Late Boomer
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I don't need to know these people to verify their recommendations in a matter of seconds or minutes - I am on the Internet. They can as well be bots, I am not inviting them for drinks.
Why are CDs the current hot topic?
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bolero
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I am living that dream now and loving every minute of it. Huge catalog of milluons at my finger tips. I have no need to own all of the 10k's of albums in my streaming service library. I do own the physical copies on vinyls, and a few CDs, that I choose to "own"
That's a good point. If I have to downsize I can see that being attractive. I have most everything ripped in FLAC too. Hard drives are cheap with high capacity.
My beef with streaming is the artists get paid .000000001c of the money. So I try to buy music from bandcamp or sites where they get a decent % cut
Mart Mccall
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No. I mean firstly you had to earn money to buy it. Second you had to travel to get it, unless you had a record shop close to your house.
Since money was scarce buying an LP was a big deal so if you bought one, even if you weren't that keen initially, you'd stick with it. Some records are growers and don't grab you first time but eventually you come to love them. If you can just move on instantly to the next thing then how would you ever discover those records?
How you discovered music in those days is a different matter - there were a lot more radio stations then, and many stations had late night programmes where old or obscure music was played. As teenagers in the '80s there were not only the contemporary bands but also almost 20 years of older material to discover. A lot of that we found via recommendations from older people, not from the radio.
I'm not really arguing against streaming and having instant access to almost everything, just saying that I think that is both a good and a bad thing.
The less effort and time you have to expend to obtain something, the less magical it feels, and the more fleeting your satisfaction is. This is as true for music as it is for everything else in life.
This to me is very untrue, the context of how and when I find out about a new piece of music decides the magic.
That magical moment usually stays with me and is partially revisited when listening to the music again or recreating the moment it happened.
Obtaining the music on a 'better' or different medium has nothing to do with the degree of magicthat the music holds.
I respect and agree on your statement in many other cases in life!
Time to play some music now.
Cheers
I do not have that beef, nor feel sorry for them, they or someone that represents them signed "the deal"
And I know working musicians that streaming has helped out a lot. From the reporting on the "issue" those who have already "made their millions" seen to be the ones complaining the most.
"Starving artist" is a saying from a reason. This is the path "you" chose, "you" might be scarping by because of it
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Late Boomer
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You can play a whole album from a streaming service and record it live old-school style.
Or you can just download.
There is more choice now. Clearly, this choice can be taken away any moment, which is why I am downloading/saving anything I feel re-listening / re-watching / re-reading onto my own media.
Even if legit streaming went away, I would bet my whole CD and tape collection can be downloaded from other sources in an afternoon.
bergun
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I tried the streaming bit for away, but old habits are hard to break… I still prefer a physical copy of my music, both CDs and vinyl LPs. I’m in my 60s and I even own a Rose Audio network streamer since I still like to check out new and different music.
Personally, I’m happy that CDs are making a slow comeback since this will help keep mom & pop record stores open through foot traffic. Also, if we’re looking at cycles, it seems that teens/young adults from the 1990s are driving this interest in CDs since thats, what they remember from their youth.
Me, as a teen, that got into music in the late 1970s and as a young adult throughout the 1980s I have a strong interest in both vinyl and CDs since that’s what I grew up with and helps me in maintaining my interest and love for music, especially from that period of time. The only downside of owning physical media… Especially collections that have been built over four or more decades is a pain since the space it takes up is beyond crazy. Because of this, I’ve been “sleeving“ most of my DVDs/Blu Rays and CDs to save space since I was drowning in physical media, which started to cause me to start disliking my collections since they became a problem, not a pleasure.
Being in my early/mid 60s and considering making ONE more move… Moving any good sized physical media collection is a MASSIVE pain, both in packing and unpacking.
the other aspect of actually owning physical media, like CDs is the level of security it provides. I still friends with my ex-wife and she had our kid save all her music and ”books” onto hard drives, but I don’t know what she did or how it happened, but the nard drive that contained all of her music crashed. Apparently after uploading her entire collection, she sold it off. This happened a few years ago and she didn’t back anything up on the clouds either. Last Christmas, I bought her a few of her favorite CDs and told her that if she uploads them onto another hard drive, she needs to keep the hard copy and “sleeve them“ at some point
Personally, I’m happy that CDs are making a slow comeback since this will help keep mom & pop record stores open through foot traffic. Also, if we’re looking at cycles, it seems that teens/young adults from the 1990s are driving this interest in CDs since thats, what they remember from their youth.
Me, as a teen, that got into music in the late 1970s and as a young adult throughout the 1980s I have a strong interest in both vinyl and CDs since that’s what I grew up with and helps me in maintaining my interest and love for music, especially from that period of time. The only downside of owning physical media… Especially collections that have been built over four or more decades is a pain since the space it takes up is beyond crazy. Because of this, I’ve been “sleeving“ most of my DVDs/Blu Rays and CDs to save space since I was drowning in physical media, which started to cause me to start disliking my collections since they became a problem, not a pleasure.
