Identity said:

What's a compact disc? I went completely digital last year, lock, stock and barrel for previously released and new music.

Everything has been given to my kid a while back; I went digital a a decade plus ago. Yea, I have 500 plus of my late fathers stuff because it makes feel close to him, But the convenience of having your music digitized ever, put on a computer and cloud server is amazing. I can listen to my music when and wherever. Ready made mixes that you can access without having to get up and put on another record. Priceless.

For folks like Soul; I'd advise you pruchase back up CD players and parts. I've purchsed a couple of CD/DVD players.... computer players dvd/cd-rw drive (d players too.

So.....discount sales?

TD3 said:

cloveringold85 said:

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LOL

Fool! You have a lot of puns. I got one of those thangs somewhere in my junk box, now I gotta go find it. That was the shit back in the day.

Isn't amazing in the mid to late nineties that was all the rage then around 2003 showed me some

strange shit that played music called an MP3 player and that shit died around 2012. Now streaming via Bluetooth is all the rage. I find myself buying on average 4 cd's a year now. I'm a spotify junkie. I'm amazed at the old school funk catalog they have. I could be listening to The Fatback Band and they will throw something at you like Stargard or Brass Construction.

cloveringold85 said:

PennyPurple said:

Yep, serious. Hubby and I combined our collections when we got married, I was a George Michael, Prince, Baby's, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna kinda girl, 38 Special, REO, Kansas, he was ZZ Top, Lynard Skynard, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Robert Plant, kinda guy. When we were 1st married one of our 1st purchases was a stereo system that played, albums, cassettes and 8 tracks. Now we have about 100 CD's probably more, with all the CD's our kids left behind when they moved (anybody need a Hansen CD?)

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OMG, Penny!!

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My husband used to have an extensive CD collection. It just got to the point where it was just taking up space and nowhere to put anything. We gave our CDs away to charity/thrift stores, so someone is listening to some real good music!

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I remember the days where you could walk into record shops and they would buy/trade your music--that seems to be a thing of the past now.

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Hansen!! Mmmm, Bop!!

I found these really cool plastic bins on amazon. They are built to hold CDs. They are sectioned off into thirds and each holds about 90-100 CD's. You can just stack them somewhere or shove them up under the bed. Huge lifesaver for me. I've stored away 1000+ using those bins. I can't see myself ever parting with my collection.

kitbradley said:

cloveringold85 said:

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OMG, Penny!!

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My husband used to have an extensive CD collection. It just got to the point where it was just taking up space and nowhere to put anything. We gave our CDs away to charity/thrift stores, so someone is listening to some real good music!

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I remember the days where you could walk into record shops and they would buy/trade your music--that seems to be a thing of the past now.

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Hansen!! Mmmm, Bop!!

I found these really cool plastic bins on amazon. They are built to hold CDs. They are sectioned off into thirds and each holds about 90-100 CD's. You can just stack them somewhere or shove them up under the bed. Huge lifesaver for me. I've stored away 1000+ using those bins. I can't see myself ever parting with my collection.

Thanks Kit. I'll have to look them up.

what about Barnes and Noble? they have the most supply ive seen anywhere

phunkdaddy said:

TD3 said:

Fool! You have a lot of puns. I got one of those thangs somewhere in my junk box, now I gotta go find it. That was the shit back in the day.

Isn't amazing in the mid to late nineties that was all the rage then around 2003 showed me some

strange shit that played music called an MP3 player and that shit died around 2012. Now streaming via Bluetooth is all the rage. I find myself buying on average 4 cd's a year now. I'm a spotify junkie. I'm amazed at the old school funk catalog they have. I could be listening to The Fatback Band and they will throw something at you like Stargard or Brass Construction.

