How many here can still play a CD?

[Richard Lindsey]

I have a DVD/CD player in my apartment. I rarely use it for either movies or CDs. When I do use it for music, I'm reminded of why I like CDs better than streaming. I'm also reminded that in this respect, I'm a dinosaur, and the music world does not roll this way any more.

I also have a CD player in my car. I don't use that much either, but "not much" is not "never."

Finally, I have a DVD/CD drive on my main laptop, which is 10 years old. Very likely my next laptop won't come with one.

 

[FenderP]

Another viewpoint to add to my previous comments: I did real promotion for my album last year, you need CDs to send to many radio stations. This is true for at least jazz, so pressing a minimum number of CDs (real or CD-R) is necessary. Making some extra on top to sell is cheap at that point.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

I've been having some discussions about recording for the purposes of providing merchandise. Five out of five bandmates, when asked, said they have no way to listen to a CD. My sense is maybe that's true for most of us.

My husband still has a CD slot in his car, but that's the only way I'd be able to listen if I really wanted to.

How about you? Would you be able to listen to a CD if you bought it from a band you liked? Or would it just be a mercy-purchase for support, that you'd never be able to hear (I do lots of those).

‘We do. We still sell them at gigs, so apparently a lot of people still have them. We have also our material on the usual online services as well, Amazon, ITunes for the those that don’t have a CD player.

As I’ve mention we record our gigs and practice sessions, and they are converted to CDs. A it’s my report card, B, we don’t do a lot of gigs and I use them to play along, cementing in our arrangements in the cranium, and keeping my chops up to snuff.

It has been years since I’ve bought a CD. I don’t listen to a lot of music, live or recorded unless it’s something I’ve performed, or something I will be performing. Maybe some smooth jazz as background filler.

It’s really rare for me to sit down and enjoy a piece of art. For me, it’s really hard for me not going into hyper analytic mode.

 

[jnuts1]

Same. I started digitally converting my entire collection, but I don't have the time or interest. I only rip the songs I need to practice with, and put that MP3 on my phone to play over bluetooth. It's a huge project to rip everything to digital when you have hundreds of CDs.

I even gave up on my download of my Ipod. i have a LOT of unique stuff on there i really want but the download was days long.

 

[Notaluthier]

What's a CD?

 

[D.A.R.K.]

Voted car, because that's where I listen to them the most, but also have a player in the house

 

[TroyK]

‘We do. We still sell them at gigs, so apparently a lot of people still have them. We have also our material on the usual online services as well, Amazon, ITunes for the those that don’t have a CD player.

As I’ve mention we record our gigs and practice sessions, and they are converted to CDs. A it’s my report card, B, we don’t do a lot of gigs and I use them to play along, cementing in our arrangements in the cranium, and keeping my chops up to snuff.

It has been years since I’ve bought a CD. I don’t listen to a lot of music, live or recorded unless it’s something I’ve performed, or something I will be performing. Maybe some smooth jazz as background filler.

It’s really rare for me to sit down and enjoy a piece of art. For me, it’s really hard for me not going into hyper analytic mode.

No judgement, but philosophically, I am the opposite. I attentively listen as much as I can. LP, CD, streaming, live music. I want to feed myself other people's art and then take a breath, do my work and humbly produce my own.

It is hard not to be analytical, but it's easier for me with other people's recordings than my own.

 

[JakobT]

Well, I've avoided streaming services so far. As I noted above, part of my philosophy of constantly reducing fixed costs is not to pay subscriptions. If I buy three CDs a month and money gets tight I can stop buying CDs instantly. Ever try to stop an online subscription that's automatically billed to your credit card (which they all require)? How many days do you want to wait on the phone?

I plan to avoid streaming services the rest of my life unless I'm forced into it for fundamental needs like medical care or something. For entertainment, ain't happening.

Like I always say, first principle of financial independence is to avoid fixed costs.

Absolutely - but I was actually thinking from an artist’s standpoint. If you want to distribute music - especially to the younger set - you probably need to get your music onto those services.

