My OH worked for a public library in London for a while. Most donations go straight onto the Sale trolley for 10p because they don't have shelf space.Or maybe donate them to a local library?
Home taping is killing music…..,In principle, it's unlawful to rip them at all - but nobody is really bothered about private use, I suppose...
Uncracked? Hopefully.Agreed. Always excited when a smooth edge case comes through the letter box, or even the Warner brother stamped cases!
fingers crossed!Uncracked? Hopefully.
I found the same, connected a cd player to my Bryston and Chord Qutest Dac's and found the cd was better than the same WAV rip played back on from the Melco. So I traded and sold it all for my current cd player.Still prefer my CDs to my rips, into the same DAC.
No idea why, can't be a placebo because rips are easier than the effort of walking to the rack, then the CD transport, finding the CD remote....
Still prefer my CDs to my rips, into the same DAC.
I won't speculate about whether there will be a revival of interest in CDs, but for selfish reasons I prefer that it doesn't happen. I like finding cheap CDs that nobody else seems to be interested in; they all prefer to pay a lot of for precious 'vinyls'.CDs are currently generally worth very little especially as job lots, but as a CD user (and a bit of a collector) I think we are seeing the first glimmer of that changing. In the last 12 months I have noticed when searching for specific CDs that the prices are now starting to nudge upwards. Same at record fairs, all CDs (of which there were few) were a £1.... now there are more CDs and they are individually priced, still cheapish, but not a £1 each any more. It maybe just co-incidence, but we've all lived through the time when vinyl was being slung out by the bucket load and could be had for 50p an album, now look at it... will the same happen to CD... I don't know if it'll ever be in the same league as vinyl price wise, but I do think it will come to a point where some of it will be quite sought after.
So... to the OP... while keeping the jewel cases is the ideal (see Tony's post) I do get that they take up a lot of space and that you may not have that space. If so, I'd dispense with the jewel cases, but keep the discs and artwork carefully stored and see what happens over the next few years.
Yes, I get and see what you're saying... I've been busy snapping up all sorts in the last 5 years such that I've just had to pare down my collection from around 15K to 9K.I won't speculate about whether there will be a revival of interest in CDs, but for selfish reasons I prefer that it doesn't happen. I like finding cheap CDs that nobody else seems to be interested in; they all prefer to pay a lot of for precious 'vinyls'.
I have a few hundred CDs and I cant get through them all. How do you listen to so many? Surely you have CDs you've never listened to?Yes, I get and see what you're saying... I've been busy snapping up all sorts in the last 5 years such that I've just had to pare down my collection from around 15K to 9K.