Nope. I'm keeping all 183 of them

I'm definitely getting rid of my CDs. I only have so much space for physical media. Anything pre-1990, if I were to play on the stereo at home, I'd play my vinyl copy anyway.

chookalana said:

Nope. I'm keeping all 183 of them

Well, I don't think the CD single for "Purple Medley" will be getting a remaster.

sexton said:

I'm definitely getting rid of my CDs. I only have so much space for physical media. Anything pre-1990, if I were to play on the stereo at home, I'd play my vinyl copy anyway.

I might have to keep my quiet 80s mastered CDs for play at work.

Man... hell naw!

thesoulbrother said:

Man... hell naw!

You probably speak for a bunch of lurkers who read the thread but never posted.

Cinny said:

Are you going to get rid of your Prince CDs?

NO WUCKING FAY!!!

callimnate said:

Cinny said:

Are you going to get rid of your Prince CDs?

NO WUCKING FAY!!!

Not much faith in those remasters?

Cinny said:

callimnate said:

NO WUCKING FAY!!!

Not much faith in those remasters?

A new form of media will arrive before those "remasters" appear.

callimnate said:

Cinny said:

Not much faith in those remasters?

A new form of media will arrive before those "remasters" appear.

I was hoping they would appear all in one fell swoop like the Beatles remasters. Now that the anniversary dates have been missed, I am expecting them to show up all at once.

Cinny said:

callimnate said:

A new form of media will arrive before those "remasters" appear.

I was hoping they would appear all in one fell swoop like the Beatles remasters. Now that the anniversary dates have been missed, I am expecting them to show up all at once.

prepare to be sorely dissapointed

bigd74 said:

Cinny said:

I was hoping they would appear all in one fell swoop like the Beatles remasters. Now that the anniversary dates have been missed, I am expecting them to show up all at once.

prepare to be sorely dissapointed

It's kind of an all-or-nothing expectation actually.

NO

I got to hear Pretzelbodylogic for free just for installing Windows 8. Admittedly not at the exact moment I broke a molar biting into a pretzel snack from a local newsagent but still. It's probably more about the user interface habit than the physical shelf.

The next vinyl i see will probably be nailgunned to the wall like a British Telecom phone socket.

I think that's a pretty good marketing strategy myself - every original vinyl copy of Plectrum Electrum comes with a free cable installation to your house, but the vinyl is fixed on the wall by a fibreoptic junction box, so the vinyl record stays there on the wall while you can plug in a phone and listen to the record for free.

Genius.

The god awful CD era is over. in a box somewhere are records which I love and cherish. I have always loathed the CD format almost as much as the god awful cassette tape. Good riddance to both these abominations. MP3's & Spotify and I am good. If a better quality digital format becomes commonplace, I'll go there too, but for now im fine with MP3's. good music is good music and does not require gold plated connectors and hifi gear to sound good, the convinience of having the musc at your fingtips wherever you are trumps all. CD's aways sounded like crap anyway.

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V10LETBLUES said:

in a box somewhere are records which I love and cherish. I have always loathed the CD format almost as much as the god awful cassette tape. Good riddance to both these abominations. MP3's & Spotify and I am good. Good music is good music and does not require gold plated connectors and hifi gear to sound good. And CD's aways sounded like crap anyway.

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You've just helped me strike gold in the genius vinyl release front. How about encoding the entirety of Plectrum Electrum into 128 convoluted sinewaves, then cutting those to 128 vinyls, then assembling an auditorium of 128 record players plugged in to 128 speakers playing each modulated sinewave at the same time?

You could walk through the room going "wow, i've never heard mp3s like this before, it's amazing they managed to reprogram the Fraunhoffer algorhythm to output individual frequency bands like that."

Genius.

morningsong said:

Hell to the no. I've done that once, in the process of giving up secular music, one of my life's biggest regrets.

I know that's right; I keep all my Prince stuff, hee hee!

