[squallkiercosa]

I downloaded about 300 albums worth of classic rock music from youtube and converted the songs to mp4 for itunes, but I still value my ~100 cds I have more, for various reasons.

Dude, I can tell you where to find them instead of doing what you did, please.

 

[RochRx7]

Occasionally from week to week.. Amazon will have tremendous deals for classical lovers. Talking 100-400 song albums for $0.99 USD.

Last week was a bookful of Bach I think? .. And often give out free trance/electronic albums as well (Steve Aoki most recently)

Granted, not all the music is of the best taste/quality.. but.. free is free.
 
I use to rip CD's and convert them into compressed 192s (I figure, hey, let's save some space).. thanks to this forum, I want to kick myself in the teeth cause nearly half my 10,000 song collection on my computer are lossy files =(

 

 

[GoudenKever]

I mostly listen to the iTunes podcast of "3voor12 Draait". They have a nice mix of new music. The amount of talk in between isn't much, but it's Dutch though. 

 

[TubeStack]

I use to rip CD's and convert them into compressed 192s (I figure, hey, let's save some space).. thanks to this forum, I want to kick myself in the teeth cause nearly half my 10,000 song collection on my computer are lossy files =(

Do what I did and start over. Granted, my collection wasn't as large, about 7, 000 or so songs, but it was WELL worth the time and effort. I pressed DELETE on the entire thing (all 256 to 320 Kbps) and rebuilt a new library in Apple Lossless. Very glad I did, although now 90% of my listening is with vinyl... lol. But I still appreciate the lossless quality for my portable listening.

 

[D3Seeker]

CDs all the way! and bandcamp a lot lately. If only it weren't for those darn itunes exclusive releases I'd have all flac and wv music by now

Sent from the Warlock

 

[Vidmaven]

1,000 CDs finally converted to ALAC. Ripped them all a couple of years ago @ 192K (ignorance is bliss). Spent a couple of weeks in January reripping them. 200 LPs converted with Audacity. All new CDs are ripped immediately and then put away. CDs are pretty cheap, especially used. I've been picking up quite a few for $4 or less recently.

 

[NightFlight]

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I always buy recordings, I never use illegal file sharing or any other such means to obtain music.
 
I do sometime listen to things on YouTube, but I guess that is all legal, I don't really know.
 
Nearly everything I buy is a CD, in fact I buy from an excellent shop about 10 mins walk from my house.
 
I sometimes buy second-hand but mostly new.
 
Nearly everything I buy is classical music. Classical music performers work immensely hard to create the recordings and I believe they should be paid for their work.
 
I used to play my CDs mostly on my rather excellent CD player, but I'm now transitioning to using my computer more and more. All new CDs go onto my computer immediately and I am slowly putting my old ones onto it.
 
CDs seem to cost about the same as the downloadable versions of the recordings, so I think, why not have the CD and a nice paper booklet with a lot of info about the composer and the musicians.

The CD has its limitations in fidelity. However it has more permanence than a file store. Unless you burn the files. Then again, I now have 20yr old burned discs that have failed on me. Wow. 20 years... where did the time go?

 

[NightFlight]

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Do what I did and start over. Granted, my collection wasn't as large, about 7, 000 or so songs, but it was WELL worth the time and effort. I pressed DELETE on the entire thing (all 256 to 320 Kbps) and rebuilt a new library in Apple Lossless. Very glad I did, although now 90% of my listening is with vinyl... lol. But I still appreciate the lossless quality for my portable listening.

 
guh. Mines still sitting there. Unused.. same thing. About 100gb sitting on a share. *sigh*. Might as well hit delete. On the brighter side I've been collecting FLAC and a 2TB 2.5" WD external drive was a mere $138 CAN at Costco.

 

[GREQ]

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The CD has its limitations in fidelity.
 

What limitations in fedelity are you talking about? CD audio is at the equivalent of 1411Kbps and is totally uncompressed and lossless. 

 

[Sound Quest]

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What limitations in fedelity are you talking about? CD audio is at the equivalent of 1411Kbps and is totally uncompressed and lossless. 

 
I'd put the "limitations" down to the way that most CD's are mastered these days.
 
Technically, a CD can sound as good as any analog medium to the human ear, but poor mastering prevents CD's from performing anywhere near their full potential.

 

[Amorgan]

Buy and rip cd's. The best way. 
 
(sometimes HDtracks)

 

[RochRx7]

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Do what I did and start over. Granted, my collection wasn't as large, about 7, 000 or so songs, but it was WELL worth the time and effort. I pressed DELETE on the entire thing (all 256 to 320 Kbps) and rebuilt a new library in Apple Lossless. Very glad I did, although now 90% of my listening is with vinyl... lol. But I still appreciate the lossless quality for my portable listening.

Ah man.. most of my cd's are either scrapped, gifted/given away, or scratched beyond repair now.

Ignorance truly is bliss. I think I'm just going to stay ignorant. And maybe buy one more headphone.. then move on to a diff format (speakers) O_O Wifey doesn't support the headphone hobby but I can manipulate my speaker purchases in the future saying it's for her to enjoy Karaoke-ing.

 

[Sound Quest]

Why do people use lossless for portible use?

Unless of course they're using $1000 portible DAC's and extremely high-end headphones on the go.

 

[Saoshyant]

honestly?  because I have the room to do so without causing any issue

 

[Sound Quest]

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honestly?  because I have the room to do so without causing any issue

 
Thats fair enough. But I know plenty of people who sacrifice space for lossless storage, when its really unnecessary for the likes of Ipod soundcards.
 
Not to mention that it runs the battery down quicker as well.