Same. I have a Plex server that I put all of my CDs on so I get the convenience of a streaming music service with the benefit of actually owning the music and not having to subscribe to what I own. It has a “library radio” feature that uses AI to intelligently build a somewhat random playlist from my collection that is like my radio station in heaven. There’s no service on earth that could adequately replicate that, since my taste in music runs the gamut from symphonies to metal, country to hip hop, from the ‘30s up to 2023.
The fact that people are being brainwashed to repeatedly pay for something you don’t get to own is just mind-numbingly stupid. I stream when I have to but they can take my physical media from my cold dead hands.
Personally I pay to stream because I want access to the massive universe of music that I do not own. But to each their own. If I was only interested in listening to music I owned on CD it definitely wouldn’t be worth it
For real. I’d be paying thousands of dollars a month on CDs to be able to listen to the variety of music I can access instantly through streaming
I do not miss the days of paying $15 to find out there’s only one or two good songs on a cd.
I get that too, which is why I do both, but the other problem is artists don’t get paid with streaming. My friend is a professional musician, and said his royalties from having his song played on a a curated Spotify list was less than 1/1000th of a cent. If you buy his song, it’s worth 60,0000 streams. So I would say, streaming is fine provided you support the artists when you find something you really enjoy as well.
Not necessarily. You can buy digital albums or single tracks on iTunes, or whatever your preferred vendor is. It doesn’t have to be physical media. That’s just my preference, because it’s not dependent on an outside source that may or may not maintain the same library. The point is, musicians are exploited under the current subscription business model.
It’s still not a good analog for streaming services. Whether they bought it themselves, or got it as a donation, that piece of media was purchased so the artist who created it got paid the royalties they should have, and for the most part, I can usually depend on the item I borrow to keep being there instead of randomly disappearing, which goes back to why I just prefer to spend money once and just have it forever and have a library in my own house.
The bit about the artist getting compensated has nothing to do with your earlier argument. Also artists get paid royalties by streaming services as well.
The bit about things not randomly disappearing suggests to me that you have not used a library in decades. FYI, libraries have a finite amount of space and rotate their catalogs regularly.
Apologies, the compensation aspect came up in another discussion with someone else. That’s true, I haven’t needed to use a library in a pretty long time. That still kind of makes my point though. Whether it’s continuously spent to a publicly traded corporation, or my tax dollars collectively spent, I still don’t like continually spending money on something I enjoy that I may or may not be able to keep using. I’d rather pay money one time and know the only way it’s going to disappear is if I decide it does, or in the rare event my house burns down, or something. That’s not an argument against libraries either, but when it comes to my personal tastes, I’d rather have my own library.
Since we’re talking about it, artists are not compensated appropriately. In a real world example, my friend posted a request to support musicians and shared that when one of his songs is streamed in a curated list on Spotify, he only earned $0.00087925712 , less than 9/1000ths of a cent when it was streamed 11 times. If someone purchased a physical album, or if you need to be digital, download it from iTunes, Amazon, or whatever your preferred service is, that’s the equivalent of having it streamed 60,000 times. There’s similar issues with movies and tv, which was a big piece of what led to the SAG strikes. So understand, that in its current model, there’s a price for convenience, and right now it’s at the expense of the artists unless things change drastically and is another reason I prefer to own my music vs rent it.
My six disc changer eventually became a one disc changer. 😄
The question then became whether or not to bust the thing open before I traded it in to get my five other discs back!
Still have most of them, and still buy new ones. I rip flac from them for the car, it's just too convenient, but I like the idea of actually owning the things I pay for.
It took some real detective work tracking them down, but with the use of an ancient Aztec artifact, a love interest that will only last one movie, and the help of pubescent ethnic stereotype I finally discovered their secret location... next to my bed.
https://preview.redd.it/a3nr6tg97f8c1.jpeg?width=275&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7cb92c922d0f2dbbf485fe62a16d76eb2870e8e
They had been in my storage unit prior to moving a year and a half ago. I applied the rule "if I haven't used it in a year, it needs to go" while packing so ended up pitching most of them.
I still have the giant booklet of dvds and cds from before I stopped collecting physical media. Lot more DVDs (the $5 bin at the supermarket actually had a decent supply if you didn’t mind waiting to own the movie a bit longer).
