How many here can still play a CD?

[Al T.]

The CD player in my car failed so I can only play them at home.

 

[Leigh Semmens]

If you have a computer chances are you may still have a CD player at home (though they are fewer and further between these days). Again with a slightly older car. A blu Ray player can play CDs too, don't forget. The poll does not allow for selection of both "at home" and "in the car". A more valid question might be, when did you use one last?

 

[superheavyfunk]

My last car was a 2015 and it had a CD player. My car now is a 2022 and it only has the radio and CarPlay/Android Auto.

I haven’t had a laptop or computer with a CD drive in at least 10 years

 

[Sam Evans]

Yep. I downsized my collection quite a bit when I started streaming, but I still have a couple of hundred discs, a core collection of favorites. Sometimes I just prefer the simplicity of throwing a CD on and not screwing around iwth the streaming stuff. Other times, I just don't know what to listen to when I turn on the streaming, I get some decision paralysis from all the options, and the CDs are always a good default.

 

[N4860]

The CD player in my car failed so I can only play them at home.

My wife has the opposite problem. Her car radio stopped working and only works for cd's now so that's all she uses. It's kind of annoying for me using her car to drop the kids off at school and its the same Backstreet Boys cd in there everytime.

I also have a cd player in my car that I use on occasion when I get bored of listening to the radio. I probably have like 20 cds in the car that I rotate through.

 

[SoCal80s]

I have a CD player in my work computer but nowhere else. If I hear a local band that sounds good, I would expect to hear their music somewhere online. Bigger acts I expect to be on Apple Music.

 

[FenderP]

Multiple players at home and also in the car. Did not vote since you cannot select more than one option. Hate vinyl, love CDs and physical media in general. I still listen to things like SACD and DVD-Audio.

Hate lossy but am ok with hi-rez downloads if it is basically how it was recorded. I sold CDs of my last album but also sold 96/24 downloads.

I do not stream. Nothing against it, just not my thing. My album is on all the platforms.

 

[King Harvest]

I haven’t used CDs since approximately 2005. Not sure if my car has a player or not.

I’ve got vinyl and Apple Music in the house and SiriusXM in the car.

 

[Super Bass]

I always play CD's, Cassettes and Vinyl.... mostly cassettes!!

 

[Biggbass]

Yes.
I have a cassette tape player too.

 

[BobKos]

I'm technologically old. I just recently loaded all of my CDs onto an old Apple Airport drive. I access them all through an iPad that it wired to my audio system. It all works really well even if it is ancient tech. In case I get the itch my old Pioneer CD player is still hooked up too...

 

[Lucas Carioli]

I marqued "in my car" but in fact i can put it on my CD-ROM computer, but its not practical. My MP3 collection is the best.

 

[Todd Hamby]

I bought a cd drive for my Mac recently.

 

[Lucas Carioli]

I had an 1993 Gradiente stereo wich i used until broke. The CD was the first to blow up, it was too fragile. That was the problem with these CD devices, didn't last very long. But i still want to have a new/old stereo again choose by finger when the time cames up.

 

[LBS-bass]

I still have a CD player in my home and car. I'm 63, so that might explain things. Also-lots of money invested (after my initial investment in vinyl starting in the late 60's).

One thing I'm wondering about, too. Most of the people I encounter in music are about a decade younger than I am, so that may skew things. They're also the ones telling me that their CDs don't sell at shows.

Our older folks still may have the things they've always used, whereas younger folks may be less inclined to do components in favor of streaming. But who knows? It's an interesting question.

 

[L Anthony]

CD player connected to my audio/home theater system; a couple of Blu-ray players as well; mini CD/cassette/radio component system in the home office; two portable CD players (one of them a 2nd generation Sony Discman from the '80s); CD players in both cars; and a 10 disc CD/cassette boombox my brother bought me in the '90s. Also, there's one in my desktop PC, and I have a portable one for our laptops as well.

I still like the physical CD case and liner notes, so I still buy most of my music on CD, if available.

 

[LBS-bass]

I voted No, but my answer is the same. Every CD that comes into the house gets ripped onto a drive, then stored in a box. My family still buys CD's because they're sold by the indy musicians whose gigs we attend. On several occasions, I have asked the musicians: Suppose your recording costs the same on multiple platforms, which way will actually put the most money in your pocket? The most common answer is: "Buy our CD right here."

All of the ripped CD's get converted into MP3 and stored on a flash drive that plugs into a USB jack in our car. I still don't use streaming in the car because I have a super cheap cell phone plan with limited data.

This is what I would like to do. Just need to get the converter to do it with. None of our computers has a slot for a CD anymore.

 

[PaulS]

Yup, still have my 5 CD carousel player from decades ago. Own over 1200 CDs and listen to them all the time.

 

[hieronymous]

I still have a CD player in my car (2013 Honda Civic) and a portable Phillips CD player that also plays mp3 discs at home. I use Spotify a lot of the time because of the convenience, but I like to listen to CDs when possible - it can be nice not to mess around with my iPhone.

Speaking of mp3s, for the people that rip their CD collections, what format do you do? Are you storing a crazy amount of AIFF files? Or do you convert them to mp3 or some other format? When I first got an iPod around 2002, I ripped a bunch of AIFF files to my computer - and took up too much space!

 

[pbass74]

I still buy an occasional CD at a yard sale for a dollar and rip the music to my library on my PC. Also, have two vehicles with CD players and another along with my home entertainment center which is old enough to have played CDs when they were cool.