Times, they are a changin'. I used to shop for the most stylish CD shelves, now the only storage I look for for music is on a hard drive.
I don't miss having to find a creative way to keep all my plastic boxes, but I do miss shopping in a record store for new music.
But since I'm all about de-cluttering these days, I've sold back all my CDs (except for a couple discs, for sentimental value) and am almost totally digital.
What about you?
CDs and digital?
1Nah, I'm still listening to records
I have a mix of both. I've got all my CDs in those big binders, I threw away all the jewel boxes. I was moving and didn't want to deal with 300+ of those! I do wish I saved the liner notes... oh well!
2CDs for sure. I have music on the computer that I download off the internet, but I don't have itunes or anything.
3yeah, I have 20 or so cds, and some songs I've downloaded from itunes and such, but I mostly listen to my hundreds of records.
4Both. Digital is fine, but I find "bought CD" quality is still slightly better, and I like having CDs of albums I particularly love hearing.
5Both. I download singles more than I buy/download full albums. I do like to own CDs. It's more realistic to me and I'm such a materialistic
6I've got my record collection, but I have digitized all of my CDs and my DVDs
7I'm loving my CDs.
My computer crashed once and I was so worried I was gonna lose all my digital music (yup itunes don't give you all that music back)
8I transferred all my CDs to a HD. No longer use CDs at all.
9I only buy digital now. But the CDs I do have, I digitalized all of them and store them in binders. I just feel like I need to keep the CDs I have still
10I still have tons of CDs, and I still buy them, mainly because a lot of the music I listen to is from the UK. Sometimes though, I buy digital, when the music I like is available..
11I haven't gotten rid of my old c.d's but I have downloaded them to my iPod. I never listen to them. I should probably get rid of them actually.
12Most of the time I listen to CDs in my car, so haven't hooked up my mp3 player to the system yet... may be in a few years...
13I haven't purchased a CD in ages. I do have most of mine on my iPod, but I don't actually listen to the CDs themselves.
14cds only
15Actually if you lose your Itunes, but have your IPod current there is a program to download them to your computer from the Ipod. And if you email Itunes they will let you re-download your music.
I prefer Itunes, normally they are cheaper
16I sold or gave away all my cd's after digitizing them. I hate iTunes and other DRM's music, but I love mp3's.
Then I bought a used car that would only play conventional cd's -- not data/mp3's -- and unfortunately had to burn a whole bunch back in Windows Media format. What can I say? I was too cheap to buy a new stereo.
17I mostly listen to digitized, but I still have some CDs...
18I am digital all the way. I had a bunch of cds and burned them into my external hard drive. And now whenever I want music I just go to itunes. I also think not buying cds is making me even more green, but I really don't have much proof of that...
19I only buy cd's.
20I still have all my CD's but I never use them as I ripped them all to my computer. Never thought of selling them though, figured they wouldn't really be worth anything.
Once or twice a year I buy a new CD, that then gets put on my computer and is never used again....
21yes i still have cds but dont even listen to them any more!
22theyr so old!(the songs) i just plug my ipod into my dock and wallah! i have a disco!
I have a small box of CDs that I'll keep for my kids to marvel over one day.
23Vinyl.
24Hee, I still have vinyls. *lol* And, or course CDs, and I keep all my babies. It's nice to have your music digitalized, but the sound quality isn't the same.
25I haven't gotten rid of my CD collection but I've definitely slowed down on purchasing CDs. Although I'd reather have the physical copy with the liner notes and artwork, downloading the albums from the Internet is just so much CHEAPER and more practical because everything just FITS in your MP3 Player's drive. I definitely miss going to the record store and browsing CDs...but we gotta get on with the times!
26i actually have a few yet i never listen to them. i've started to convert all my CDs so they are online on my computer - but i still have quite a few that i'm working on since i have too many
27I buy CDs if my nearby stores have them at a sale price when they first come out, otherwise I will download the album and then burn the music onto CD. As for non-current CDs, you know CDs wear out after 15 years or so, so that must be why there are all these re-mastered albums, because the original CDs don't sound so good anymore. When I rip some older CDs, like from the early '90s, I always have to crank up the volume afterwards when I listen to the songs.
28CDs =]
29i keep some of my old cds (and ones i've burned off of itunes) in my car, but i threw out the cases for them a long time ago. everything is on my computer now. i can't even remember the last cd i bought lol
30i have to say that i am 90% digital music, and very few cds.
31I still have tons of CDs.
32And cassettes.
And eight tracks.
And records.
I've completely gone digital. I hated the fact that CD's scratched after awhile so your investing would eventually go down the drain. Plus going digital has saved me space and time by not going to the record store to buy CD's and buying CD shelves to store them.
33I've uploaded most of my music, but I still have the CD's.....sometimes it's just easier if there isn't an ipod hookup or whatever.
34i dont have any cds.. just digital music!
35i have all my old cds but they are also on my computer. i need to sell them.
36I like to go and shop at Amoeba sometimes, but the vast majority of my music is digitized.
37Bit of both
38My husband has 48,000+ songs on his external hard drive. But being a musician he's having a hard time letting go of his CDs. We have them all in storage, b/c he's afraid that if the external hard drive crashes he'll loose all his music. A fair fear given that electronics do crash, and how many of us have not felt the horror of having our computers go down. True, he could back up his hard drive, on another hard drive and so on, but then isn't that all the same thing as having the CDs in a box in storage
39Unfortunately I still have a LOT of burned CDs...I have a large CD stereo, and the only way I can safely play music on the loud speakers is to burn CDs with songs from iTunes to play in the stereo [The stereo is on a high shelf, and putting the laptop up there to hook directly into the stereo is a MAJOR hazard].
Now I've got a lot of CD clutter, don't really know which CD has what songs on it...I'm ready to go all digital and get a Bose iPod Soundsystem [hopefully for Christmas! Crossing my fingers!]. I *have* an iPod to use that stores a lot of my songs...it definitely would free up some clutter in my room!
40CD's, i-opd, records, I even have a tape player.
41But I spend a lot of my time at the library getting book son cd for my i-pod
More CDs than digital.
42I've loaded all my music onto a computer, but haven't yet gotten rid of the CD's. They're in a box in the attic as back-up in case I lose the digital versions.
43I totally still keep (and buy!) CDs.
Not only do CDs have better music quality (a big deal to me), but nothing goes wrong with them when you start to run out of disk space. Last year, I had to clear my computer hard drive of most music(ironically burning to CD) when I just didn't have enough disk! Now that I've bought a new computer, I'm thinking of reloading.
Sure it'll take a long time, but I like the "random shuffle" and "endless loop" features.
44It bothers me that music and movies that are not on a traditional physical medium are being referred to as digital...as if the CD/DVD/BluRay equivalent isn't digital.
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