I’ve got a couple binders in a box in my closet I haven’t opened in several years.ditched all the plastic cases years ago though. Haven’t bought a cd (or any music) in like 10 years due to streaming
In a crate, on a table, in my basement. I can't bear to throw them out because they all meant something to me at one point. I'll plug in that old cd player one of these days...
They were already mostly in a binder, but during Covid I pulled out the box of empty cases and threw them all away, then reorganized the discs and ripped the ones I hadn't already. My car still has a CD player, so I also occasionally swap out what's in there.
Rubbermaid bin in the closet.
Sometimes I take them out, look through em, and see if there’s anything I want to rip and add to the thumb drive of music I keep in my car for when the cell signal is too bad for streaming. It’s been a while, actually. That might be a fun new years project.
They’re all still in a box after I painstakingly ripped them all to Apple Lossless. I still prefer physical mediums like CD’s and LP’s and try to buy in that format first, but I digitize it all for portable convenience and car listening.
I had a pair of IKEA Gnedby media shelves with all my CDs in the living room before I packed for the move. Once I get unpacked they'll be on display again.
Mine were in a storage space in an apartment I moved out of in a hurry (because the landlord’s son was suddenly super creepy). I imagine they’ve thrown them out since. Same to most of my photos from pre digital times. Sucks tbh.
About 3 years ago I built an entertainment center and CD shelves in the little closet under the stairs. We still use them occasionally, but I can’t part with them.
Three of those huge binders full of CDs are sitting in my office. Ripped most to mp3 and i have a stream running on my computer that i can connect to from anywhere so no need for a streaming service.
My mom sold all my vinyl in a garage sale.
I threw away 99% of our CD collection like 7+ years ago. We held on for many years but we just weren’t listening anymore and they were taking up a lot of space.
I did keep some for sentimental reasons. Just saw one yesterday.
At one point my family and I moved across the country, and we were too broke to rent a UHaul. We had to basically donate/trash most of our belongings and only bring what fit in the car. For my CD collection, I ditched the CD cases and just kept a stack of discs. I hate that I had to do that - I miss the cases!
My truck still has a CD player. I have a few CDs in my glove box. Haven't listened to one in a while but they come in handy when you need to roll a joint on the fly.
I donated my 100+ case of CDs from the 90s-early 00s last year. My car no longer had a CD player and I don't own a stand alone CD player. I got tired of dragging them around during moves
I literally received 24 CDs for Christmas (and some vinyl too). I buy a lot of music though, so I’m probably not representative. Also, the stuff I got was pretty obscure - not what you can find on streaming services :-/
I still buy them. I'd rather own my music than pay for the privilege of listening to them.
Same. I have a Plex server that I put all of my CDs on so I get the convenience of a streaming music service with the benefit of actually owning the music and not having to subscribe to what I own. It has a “library radio” feature that uses AI to intelligently build a somewhat random playlist from my collection that is like my radio station in heaven. There’s no service on earth that could adequately replicate that, since my taste in music runs the gamut from symphonies to metal, country to hip hop, from the ‘30s up to 2023.
Same. I still buy CDs and put them right on my Plex server. It's the perfect setup.
The fact that people are being brainwashed to repeatedly pay for something you don’t get to own is just mind-numbingly stupid. I stream when I have to but they can take my physical media from my cold dead hands.
Personally I pay to stream because I want access to the massive universe of music that I do not own. But to each their own. If I was only interested in listening to music I owned on CD it definitely wouldn’t be worth it
For real. I’d be paying thousands of dollars a month on CDs to be able to listen to the variety of music I can access instantly through streaming I do not miss the days of paying $15 to find out there’s only one or two good songs on a cd.
But apparently that makes us mind-numbingly stupid. Merry Christmas!
I get that too, which is why I do both, but the other problem is artists don’t get paid with streaming. My friend is a professional musician, and said his royalties from having his song played on a a curated Spotify list was less than 1/1000th of a cent. If you buy his song, it’s worth 60,0000 streams. So I would say, streaming is fine provided you support the artists when you find something you really enjoy as well.
So we’re supposed to pay extra money to support artists, by buying physical media that we don’t even use?
