YES you still should you old bag!!! The world would suck without people like us

Of course you should keep it. Whatever devices you have your music stored in aren't going to last forever or they could possibly get stolen. When that happens, all your music will be gone forever.

Keep your collection by all means. iPod batteries one day will die, HDD fail (they last on average 5/6 years), computer/MP3 could be stolen or lost. In other words, shit happens. So buy some Snap-N-Store boxes and store your hard copy collection away.

I have mine all digitized on hard drives (and backed up on a separate hard drive), and sold nearly all of my CDs. I had several thousand in boxes and sold them in batches to the local used CD shops, and dumped the ones they didn't take. I have never for one moment regretted it. When i'm listening to music at home, it's usually vinyl, or via my computer hooked up thru my stereo. As long as you keep everything backed up, I see no reason to keep CDs.

I have kept box sets, deluxe editions, some particular artists and some with sentimental value, etc.. But I got rid of about 90% of mine and I feel no regrets. They were just taking up space.

In a word?

YES.

I really despise the thought of having a "music collection", but nothing physical to show for it. To me it's much more a "file collection" at that point. I want to hold something, look at the artwork and notes, and feel like I possess a real recording/art project.

But I'm not sure what to do with my cds either

NoVideo said:

I have mine all digitized on hard drives (and backed up on a separate hard drive), and sold nearly all of my CDs.

come back to me once thay can convert booklets into MP3s

even in the pre-MP3 times I have never sold even ONE LP or CD in my life, I even keep the rubbsih stuff I never listen to and I'm not planing to change that

and I need to have an actual paper booklet and be able to browse it while listening. besides, some old stuff can be pretty rare and expensive nowadays, I was puzzled to find exorbitant second hand prices in the most unexpected corners of my collection so yes, I'll keep it!

vainandy said:

Of course you should keep it. Whatever devices you have your music stored in aren't going to last forever or they could possibly get stolen. When that happens, all your music will be gone forever.

yeah, that's what i'm thinking too. sometimes i think i might be a bit paranoid

but technology changes so quickly and you never know what's round the corner.

plus, transferring music from one device to another and converting file types over

time etc is, imo, not enhancing the soundquality either.

so it'll be good to be able to dust off the actual discs in future and rip them onto

whatever device and in whatever format there will be then.

Other options.

1. Or bequeath your music collection to someone.

2. You could put your collection in a "Cloud" the options for these types of (besides Apple) storage are numerous. All of my music is in a "Cloud".

I gave my music collection to my daughter and I haven't looked back, though technically I still have a hard copy backup. I with you, I've enjoyed and listening to my collection more than I ever had. A suggestion to everyone who's listening to their collection through an iPod, MP3 device, or notebook; if your gadgets aren't hooked up a stereo system by all means purchase a portable headphone amp and/or usb power DAC. It will increase your listening pleasure 10 folds.

I rarely access them, but I think at least half of mine are essential.

They remain catalogued in my basement.

The thought has crossed my mind.

My vinyl collection, in (re)building mode, is the top priority.

You can devise several ways to preserve the music files, but if you are a music lover, "belt + suspenders" is the way to go.

G3000 said:

I converted my entire CD collection, and now I don't touch them anymore. Its been two years since I have pulled a cd out to play. I have an iPod classic and several mp3 devices that more than serve my music needs. It's a very large diverse collection that has taken a lifetime to acquire, but I don't have a need for them and it really disappoints me. I would hate to get rid of them and then find a use for them in the future. Good thing, I get to listen to my collection more than ever now, having converted them and get to listen on the go.

Of course you should keep it!!!

Dont you want to keep those records for sentimental reasons? Most of those records you probably can barely find now and you should keep it as a collectible. If I was you, I would just set them up so they look nice just for presentation purposes, why not?

I say keep 'em. That's my vote. U just never, ever know what might happen. Better safe, than sorry.

Dancelot said:

NoVideo said:

I have mine all digitized on hard drives (and backed up on a separate hard drive), and sold nearly all of my CDs.

come back to me once thay can convert booklets into MP3s

even in the pre-MP3 times I have never sold even ONE LP or CD in my life, I even keep the rubbsih stuff I never listen to and I'm not planing to change that

and I need to have an actual paper booklet and be able to browse it while listening. besides, some old stuff can be pretty rare and expensive nowadays, I was puzzled to find exorbitant second hand prices in the most unexpected corners of my collection so yes, I'll keep it!

