Depends what you consider to be a notable release on CD. Heck it's hard to even find info on some of the CDs I want anywhere on the internet. Granted a lot of them are Japanese who are still at around 75% CDs as the preferred media choice.

See how much Jun Fukamachi you can find download able.
Heck starview was only released on Laserdisc.

Or Jun Miyake first 2 albums are vinyl only and never repressed not even once..

I can't even get these selections in any format...maybe I can download the crap compression from YT but that's not quality.

Lossless formats like FLAC and WAV will give you an uncompressed version of any CD or other format. The downside is that the files are large.

The biggest drawback in streaming and downloads is the extremely limited content.

I believe more popular content is stored and played back at higher resolutions. But it's just not what I'm looking for.

Bet you can't find the latest album from this guy for free in uncompressed form though. He only put it out on CD.

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yeah what albums of Fukamachi did you find? did you compare it to the discogs of his catalog spanning 50 years? and all the side projects and sit ins?

granted few people will want that stuff but I do.

show me links or it does not exist.

Ok then,obviously you know they don't exist. I like the jewel cases, I actually plant to buy 100 or so to replace the ones I threw out 25 years ago but still have the disc's in sleeve.


now I'll give you that you can probly pull a good amount off YT and separate the audio, but it will not be the kind of audio quality I am looking for, I understand this is a music site and not an audiophile site, and 20 years ago I would of been happy just listening to ripped music off YT as I listened mostly to mp3s then and I did not care about it.

I don't know how many I have now, but I still get CDs. To me, they are the best. I will never understand why some people prefer vinyl.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

I still buy CDs. When they were first introduced, I couldn't stand them because they were so much more expensive than vinyl (which I had quite a bit of) and were just another way for music bizzers to sell people music they already had. Over time, I came to prefer them over vinyl becauser (1) vinyl almost became extinct when CDs took off (2) I have very rarely had to return a CD becaust it was defective, unlike vinyl, and (3) I don't have a good turntable to play records on, and (4) CDs are now much less expensive as the price of vinyl has skyrocketed (the music bizzer factor again) If an album I really want isn't available on CD, I get the download and burn a CD.

I still occasionally play CD's and occasionally buy them but far less than I did 10+ years ago. I still have around 600 of them in my collection but most of them haven't been played in several years.

Mrs. Buckeye did not embrace my decorating the living room with our (my) CD collection of over 1000. The collection is now relegated to crates in the basement. I have to say that I don't miss it except for grabbing a disc to get signed at a show. I'm 100% on board with Spotify and can play any release I want with the touch of a finger.

When I transitioned from LP to CD I really missed the big album covers. I really missed the album art and big lyric sheets. Something I hated about the CD era was everything was released and re-released over and over with bonus tracks or outtakes or B-Sides. I spent a decade chasing catalog ID numbers with Mott The Hoople albums that were re-released, reissued or remastered not to mention every 'Best Of' that contained a never heard before track.

This transition from CD to streaming has been easy.