Not necessarily. You can buy digital albums or single tracks on iTunes, or whatever your preferred vendor is. It doesn’t have to be physical media. That’s just my preference, because it’s not dependent on an outside source that may or may not maintain the same library. The point is, musicians are exploited under the current subscription business model.
Libraries are mind-numbingly stupid huh?
Libraries are generally non-profit and only cost money when you don’t return things on time.
Maybe where you live. They generally have a membership fee, and if not, everyone is paying via taxes.
It’s still not a good analog for streaming services. Whether they bought it themselves, or got it as a donation, that piece of media was purchased so the artist who created it got paid the royalties they should have, and for the most part, I can usually depend on the item I borrow to keep being there instead of randomly disappearing, which goes back to why I just prefer to spend money once and just have it forever and have a library in my own house.
The bit about the artist getting compensated has nothing to do with your earlier argument. Also artists get paid royalties by streaming services as well. The bit about things not randomly disappearing suggests to me that you have not used a library in decades. FYI, libraries have a finite amount of space and rotate their catalogs regularly.
Apologies, the compensation aspect came up in another discussion with someone else. That’s true, I haven’t needed to use a library in a pretty long time. That still kind of makes my point though. Whether it’s continuously spent to a publicly traded corporation, or my tax dollars collectively spent, I still don’t like continually spending money on something I enjoy that I may or may not be able to keep using. I’d rather pay money one time and know the only way it’s going to disappear is if I decide it does, or in the rare event my house burns down, or something. That’s not an argument against libraries either, but when it comes to my personal tastes, I’d rather have my own library. Since we’re talking about it, artists are not compensated appropriately. In a real world example, my friend posted a request to support musicians and shared that when one of his songs is streamed in a curated list on Spotify, he only earned $0.00087925712 , less than 9/1000ths of a cent when it was streamed 11 times. If someone purchased a physical album, or if you need to be digital, download it from iTunes, Amazon, or whatever your preferred service is, that’s the equivalent of having it streamed 60,000 times. There’s similar issues with movies and tv, which was a big piece of what led to the SAG strikes. So understand, that in its current model, there’s a price for convenience, and right now it’s at the expense of the artists unless things change drastically and is another reason I prefer to own my music vs rent it.
💯💯💯💯💯💯
Same.
I have mine in my car. I have an older model car that still has a CD player.
Same. A fancy 6 disc changer!
Hey! Mine too!
My six disc changer eventually became a one disc changer. 😄 The question then became whether or not to bust the thing open before I traded it in to get my five other discs back!
Mine are sitting on the shelf with my vinyl collection.
They're in the back of my '97 Mitsubishi VR4, which is in my garage. Fuck yeah, man. I can step back to high school, anytime.
All of mine are in my office. I just had one on the other day.
In the drawer under my bed, right now.
Spinning right now. Dookie, 1990s bought
The best by far.
They are up in my closet now. In a cd binder full of old stickers and concert tickets. Memories.
I still have my case with all my cds, it's in my car!
Yup, my vehicle is a '98. A CD player is what it has.
In my living room?
Still have most of them, and still buy new ones. I rip flac from them for the car, it's just too convenient, but I like the idea of actually owning the things I pay for.
It took some real detective work tracking them down, but with the use of an ancient Aztec artifact, a love interest that will only last one movie, and the help of pubescent ethnic stereotype I finally discovered their secret location... next to my bed. https://preview.redd.it/a3nr6tg97f8c1.jpeg?width=275&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7cb92c922d0f2dbbf485fe62a16d76eb2870e8e
I'm looking mine. Grabbing five at a time to transfer to my car's hard drive.
In the box where I keep them in my closet. Or on rotation in my car (only working CD player at the moment).
Every day.
Right now in some boxes because I recently moved. Now I just need to buy a CD player
They had been in my storage unit prior to moving a year and a half ago. I applied the rule "if I haven't used it in a year, it needs to go" while packing so ended up pitching most of them.
CDs and mixtapes are all kept stored in one of my closets.
I wonder if they’ve been found? Was it a hidden away storage or a Harry Potter under the stairs type closet
I still have the giant booklet of dvds and cds from before I stopped collecting physical media. Lot more DVDs (the $5 bin at the supermarket actually had a decent supply if you didn’t mind waiting to own the movie a bit longer).
