Josh500 1,615 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 No, hear me out. I'm not talking about giving up your precious music collection, but just the physical CDs. The thing is, I have collected so many books, CDs, DVDs and whatnot in my apartment, I'm starting to be cramped for space. I don't feel like getting rid of my books since I don't like eBooks (I still prefer physical books), but that's not the case with music. I never listen to the CDs themselves anymore. In fact, the last time I actually put on a CD in a CD player might have been in a year that starts with 19--. And since I have already long ago ripped every single CD in lossless format, what's their use? Sure I'll keep the booklets, but why keep the cases and the CDs? They take up only unnecessary space. The music itself is safely on my computer and externally backed up as well. And yet, it's easier said than done. My heart aches at the thought of losing LLL's John Williams albums... But I cannot be the only one who has considered this! Well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Why not just sell them? Bit of a waste just chucking them in the bin. Josh500 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,526 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Only throw the less important/prominent ones out, keep the big ones that mean more to you or look nice or you can can take them out any day and admire them and be shocked and grateful that they came out within your lifetime and came out great! It'd be folly to throw something like the HP set or even perhaps the Blue Box out, that beast became somewhat of a subcultural landmark icon! Josh500 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 No, never. But I do want to size it down a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,526 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 minute ago, Thekthithm said: Why not just sell them? Bit of a waste just chucking them in the bin. Yes! Skin them normies born too late Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, Thekthithm said: Why not just sell them? Bit of a waste just chucking them in the bin. Well, I mean throwing away in the sense of "getting rid of them." I changed the title and OP. 5 minutes ago, Holko said: Only throw the less important/prominent ones out, keep the big ones that mean more to you or look nice or you can can take them out any day and admire them and be shocked and grateful that they came out within your lifetime and came out great! It'd be folly to throw something like the HP set or even perhaps the Blue Box out, that beast became somewhat of a subcultural landmark icon! Hmm yeah. Although I tend to think in extremes. Either keep them all, or get rid of them all! 😅 7 minutes ago, Thor said: No, never. But I do want to size it down a bit. Don't these two sentences kinda contradict each other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 You just need a bigger apartment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 7 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: You just need a bigger apartment! Yeah, eventually we'll move to a bigger place, I guess... And that's another thing. When we do, I don't wanna carry so much stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 You need a butler then! Fabulin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 I don't care about the packaging or booklets and would love the extra space. I have considered it, but until mankind invents a foolproof and failproof backup (hard drives fail), I would never. I've had to rerip my music collection more than once due to improper backup on my part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Those of you complaining about lacking space for CDs, you're obviously putting them somewhere, so what else are you going to put there instead, another table and vase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Married life does not let me buy many CDs so...I'm just getting the william expansions an new releases...giacchino I was getting everything but since he doing lately some films I don't have any interest in I may end up buying just the cool marvel ,Jurassic, Pixar scores from him... I think I could get rid of the few double dips I have and Williams osts that have been expanded...but I would always try to get some money back from them as used cds, tough they are usually in pristine condition... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 Just now, mstrox said: I have considered it, but until mankind invents a foolproof and failproof backup What is foolproof and failproof, though? Nothing in this world is 100%. If a fire breaks out or my apartment gets flooded (God forbid, knock on wood), the backup will be destroyed, but so will the CDs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted September 18, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Luke Skywalker said: Married life does not let me buy many CDs so... You need a better wife... Unlucky Bastard, mstrox and Josh500 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 He knows, but they're all dead! Jurassic Shark and mstrox 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, Luke Skywalker said: Married life does not let me buy many CDs so... Maybe your wife! 😅 I live with my girlfriend (we're not married yet, but we're both open to the idea), and she doesn't care how many CDs I buy. But of course she has her own hobbies and indulgences (clothes and shoes). 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Thekthithm said: Those of you complaining about lacking space for CDs, you're obviously putting them somewhere, so what else are you going to put there instead, another table and vase? Maybe I can unpack some of these other boxes of stuff from my storage - stuff that can't be condensed down to a hard drive that's the size of a book! 2 minutes ago, Josh500 said: What is foolproof and failproof, though? Nothing in this world is 100%. If a fire breaks out or my apartment gets flooded (God forbid, knock on wood), the backup will be destroyed, but so will the CDs! Nothing is, but I've had hard drives fail several times over the past 20 years, and I've never had a fire. In the former cases, the CDs remained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Josh500 said: What is foolproof and failproof, though? Nothing in this world is 100%. If a fire breaks out or my apartment gets flooded (God forbid, knock on wood), the backup will be destroyed, but so will the CDs! You'd probably be able to rip the CD after a flood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 minute ago, mstrox said: Maybe I can unpack some of these other boxes of stuff from my storage - stuff that can't be condensed down