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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I still buy CDs regularly, for several reasons. Track-for-track, it's usually cheaper to buy a CD album or compilation than the MP3s. CDs can also, as you say, be ripped without any specialist equipment, so it's not as if they're as immediately redundant as tapes. Also, CDs are a physical back-up of my music collection. I've been tempted to rip my entire collection and sell the physicals on eBay, which would earn me thousands of pounds, but HDDs and MP3 players are frail things. My external HDD with my MP3s on is sometimes faulty, it could easily get infected by a virus and my last one packed in without warning one day. Nothing short of a house fire is going to destroy my CD collection, but technology breaks all the time.

This, except I rip all my tracks in wav format, which is outrageously expensive to download.

Also, I see CDs as a third backup. I have a primary hard drive plus two portable backups (both live on the other side of town) which get refreshed every few weeks. I'm paranoid about viruses and theft, but I can't see myself ever being fucked.

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Originally posted by Subtle I wish it wasnt like this, the feeling of going home from the record shop with a brand new CD is something i really miss. Those days are gone forever, now its just filling up the harddrive with so much music that you hardly have time to listen to it all.

This too.

I have at least five albums on my drive that I haven't even listened to, and yet I'm out trawling all day for new shit. The digital revolution has devalued music in this way.

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Originally posted by supersaw abuse cds will not stop being manufactured any time in the forseeable future because there is no better technology causing them to be obsolete, as cds were to cassettes

Compactstick.

I first predicted this in mid 2007; just watch it come true.

man... i dunno about you guys but i can't wait until the next "mp3 vs. cds debate" thread.

I like being able to physically see what I have.

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Originally posted by Lews I like being able to physically see what I have.

...buy a monitor?

Good one.

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Originally posted by SMC Luckily, one can also listen to CDs.

I rarely do.. may be its just me. The only time is when I burn a disc for my car. I had a huge collection at one point and all it did was sit there and collect dust so I ended up giving away a lot of it to friends and then trading the rest for an ipod when ipods first came out. There was some kinda special promo going with this CD reseller company. Anytime I wanted to listen to something, most likely I already had it on one of my hard drives so it was much easier to just hit play than sort through a bunch of dusty CD's. Ever since... I haven't purchased any CD's but I now somehow already have a collection again basically due to all the record companies I help with PR mailing me free CD's for helping them out. I do listen to those at least once.

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I've collected music for many years and in all formats but I am buying less and less physical formats these days. It's nice to get pretty pictures and booklets and shit but that's not the reason I buy music.
I buy music to listen to and enjoy listening, so listening to a track regardless of the format is still listening to a track. I've honestly never been really fond of cd's, much prefer vinyl.
I think these days that physical formats are definitely for those into collecting and showing off their collection, while those that really only care for the music itself aren't phased with formats. I still buy vinyl but with the comparative cost of downloading digital files, I've saved so much money and got so much more music over the last two years or so from buying digital files online, I now think it's just wanky not to.

to be honest i wish there would be a new type of record invented.. or a new type of stylus. i still despise mp3 mixing or CD mixing, vinyl is the only way for me, but having a scratched recod or a jumpy needle is pure hell.

if there were to be a new type of vinyl made, i think it would bring back the fu nito DJing and also raise the bar again for people who want to be a DJ.. also record shops would/could thrive again. spending time in the record shop used to be a big part of being a DJ, hunting out them little gems, instead of sitting on your ass, listening to 1 minute samples

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Yes, but there's just so many great tracks that you can only get now from sitting on your ass in front of a computer.

I think it's just time to give up on music in general.

Second thoughts. That does sound pretty sad.