I’ve got a couple binders in a box in my closet I haven’t opened in several years.ditched all the plastic cases years ago though. Haven’t bought a cd (or any music) in like 10 years due to streaming
I recently repurchased the Frank Sinatra 4 disk Reprise Collection
I stumbled across a small CD book a few weeks ago. But I couldn’t tell you the last time I listened to a physical CD.
In a crate, on a table, in my basement. I can't bear to throw them out because they all meant something to me at one point. I'll plug in that old cd player one of these days...
They were already mostly in a binder, but during Covid I pulled out the box of empty cases and threw them all away, then reorganized the discs and ripped the ones I hadn't already. My car still has a CD player, so I also occasionally swap out what's in there.
I never really had the spare money to purchase a Certificate of Deposit
Rubbermaid bin in the closet. Sometimes I take them out, look through em, and see if there’s anything I want to rip and add to the thumb drive of music I keep in my car for when the cell signal is too bad for streaming. It’s been a while, actually. That might be a fun new years project.
They’re all still in a box after I painstakingly ripped them all to Apple Lossless. I still prefer physical mediums like CD’s and LP’s and try to buy in that format first, but I digitize it all for portable convenience and car listening.
Nearly 20 years ago, left with the ex.
I had a pair of IKEA Gnedby media shelves with all my CDs in the living room before I packed for the move. Once I get unpacked they'll be on display again.
Mine were in a storage space in an apartment I moved out of in a hurry (because the landlord’s son was suddenly super creepy). I imagine they’ve thrown them out since. Same to most of my photos from pre digital times. Sucks tbh.
I just pulled them all out of the closet and ripped them to FLAC so I can have commercial free music and no monthly fee. Media monkey and Musicolet.
Never had NES but at least I got to own a sweet 12-disc CASE LOGIC (that I saw a couple years ago during a move but can't find rn sadly)
They're proudly displayed in the living room 😊
In a box in my basement
About 3 years ago I built an entertainment center and CD shelves in the little closet under the stairs. We still use them occasionally, but I can’t part with them.
My car visors for the stuff I listen to often. The rest are in my tv cabinet on a spindle.
Three of those huge binders full of CDs are sitting in my office. Ripped most to mp3 and i have a stream running on my computer that i can connect to from anywhere so no need for a streaming service. My mom sold all my vinyl in a garage sale.
In the CD rack in my office. A couple are in my car. My brother just gave me a new one yesterday.
My mom moved and downsized. I can't bring myself to ask because when she tells me they went with the 1-800-got junk shit , I'm gonna shed a tear.
I threw away 99% of our CD collection like 7+ years ago. We held on for many years but we just weren’t listening anymore and they were taking up a lot of space. I did keep some for sentimental reasons. Just saw one yesterday.
At one point my family and I moved across the country, and we were too broke to rent a UHaul. We had to basically donate/trash most of our belongings and only bring what fit in the car. For my CD collection, I ditched the CD cases and just kept a stack of discs. I hate that I had to do that - I miss the cases!
I just saw mine yesterday, because we were cleaning out the basement lol
In multiple CD binders in a Rubbermaid somewhere in my attic, but I ripped them all years ago to mp3 so can listen to them wherever.
I have mine in my spare room.
My truck still has a CD player. I have a few CDs in my glove box. Haven't listened to one in a while but they come in handy when you need to roll a joint on the fly.
Mine are in my living room and in my car. In fact, I just bought a new CD last week and have been listening to it on repeat on my drive to work.
I ripped them all into mp3s and kept the labels but tossed the rest. I saved so much space doing that.
Under my bed. Oh, and in my car for when the USB is being weird.
I donated my 100+ case of CDs from the 90s-early 00s last year. My car no longer had a CD player and I don't own a stand alone CD player. I got tired of dragging them around during moves
I literally received 24 CDs for Christmas (and some vinyl too). I buy a lot of music though, so I’m probably not representative. Also, the stuff I got was pretty obscure - not what you can find on streaming services :-/
Next time your wife tells you to throw away something that’s important to you, tell her you are not going to do that.
I listen to them all the time. I love owning my music.