Who else plays CD's?
 

CD's are still the best IMO.

who else tries to listen to mostly CD's and collects some?

I have a **** ton of them - probably more than 1000. But I don't really listen to them anymore. I don't have room for them, but if you're specifically looking for lossless audio and you want an easy way to support the artist and have room for them, CDs are great.

I'm at 2200 and counting. I still buy a lot of CDs. I think I picked up about 30 in August.

CDs still hold the best sound award.

Imo actually playing the Disc on a nice system will Trump any HiRes stream.

Streaming services also have crap for selection if you want to listen to anything even remotely not mainstream. Also I've noticed a lot if compression in the sound of some of the music on Streaming services, they Streaming in high resolution but it's still be stored in crap.

I have a whole bunch and, yes, I listen to them. Not in my car anymore since my new car doesn't have a CD player, but on my stereo that's all I listen to.

I probably had around 1500 CD's 10 years ago. Sold about half of them over several months a few years ago and have bought maybe a hundred since. Have around 900 now.

I have about 200 cds, which feels like a lot to me. About half are original store-bought albums, but all the recent ones are of music I've downloaded and burned.
How do I play them? The quieter music on a home stereo, the louder stuff in my car.

I'm more of a vinyl guy but, like Lisna, I had about 200 CD's at the peak of my collecting. I've since burned everything onto MP3s.

There was a mix CD sitting in the player when I got the vehicle I'm in a few months back. I let it play through and the only tune I recognized was a Skrillex song, so I tossed it. Just about every CD I've owned is scratched to hell and sitting in a box, but I have more mix CD's than actual albums. The majority of the music I listen to resides on ext HD's.

i still buy cds then transfer them to my ipod ...which is also getting dated lol

i also like rating all my songs and the ****ty 2* songs get condensed

That's nice and all, but her latest album sucked. I don't really need to own it on any format.

I like a lot of music I can still only find on vinyl that was never digitally released. Some free mp3s exist of a few but I'll probably get a turntable soon. Also....to much of what I want is only available on vinyl.

You seem to like music out of Japan. Do you have a collection of imports?

Imma need a pair of these

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What a great idea. It's safe too, as it would reflect any kind of light.

I have a small collection of import from Japan. I have been into it for awhile on a small scale. since the lockdown and having much time to explore the japanese and korean music my interest took off.

Jazz rock type funk stuff is what I'm really into. Pro rock. And it just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

but I listen to a HUGE range of music. folk to slayer, Jazz to kpop, country to classic rock. classical and EDM. everything except pop country.

I'm buying CD's at an alarming rate lol.

need to pace myself and think up a budget strategy.

some great deals on used discs , Ive found some good sources.

I won't download music, to me its junk compared to CD, Like a vinyl nut job, I get a woody playing 1 disc at a time in its entirety.

if an artist won't sell CD's I can still stream them, I do stream a small amount still.But actual CD's are now my goto.so much more enjoyable.

It's actually not half-bad if you're trying to lull yourself to sleep.

They don't sound as good in actual play back as the CD's.
I've tried.
Many of the albums I like sound like trash compared to the cd when streaming even on their HiRes...their stored compressed so playback is crap....

The oversampling on disc's I feel smoothes out the sound.
And the selection of download able music in high resolution music is pretty awful frankly.

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.

Growing up, I was all about cassette tapes. But unfortunately, I ended up selling them when I made the switch to CDs. Over the years, I accumulated a solid collection, probably close to a thousand. However, during a move many years ago, I decided to transfer all the discs and artwork into sleeves to save space. Looking back, I regret it - there's something about having those original cases that I miss. But, it is what it is.

As technology evolved, I made the jump from CDs to digital purchases. Nowadays, I don't use CDs at all, but I still make a point to buy digital music. I've also transferred my CDs to digital. Streaming through Spotify has also become a huge part of how I listen to music now.

There’s something nostalgic about popping a disc into a player and listening to an album the way it was meant to be heard, from start to finish. Plus, the sound quality is usually better than streaming, and it’s nice to have a physical collection. It feels like a more intentional way to enjoy music.