How many here can still play a CD?

[Staccato]

Always and forever. Wasn't there a song with that name?

 

[Fynn]

CDs were always weird to me. When I was a child, I would constantly listen to cassette tapes, but the moment CDs became really popular, I just stopped listening altogether.
The only CD type format I ever used, were videogames. And a lot of my game consoles could play music CDs too, but I never used them like that really.
My mother actually has a great stereo from the early 90s. My parents have everything digitally now, so I was considering taking that stereo into my possession. Then I'd have a dedicated CD player again. Which I would still probably not use haha

 

[fhm555]

My CD slot in the car is where my phone mount is secured. I just plug my phone into my radio front panel and play itunes through the vehicle system. There is a multi purpose disc reader in the house that plays most any kind of media on a compact disc through a home theatre system.

 

[misterCRUSH]

I am having my first solo bass show on the 9th, and will be having my debut solo bass album for sale at the gig. I am offering it on CD and flash drive. Don't really have any packaging for the flash drive...would be up for any ideas that people might have. I can listen to CD's on my laptop and in our car. I do listen more in our car. Haven't bought one for several years though. Have bought vinyl. Don't do that in my car lol. Hope you are all well. BASS.

 

[Patrice B]

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).

A computer with a DVD/CD player counts? I have three computers with DVD/CD players and two of them are connected to good hifi systems.

I had several DVD/CD players I gave to a friend (for his father to choose from) a couple of years ago.

Almost all our CD’s are digitally copied to my iTunes library and the CD’s weren’t even unboxed from our last moving in 2017 .

So, yes, we still buy (rarely) CD’s but I transfer them immediately to iTunes (ALAC lossless).

 

[Shepsdad]

You mean like this?

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Yeah, in my opinion, listening to music without paying, is the same as stealing from the artist.

I pay for amazon music, it has everything I’ve ever searched for, and the artist gets paid, so I’m not stealing just because I don’t have a bunch of crap rattling around in my vehicle or cluttering up space in the house.

And, if I go to a live show, I always try to buy a physical copy of the bands latest release, or whatever they have for sale. Oh! And I’m an old guy, that used to have tons of CDs, cassettes, vinyl, and even 8-tracks!

 

[J_Bass]

I am having my first solo bass show on the 9th, and will be having my debut solo bass album for sale at the gig. I am offering it on CD and flash drive. Don't really have any packaging for the flash drive...would be up for any ideas that people might have. I can listen to CD's on my laptop and in our car. I do listen more in our car. Haven't bought one for several years though. Have bought vinyl. Don't do that in my car lol. Hope you are all well. BASS.

Why not BandCamp?

I buy a lot from there, both physical and streaming albums. From what I hear, it’s the online stream service that is fairer tongue artists. And on the first Friday of the month (the first or the last, I’m not sure), all the income goes to the artist.

I think bandcamp takes 15% on a digital sale and 10% on a physical one.

You can create codes for download and sell them at the show:
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[Dr. Keebs]

I buy mainly for support and memorabilia, but can listen. For listening, I do iTunes and/or Spotify.

 

[muggsy]

My basement sound system has a Blu-Ray player that also plays CD, SACD, DVD, etc. My desktop computer has an external drive that I use for ripping CDs. And we have two older cars with built-in CD changers. So yes, I can still play CDs, though I rarely buy them any more.

 

[J_Bass]

I pay for amazon music, it has everything I’ve ever searched for, and the artist gets paid, so I’m not stealing just because I don’t have a bunch of crap rattling around in my vehicle or cluttering up space in the house.

And, if I go to a live show, I always try to buy a physical copy of the bands latest release, or whatever they have for sale. Oh! And I’m an old guy, that used to have tons of CDs, cassettes, vinyl, and even 8-tracks!

Of course.

I was talking about using streaming and not paying anything for it.

I buy cds, but I also pay for Spotify and Bandcamp, for instance. I don’t have anything against streaming, I just think that taking someone’s work for free is stealing.

 

[Cadillac_Mike]

Definitely but I gotta learn how to use tapes lol. My 1995 car only has a tape player and my uncle gave me all of his old tapes to use.

 

[DuluthDank]

I thought I had a CD player in my laptop computer for the longest time. Then around 4 years into owning it, I tried to put a CD into it and realized that it's just an empty space where a CD drive could be. It took me 4 years to even attempt to use a CD.

IMO bands these days (unless you are huge) shouldn't even bother with physical music. Just put it all online for free. Maybe people will pay to make it into a show if they like it.

 

[LBS-bass]

I thought I had a CD player in my laptop computer for the longest time. Then around 4 years into owning it, I tried to put a CD into it and realized that it's just an empty space where a CD drive could be. It took me 4 years to even attempt to use a CD.