I agree.I am hooked on Spotify.

luvsexy4all said:

what about Barnes and Noble? they have the most supply ive seen anywhere

They carry more vinyl than any other retailer that comes to mind. Even the small merchandise-heavy Record Town/FYE has just a few small pseud-crates of overpriced vinyl.

phunkdaddy said:

TD3 said:

Fool! You have a lot of puns. I got one of those thangs somewhere in my junk box, now I gotta go find it. That was the shit back in the day.

Isn't amazing in the mid to late nineties that was all the rage then around 2003 showed me some

strange shit that played music called an MP3 player and that shit died around 2012. Now streaming via Bluetooth is all the rage. I find myself buying on average 4 cd's a year now. I'm a spotify junkie. I'm amazed at the old school funk catalog they have. I could be listening to The Fatback Band and they will throw something at you like Stargard or Brass Construction.

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The technology today is amazing, isn't it? I'm always late to the game, but I'm getting there!

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Slooooooow, but sure!

kitbradley said:

cloveringold85 said:

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OMG, Penny!!

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My husband used to have an extensive CD collection. It just got to the point where it was just taking up space and nowhere to put anything. We gave our CDs away to charity/thrift stores, so someone is listening to some real good music!

.

I remember the days where you could walk into record shops and they would buy/trade your music--that seems to be a thing of the past now.

.

Hansen!! Mmmm, Bop!!

I found these really cool plastic bins on amazon. They are built to hold CDs. They are sectioned off into thirds and each holds about 90-100 CD's. You can just stack them somewhere or shove them up under the bed. Huge lifesaver for me. I've stored away 1000+ using those bins. I can't see myself ever parting with my collection.

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Don't you love Amazon?! Yea, I had storage bins full of CDs; I moved to a smaller place and had to downsize and had no place to go with them. How do you even sort through 1,000 CDs?

TrivialPursuit said:

luvsexy4all said:

what about Barnes and Noble? they have the most supply ive seen anywhere

They carry more vinyl than any other retailer that comes to mind. Even the small merchandise-heavy Record Town/FYE has just a few small pseud-crates of overpriced vinyl.

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Yes, B&N has a nice album section. I saw Prince there and got real sad.

cloveringold85 said:

kitbradley said:

I found these really cool plastic bins on amazon. They are built to hold CDs. They are sectioned off into thirds and each holds about 90-100 CD's. You can just stack them somewhere or shove them up under the bed. Huge lifesaver for me. I've stored away 1000+ using those bins. I can't see myself ever parting with my collection.

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Don't you love Amazon?! Yea, I had storage bins full of CDs; I moved to a smaller place and had to downsize and had no place to go with them. How do you even sort through 1,000 CDs?

It's amazing how my brain operates. I can't remember what happened 5 minutes ago yet I can go in those storage bins and pretty much easily find any CD I'm looking for, despite them being in no order whatsoever.

cloveringold85 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

They carry more vinyl than any other retailer that comes to mind. Even the small merchandise-heavy Record Town/FYE has just a few small pseud-crates of overpriced vinyl.

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Yes, B&N has a nice album section. I saw Prince there and got real sad.

They always have Parade & ATWIAD on the remaster vinyl. I got sad when I saw ★ too.

Best Buy stopped really caring about the CD sale a long time ago. Outside of a few exclusives they get now and then Best Buy loses money on cds for the most part and that is why their sale prices have gone up. The new Taylor Swift cd has never been less than 14.99 there years ago BB would have had that cd at 9.99 for weeks not now, CDS cost stores about 12-13 dollars a pop. I tried to explain this over a decade ago to people when Tower Records, Virgin and Sam Goody all went under. Yes downloading hurt but labels hurt them more, not moving on the charge and pushing the cost to the stores is why they are gone now. Stores like those could not sell cds for 9 dollars and lose any form of a profit because that was all they had to make money off. I know that sounds greedy to say that stores had to make money, well they have employees they have to pay that work the registers in the stores and then of course the rising costs of all property rents for stores, I know people think that these stores had no bills to pay but they did and they hurt themselves by trying to compete with Best Buy back then and look what happened and now best Buy is done with CDS and music and soon DVDs are going to go too.As for target they are doing consignments which means you get paid for what you sell nothing else. SO if you go to target looking for something not popular dont be surprised if it aint there. Right now the only store with deep catalog is Barnes And Noble but they cant sell things cheap and lose money so be ready to pay for cds if you want them. Pretty much kiss the musicians of the world goodbye folks.