Being in my early/mid 60s and considering making ONE more move… Moving any good sized physical media collection is a MASSIVE pain, both in packing and unpacking.
the other aspect of actually owning physical media, like CDs is the level of security it provides. I still friends with my ex-wife and she had our kid save all her music and ”books” onto hard drives, but I don’t know what she did or how it happened, but the nard drive that contained all of her music crashed. Apparently after uploading her entire collection, she sold it off. This happened a few years ago and she didn’t back anything up on the clouds either. Last Christmas, I bought her a few of her favorite CDs and told her that if she uploads them onto another hard drive, she needs to keep the hard copy and “sleeve them“ at some point
I find that keeping the physical media (LP's, cassettes and CD's) help to keep the "collection" down to a manageable size. LP's: 216, CD's 129, Cassettes: 120.
The Lp's fit on one shelf, the cassettes in three organizers and the CD jewel cases in two single CD towers:
The Cd's themselves live in a 200 CD player and I keep an excel sheet with what position number each is in. LP's are alphabetical (except the RUSH LP's I keep in a wall display) and also in a spread sheet. Same with the cassettes.
I only add to each media format when I find something I really want. I don't add for the sake of "adding" anymore. I went through that phase and I found I just started accumulating media I'd listen to once, or not at all. I find keeping it restricted (and organized) to a physical location helps with that. This space and no more type of deal. It also means the music I have, I will listen to because it's stuff I really want to keep.
It's usually CD's that I add now these days, if I do add. Even that will likely stop when I fill the last 70 or so slots left in the CD player and the next cd tower is filled with the jewel cases.
And honestly, I could probably even cut all that down even further because a lot of those I don't listen to very often, or even at all in a 12 month period.
Tried streaming but that honestly was just too much choice for me. Ended up listening to anything and at the same time...nothing. I prefer to be a bit more "intimate" with what I listen too rather than an absolute volume of it. Which is another area where I feel physical media wins out over virtual.
To each their own though.....if streaming does it for someone, have at 'er!
It's all about having choices IMHO.
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Late Boomer
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None of this makes sense. The most sensible media of the three, CD, has been out-matched by HDDs by the end of the 90s. Today, $100 buys a 1 TB card, which fits about 1,500 CDs in their original Red Book quality. Down with plastic!
M70AB2
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A bit off-topic, but it seems I lost a CD that I wanted to play. Very aggravating when this happens.
So I went on Amazon and ordered another. I have had to do this on occasion. Of course, just like tools I think I lost, the best way to find them is to buy a replacement. So it may yet show up, given I have bought another.
Another time, I brought five CDs to a friend’s home. Forgot them and come to find out the dirtbag gangsta rapper-wannabe son stole them and sold them to a store.
The dad only gave me $50, which didn’t quite cover the cost of new CDs.
I confronted the son and demanded to know why he thought he could steal and sell my CDs.
All I could get out of him was a dopey “Uhhh, I dunno…”
So, make sure you don’t leave your CDs where someone can take them. Like my Skull Candy earbuds somebody stole from my desk at work…
So I went on Amazon and ordered another. I have had to do this on occasion. Of course, just like tools I think I lost, the best way to find them is to buy a replacement. So it may yet show up, given I have bought another.
Another time, I brought five CDs to a friend’s home. Forgot them and come to find out the dirtbag gangsta rapper-wannabe son stole them and sold them to a store.
The dad only gave me $50, which didn’t quite cover the cost of new CDs.
I confronted the son and demanded to know why he thought he could steal and sell my CDs.
All I could get out of him was a dopey “Uhhh, I dunno…”
So, make sure you don’t leave your CDs where someone can take them. Like my Skull Candy earbuds somebody stole from my desk at work…
M70AB2
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As luck would have it, found the missing CD, of course, since I purchased a replacement.
It was in a plastic shoebox style container of the type from Walmart. I use some of these to store CDs.
This particular box of CDs went with me on a road trip. I thought I might have left the CD at the in-laws’ or it fell out of the vehicle as I sometimes place a CD in the space at the bottom of the driver’s side door.
Crazy thing is, I previously looked in that box twice and did not spot it. Weird.
It was in a plastic shoebox style container of the type from Walmart. I use some of these to store CDs.
This particular box of CDs went with me on a road trip. I thought I might have left the CD at the in-laws’ or it fell out of the vehicle as I sometimes place a CD in the space at the bottom of the driver’s side door.
Crazy thing is, I previously looked in that box twice and did not spot it. Weird.
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Mart Mccall
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Every time I've bought a CD to replace one I've lost, the missing copy turns up within days. Without exception.As luck would have it, found the missing CD, of course, since I purchased a replacement.
It was in a plastic shoebox style container of the type from Walmart. I use some of these to store CDs.
This particular box of CDs went with me on a road trip. I thought I might have left the CD at the in-laws’ or it fell out of the vehicle as I sometimes place a CD in the space at the bottom of the driver’s side door.
Crazy thing is, I previously looked in that box twice and did not spot it. Weird.
M70AB2
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Yep. Every single time. Couldn’t find a Nile CD one time, bought another on eBay. Found the missing CD minutes later.
Every time I've bought a CD to replace one I've lost, the missing copy turns up within days. Without exception.
Late Boomer
Super Member
Got any wax cylinders?