For me, CDs are nothing more than a medium for transfer from the store to my computer. I rarely play any of my CDs anymore, I just rip them into digital files and play my MP3 player anywhere I would use a CD (such as my car).

It's not like I'm worried I'll wear them out or anything, but it's just easier to carry a little $300 piece of hardware than a huge book containing $1200 worth of CDs.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On For me, CDs are nothing more than a medium for transfer from the store to my computer. I rarely play any of my CDs anymore, I just rip them into digital files and play my MP3 player anywhere I would use a CD (such as my car). It's not like I'm worried I'll wear them out or anything, but it's just easier to carry a little $300 piece of hardware than a huge book containing $1200 worth of CDs.

Yeah

Most of my cds are fucked up from spinning them in sets.

However, i think the quality of CDs has gone DOWN. For example, my Paul Oakenfold Another World CD looks like someone ran over it with a car--plays flawlessly. However, my Bloom CD got some minor scratches on it (I have no idea how, becuase when I wasn't playing it, I left it in the case)...and it skips all over the place.

My Police - Ghost in the Machine CD has really really low sound on it, but its the original copy of it :/

Alot of my older cds from the 80's have lower volumes then the ones made these days, but once you turn the volume up, you can't really tell the difference in sound quality.

I rip all of my cds to my pc, so who knows...

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I thought that it was the glue holding the label (and written surface) onto the CD actually decomposes the label causing holes in it. *shrug*

I still buy CDs. I haven't burned anything in almost a year.

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Originally posted by DJ_Bod I thought that it was the glue holding the label (and written surface) onto the CD actually decomposes the label causing holes in it. *shrug* I still buy CDs. I haven't burned anything in almost a year.

thats what i was talkin about...

fukin cd-fungus...

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Originally posted by placebo Yeah Most of my cds are fucked up from spinning them in sets. However, i think the quality of CDs has gone DOWN. For example, my Paul Oakenfold Another World CD looks like someone ran over it with a car--plays flawlessly. However, my Bloom CD got some minor scratches on it (I have no idea how, becuase when I wasn't playing it, I left it in the case)...and it skips all over the place. My Police - Ghost in the Machine CD has really really low sound on it, but its the original copy of it :/ Alot of my older cds from the 80's have lower volumes then the ones made these days, but once you turn the volume up, you can't really tell the difference in sound quality. I rip all of my cds to my pc, so who knows...

The '80s CDs have 'lower volume' because of much better mastering back then. There was more of teh CDs dynamic range covered back then. A climax really sounded like a climax. They didn't squeeze all of the dynamics out of them back then. Music actually had dynamics -- unlike today, where you are liable to pick up 90 % of CDs out and just hear a 'wall of noise' (you can't tell each instrument apart and they're made that way just for radio use). When the dynamics are squeezed out, all of the music in it just sounds like one _sound_. Without dynamics, music can't be what it really is: an experience.