I must be very old fashioned as I don't have any streaming services and have itunes and play music off it, but have not bought a song since 2011, as it seems to hut down my new computer if I do anything with it and I am skilful at engineering computers.

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I bought about 20 CDs each year since the 2000s and love them as they seldom cost more than $20 each, often I burn the CD to my hard drive and itunes and keep it, sometimes playing them in my car. No one in New Zealand has announced this yet and there are racks on racks on racks of CDs at my local wrekka stows.

lastdecember said:

Best Buy stopped really caring about the CD sale a long time ago. Outside of a few exclusives they get now and then Best Buy loses money on cds for the most part and that is why their sale prices have gone up. The new Taylor Swift cd has never been less than 14.99 there years ago BB would have had that cd at 9.99 for weeks not now, CDS cost stores about 12-13 dollars a pop. I tried to explain this over a decade ago to people when Tower Records, Virgin and Sam Goody all went under. Yes downloading hurt but labels hurt them more, not moving on the charge and pushing the cost to the stores is why they are gone now. Stores like those could not sell cds for 9 dollars and lose any form of a profit because that was all they had to make money off. I know that sounds greedy to say that stores had to make money, well they have employees they have to pay that work the registers in the stores and then of course the rising costs of all property rents for stores, I know people think that these stores had no bills to pay but they did and they hurt themselves by trying to compete with Best Buy back then and look what happened and now best Buy is done with CDS and music and soon DVDs are going to go too.As for target they are doing consignments which means you get paid for what you sell nothing else. SO if you go to target looking for something not popular dont be surprised if it aint there. Right now the only store with deep catalog is Barnes And Noble but they cant sell things cheap and lose money so be ready to pay for cds if you want them. Pretty much kiss the musicians of the world goodbye folks.

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Best Buy isn't really doing that good anymore. People shop on the internet and competition is tough these days. I see stores closing all the time......I remember the days of going to Best Buy and strolling the music aisles.......same thing for video tapes........I'm old.

Adorecream said:

I must be very old fashioned as I don't have any streaming services and have itunes and play music off it, but have not bought a song since 2011, as it seems to hut down my new computer if I do anything with it and I am skilful at engineering computers.

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I bought about 20 CDs each year since the 2000s and love them as they seldom cost more than $20 each, often I burn the CD to my hard drive and itunes and keep it, sometimes playing them in my car. No one in New Zealand has announced this yet and there are racks on racks on racks of CDs at my local wrekka stows.

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I can stream music on Amazon. I'm kinda old-fashioned, myself.

phunkdaddy said:

TD3 said:

Fool! You have a lot of puns. I got one of those thangs somewhere in my junk box, now I gotta go find it. That was the shit back in the day.

Isn't amazing in the mid to late nineties that was all the rage then around 2003 showed me some

strange shit that played music called an MP3 player and that shit died around 2012. Now streaming via Bluetooth is all the rage. I find myself buying on average 4 cd's a year now. I'm a spotify junkie. I'm amazed at the old school funk catalog they have. I could be listening to The Fatback Band and they will throw something at you like Stargard or Brass Construction.

Yet, Vinly is still around, the irony!

Music streaming presently doesn't make much sensee for me, I have everything. Besides, the option for free streaming are humongous. I may consider 8tracks cuz the musical taste of the "DJ's" is refined and

off the beaten path. Tech at present allows , my brothers, our children, and several family members are

streaming each others music collections. Still there some cool web-based free music streamers out there,

these two come to mine.

http://groovemp3.com/popular-genres

Soundcast is still good,

bboy87 said:

So.....discount sales?

crazy!

cloveringold85 said:

Adorecream said:

I must be very old fashioned as I don't have any streaming services and have itunes and play music off it, but have not bought a song since 2011, as it seems to hut down my new computer if I do anything with it and I am skilful at engineering computers.

