Bye Bye CD's. (2 Viewers)

[pete]

99% of my CDs live in boxes in the attic. The rest are waiting to join them. Everything has been ripped to mp3 BUT I'm infinitely more likely to buy a cd than I am an mp3 because i like getting something tangible for my cash BUT the last few pc games I've bought were on Steam rather than boxed.

I don't know what to think anymore.

 

[ann post]

CD's are ripped and then put into deep storage.
mp3's don't take up any room, are totally portable and don't collect dust.

in fairness, things on HD do actually occupy physical space, just a very small one.

 

[pete]

in fairness, things on HD do actually occupy physical space, just a very small one.

All my stuff is going up on Google Music right now.

 

[ann post]

All my stuff is going up on Google Music right now.

so your going to rent your music off your ISP for the rest of your life? cool.

 

[pete]

so your going to rent your music off your ISP for the rest of your life? cool.

Rent? Marginal cost of €0 dude.

 

[ann post]

ah well when someone gives me the internet for free i'll be mad into it. is it cool for streaming to multiple buildings from the same account?? could be a way to finally bring the oulfella into the 80's.

 

[pete]

It's tied to your google / gmail account so you may not wNt to

 

[ann post]

down with that sort of thing.

 

[Anthony]

I wonder if when you listen to your google music you are actually listening to your google music? I can't imagine them keeping 25 million copies of Back In Black on servers. Also I'm sure google are keeping track of what you listen to, to add to their file on you.
Listened to the Macworld podcast all about iTunes Match, all very confusing. You don't have to upload anything that is part of the iTunes catalogue etc.

 

[Goodbye]

ah sher, its the future, embrace it.

We don't have flying cars but you can read a book on a telephone, go figure

 

[magicbastarder]

i still like having my CDs out; i've about 800 so it's not a massive collection, and i don't buy nearly as many as i used to. but there's a definite difference taking out a CD and listening to it than there is flicking through a directory listing to choose your listening.

 

[Goodbye]

Also I'm sure google are keeping track of what you listen to, to add to their file on you.

Judging by their recommended music for me underneath my uploaded collection, I recon the bots have a lot to learn.
Lenny Kravitz? Counting Crows? Wolfmother? Seriously?

 

[GO]

Santino...admit it..you're partial to a bit of Counting Crows

 

[Goodbye]

I couldn't tell you the difference between them and Hootie

 

[GO]

NICE ONE!!

I've decided to continue with cd's.

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?b...bout_to_abandon_the_cd_1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

 

[Anthony]

In the future will we fetishise them in the same way some people do vinyl today?

Absolutely. without doubt.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i dunno about that, they look shit

 

[JohnnyRaz]

i love a bit of tangibile me. i still buy a newspaper every day ffs!
buying secondhand cds is deadly as well (i miss city discs)

 

[GO]

Can you clean a cd with glue though?Thats the big question....

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[RayRay]

Can you clean a cd with glue though?Thats the big question....

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Id be too scared to do that to most my records