How many here can still play a CD?

[MichelD]

Needed a new portable household radio a couple of years ago and it came with a CD player and a cassette player! It was great to be able to dig out my old Patsy Cline and George Jones tapes.

 

[Discount Bassy]

I have a USB CD player for my PC. I've found bulk rate, cheap, low capacity thumb drives good for music distribution.

 

[Bob_Ross]

All three of my computers have optical disc drives that can play a standard Red Book CD, and all three have a dedicated audio interface or DAC, so I don’t really miss not having a “normal” CD player handy

…I mean, I do still own a normal CD player, I just haven’t unpacked it since the last time I moved 10 years ago, so I honestly don’t even know if it still works!

 

[prowla]

I have a Naim CDS2 player.
I haven't used it for a couple of years, though.

 

[ritz]

At home and in my car.

 

[brisonic]

This is part of our CD collection.

IKEA?

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

CD players in house practice room, in my shop, and car.

 

[twinjet]

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 bought a weirdly modern CD player (USB charged) from the thrift shop just to listen to a new album from a local jazz artist. Unfortunately it isn't the best quality, so I may still upgrade.

 

[farace]

Yes. I also have a turntable, a cassette deck, and an 8-track player (though it needs a new belt). Somewhere in the basement I have a reel-to-reel, and an old Victor RCA turntable that only plays 45s. Oh, and a few wind-up phonographs for 78s. Oh, and a DAT deck that needs work. What I don’t have is a wire recorder.

 

[Jeff Scott]

IKEA?

No IKEA, here. Custom cabinets from a local place. The stereo stand I got from Rogersound Lab in Santa Monica when I lived in L.A. in the '80s. All the stereo components I bought while in L.A.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I have a Naim CDS2 player.
I haven't used it for a couple of years, though.

What's in a Naim, anyway?

Yes. I also have a turntable, a cassette deck, and an 8-track player (though it needs a new belt). Somewhere in the basement I have a reel-to-reel, and an old Victor RCA turntable that only plays 45s. Oh, and a few wind-up phonographs for 78s. Oh, and a DAT deck that needs work. What I don’t have is a wire recorder.

A long-time friend of mine has a fully operational wire recorder, maybe two.

 

[farace]

What's in a Naim, anyway?

A long-time friend of mine has a fully operational wire recorder, maybe two.

Sometime in the past, someone was cleaning out a closet in our town hall and came across what looked simply like an old spool of wire. It nearly got tossed, when someone said, “hold on a second,” and found someone with a working wire recorder. It turned out to be a recording of one of the town fathers reciting an abridged copy of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. It’s now been reproduced and copies are available for purchase in the historical society museum room. On cassette.

 

[GazzBass]

What's a CD?

 

[Williethump]

I don't 'play the CDs I buy at charity 2nd hand stores, flea markets and yard sales for .50 -- $3.00usd. My computer running Linux rips them into mp3 format for me. And my Samsung tablet and cell phone play them for me via nice headphones and JBL Charge5 Bluetooth speaker.
Mighty fine sounds, and all my music I store locally on my Samsung A11 phone (with EARPHONE JACK!) residing on a tiny mini SD card. The CDs I store in boxes as backup in case the mp3 files get corrupted. I'm old and all the music I like is old so I just can't see me ever PAYING lots of simolean US Ameros for music already in digital format. Or using an artist-ripoff 'streaming' service like Spotify to curate my music experience for me. Get out of here with that idea, corporate AI. You don't know me at all. So, no, I never 'play' CDs, but I depend on them for my musical listening pleasure.

 

[Ellery]

4 CD players at home, 1 of them is a 5 CD changer, 2 of them play through old school home stereo systems, a well as a turntable and dual cassette deck.

 

[mcnach]

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 can play CDs, at home and in the car, but what generally happens is that any new CD gets ripped and I listen to the music as mp3 or even wav now that space is not that much of an issue. I tend to use SD cards for the car (or Spotify), and at home just play from the phone via bluetooth into... any of a bunch of systems around the house.

I still buy CDs sometimes, but they have become more of a thing to have rather than use.

 

[Micha84]

I voted no. I could if I really wanted to, but not without setting some things up first. I have a laptop (that I don't use anymore) with a DVD drive and a DVD player (that I don't use anymore) connected to my tele and I am sure that if I check the basement there still is an old stereo deck with a CD changer.
It is a shame, though, because I was quite proud of my CD collection and liked to display the discs that were currently in heavy rotation in my living room. The comfort of streaming just won the day, in the end.

 

[lunarpollen]

If you own a DVD player, you can play CDs. Also, every computer and laptop I've ever owned had a DVD drive built in. My work loaner laptop doesn't have one built in, but they provided me with a USB external drive for reading/burning discs. An external drive like that runs for $20 - $30 nowadays, so it's well worth the investment if your computer doesn't have one built in.

My car has a CD player, but I never use it unless I buy a CD at a show and want to listen to it on the way home. I always rip my CD purchases to my hard drive as mp3s and if I want the music available for listening while driving, I copy the files onto the microSD card in my phone (I think it's a 256 GB card). I currently have over 22,000 tracks stored on that little card in my phone, so I never even rely on the radio for listening to music while driving, I just plug my phone into the aux port (it's a 2006 car so it doesn't have built-in Bluetooth like most modern vehicles) and I will always hear songs that I will enjoy.

Oh I almost forgot, I have a PlayStation 4 too, so I could always use that to listen to CDs if I wanted to also

 

[gricko]

yes for having a cd player, but did not buy new cd in more than a decade. new records would purchase on vinyl if available. if not - bandcamp.

 

[GretschWretch]

Yes. I also have a turntable, a cassette deck, and an 8-track player (though it needs a new belt). Somewhere in the basement I have a reel-to-reel, and an old Victor RCA turntable that only plays 45s. Oh, and a few wind-up phonographs for 78s. Oh, and a DAT deck that needs work. What I don’t have is a wire recorder.

I have two or three wire recorders, salvaged from my late father's heshed.