I love to browse while listening too... but I do that online. Between Wikipedia, Allmusic.com and all the different lyrics sites and artists sites, there is far more reading material than what was typically availabile in the CD booklet.

CDs don't offer the same feeling of connection and having something tangible like and LP does, at least to me. I love listening to vinyl, i love the sound of it, the look and feel of the covers and inserts, reading the words, etc... Maybe it's because I grew up listening to vinyl, but CDs never filled that void for me. Digital music - whether via mp3 or CD - to me is interchangeable.

I understand where you're coming from, trust me - - it was a very difficult decision to finally part with a massive CD collection that I had spent years and tons of $$$ acquiring. But I was moving from an apartment to a house, and they were just sitting in boxes that I never opened. It was as much to do with storage and practicality as anything else. Maybe one day I'll regret getting rid of them, but so far I haven't.

And the reality is - even if god forbid something happened to both my hard drives and my backups - these days with Spotify and the ease of access of any music online, almost everything is instantaneously accessible 24/7. I'll continue to focus on my vinyl collection for my most important artists/albums, and stick w/ digitial for everything else.

But to each his own

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I recently dumped all my vinyl off at some used record store. I didn't even ask for any money because I just wanted to get rid of that junk. But, my CD collection??? NEVER! Never will I part with that! OMG! If something ever happened to it? Just the thought of it makes me a nervous wreck!

breese said:

I really despise the thought of having a "music collection", but nothing physical to show for it. To me it's much more a "file collection" at that point. I want to hold something, look at the artwork and notes, and feel like I possess a real recording/art project.

Same here... with a download, I just feel like I'm buying thin air, or something.

Plus, in this modern world that seems to be insisting that absolutely everything is done via a screen, it's refreshing to have a physical music collection to sift through, scuffed CD cases and dog-eared booklets and all.

TD3 said:

Other options.

1. Or bequeath your music collection to someone.

2. You could put your collection in a "Cloud" the options for these types of (besides Apple) storage are numerous. All of my music is in a "Cloud".

I gave my music collection to my daughter and I haven't looked back, though technically I still have a hard copy backup. I with you, I've enjoyed and listening to my collection more than I ever had. A suggestion to everyone who's listening to their collection through an iPod, MP3 device, or notebook; if your gadgets aren't hooked up a stereo system by all means purchase a portable headphone amp and/or usb power DAC. It will increase your listening pleasure 10 folds.

I have a laptop that I use for the internet but I also have a regular computer that I have all my music stored in and it has never had internet on it and I will never have internet on it. I figure, you can never get a virus that could jeapordize your music if internet has never been on the computer.

My computer is plugged into my stereo. That only way I'd have something for music is if it can play through the stereo speakers and shake the walls. I've never seen how somebody can be satisfied with something as their only music source that isn't capable of disturbing the neighbors. I mean, if you throw a party, what's everybody gonna do, gather around the headphones? Anyway, I LOVE my computer plugged into my stereo and I listen to a lot more songs than I used to do because I can just easily type the name and play them immediately instead of digging through stacks to find them. And the shuffle feature is like an orgasm because you never know what song is going to play next and it's like having a radio station play the songs. All my CDs are still boxed up from when I moved two and a half years ago and they take up an entire upstairs closet. I have my vinyl in my living room because I play it regularly, plus vinyl looks better on display since it's more of a vintage item where a room full of CDs looks like clutter. Plus, CDs are small and if you have company over, it's easy for them to steal. Most folks don't have turntables anymore so they aren't going to steal vinyl and if they do, a record is so big that I'll see them and they won't make it out of my apartment alive. But I'll never part with my CDs because that computer won't last forever so they are fine right where they are boxed up in an upstairs closet.

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Like everyone I have most my CDs digitized to listen on the go but would NEVER get rid of the original CDs.

I have 2000 CDs (real CDs )permanently placed in 5 of these megachangers and that's how I like to listen to them

Keep it!

TD3 said:

A suggestion to everyone who's listening to their collection through an iPod, MP3 device, or notebook; if your gadgets aren't hooked up a stereo system by all means purchase a portable headphone amp and/or usb power DAC. It will increase your listening pleasure 10 folds.

ummm, gotta remember that

I gave most of my old CDs to the local public library a few years ago. I ended up buying some of the same titles again when I discovered that the "remastered" stuff I downloaded from iTunes sounds like crap compared to good CDs on my stereo. If I could do it again, I would go through my CDs more carefully and pay attention to what condition they're in and what pressings they are. There are Japanese CD pressings of Pink Floyd albums that sell for $700 and up. I didn't have any of those but I did have some pretty valuable CDs that I shouldn't have given away. On the other hand, I'm glad I gave away some of the CDs in my collection as they were scratched up from being slid in and out of binder cases for years and weren't rare or valuable.

