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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 17:40:50 GMT
Only in the event that they become too badly damaged and therefore unplayable.
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Post by Admin on Jun 15, 2017 7:14:29 GMT
No. Never. Here's mine several years ago, and the number has probably quadrupled since then if not more and still growing. I'll never throw them out.
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Post by Vodkie on Jun 15, 2017 16:15:07 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 15, 2017 21:43:12 GMT
Not so much anymore. Haha. I ran out of shelf space a long time ago, and now they're kinda all over the place. But still somehow I know where everything is.
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Post by Vodkie on Jun 15, 2017 23:07:19 GMT
Not so much anymore. Haha. I ran out of shelf space a long time ago, and now they're kinda all over the place. But still somehow I know where everything is. Lol my cds are in a dresser stacked like folded t-shirts
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Post by Admin on Jun 15, 2017 23:09:51 GMT
Not so much anymore. Haha. I ran out of shelf space a long time ago, and now they're kinda all over the place. But still somehow I know where everything is. Lol my cds are in a dresser stacked like folded t-shirts My dresser is filled with tour books. lol
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Post by Jayman on Jun 15, 2017 23:18:28 GMT
I've never thrown out a cd. I don't actually use cd's anymore. I've imported them all into iTunes and backed it all up and only use an IPOD. But I will end up trashing my cd's since I know longer need them. The official ones maybe I'll keep. The burned ones do go bad after a certain amount of years. I've had official cd's go bad on me too. It's a crappy format.
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Post by mslo79 on Jun 16, 2017 5:36:28 GMT
Actually toss them, instead of giving them to a friend or selling them. For years I've hung onto CDs so rigidly. Haven't played some in over a decade but "well, I might listen to it again some day." Lately I've been better at just giving up and tossing ones I'm no longer interested in. Yeah, i done the same thing within the last couple of months or so but... i still keep ones i either listen to or might have a reasonable chance to still listen to. but those that i don't really care about all that much i just straight up dumped into the trash can which basically means those CD's are from the early 2000's at the newest with most being from the 1990's. p.s. but before i dumped them i just ripped them to my computer hard drive in FLAC format on the slim chance ill use em. that way i still got a high quality source file.
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Post by Vodkie on Jun 16, 2017 6:45:19 GMT
even though I still buy cds, i rarely use them anymore
I'm paranoid about computers and hard drives crashing, so I still buy physical format. The laptop I owned in 2012, I had more music than the laptop had in memory. My ipod, every time i synced new music, every file on there, if the ipod couldn't find the file location, it would be removed from the ipod.
So when the music started taking up more space than my hard drive had, I backed it up to a usb hard drive and made sure that hard drive was plugged into the same port every time. Then one day in april 2012, I come home after buying a cd, Rip it, go to add it to my ipod and The hard drive freakin' crashed while i was out. Then 2 months later, the laptop completely crashed as well.
So I buy cds and then rip them to flac, wav or apple lossless and listen more on my computer than the actual cd
Plus mp3 is compressed quality and digital stores do not offer lossless. i don't believe in paying the same price as a cd for lower quality
So I only buy digital if i just want one song or if it's an independent artist who can't get their music distributed on disc.
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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2017 7:46:05 GMT
even though I still buy cds, i rarely use them anymore I'm paranoid about computers and hard drives crashing, so I still buy physical format. The laptop I owned in 2012, I had more music than the laptop had in memory. My ipod, every time i synced new music, every file on there, if the ipod couldn't find the file location, it would be removed from the ipod. So when the music started taking up more space than my hard drive had, I backed it up to a usb hard drive and made sure that hard drive was plugged into the same port every time. Then one day in april 2012, I come home after buying a cd, Rip it, go to add it to my ipod and The hard drive freakin' crashed while i was out. Then 2 months later, the laptop completely crashed as well. So I buy cds and then rip them to flac, wav or apple lossless and listen more on my computer than the actual cd Plus mp3 is compressed quality and digital stores do nt offer lossless. i don't believe in paying the same price as a cd for lower quality So I only buy digital if i just want one song or if it's an independent artist who can't get their music distributed on disc. Now there's a man who knows what's up. Ditto to everything you just said, but I rip only to FLAC, single file with cue sheets. I'll only split them into tracks when I want to put them on a portable player, such as an iPod or my phone.
