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rideit

rideit

Bob the Builder
Aug 24, 2004
24,704
12,499
In the cleavage of the Tetons
Of around 400 CD’s.
I thought I would transfer my favorites to FLAC files, but totally lost interest. I’m an audio nerd a little bit, but honestly, I do 90% of my listening on Spotify or Sirius.
What to do with them all besides just hold onto them forever in storage?
First world problems...
 
jdcamb

jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
20,050
8,770
Nowhere Man!
rideit said:
Of around 400 CD’s.
I thought I would transfer my favorites to FLAC files, but totally lost interest. I’m an audio nerd a little bit, but honestly, I do 90% of my listening on Spotify or Sirius.
What to do with them all besides just hold onto them forever in storage?
First world problems...
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I found it to be therapeutic. I went back and thought about shit. Times, places, things. Excellent time waster...
 
Westy

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
56,020
22,048
Sleazattle
In college I traded a 5 tape changer with a hippie for an ounce of weed. I had got it as a b-day gift from my father. I didn't even own any tapes.
 
Montana rider

Montana rider

Tom Sawyer
Mar 14, 2005
1,944
2,615
rideit said:
Of around 400 CD’s.
I thought I would transfer my favorites to FLAC files, but totally lost interest. I’m an audio nerd a little bit, but honestly, I do 90% of my listening on Spotify or Sirius.
What to do with them all besides just hold onto them forever in storage?
First world problems...
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I was going to suggest taking them and adding to my own queue of hard to find indypop CDs from the late 90s, but then I remembered that you broke out of the hospital to follow the Dead during your belated Rumspringa...

I'm not saying you should buy a big bag of weed and dedicate 2 hours per night to cleaning, listening and digitizing them.

But I am not not saying it either...
 
jstuhlman

jstuhlman

bagpipe wanker
Dec 3, 2009
17,343
14,179
Cackalacka du Nord
i have all of mine...probably about the same number. i spent a lot of time grabbing music off of them a few years ago. i got rid of most tapes years ago. my collection of hardcore vinyl is floating around the house. i think the 7”’s are in the closet downstairs; 12”’s in the attic somewhere in a box. possibly warped? what to do???
 
Jm_

Jm_

sled dog's bollocks
Jan 14, 2002
20,164
10,706
AK
I have a pretty large electronic collection, I usually just listen to that on random.
 
CBJ

CBJ

year old fart
Mar 19, 2002
13,173
5,055
Copenhagen, Denmark
I should have sold mine (there are app that will let you scan and sell). I had actually scanned all of them and was ready to ship. I don't even have a CD player anymore and I don't think I will ever use them again. However I have run in to problems like all of the good De La Soul is not on Spotify and I have other CDs that I can't find either but then there is so much other good music I have not listen too before I should test out.
 
Pesqueeb

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
41,833
19,162
Riding the baggage carousel.
I love physical albums. Liner notes are a dying art. I buy mostly CD's but I still love going to the record store, took my daughter just a couple weeks ago. I'm trying to instill love of the physical album in her as well, even if she has the musical tastes of an 11 year old girl. :bad: An old friend just sent us a huge box of CD's as part of a Marie Kondo purge in his house and it felt like Christmas.
 
Sandwich

Sandwich

Pig my fish!
Staff member
May 23, 2002
21,838
7,098
borcester rhymes
If you really want to get rid of them, you may be able to dump them on a record store that sells online on consignment. I have heard of a few places that will sell your crap, giving you a portion of the proceeds, and then you can tell them to just keep the less valuable ones.

That being said, I just went through the process of converting 95% of my CDs to FLAC and it was actually kind of a wonderful experience. I have a lot of music that was poorly or incompletely ripped and re-ripping them with complete album art in lossless format is awesome. I now have ~200 CDs plus all the downloaded music I have on a single 128gb flash drive that goes around with me in my car. Rediscovering some lost music and gaining access to some music I had been given but never ripped/integrated into my electronic devices was cool too.

Now that I have FLACs of all my CDs plus the physical CDs as well, I really don't know what to do with them. Thankfully I have space in the basement to keep them tucked away, and will probably do so until I die and make my kids deal with them.
 
scrublover

scrublover

Turbo Monkey
Sep 1, 2004
3,217
6,985
I've got a similar pile. Down to about half that left to load up onto a spare external drive. Then probably try to donate or at least recycle.

Only ones I plan to keep the physical CD of are one-offs, defunct local bands, etc. Stuff I'd not be able to find again easily.
 
ICEBALL585

ICEBALL585

Bacontard
Sep 8, 2009
6,820
2,081
.:585:.
I still have well over 100 CD's in a box somewhere in my basement. Almost all of those albums I can listen to on Spotify or Amazon Music. I'd love to actually get some cash for them but don't know if it will be worth the hassle of attempting to sell them.
 
TN

TN

Hey baby, want a hot dog?
Jul 9, 2002
14,301
1,353
Jimtown, CO
rideit said:
Of around 400 CD’s.
I thought I would transfer my favorites to FLAC files, but totally lost interest. I’m an audio nerd a little bit, but honestly, I do 90% of my listening on Spotify or Sirius.
What to do with them all besides just hold onto them forever in storage?
First world problems...
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