Goodbye CDs ? March 28, 2006
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Miscellany , trackbackAll my CDs have been ripped to my hard disk, and are backed up onto the external drive. The CD player on my stereo died a few weeks ago, so everything is now played via the laptop, with a cable into the aux port on the stereo if I want a better sound. Do I still have a use for my CDs, or should I just put them up on eBay, or give them to Oxfam, as suggested in the Guardian today?
There's not much room left on my bookshelves, and every little counts, so it might be a good idea. I think for the moment though, I'll hang onto them. If something happens to the PC and the backup disk, at least I won't lose them, and one day I might buy a decent stereo again. MP3 files, even at high quality, aren't as good as the CDs, and I may want to rip them again if someone comes out with another format.
That's one reason why I still buy them, rather than just downloading the music. Another is the price, with Amazon's Jersey price being very similar to the price through HMV or Virgin, and without having to have all the clunky software and dubious rights management on the PC. I rather like the little covers, with the lyrics and notes. Above all, I like albums, rather than songs. A lot of my music is classical, so the whole piece is needed and one movement of a symphony is a little bit pointless.
So, for the moment, I'm sticking to oldfashioned CDs. My vinyl collection is in storage half a world away, but that's another story.
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