CDs Making a Comeback?

rh1 said:
I used to buy SA artist cds back in the day. But when the US artist bragging about their wads of cash, I would not hesitate to get my friends to burn me a cd, since they did not need my money.

I kow stream from Youtube music via the family plan.
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How does that compare to Spotify? I have the Family Plan for that, but it's €3 more expensive.
 
TheMightyQuin said:
How does that compare to Spotify? I have the Family Plan for that, but it's €3 more expensive.
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TBH, never used spotify. So cannot compare, but the Youtube family plan was a game changer for my wife, as it has all her music she listens to. Music quality is good enough for our devices.
 
bwana said:
But did you actually do it?
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Alas no. I couldn't bring myself to deleting it. Just like I can't sell off my CD/DVD collection that never use :)

Hell, I still have 480p crappy quality xvid rips of old TV series from the 80/90's.

Hello everyone....My name is Greg and I'm a data hoarder.
 
gregmcc said:
Alas no. I couldn't bring myself to deleting it. Just like I can't sell off my CD/DVD collection that never use :)

Hell, I still have 480p crappy quality xvid rips of old TV series from the 80/90's.

Hello everyone....My name is Greg and I'm a data hoarder.
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I sold off my CD collection after ripping the unavailable tracks in 2014 for food on the table as I was unemployed at the time.
TV series I cant stream I replace regularly with Full HD and 4K versions as they become available.
 
Probably the same as vinyl, not a comeback or anything close to relevant but with enough of a market to remain in existence.

It is nice if your into it though, plus the nostalgia factor, a few times now someone has come across one of their old cd cases we used to have in our cars, great memories with those, like a little time capsule
 
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ArmatageShanks said:
Probably the same as vinyl, not a comeback or anything close to relevant but with enough of a market to remain in existence.

It is nice if your into it though, plus the nostalgia factor, a few times now someone has come across one of their old cd cases we used to have in our cars, great memories with those, like a little time capsule
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Not even remotely the same as vinyl.
 
Bernoldus Niemand said:
Mine is 256 kbps AAC. Sounds good. Even my old Huawei watch was 320 kbps mp3. Just very slow to upload the songs.
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But you're on Spotify, albeit spiritually..
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And oddly enough, I can definitely hear an Oingo Boingo vibe in that track. Clearly Danny Elfman was an influence
 
IamNoone said:
In the states yes. Locally, I have not seen a physical music store in a long time, not even Cash Crusaders have them anymore.

The wife has a huge CD collection going back to her school days. Alot we have ripped but there are still 100's to go through... But it's not worth the effort, she streams on YouTube and Spotify anyway.

She burns CD's for the car now and then as her car does not have Bluetooth or USB.
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i have digitised my entire CD collection to FLAC plus tagged the whole lot too - it took me a year or three of doing like 4 to 5 CDs per day to do it but IMHO it was way worth it - i don't have to stream music since i'm not into the newer crap that passes as music nowadays - im more into the eighties and nineties stuff and i have enough of it in my collection to last me till i die and i probably wont ever listen to it all twice before i die anyway given that i'm close to 60 now
 
naughty001 said:
i have digitised my entire CD collection to FLAC plus tagged the whole lot too - it took me a year or three of doing like 4 to 5 CDs per day to do it but IMHO it was way worth it - i don't have to stream music since i'm not into the newer crap that passes as music nowadays - im more into the eighties and nineties stuff and i have enough of it in my collection to last me till i die and i probably wont ever listen to it all twice before i die anyway given that i'm close to 60 now
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Yep, my cut-off was 1991 also. 1992 is when the thump-thump garbage arrived, along with every rockspider having spiekers in his car and a moerse amp
 
naughty001 said:
i have digitised my entire CD collection to FLAC plus tagged the whole lot too - it took me a year or three of doing like 4 to 5 CDs per day to do it but IMHO it was way worth it - i don't have to stream music since i'm not into the newer crap that passes as music nowadays - im more into the eighties and nineties stuff and i have enough of it in my collection to last me till i die and i probably wont ever listen to it all twice before i die anyway given that i'm close to 60 now
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I suddenly remembered there was a very brief push for DVD audio discs which never got off the ground.
 
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