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I bought about 20 CDs each year since the 2000s and love them as they seldom cost more than $20 each, often I burn the CD to my hard drive and itunes and keep it, sometimes playing them in my car. No one in New Zealand has announced this yet and there are racks on racks on racks of CDs at my local wrekka stows.

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I can stream music on Amazon. I'm kinda old-fashioned, myself.

I need to get a better computer, but also too, why do I need to get the latest and be the most current all the time. I still don't have a smartphone and are not interested in getting one.

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I love CDs!!! My Prince CD collection (Just studio albums, no bootlegs) is nearly a meter long and above my desk sits a pile of 15 or so Michael Jackson CD's and next to that is a metre long of albums by George Michael, Percy Sledge, Elton John, Disco, Madonna and heaps of other artists. CDs are my life!!!! What I love about my Prince collection is now I have every official album CD except Chaos and Disorder and New Power soul.

cloveringold85 said:

lastdecember said:

Best Buy stopped really caring about the CD sale a long time ago. Outside of a few exclusives they get now and then Best Buy loses money on cds for the most part and that is why their sale prices have gone up. The new Taylor Swift cd has never been less than 14.99 there years ago BB would have had that cd at 9.99 for weeks not now, CDS cost stores about 12-13 dollars a pop. I tried to explain this over a decade ago to people when Tower Records, Virgin and Sam Goody all went under. Yes downloading hurt but labels hurt them more, not moving on the charge and pushing the cost to the stores is why they are gone now. Stores like those could not sell cds for 9 dollars and lose any form of a profit because that was all they had to make money off. I know that sounds greedy to say that stores had to make money, well they have employees they have to pay that work the registers in the stores and then of course the rising costs of all property rents for stores, I know people think that these stores had no bills to pay but they did and they hurt themselves by trying to compete with Best Buy back then and look what happened and now best Buy is done with CDS and music and soon DVDs are going to go too.As for target they are doing consignments which means you get paid for what you sell nothing else. SO if you go to target looking for something not popular dont be surprised if it aint there. Right now the only store with deep catalog is Barnes And Noble but they cant sell things cheap and lose money so be ready to pay for cds if you want them. Pretty much kiss the musicians of the world goodbye folks.

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Best Buy isn't really doing that good anymore. People shop on the internet and competition is tough these days. I see stores closing all the time......I remember the days of going to Best Buy and strolling the music aisles.......same thing for video tapes........I'm old.

Music takes a back seat really to most things in reality. Its not the first thing on peoples list of something they have to get. And the fans that were like that, like you said are older and they dont think that way anymore unless its THEIR artists, I mean an older music buyer is not running to the store or waking up to download a new album by some new artist. For me I will still get anxious for those I love and over the years that has narrowed more and more, I still get into a lot of new artists but it is very fleeting I would lose sleep and be thinking of it like I might for someone I am into. And for todays generation its so NOT about that at all, which I get their is streaming and other media forms plus music now is consumed differently, etc... I mean we can all debate it but I think music is always gonna be there for us and pick what you want but i think the days of going to a store are almost gone.

TD3 said:

phunkdaddy said:

TD3 said:

Yet, Vinly is still around, the irony!