IMO bands these days (unless you are huge) shouldn't even bother with physical music. Just put it all online for free. Maybe people will pay to make it into a show if they like it.

I put all my original music online and that gives me an easy way to link to it.

If I thought anyone was interested in it, I'd probably do some sort of live show to go along with it, but I don't think that. It would be hard to find the caliber of musician locally to play the stuff the way the people I paid were able to play it.

As it is, it can stay in the black hole.

 

[TyBo]

Sorry, I didn't buy any of it. It was available to us with no cost due to work stuff. Just got lucky that way.

The new tech replaces old tech, and life is always like that, so I don't see the logic in clinging to the old. I've been wireless here for close to 15 years and cable-free for even longer, and I haven't really felt like I've been missing anything much by not having access to a technology that I would only use on rare occasion to listen to locally produced CDs that I'd probably only listen to once. It's just not worth the space they take.

Also, Apple stock has given me a comfortable retirement, so I'm not so negative on them.

I can relate to the Apple stock retirement, anyway. Mom got in pretty nearly on the ground floor, one helluva good investment! When she passed, her estate was split between me and my siblings.

So that was a nice boost. That and some other resources allow me to sit around listening to my CD harvest sometimes. So many sweet flowers in the garden. Or, there is always my phone or the internet. If I'm not minding the sound quality. Or even radio, if they're on good night. We kind of live in an age of miracles, for good or ill. Ahh, the Golden Age of Wireless.

 

[J-Bassomatic]

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).

I still like having the CD. I rip them out with Exact Audio Copy at the best bitrate possible (Storage space is not a problem). Then I put them on a thumb drive and stick it in my cars USB port. It's crude but it works. I do not use Microsoft's' or anyone else's 'libraries'. That's a real mess.

 

[LBS-bass]

I can relate to the Apple stock retirement, anyway. Mom got in pretty nearly on the ground floor, one helluva good investment! When she passed, her estate was split between me and my siblings.

So that was a nice boost. That and some other resources allow me to sit around listening to my CD harvest sometimes. So many sweet flowers in the garden. Or, there is always my phone or the internet. If I'm not minding the sound quality. Or even radio, if they're on good night. We kind of live in an age of miracles, for good or ill. Ahh, the Golden Age of Wireless.

Yeah, i wish we had more. We sold about 1/3 of what we had back in 2009 when the markets were really wonky, just to diversify. That wasn't an awful move, but Apple has outperformed just about every other stock we invested in since.

 

[MrClassicMetal]

Forget vinyl, how old are you, 80?!

As for not paying anything to the artists, I can’t say I agree with that.

If you only listen to music from YouTube, don’t pay for high quality streaming, never heard a high quality cd, it’s natural that the only reason that occurs to you for buying physical formats of music is the age thing.

Artists still get paid when their music is streamed via youtube. Not as much as when their tunes are streamed via a higher quality service, of course.

 

[LBS-bass]

Artists still get paid when their music is streamed via youtube. Not as much as when their tunes are streamed via a higher quality service, of course.

If you have already bought their CD, as many have, then streaming is adding a tiny fraction to their income, I suppose. It's not a bad thing to do. It also helps lesser known artists get noticed by the algorithms that might put them in front of new audiences. So by all means, buy the music. You'll be one of the few who still do.

 

[MrClassicMetal]

If you have already bought their CD, as many have, then streaming is adding a tiny fraction to their income, I suppose. It's not a bad thing to do. It also helps lesser known artists get noticed by the algorithms that might put them in front of new audiences. So by all means, buy the music. You'll be one of the few who still do.

Oh, that was just a bit of general information about youtube.

I've bought a lot of CDs through the years and just recently ordered another bunch, after listening to the artists on youtube. And I rip them all so I can stream them myself.

At home I have one of these:

And there's about 2 TB of flac files stored on it.

 

[Deleted member 394181]

About 3 weeks ago, I just bought a brand new Rotel CD14 MKII Cd player for my home stereo.

I own over 2,000 Cds and I'm going to keep on playing them. For now, I'm not into DACs and streaming.

In 2020, I had to get a new Toyota Rav4. No Cd player! I was and still am very upset about that! (I don't know how to go MP3 and burn unto a thumb drive.)

Finally, I still play Lps with a collection of around 3,000.

I am considering getting another CD player like the one I'm using now that I got in 1995. Sounds better than a newer one I got five years ago. The old one was made in Japan. I think there's a difference. I have a Sansui Equalizer I got in 1985 that broke down. Its hard to find someone to repair it. Got a new eq that in comparison, sucks. It'll have to do. Don't know if I'm just used to the old stuff or what.