 

[Slevage]

I recently through out my 1st CD player from the 80's. It was a portable, high end Sony. Cost about $350. in 1988. It broke, so I replaced it whit a Boom Box for about $29. I play CD's through the PA during breaks and bring my player and powered JBL to ski club functions.

 

[Leonid Nidis]

I think this slot for cds exists at the side of the laptop
My last cd was bought 2001.

 

[BucketOfFish]

Laptop has a drive and gets occasional use. I have an older desktop to resurrect someday (to XP) that has a drive and can use my old sound card/drivers and multi channel system. Car has broken CD player, radio still works! Also have a Yamaha AW16G recorder/mixer /CD burner sitting in a box.
Looking for a functional video cassette player. lol
septuagenarian

 

[LBS-bass]

‘We do. We still sell them at gigs, so apparently a lot of people still have them. We have also our material on the usual online services as well, Amazon, ITunes for the those that don’t have a CD player.

Another viewpoint to add to my previous comments: I did real promotion for my album last year, you need CDs to send to many radio stations. This is true for at least jazz, so pressing a minimum number of CDs (real or CD-R) is necessary. Making some extra on top to sell is cheap at that point.

I have a couple of thoughts on this. I do know artists here who sell physical recordings, CDs and vinyl albums. They seem to be well established artists who are also playing bigger stages and concert halls, as opposed to new-on-the-scene names nobody has ever heard of.

The act in question is a blues-adjacent act with a songwriter who is steeped in that genre but writes more Dylan-esque stuff. He does not have a stellar singing voice, and he hasn't figured out that if he lets someone else who sings better sing some of his originals, they will work better. To me a recording from him is always going to be, at best, a souvenir you buy at a show.

That said, there are other people in the genre with less than stellar voices, but I feel like you could get away with that a lot more easily a few decades ago, and the bar is higher now. I don't think this is an act that will get a lot of radio play, if any. Though there is a possibility that we could be featured on a local show if we have something to send them.

For me, the appeal of this band has always been the live energy we bring to the stage, and the interplay between musicians while we sort of improvise our way through the changes. That's what makes it fun for me; the originals are OK but they aren't going to propel anyone to stardom. I get to sing a few covers, which scratches an itch for me, but I know that if I take too much advantage of that I'll run the risk of taking too much focus away from the BL.

So I walk a delicate line, and I also realize it's not all about me. I'm just not sure that some of the reasons we'd want to have a CD on hand are really applicable to this particular situation. I'd say sweeten the pot and let me sing one or two of my own songs, but I've already recorded those.

 

[Ralph Manak]

(Can listen to CDs at home.)

A rock band I play with had 500 CDs made of their first album, and at the time (about 18 months ago) I wondered what era they were in, culture- and business-wise. So far, all of the very few purchases seem to be family/friend/mercy. They also have merch: shirts, mugs. coasters. I told them they could hold up a coaster and a CD and announce, "Buy a mug or t-shirt and get your choice of coaster, free."

They had the CDs produced to sell, but at the moment they are possibly most useful as loss leaders.

 

[swink]

What's a CD?

By the time you struggle through the steam era I will explain that to you. It is better that you focus on your flints for now.

 

[slagheap]

multi disc player in car and music room. employed frequently, not necessarily daily, but vital for some applications.

 

[OptimalOptimus]

I have a PlayStation vidéo game that can play CD otherwise we have no means to listen to a CD … Spotify and Apple Music offer is so much music for the price of a CD each months

 

[in tune]

I have cd players at home and in the car....Ι listen to vinyl and cassete as well as!

 

[Williethump]

That's what we used to do before we upgraded all our computers. The new ones no longer have slots for any sort of CD.

True that. I'm lucky I inherited my late dad's older laptop and desktop. But stand alone CD players that plug into USB slots are pretty cheap. And used desktop PCs are practically given away if you have storage at your place.

 

[bigjames]

No way to play CDs in the house, only in the car, but I can play vinyls; my daughter loves collecting records and has some amazing ones in her collection.

 

[socialleper]

My car doesn't have a CD player anymore. So I had to rip everything to FLAC files and put it on my phone and a DAP. I use a bluray player as a CD player in my den stereo.
Still have like 600 CDs though. I'm sure they will become cool again in another 10 years or something.