Music streaming presently doesn't make much sensee for me, I have everything. Besides, the option for free streaming are humongous. I may consider 8tracks cuz the musical taste of the "DJ's" is refined and

off the beaten path. Tech at present allows , my brothers, our children, and several family members are

streaming each others music collections. Still there some cool web-based free music streamers out there,

these two come to mine.

http://groovemp3.com/popular-genres

Soundcast is still good,

It's a good thing and a bad thing. The bad thing being if you buy brand new vinyl it will cost you 20 to 30 dollars when an album even in the early nineties would still cost 7.99 to 10.99. No way in hell i'm forking over 20 plus for a single album. The good thing is vinyl is still around period and you have a lot of vinyl heads out there and you can find vintage albums at a cheaper price at some of your local cd stores in lieu of the big box type like Best Buy.

yeah I love vinyl,but I mostly buy used vinyl.There aren't really alot of 'new' releases that I buy anyway,so you won't see me spending 20 plus for a vinyl album.That's crazy,lol.

phunkdaddy said:

TD3 said:

Yet, Vinly is still around, the irony!

Music streaming presently doesn't make much sensee for me, I have everything. Besides, the option for free streaming are humongous. I may consider 8tracks cuz the musical taste of the "DJ's" is refined and

off the beaten path. Tech at present allows , my brothers, our children, and several family members are

streaming each others music collections. Still there some cool web-based free music streamers out there,

these two come to mine.

http://groovemp3.com/popular-genres

Soundcast is still good,

It's a good thing and a bad thing. The bad thing being if you buy brand new vinyl it will cost you 20 to 30 dollars when an album even in the early nineties would still cost 7.99 to 10.99. No way in hell i'm forking over 20 plus for a single album. The good thing is vinyl is still around period and you have a lot of vinyl heads out there and you can find vintage albums at a cheaper price at some of your local cd stores in lieu of the big box type like Best Buy.

Here we go again... greedy MFs. Look vinyl is at best niche market... at best. Six years ago vinyl was selling between $8 / $12 bucks. I'm not paying 20 bucks for any album; a rare collective item sure I'll spend some money but for current/reissued music nope. Paid digital download and/or Torrent here I come.


I don't buy as much music as I use to. I'm still purchasing music from newer jazz artist, I credit the local community school district in Gary IN for that. They have a local jazz pianist ( Bill Foster) who plays jazz Mon-Sat. My kid buy music that that's a 2 for one deal. :

lastdecember said:

cloveringold85 said:

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Best Buy isn't really doing that good anymore. People shop on the internet and competition is tough these days. I see stores closing all the time......I remember the days of going to Best Buy and strolling the music aisles.......same thing for video tapes........I'm old.

Music takes a back seat really to most things in reality. Its not the first thing on peoples list of something they have to get. And the fans that were like that, like you said are older and they dont think that way anymore unless its THEIR artists, I mean an older music buyer is not running to the store or waking up to download a new album by some new artist. For me I will still get anxious for those I love and over the years that has narrowed more and more, I still get into a lot of new artists but it is very fleeting I would lose sleep and be thinking of it like I might for someone I am into. And for todays generation its so NOT about that at all, which I get their is streaming and other media forms plus music now is consumed differently, etc... I mean we can all debate it but I think music is always gonna be there for us and pick what you want but i think the days of going to a store are almost gone.

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That's true. I think as we get older, our interests change -- I used to always be on top of the latest releases and go to B&N, Borders or Best Buy to pick up some new music. I'm really out of touch with a lot of new music -- I listen to what I like and don't really follow trends.

TD3 said:

phunkdaddy said:

TD3 said: It's a good thing and a bad thing. The bad thing being if you buy brand new vinyl it will cost you 20 to 30 dollars when an album even in the early nineties would still cost 7.99 to 10.99. No way in hell i'm forking over 20 plus for a single album. The good thing is vinyl is still around period and you have a lot of vinyl heads out there and you can find vintage albums at a cheaper price at some of your local cd stores in lieu of the big box type like Best Buy.

Here we go again... greedy MFs. Look vinyl is at best niche market... at best. Six years ago vinyl was selling between $8 / $12 bucks. I'm not paying 20 bucks for any album; a rare collective item sure I'll spend some money but for current/reissued music nope. Paid digital download and/or Torrent here I come.


