do you still have a cd collection?

[Brainonska511]

I have one, but it's sitting in my parents' basement in a box. I don't have a dedicated sound system outside of my computer(s) and I've ripped the songs/CDs I want into FLAC.

I think it's around 125 CDs at the moment. And since my brothers and I listen to almost the same music (and I also listen to some of the stuff my parents listen to/have CDs for), my overall FLAC album amount is ~180 (about 50% of all the songs I have are in FLAC).

 

[lord_emperor]

Does 3 count as a collection?

 

[Samick]

I have a cd collections of many old games and movies. Now I do not use those CDs. I just keep them. Maybe it will make some profit some time later.

 

[waggy]

I have a cd rack with about 200 cd's (i have ripped them all to my computer for my shitty mp3 player!)

but i do listen to them in my car and living room (no home media system yet)

 

[nageov3t]

Does 3 count as a collection?

I think 3 only counts as a collection if you're talking about dead bodies

 

[Anubis]

randomly adding to this ive never purchases a song digitally if im gonna pay for it im getting a physical copy

 

[eplebnista]

Yes, I have the jewel cases in a wooden CD cabinet, but the actual discs(300+) are in cake box spindles left over from burning CD/DVD's(which get put in paper sleeves). Most of mine are from mid to late 90's.

 

[Doppel]

Haven't had one for at least a decade, I'd say. Got into MP3 early.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I've ripped all my CD's to my3, however, I have all my CDs in their jewel cases as well ... in a row of cd towers in my home theater room ...

 

[nageov3t]

Haven't had one for at least a decade, I'd say. Got into MP3 early.

one of my problems was that, even though I started ripping my cd's to MP3's in the late 90's, this was also when hard drive's were relatively small and expensive compared to today... so I had a ton of albums ripped at really shitty bitrates to space space.

 

[Imp]

I do most of my listening on Youtube now. It's just "funner" to listen to music with a video, and there's LIVE stuff!

I blew my load Sunday night when I finally found out that you could download crap from Youtube. That'll save about 40 Gb of bandwidth a month. Don't worry Google Corp., I still see your crappy ads.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Not only do I have one, I have never purchased music from iTunes or illegally downloaded it. When I like a band I buy their CDs used for a few bucks each. The sound quality is superior and I have the flexibility of ripping the CDs into iTunes anyway. I actually just bought my first new CD player in many years (a Cambridge Audio 640C Mk 2) for my home theater a couple of years ago.

 

[7window]

I know a gay client who had a living room full of cds. I don't understand why someone has so many when there is mp3. Are cd quality better than mp3?

 

[Eos]

I know a gay client who had a living room full of cds. I don't understand why someone has so many when there is mp3. Are cd quality better than mp3?

Uhhhh...

 

[sdifox]

I know a gay client who had a living room full of cds. I don't understand why someone has so many when there is mp3. Are cd quality better than mp3?

not if you still listen to it with the shitty ipod earbuds you got.

 

[Anubis]

I know a gay client who had a living room full of cds. I don't understand why someone has so many when there is mp3. Are cd quality better than mp3?

 

[MotionMan]

I know a gay client who had a living room full of cds. I don't understand why someone has so many when there is mp3. Are cd quality better than mp3?

What do you do that this is relevant information?

MotionMan

 

[7window]

Believe me I was surprised too when I saw all his CD collection

 

[7window]

What do you do that this is relevant information?

MotionMan

Health Investigator

 

[MotionMan]

Health Investigator

And how does that make his being gay relevant?

MotionMan

 

[Ninjahedge]

It was a rather large..... collection.

 

[Ninjahedge]

Perfect Albums on a high priced player > CD > MP3.

Of course, there are also higher quality raw recordings that the studios have in their posession, but we are talking about things that are available to the general public.

There are ways of compressing music down and keeping most of its inherent quality, but the thing is, you will never really HEAR any difference until you have a good player, good speakers/headphones and a quiet room to listen.

One example would be NIN. LISTEN to some of their stuff on CD, listen carefully. In some parts you will hear VERY low rumbling just at the edge of your hearing range, or odd high pitched tweeting/skittering/screeching that you never noticed before on your portable player or while listening in the car.

Trent did this on purpose, but you can hear this kind of thing on a lot of recordings, from the squeeking of the base pedal on some tracks (Led Zep has a few of these) to the click and scrape of fingers and pics on guitar strings.

Not everything needs to be 320, or 256 VBR FLAC (and even these have some weaknesses in very detailed or complicated pieces) but sometimes there are things you just do not hear until you really listen....

 

[midwestfisherman]

Mine are all in boxes in the closet. They go there for retirement after they're ripped to my machine.

 

[7window]

And how does that make his being gay relevant?

MotionMan

Not relevant or no harm its only a cd collection. Its just how we discuss cases in the office but if its something sensitive then we omit.

 

[Squisher]

use FLAC

So, are there stand alone FLAC players? I have maybe $10K invested in my stereo, I find playing any kind of output from a computer to be real hit and miss with all the artifacts that are passed off to "line outs" between hums, whines, and just low grade fidelity.