No! Send them to me!

J/k, you should keep them, obvsly. A thousand reasons to keep, only one to get rid (space). Screw space.

Ludittes of the world, unite.

vainandy said:

TD3 said:

Other options.

1. Or bequeath your music collection to someone.

2. You could put your collection in a "Cloud" the options for these types of (besides Apple) storage are numerous. All of my music is in a "Cloud".

I gave my music collection to my daughter and I haven't looked back, though technically I still have a hard copy backup. I with you, I've enjoyed and listening to my collection more than I ever had. A suggestion to everyone who's listening to their collection through an iPod, MP3 device, or notebook; if your gadgets aren't hooked up a stereo system by all means purchase a portable headphone amp and/or usb power DAC. It will increase your listening pleasure 10 folds.

I have a laptop that I use for the internet but I also have a regular computer that I have all my music stored in and it has never had internet on it and I will never have internet on it. I figure, you can never get a virus that could jeopardize your music if internet has never been on the computer.

My computer is plugged into my stereo. That only way I'd have something for music is if it can play through the stereo speakers and shake the walls. I've never seen how somebody can be satisfied with something as they're only music source that isn't capable of disturbing the neighbors. I mean, if you throw a party, what's everybody gonna do, gather around the headphones? Anyway, I LOVE my computer plugged into my stereo and I listen to a lot more songs than I used to do because I can just easily type the name and play them immediately instead of digging through stacks to find them. And the shuffle feature is like an orgasm because you never know what song is going to play next and its like having a radio station play the songs. All my CDs are still boxed up from when I moved two and a half years ago and they take up an entire upstairs closet. I have my vinyl in my living room because I play it regularly, plus vinyl looks better on display since it's more of a vintage item where a room full of CDs looks like clutter. Plus, CDs are small and if you have company over, it's easy for them to steal. Most folks don't have turntables anymore so they aren't going to steal vinyl and if they do, a record is so big that I'll see them and they won't make it out of my apartment alive. But I'll never part with my CDs because that computer won't last forever so they are fine right where they are boxed up in an upstairs closet.

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I hear Andy! If it ain't bump-in and thump-in' (I'm talk-in' about speakers) than you are listening to your shit through a transistor radio.

Still have about three hundred records in my possession; I enjoy spinning records on the turntable still, especially around the holidays'.

HuMpThAnG said:

TD3 said:

A suggestion to everyone who's listening to their collection through an iPod, MP3 device, or notebook; if your gadgets aren't hooked up a stereo system by all means purchase a portable headphone amp and/or usb power DAC. It will increase your listening pleasure 10 folds.

ummm, gotta remember that

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This is my studio, so its independent of the home system. Those are 50 watt speakers with a subwoofer... connected the DAC. The clarity and the complexity you hear from MP3's and Flac, blew my wig back.

Something tells me that I won't be satisfied with the mp3 format I've been using for years and I will want to re-rip them when storage and memory becomes even smaller and much faster.

Also, I am still so much of a credits reader, even for rap which has little detail, I like to know the writers (including sample info), the producer, where it was recorded, who is the publisher, if there is a guest what label do they appear courtesy of, all that shit.

I would suggest sending them all to me actually. I'd take them off of you hands.

PANDURITO said:

cool

I want this for x-mas

NoVideo said:

Dancelot said:

I love to browse while listening too... but I do that online. Between Wikipedia, Allmusic.com and all the different lyrics sites and artists sites, there is far more reading material than what was typically availabile in the CD booklet.

yeah I enjoy that too, there is LOTS of information more out there. I remember when I got them Beatles Remasters I spent many days probably weeks online while listetning to all of it chroniologically, getting detailed background information to almost every single song. exciting eye opening experience that would have been impossible 20 yrs ago

still I want the physical experience, be it vinyl or CD

TD3 said:

vainandy said:

I have a laptop that I use for the internet but I also have a regular computer that I have all my music stored in and it has never had internet on it and I will never have internet on it. I figure, you can never get a virus that could jeopardize your music if internet has never been on the computer.

