How many here can still play a CD?

[LowActionHero]

I have one in my car, rarely use it.
I have one in my stereo downstairs, rarely use it.
I have one in my xbox/ps upstairs, RARELY use it.

I would get a CD from a band I liked, to have a physical copy, but I'd immediately rip it and put the digital copy on my phone.

 

[Spectrum]

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 have a CD player in my truck, one on my desk at work, a 3-disc changer in my living room (which is currently jammed, planning to fix), a CD burner drive in each of my computers, and a really nice CD player hi fi component from the 80s or early 90s which my dad bought. That whole system is just waiting for me to rearrange my living room to make room for it.

When I have to buy a new computer I go custom and make sure it has an optical drive. (If I could, I'd put a 3.5" floppy drive in it, too, just because...)

If you want a plain jane portable CD player they are dirt cheap on Amazon. For a tiny bit more you can get them with bluetooth and all that stuff. Try to find a decent condition affordable reel-to-reel tape deck. MY dad got rid of his in the 70s or early 80s and boy it'd be nice to have kept it now.

 

[Doug P]

When you have 700+ cd’s and your 2011 Tahoe has a player and you still have one in your home system…… yea I keep buying them too. Habit I guess

 

[Spectrum]

Hell, I even got old 45's and 78's (records, that is ), and a player to hear them. Plus a cassette deck (and tapes), several CD players (one in the car). Got that covered. Yeah, I still listen to stuff in those formats ...

78's for the win!

My 1915 Victrola:

 

[Spidey2112]

Just like the library, I consider all sources of input, in an effort to learn... CD's are still a resource that you can touch, play fetch with the cat from the sun's reflection off them, impromptu frisbee tournaments, etc.

 

[perfektspace6]

Oh yeah. This is my kind of thread but I need an option in the poll for "yes, everywhere." The thread made my day actually.

Let tell you about my CD players. I have one in each vehicle (2). I have a stereo system in my living room with a CD player. And I have a USB connected CD/DVD player in my home studio and another in my office. Finally, I have a boom box when portability is needed. So six in total. I have not gravitated to streaming services. All I buy are CD's. Sometimes the CD comes with a free digital download I can stream which is nice but it is random.

If you are asking yourself why I would do this when I could have access to so much more music with a streaming subscription the answer is pretty simple:

• I like having the physical media.
  
• I am still a fan of album oriented music and like to hear the whole product which I find challenging with the pull of streaming to move from artist to artist.
  
• It helps my favorite artists out more than streaming.
  
• CDs sound a little better than some streaming versions but if you A/B'ed them I am not sure I would consistently pick up the difference so I would say this is not a major factor.
• It is not a nostalgia thing. I hate nostalgia but have never been interested in shifting totally to digital. Maybe at some point it will be required and then I will because...

...As a frequent purchaser of CDs I will tell you that it has become more challenging in the last 3-5 years to get CDs at decent prices. Particularly, older CDs that are no longer being re-pressed. So at some point out of necessity I may shift over. Not the end of the world but not my preference.

 

[Acoop]

I had to learn a back of songwriter's songs for a recording we did and I did it all on the kitchen table with my bass, my laptop that has a CD player built in. And it worked out good but, had he handed me a cassette tape, forget about it..

 

[FenderP]

I now wish I'd added a question about age group because I feel like there's a big question mark there.

To a degree, it does not matter. I am 51. Most of my friends who are in my age range do not own a CD player or buy CDs. Most do not even buy vinyl (which I hate anyway) or any kind of physical representation of music. They stream and don't even really download. That's how most people are. People who like physical media of any kind (CD, vinyl, cassette, etc.) tend to be a bit different but that's not to say they also don't stream, download, etc.

TL;DR it depends

 

[HolmeBass]

Crappy boom box in the jam room, nice CD player in my home stereo, and a player in my car. When I finally get a new car that might not have a CD player? But my wife has a relatively new car it can still play CDs, so there’s hope.

I better buy my new car soon, lol.

 

[dannylectro]

External Apple SuperDrive plugged into Mac desktop

 

[micahwc]

All three of my cars have CD players.

 

[TyBo]

78's for the win!

My 1915 Victrola:

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They are cool - the first recorded sonic mass media. Those recordings often pack a punch, with the rougher, faster spinning mono mojo. Century old tech, and it still does its job. Kinda scratchy, but you learn to not listen to that. I transferred some 78's a number of years ago ... to cassette! . Which is now several tech generations out of date itself. At some point I'll have to digitize those . So little time, so much to do.

I own this one (well, one just like it). Recorded by Bessie in 1925. Handed down from my dad. Loved this one as a kid, that title!

 

[Altitude]

This system should work...until the aliens come with their electromagnetic rayguns to destroy everything in the Cloud.

There is no cloud, really. The data’s just on somebody else’s servers.

 

[GretschWretch]

I have CD players, I have audiocassette players, I have turntables. The only time I stream is when my nose is runny.

 

[Sam Evans]

It just occurred to me that the CD player I have with my stereo system is pushing 30 years old. That's one damn good CD player.

 

[red_rhino]

I have one in my car, but it's broken. I have a USB DVD/CD player I can connect to my Mac. There's also a DVD/CD player somewhere in a box in the garage, I think. So yeah, in a pinch, I can make it happen, but I mostly play music from my devices over bluetooth connected headphones these days.

 

[conttador]

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’m an “audiophile” so I have a couple of UD players. These play CDs, SACDs, Bluray & DVD. If you have a bluray player or DVD player, even most games consoles will play CDs.

 

[Space Pickle]

I have a CD player!

But I don't really want to buy your band's CD.

 

[ElectroVibe]

My parents got their first CD player in 1992 while I was in college. By that time I had over 1000 cassettes and continued to buy them for several more years. I would eventually only obtain a hundred or so CDs and I never really listened to music much after that point anyway. At least not in terms of albums. Especially after 2000.

Since my last move about 10 years ago I've barely touched my CDs. I'm going to get rid of most of them. I went through the same thing with my cassettes years ago. This is a bittersweet subject for me.

 

[bassist4dalord]

My wife’s Honda Odyssey has a Blu-ray player that can play CDs, but that’s usually occupied

Different times for sure.