to a hard drive that's the size of a book! Ah, you collect boxes. A rare, but respectable hobby. mstrox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 Just now, mstrox said: Nothing is, but I've had hard drives fail several times over the past 20 years, How do they fail, though? All of a sudden, without any appreciable reason, it stops working? The data on it cannot be read anymore? Did you find out why it failed when it did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Power surge... A bad fall... There are mechanical parts inside them that can break mstrox and 1977 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 43 minutes ago, Josh500 said: Don't these two sentences kinda contradict each other? No, I assumed your topic was about ridding yourself of ALL CDs. That will obviously never happen. In fact, I'm thinking about hooking up my old Pioneer DVD/CD player to my stereo again, since the Blu-ray player is crappy at playing CDs. Just so that I can finally play my CDs again. But I want to weed my collection down a bit. I'd probably let some 100 CDs go, and keep the remaining 900. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 minute ago, Luke Skywalker said: Power surge... A bad fall... There are mechanical parts inside them that can break That never happened to me, thank God, but that's another thing to worry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Thor said: the Blu-ray player is crappy at playing CDs How so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 It's a relatively cheap player. Doesn't have the playback abilities of my HiFi Pioneer DVD/CD player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Thor said: But I want to weed my collection down a bit. I'd probably let some 100 CDs go, and keep the remaining 900. Hmmm... That's a bit like deleting all the unnecessary stuff (pics, videos, apps) on your smartphone when your storage space starts running out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Yeah, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, Jay said: How so? The quality of audio playback is mostly about how expensive the DAC is. Unlucky Bastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 10 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: You'd probably be able to rip the CD after a flood. Yeah, if the CDs are still there, and not swept out into the open sea... 😂 Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, Thor said: It's a relatively cheap player. Doesn't have the playback abilities of my HiFi Pioneer DVD/CD player. "playback abilities"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Or being full with lime and dust...like in a river flood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 minute ago, Jurassic Shark said: The quality of audio playback is mostly about how expensive the DAC is. I agree with that, but Thor has tinnitis, and probably wouldn't notice any difference between DACs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Just now, Jay said: I agree with that, but Thor has tinnitis, and probably wouldn't notice any difference between DACs That is absolute bullshit. Tinnitus isn't "deafness". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 Just now, Luke Skywalker said: Or being full with lime and dust...like in a river flood. Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Just now, Thekthithm said: That is absolute bullshit. Tinnitus isn't "deafness". I know, but he's also hard of hearing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 7 minutes ago, Josh500 said: How do they fail, though? All of a sudden, without any appreciable reason, it stops working? The data on it cannot be read anymore? Did you find out why it failed when it did? It's always suddenly, at least for me. A quick google shows that the expected life of an external hard drive is 3-5 years. You can always attempt data recovery from your hard drive, although I've never done that without some files also being corrupted. The safest back-up plan at this point is to ensure that everything is stored in at least 2 hard drives at the same time. Josh500 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Just now, Jay said: I know, but he's also hard of hearing Try not to conflate the two in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, Jay said: I agree with that, but Thor has tinnitis, and probably wouldn't notice any difference between DACs That depends on the quality of the tinnitus. 1 minute ago, mstrox said: The safest back-up plan at this point is to ensure that everything is stored in at least 2 hard drives at the same time. And in the cloud. mstrox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 What, Jay, are you saying there's no difference between a cheap Blu-ray player and an expensive HiFi CD player? Even my tinnitus-affected ears can hear the difference! 1977 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Thekthithm said: Try not to conflate the two in future. C'mon, you don't even have tinnitus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Thor said: What, Jay, are you saying there's no difference between a cheap Blu-ray player and an expensive HiFi CD player? Even my tinnitus-affected ears can hear the difference! No, I wasn't saying that, I asked you what you meant when you said "playback abilities" As JS pointed out the DAC between your particular BD player and your particular CD player could be very different from one another, but there are, of course, also BD players with excellent DACs too (and also CD players with shit DACs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,504 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Ah, OK. Probably bad English on my behalf. I was thinking about the sound quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 minute ago, Jurassic Shark said: C'mon, you don't even have tinnitus. I'm afraid no amount of optimism will kill it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Still? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 It's deep nerve damage, so I guess it's for the long haul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,076 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 7 minutes ago, Jay said: No, I wasn't saying that, I asked you what you meant when you said "playback abilities" It can't play CDs because there's already a DVD in the player. 1 minute ago, Thekthithm said: It's deep nerve damage, so I guess it's for the long haul. It's the milage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 minute ago, Jurassic Shark said: It's the milage. I ran up my milage by 60 years in one moment of home DIY madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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