My computer is plugged into my stereo. That only way I'd have something for music is if it can play through the stereo speakers and shake the walls. I've never seen how somebody can be satisfied with something as they're only music source that isn't capable of disturbing the neighbors. I mean, if you throw a party, what's everybody gonna do, gather around the headphones? Anyway, I LOVE my computer plugged into my stereo and I listen to a lot more songs than I used to do because I can just easily type the name and play them immediately instead of digging through stacks to find them. And the shuffle feature is like an orgasm because you never know what song is going to play next and its like having a radio station play the songs. All my CDs are still boxed up from when I moved two and a half years ago and they take up an entire upstairs closet. I have my vinyl in my living room because I play it regularly, plus vinyl looks better on display since it's more of a vintage item where a room full of CDs looks like clutter. Plus, CDs are small and if you have company over, it's easy for them to steal. Most folks don't have turntables anymore so they aren't going to steal vinyl and if they do, a record is so big that I'll see them and they won't make it out of my apartment alive. But I'll never part with my CDs because that computer won't last forever so they are fine right where they are boxed up in an upstairs closet.

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I hear Andy! If it ain't bump-in and thump-in' (I'm talk-in' about speakers) than you are listening to your shit through a transistor radio.

Still have about three hundred records in my possession; I enjoy spinning records on the turntable still, especially around the holidays'.

Transistor radio. That's exactly what I think of when I think of all these little small gadgets these days.

I've always said that the younger generation seems to be going backwards in time rather than forwards. Not only in going back to the days when nothing but slow music existed, but also going back to the days when the devices that played music were so small that the music that came out of them had no power, loudness, bass, vibration, and thump. It all started when boom boxes got smaller in size and everything else since then seemed to get smaller and smaller. Sure, smaller things take up less space but they aren't near as loud as the bigger devices and don't have the power that the bigger devices have. I like to feel the bass vibrating on the floor underneath my feet and shake the pictures off the walls. I started out with a transistor radio and a tape recorder, worked my way up to a tabletop stereo, and it took years to work my way up to a component system. I never felt like I accomplished anything until I could eventually out-thump my mother's old console stereo. I've been there and done that with the small, quiet, powerless devices and do NOT want to go back.

As for vinyl, my brother was over at my place one night and he got bored and counted it. As for albums and 12 Inch singles, I have about 600. He didn't even count the 45s.

Cinny said:

Something tells me that I won't be satisfied with the mp3 format I've been using for years and I will want to re-rip them when storage and memory becomes even smaller and much faster.

Also, I am still so much of a credits reader, even for rap which has little detail, I like to know the writers (including sample info), the producer, where it was recorded, who is the publisher, if there is a guest what label do they appear courtesy of, all that shit.

Speaking of re-ripping songs from CDs into the computer, that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid when the day finally comes that my computer dies and I have to get another one. I have all my songs in my computer and I love the shuffle feature in the Windows Media Player. I also love everything about the Windows Media Player format because it's so quick and easy and I can do so many things with it. So when I ripped my songs into the computer, I also formatted them with things that would benefit me when I play the shuffle feature. Sometimes I like to shuffle songs for a particular year, genre, artist, etc. So when I ripped the songs, I also formatted them with the year and genre and by genre, I broke it off into many genres to suit my needs. For instance funk. Anything I have formatted as simply "Funk" is from the 1970s on up until May of 1985 when I graduated high school. Anything after May of 1985 which is when music started to change and sound different, I formatted as "Funk Late 80s". Then I have "Disco", "Slow Jams", "Slow Jams Late 80s", "Dance" (which is house music from the late 1980s through the 1990s as well as fast rap from the 1990s). Stuff like Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" which is kinda midtempo and not fast enough for the dance floor but too fast for the bedroom, I simply formatted as "Soul". In the past few months, I've also been putting pictures of the album covers with each album. I also noticed a space to type in a BPM recently and I've been thinking of going online and looking up BPMs of songs and formatting songs with BPMs too. I would LOVE to play shuffle with songs of similar BPMs. That would be like the ultimate orgasm to my ears.

I took a lot of time determining the different genres I wanted so that if I played something on shuffle, I wouldn't have a song that didn't really fit in come on and spoil the mood. People have been telling me I can get one of these little small black gadgets that is so small it can fit on a keychain and save every single song in my computer onto that little gadget and then put the songs into another computer. My question is, when I save the songs on the gadget and put them into another computer, will they already be formatted exactly the way I formatted them and show up in the Windows Media Player the way they do in my present computer? I hope so because it took me years to custom format everything the way I wanted it.

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