V10LETBLUES said:

The god awful CD era is over. in a box somewhere are records which I love and cherish. I have always loathed the CD format almost as much as the god awful cassette tape. Good riddance to both these abominations. MP3's & Spotify and I am good. If a better quality digital format becomes commonplace, I'll go there too, but for now im fine with MP3's. good music is good music and does not require gold plated connectors and hifi gear to sound good, the convinience of having the musc at your fingtips wherever you are trumps all. CD's aways sounded like crap anyway.

Are you really saying you like the quality of MP3's but you think CD's sound like crap?

Really?!?

This really isn't about a difference of opinions because what you say makes no sense. All things being equal, an MP3 file cannot sound better than a CD. Again, this isn't opinion. You cannot rip a "crap" sounding CD to "fine" sounding MP3. It's technically impossible.

djThunderfunk said:

djThunderfunk said:

^

to all all of you

Acording to experts.....
Whats's the best overall camera? The one you have on you.

What's the best excersize for you? The one you actually do.

The same goes for music..

I always have a computer or smartphone on me. I can access all of the music I like whenever i like. For CD's you always have to have those silly scratch prone shinny disks and the contraption to play them. Convinience trumps supposed higher quality here for most people by a long shot.
Sure higher quality steams and formats will inevitably become ubiquitous and I will gladly use the convinient app to listen.

But lets face it, the CD is dead, a relic of the past for 10 years now that no one buys, And for good reason. Yes today I will gladly listen to mp3's and spotify over CD's and I do. In my car, while jogging, at the gym, I lik ,ost people preffer those two options over a CD by a long long shot

EyeHatechu said:

V10LETBLUES said:

^

to all all of you

Acording to experts.....
Whats's the best overall camera? The one you have on you.

What's the best excersize for you? The one you actually do.

The same goes for music..

I always have a computer or smartphone on me. I can access all of the music I like whenever i like. For CD's you always have to have those silly scratch prone shinny disks and the contraption to play them. Convinience trumps supposed higher quality here for most people by a long shot.
Sure higher quality steams and formats will inevitably become ubiquitous and I will gladly use the convinient app to listen.

But lets face it, the CD is dead, a relic of the past for 10 years now that no one buys, And for good reason. Yes today I will gladly listen to mp3's and spotify over CD's and I do. In my car, while jogging, at the gym, I lik ,ost people preffer those two options over a CD by a long long shot

Ahh, but that it different. Of course MP3s are more convenient than CDs. There's no argument there.

It was the claim that CDs sound like "crap" but MP3s sound "fine" that brought our disagreement as that is patently not the case.

V10LETBLUES said:

EyeHatechu said:

CD has better quality and richer sound. We are not talking about convenience. MP3 format on phones is just an alternative when you dont have your CD or you are in a situation where you cant use it.

No one buys CDs ant more. Why make something there s no market for is the better question.

According to Billboard:

For the year 2013, "vinyl is now 2% of album sales in the U.S; digital albums comprise 40.6% and the CD is 57.2% and cassettes and DVDs 0.2%."

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/5855162/digital-music-sales-decrease-for-first-time-in-2013

More people bought CDs than digital albums in 2013. And that says what?

djThunderfunk said:

V10LETBLUES said:

EyeHatechu said: No one buys CDs ant more. Why make something there s no market for is the better question.

According to Billboard:

For the year 2013, "vinyl is now 2% of album sales in the U.S; digital albums comprise 40.6% and the CD is 57.2% and cassettes and DVDs 0.2%."

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/5855162/digital-music-sales-decrease-for-first-time-in-2013

More people bought CDs than digital albums in 2013. And that says what?

Thanks for those stats. Very interesting!

I make do with mp3's for one-off songs I hear on college radio and want to have in my collection. But when it comes to artists I really care about, I still run out and buy the compact disc. Stuff like Bowie's latest, the Nick Cave remasters, and certainly, Prince.

Then I stick that cd in the PS3 (connected to stereo by digital cable), turn the tv off so I'm not distracted by visuals, pop a beer, press play, and sail away!

V10LETBLUES said:

No one buys CDs ant more. Why make something there's no market for is the better question.

Are you sure about that? There's a place in Texas that still manufactures 8-tracks. Malaco Records still put some of their albums on cassette and my mom orders them from their mail order catalog. She's never bought a CD and has a cassette player in her car.