, but it's hard to imagine why they would do so.

As for price increases; sure, within the constraints of the market. Unlike cable TV, music services are not a monopoly. Amazon HD is still the price leader after their recent increase.

I can certainly see that for folks with little interest in new (or new to them) music, streaming services might be of less value.

I still pick up CDs at the occasional garage sale or thrift store stop, and I still buy quite a few specific titles that become favorites after discovering them via streaming. I rip everything and use a Bluesound Node in my main system to access my large locally-stored collection as well as to access Amazon HD and Qobuz. But I do keep the discs, even tho I have no real reason to do so.

And I do still have several nice CD players, but they don't get a lot of work.

EDIT - I am somewhat familiar with cloud storage services for both photos and other data, but don't understand their relevance to this discussion?
 
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I love CDs. I went from Cassette direct to CD with a light touch on LPs at that time. Never sold the LPs I had then, but my CD collection wasn't growing much, because it was quite expensive to buy a CD in the CD heyday- late 80's/early 90's.

Fast forward to today, and I get a pile of CDs for less than half the price of one new one back in the day. (and that is NOT corrected for inflation!!) There are a few thrift stores around where I work, and the closest one is half price on Wednesdays! I have the bulk of my CD collection on Discogs (about 900 catalogued), which helps reduce the doubles (and triples!) I was ending up with... Generally 1-2 dollars a copy, and you can accurately "visual" grade a CD; whereas an LP might look great and sound like tire chains on a gravel road. I got a very early college self-produced piano trio, and I looked up the player, who is now rather famous... Turns out he made the CD in college! You can afford to take a chance on something obscure, when it's a buck, and not 15 bucks.

But, due to the extreme convenience of CD, I find myself listening to and collecting LPs instead. It is much more complicated to remove the record, clean it, clean the stylus, cue it up, listen, pack it away and open the next one.
 
j!m said:
But, due to the extreme convenience of CD, I find myself listening to and collecting LPs instead. It is much more complicated to remove the record, clean it, clean the stylus, cue it up, listen, pack it away and open the next one.
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Curious. So the allure of music listening for you is the lengthy ritual involved?

While I maintain a vinyl collection, you would most likely NOT appreciate being able to instantly play any album or track in the digital library (from 44/16 to 192/24) from a music server.

Just too darn convenient to enjoy anything. ;)
 
I want to instantly call up anything in the recorded musical universe via voice command like Captain Picard does in his cabin.

Rendition via massless and invisible virtual line arrays capable of concert dynamic range when called for. :)
 
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Direct synaptic access is faster. You don’t need to know the name of the song- just a melody, lyric etc and the connection is made.

Tgen suggestions are played based on how you feel about the previous dong, cross checked against previous platings and your response.

Never again have a song “in your head” because after that plays, specific selections will play to purge it from your consciousness.

Speaking song names out loud?!? That’s so 21st century!
 
2FarGone said:
Fwiw, I actually regard the price of admission to Qobuz to be a bargain. If I have something on CD, haven’t yet ripped it but want to listen to it, and don’t feel like searching through the stacks, I can inevitably find it on Qobuz along with several CDs that I didn’t even know existed. The world’s largest music library is at your fingertips for $10/month? I’ll certainly keep my library, but it’s worth the $10/month to me just to have access to a library 1000 or more times the size of my own, but like the public library, there’s going to be a whole lot of cr@p that you’ll never listen to. True, such is also the case with cable TV, but Qobuz is a whole lot cheaper. I’ll sometimes spend whole evenings searching out favorite artists and discovering works by them that I didn’t even know existed. All at $10 a month? I said “Sign me up!” after the free trial, and don’t regret it a bit.
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mp3 streams on kodi . totally free and i have yet to search for a cd,song or artist and not find it. i prefer to stream my own library which is mostly flac on my server, and i listen to pandora alot(which is commercial free on kodi for no charge) when i want variety, but mp3 streams is fun when i have company over and i say "name a song" and i have their request playing in not much more time than it takes me to type it in.
 
I stream Amazon. Very nice features. Many videos on the tv. Lyrics on the tv. Music sounds good.

I also ripped all my CDs to a hard drive. That has been plugged with a USB cord into my router. I can access all my music with the same Amazon fire cube that I stream their music with. This system sounds good to me. Its cheap. Its not complicated so the wife can use it. No storage issues. No cabinets or shelves full of media. She loves that.

Listen to the music anyway you want to. That is what we all have in common. The love of music. Technology has given us more choices. I remember lugging a huge case of 8 tracks to my car. Now it's one thumb drive that doesn't care about the heat or cold. Technology can be a real cool thing.
 
I have been buying CD's online and at thrift shops/garage sales. Prices from $9 for a rare one to 25 cents for stuff dug from a hodgepodge at a junk store. I always rip a new CD to two different computers. But I enjoy the ritual of selecting a physical CD and playing it, in order, the songs I love mixed with some that I do not care much about. I try not to multitask, I sit and drink a glass of wine and listen. I prefer CDs that mimic LP's issued during the artist's life - there are like 5 million Glenn Miller and Bennie Goodman compilation CD's but I want to know that the artist had at least some control of what was on the original release.
 
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