[JohnE]

Remember these? Do any Monkeys still purchase or maintain huge compact disc collections? Or have you all gone fully downloaded?

Extra points if anyone still have cassettes and a player that works...reel to reel? (Dont even get me started on vinyl...the daughter has started a collection, beginning with her mothers old Abba albums...)

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I chucked the tapes, still have vinyl, all the CDs to mp3, but kept the CDs.

 

[jebfour]

Lots of vinyl and CDs, however the CDs have all been ripped. Got rid of all the cassettes a while back and replaced them with CDs or vinyl. Wish I wouldn't have done that though...

 

[scrublover]

Two large plastic tubs of CDs - nearly all ripped and stored in/on multiple things. Slow rainy day project. Going to get rid of them all but the oddball few things from small/local bands gathered over the years that are not easily replaced if our digital copies somehow all get lost/die.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Still have an expanding collection of CD's and a small number of vinyl albums. Everything gets ripped to digital, but IMO, if I'm paying for it, I goddamned well better be getting a physical copy. Plus, I'm still a sucker for good album artwork/liner notes.

 

[Westy]

Still have my old CDs but the only thing I have to play them on is my old desktop computer. Tossed my old CD player when I compared it to various other sources and realized it sounded like crap.

I did recently hear some hipsters talking about how watching movies on VCR tapes was a more immersive and authentic way of watching movies. I LOL'd.

 

[sunringlerider]

Listened to Ride the Lightning last week on tape. I’ve still got a pile of them. My shop radio still plays cds and tapes. Too young for the whole record thing.

 

[jonKranked]

these days if i'm buying physical media its vinyl.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

What I don't have right now that I'd like is a music app for my Samsung S9 phone that'll randomly select albums from my collection and play the whole of each.

 

[ICEBALL585]

Still got a ton of CD's in a box in the attic but haven't touched them in years. We pay for a subscription to Amazon music which has pretty much any album available to listen to anytime you want. I listen to music all day long while working from home.

 

[gonefirefightin]

Since the invention of Spotify premium I have zero multimedia in any physical forms. Even my video collection is tucked away in the bowels of amazons prime always at the ready no matter where I may roam. (Metallica reference in context)

 

[maxyedor]

Kept all my CDs for a long time, but finally had to admit I'd never listen to them again and gave them to Goodwill, same with DVDs. Only CD players I even have anymore are in my truck (broken) and the external drive for my computer (lost somewhere in the closet). Spotify/Pandora/Amazon Music/Youtube streamed to my shitty bluetooth speaker are just too damn convenient.

As much as I'd like to get into vinyl, my hearing is so bad I can't tell the difference between a $10k tube amp system and my knock-off Airpods, so streaming and cheap speakers it is.

 

[maxyedor]

What I don't have right now that I'd like is a music app for my Samsung S9 phone that'll randomly select albums from my collection and play the whole of each.

This would be the holy grail of music apps IMHO. I'm terrible at thinking of what I actually want to listen to, if I could just hit the "Play something good" button and hear the whole album, singles, B-sides etc, I'd be stoked.

 

[eric strt6]

I got nothing

 

[stevew]

i have cd....i have vinyl...

i need to buy a cdr to re rip my cd's...

 

[mykel]

Yes.
Vinyl - check - Thorens turntable.
Cassette tape - check - Nakamichi tape deck.
CD - check - Naim CD player.
Downloads - check - Topping DAC / QNAP NAS.

Lotsa fun stuff, too bad a constant headache makes enjoying it a bit difficult most of the time.

 

[TreeSaw]

I still have CDs, Vinyl and some cassettes. Most of the CDs are ripped to a portable harddrive.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

Got boxes of CDs and tapes. Most made it onto a digital format. But there are those few obscure recordings that are on tape and not available online. And of course I do not possess a tape deck or a record player for my dozen or so albums.

 

[Changleen]

Used to have a massive CD collection in my 20s, wife did too. At one point had two massive racks of CDs. Moved houses a few times, ripped most to MP3, had that for a while. Then came Apple and Spotify. A few years ago we sold the CDs in bulk and I believe I still have the MP3s somewhere but basically Apple Music is the repo these days. It’s very good, even most of my obscure damce music is on there. I have two known albums on MP3 that I can’t find on digital; a Hooj Choonz compilation album and a possibly bootleg Beasties Japanese album.