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Post by Jayman on Jun 16, 2017 12:30:33 GMT
I never used FLAC. I just use apple lossless. I know digital stores don't offer lossless, but I think the apple itunes store is like a 224 bit rate or something like that. Which is good enough. I not only backed up all my stuff to a usb drive, I also backed up 2 copies to dvd as data discs. So I have it in basically 4 places if you count the hard drive. I also plan on backing them up again to disc every 5 years just in case those discs go bad. I know it's scary to lose all your music so I am not taking that chance.
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Post by alpha128 on Jun 16, 2017 15:48:27 GMT
I buy cds and then rip them to flac, wav or apple lossless and listen more on my computer than the actual cd Plus mp3 is compressed quality and digital stores do nt offer lossless. i don't believe in paying the same price as a cd for lower quality So I only buy digital if i just want one song or if it's an independent artist who can't get their music distributed on disc. Along the same lines, I only buy music in the digital format if the album is: - Really good
- Not available in the CD format.
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Post by Vodkie on Jun 16, 2017 16:09:56 GMT
Along the same lines, I only buy music in the digital format if the album is: - Really good
- Not available in the CD format.
lol. I don't think i'll ever buy an album in full digital again unless i have to because it's an independent artists without a CD or vinyl distribution. I did it once with Weird Al's 2011 release "alpocalypse" because I bought the vinyl and amazon mp3 sold it for 3.99 I never used FLAC. I just use apple lossless. I know digital stores don't offer lossless, but I think the apple itunes store is like a 224 bit rate or something like that. Which is good enough. I not only backed up all my stuff to a usb drive, I also backed up 2 copies to dvd as data discs. So I have it in basically 4 places if you count the hard drive. I also plan on backing them up again to disc every 5 years just in case those discs go bad. I know it's scary to lose all your music so I am not taking that chance. 256 usually. Now there's a man who knows what's up. Ditto to everything you just said, but I rip only to FLAC, single file with cue sheets. I'll only split them into tracks when I want to put them on a portable player, such as an iPod or my phone. I've been using Apple Lossless a little more than flac these days because it makes it easier to be able to transfer to my iPhone or iPad without having to re-convert the file. Plus, the last CD i tried to rip to flac with windows media player, It wasn't even in their database. So I didn't want to have to manually label every song's name. So I used Apple lossless since it was in iTunes' database
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Post by Jayman on Jun 18, 2017 17:25:50 GMT
That's right 256. It's good enough.
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Post by Vodkie on Jun 18, 2017 19:20:28 GMT
That's right 256. It's good enough. Lol not for me.
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Post by izon on Jun 18, 2017 20:50:41 GMT
Apart from things like food/packaging, etc, I rarely throw out anything. Still got all my CD's, tapes (both audio and VHS), all my old video games. I even have quite a few demo discs from PC game magazines in the 90's. I don't realistically have enough HD space to store even 5% of my audio/data CD's, but some of the more rare/important ones are ripped in full BIN/CUE (all data from the sector, even the data not really worth saving, you never know).
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Post by Vodkie on Jun 19, 2017 2:58:10 GMT
if a deluxe anniversay edition comes out with extra stuff, I might sell the original version to fye or something, lol
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jul 9, 2017 19:14:02 GMT
Apart from things like food/packaging, etc, I rarely throw out anything. Still got all my CD's, tapes (both audio and VHS), all my old video games. I even have quite a few demo discs from PC game magazines in the 90's. I don't realistically have enough HD space to store even 5% of my audio/data CD's, but some of the more rare/important ones are ripped in full BIN/CUE (all data from the sector, even the data not really worth saving, you never know). Yes, same here. I've still got old magazines (fun to re-read for nostalgia), my old VHS tapes, my old V-Tech toys, etc.. ...I even keep packaging when it comes to things like game consoles.
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