Do you still Buy CD's (Music)?

[911boost]

I am curious, do any of the other PP's still buy CD's, or Vinyl, or is everything you purchase music online via down loads or streaming?

I still purchase CD's from time to time, I guess I am old school in that I enjoy having the liner notes and the CD. It also makes it nice since the 911 is just a CD player / radio.

Bill

[Heel n Toe]

Yup... old school here, too. Plus, if you just go for some download of a single song you've heard, you may miss some gems that are on the rest of the album.

[Tervuren]

I normally use youtube to find new music, amazon's digital services to buy it.

Some music I listen to I really want the higher definition of a real CD vs the digital copy. Symphonic Metal doesn't compress and still sound good.

So I do still buy CD's, but I also buy digitally.

[aschen]

Yes I usually by a couple CDs and lps every month

[impactbumper]

No, mostly because they hold space and quality of sound.


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[jcommin]

I do buy CDs occasionally - mostly old stuff I can't get on mp3. I don't do itunes. I own about 50 vinyl albums, the majority of it is jazz/fusion form the 70s and early 80s. I do have several Sheffield Lab direct to disk albums.

For music quality, nothing beats vinyl. For convenience, nothing beats the music cloud or mp3.

[GH85Carrera]

Yep I buy CDs. I buy the disc and rip it to a higher rate MP3. I have ice 125 CDs that I started buying shortly after CDs were first introduced. I have 16 gig of my music on my iPhone and on a thumb drive for the cars. Face it a 911 is noisy and MP3 is close enough for rock and roll.

[RANDY P]

yes, whenever possible VS downloads...

[scottmandue]

A couple a year when I find something new I like.
I have a huge selection of CD's and concert DVD's.
I also have a pretty large selection of vinyl... but currently my turntable is in the garage and the acoustics suck there.
Funny how we bought vinyl in the old days and I often discovered tracks I liked as much or maybe even more that the 'hits' I had bought the album for (the tracks that some corporate suit decided to promote on radio).

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Yep I buy CDs. I buy the disc and rip it to a higher rate MP3. I have ice 125 CDs that I started buying shortly after CDs were first introduced. I have 16 gig of my music on my iPhone and on a thumb drive for the cars. Face it a 911 is noisy and MP3 is close enough for rock and roll.

Glen, I agree. I rip CDs onto my computer. I load them into a 32 gig thumb drive which is strictly for car use.

[wildthing]

I buy CDs if I like 80% of the album. For new songs for my kids, I just buy one song at a time online. I did buy the Frozen soundtrack on CD.

At Amazon, when you by the CD, the digital copy is ready for you to download. No need to rip. (Maybe not all albums.)

I have maybe 800 or so CDs. I've ripped 600 of them. The rest are in a different country.

[911dean]

I still buy CDs on a regular basis and rip them immediately. I just bought one from Morry Sochat & The Special 20s a band I saw Thursday night. I prefer vinyl but feel anything recorded today and put on vinyl would sound the same or better on cd. I'll further test this when I purchase a higher quality disc player. My current turntable makes my cd player sound pretty poor.

[devodave]

Same here for me (buying a CD). Once ripped, you can put a lot of albums on a thumb drive to take with you. My current vehicles (2002 GMC Sierra and 2003 Vibe GT) do not handle the thumb drives, but rentals do, and replacement vehicles are on the horizon.

[aschen]

What format do you guys rip to? Something better than 128kbs mp3 I hope/suggest. I am using lossless flac, but it does take some room

[Dan J]

If I like the artist I try and buy their CD's from their website so they get the most out of it
It's tough making a living in music these days

[Arizona_928]

I buy cds for music that you cannot get in the U.S....
I loathe iTunes. Have lost too much $$ worth of music with their system...

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by aschen

What format do you guys rip to? Something better than 128kbs mp3 I hope/suggest. I am using lossless flac, but it does take some room

I guess that is the speed I use. The album concept is gone IMO. I tend to download singles that are current. but I do appreciate albums - album art and I like to see the writer and musician credits.