I don't buy as much music as I use to. I'm still purchasing music from newer jazz artist, I credit the local community school district in Gary IN for that. They have a local jazz pianist ( Bill Foster) who plays jazz Mon-Sat. My kid buy music that that's a 2 for one deal. :

I agree, even here about 18 months to 2 years ago, many stores like JB Hifi, our main chain of wrekka stows in Australia and NZ stocked mountains of classic albums on vinyl and sold it for most NZ$40 or so per single album and $70 for a double album - needless to say at those exorbitant pices, it is still there 2 years later sitting dusty and unsold, as most were in rigid plastic wrap and 2 humid Auckland summers have done their damge, the albums are warping in their packaging.

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If these places got rid of their Skytoppical pricing they would sell them, it does not help either the JB's is promoting low quality Crosley Cruisers and other budget (sub $200) record players now as well. It is so much easier to buy a CD of the album (Usually $19 at most and $10 for most non current CD's) than paying $40 or more for a record that might last 5 plays before the fan belt on your Crosley Cruiser or Yangchow 60 plastic record player made by a 5 year old slave in China, dies on you.

cloveringold85 said:

TD3 said:

Fool! You have a lot of puns. I got one of those thangs somewhere in my junk box, now I gotta go find it. That was the shit back in the day.

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I had one just like it. I actually hooked it up to my stereo at the time, because it wasn't the latest and greatest -- I had to make do!

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Memba when we had our CD changers in the trunk of our cars? Ahhh, those were the days!

Sound like my brother. Funny you mention that... I bought my brother all types of Bluetooth adapters for Christmas. I call this fool and told him it was curtains for CD's at B.B. He told me, he's hooked up his portable CD player via Bluetooth to connect to his UE BOOM speaker. I mailed him my two portable CD players.

luvsexy4all said:

what about Barnes and Noble? they have the most supply ive seen anywhere

That's true.. They'll B & N will probably raise their prices.

Adorecream said:

I must be very old fashioned as I don't have any streaming services and have itunes and play music off it, but have not bought a song since 2011, as it seems to hut down my new computer if I do anything with it and I am skilful at engineering computers.

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I bought about 20 CDs each year since the 2000s and love them as they seldom cost more than $20 each, often I burn the CD to my hard drive and itunes and keep it, sometimes playing them in my car. No one in New Zealand has announced this yet and there are racks on racks on racks of CDs at my local wrekka stows.

You can still stream for free there still sites that are web-based. I posted links in this thread, you can still listen to podcast and download them. We had a member (vainandy) I download all of his mix tapes from his podcast/music via iTunes.

You can go into iTunes and retrieve your music folder and place that music into any computer media player you want.

You can either purchase a refurbished or new laptop with Windows 7 OS with a DVD/CD player or you could purchase a refurbished desktop computer or compay desktop server from HD or Dell. Or you could purchase a small Single Board Computer (SBC) hook-up a HDD/SDD, connect a Raspberry Pi (SBC) to your computer and stream your media to your computer, tablet, and smart phone. The SBC are the best, since the stay on 24/7 the cost in electricity is minimal. Raspberry Pi looks like this. The community is very large and supportive, they have upteem tutorial on how to create a media server. If you can read, follow directions, and type.. you can set one up from start to finish in 10 mintes.

https://www.raspberrypi.o...3-model-b/

TD3 said:

luvsexy4all said:

what about Barnes and Noble? they have the most supply ive seen anywhere

That's true.. They'll B & N will probably raise their prices.

No that wont happen because B & N are having issues of their own now with people Buying books. Their prices are high for music, because they have to make something off the CDS plus it benefits them having a member club with % off everything you buy that is how they can hook in a consistent catalog buyer. I mean B & N at this point is the only store that gets 99% of what comes out. Best Buy up till about 3-4 years would get most new releases now if its not Kanye or Taylor or Kendrick good luck finding it, even a new cd from a mainstream group like Fifth Harmony their latest was not in Best Buy for a month.