 

[sunringlerider]

I got nothing

Wait, u no music listen?

 

[eric strt6]

Wait, u no music listen?

that's why at age 65 per my doctors I have the hearing range of a young teenager.

 

[Changleen]

that's why at age 65 per my doctors I have the hearing range of a young teenager.

Hey Eric! Want some Ice cream?

 

[stevew]

Wait, u no music listen?

no doubt eric saw some fantastic shows live under the influence of some of the finest drugs...

 

[HardtailHack]

I have maybe 300 CDs, since COVID is over I have enjoyed flicking through the CDs at the local music shoppe but the selection is shrinking.

Never understood vinyl, it's big to store and you have to have decent gear to make it sound okay.
A friend bought a record player from Aldi and gave me the vinly sounds better spiel, it sounded like a fart in a bucket, not because vinyl is bad but what he bought was, it was atrocious.

I like digital everything and Class D amplification.

EDIT, I did get offered some monster CD changer a few months back but it was way too big considering how little I listen to CDs, I do the naughty power hungry streaming option.
A mate was asking for help with a 100disc Jukebox a few weeks ago, I had a look at the schematic and deemed it too hard to diagnose via text messages and was too far away to go look at.

 

[eric strt6]

no doubt eric saw some fantastic shows live under the influence of some of the finest drugs...

that I did although by the time I was in my mid 20s I got tired of my ears ringing and started wearing foam earplugs to shows

 

[sunringlerider]

that's why at age 65 per my doctors I have the hearing range of a young teenager.

Crazy, I sit quietly in my office with headphones on 9 hours a day rocking out to something. Not sure I could make it with out it.

Same on the earplugs. I’d prefer to be able hear when I get older.

 

[eric strt6]

Crazy, I sit quietly in my office with headphones on 9 hours a day rocking out to something. Not sure I could make it with out it.

Same on the earplugs. I’d prefer to be able hear when I get older.

I transport dialysis patients all day. no music. I have to hear sirens, tires squeeling, horns , and my wheelchairclients telling me they are starting to bleed ( usually old with weak voices) or if they start to have other medical issues. Besides there are plenty of conversations and other shit going on in my head to keep me occupied LOL

 

[CBJ]

I have discs on all my bikes

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

that I did although by the time I was in my mid 20s I got tired of my ears ringing and started wearing foam earplugs to shows

You made the right call. After three plus decades of metalsmithing I now have to wear cans just to use a shop vac. And if I have any goddamn sense I’ll learn sigh language before all of my hearing is gone. #grumpyoldbastardproblems

 

[SkaredShtles]

I have dics on all my bikes

Misspelled, but I get your meaning.

 

[CBJ]

Misspelled, but I get your meaning.

Corrected. Old man too tired to spell tonight.

 

[JustMtnB44]

I have maybe 100 CDs. All have been ripped to FLAC and stored on my NAS. If I can buy albums as a FLAC digital download, I do that. But if I can only buy MP3, then I buy the CD and rip it myself.

I mostly load the albums onto a USB stick for use in my car. I have a small NUC computer as part of my living room entertainment system so I use that to play back the digital albums if I want to listen at home. But I do have an old 5 disc CD changer and receiver in the garage, which is the only place I actually use the CD's.

 

[6thElement]

Mine are in a box in my parents attic 4500 miles away.

I should probably do something about that...

 

[jdcamb]

You made the right call. After three plus decades of metalsmithing I now have to wear cans just to use a shop vac. And if I have any goddamn sense I’ll learn sigh language before all of my hearing is gone. #grumpyoldbastardproblems

In the same boat. I play it loud. My neighbor's hate me.

 

[jimmydean]

I have at least 100 CD's in a box somewhere that hasn't been unpacked in like 5 moves. I have a few in my holder that I listen to when when out of radio range.

The Corvette has a cassette player, the 10 disc changer died a few years after new, I'm sure.