[spuggy]

Originally Posted by aschen

What format do you guys rip to? Something better than 128kbs mp3 I hope/suggest. I am using lossless flac, but it does take some room

I rip to MP3s with the highest settings/sample rates, just on principle. The difference in storage for an entire CD is like "so what?"... I used to use cdparanoia and encode with "insane" presets in LAME - although mostly I just use k3b these days, unless the disk is damaged.

I simply can't - and I've tried - with my equipment (Grado SR-80's or Shure 215's through an Askew Labs headphone amp) tell the difference between rips generated that way and lossless formats like AAC, FLAC - or even DAE rips to WAV of Orange Book data/playing the CD directly.

I can hear the difference between 192Kb/s and 256Kb/s. I can't hear the difference between 256Kb/s and 320Kb/s.

Maybe I'm just lucky. It's also possible I'm not an audiophile. But I could clearly hear the loss of quality between the iPod Video (5.5 gen) and the DAC Apple switched to for the iPod Classic (6 gen) - and rejected the latter as a result.

I listen to a fairly wide range of music - from classic rawk through ambient, dub, industrial, jazz, blues, trip-hop, female vocal, motown, big beat etc. Never noticed a problem with any of it, so long as the source was good.

I then upload to Google Play Music. And can then play any of my 26,000 songs or 2500 albums directly over a bluetooth-paired phone to the stereo in the car, or over any web browser. Although if I'm not mobile, I tend to use my SanDisk Zip with an SD card up to 128GB (tiny, light, essentially disposable), or my 5.5 gen iPod (expanded years ago to 240G with an aftermarket tosh; thinking of going SSD mSATA, which gives options up to 1TB with reduced battery consumption/shock resistance to boot).

I mean, right there is what cracks me up - it'd take a hand dolly and two trips to move my CD collection. But I can fit it in my pocket and take it with me - 2-3 times over. Ain't technology great?

[spuggy]

Originally Posted by aschen

What format do you guys rip to? Something better than 128kbs mp3 I hope/suggest. I am using lossless flac, but it does take some room

I rip to MP3s with the highest settings/sample rates, just on principle. The difference in storage for an entire CD is like "so what?"... I used to use cdparanoia and encode with "insane" presets in LAME - although mostly I just use k3b these days, unless the disk is damaged.

I simply can't - and I've tried - with my equipment (Grado SR-80's or Shure 215's through an Askew Labs headphone amp) tell the difference between rips generated that way and lossless formats like AAC, FLAC - or even DAE rips to WAV of Orange Book data/playing the CD directly.

I can hear the difference between 192Kb/s and 256Kb/s. I can't hear the difference between 256Kb/s and 320Kb/s.

Maybe I'm just lucky. It's also possible I'm not an audiophile. But I could clearly hear the loss of quality between the iPod Video (5.5 gen) and the DAC Apple switched to for the iPod Classic (6 gen) - and rejected the latter as a result.

I listen to a fairly wide range of music - from classic rawk through ambient, dub, industrial, jazz, blues, trip-hop, female vocal, motown, big beat etc. Never noticed a problem with any of it, so long as the source was good.

I then upload to Google Play Music. And can then play any of my 26,000 songs or 2500 albums directly over a bluetooth-paired phone to the stereo in the car, or over any web browser. Although if I'm not mobile, I tend to use my SanDisk Zip with an SD card up to 128GB (tiny, light, essentially disposable), or my 5.5 gen iPod (expanded years ago to 240G with an aftermarket tosh; thinking of going SSD mSATA, which gives options up to 1TB with reduced battery consumption/shock resistance to boot).

I mean, right there is what cracks me up - it'd take a hand dolly and two trips to move my CD collection. But I can fit it in my pocket and take it with me - 2-3 times over. Ain't technology great?

[Deschodt]

You can still buy CDs ? Not being flippant, I genuinely haven't seen any in ages... I need to go look at best buy, maybe they're hidden somewhere....