How many of you still use CDs?

I've not bought a CD in the last decade at least, all of my music is just done through Google Play Music these days.
 
I still buy CD's and rip them for use on my Phone or USB thumbdrive in the car. At least I have an option of what I want to do with the media then.


Craig321 said:
CDs, DVDs, BluRays and all disc formats need to die. They're slow, noisy, bulky.
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Bulky I can maybe agree with, can't say speed is an issue when listening to a CD or watching a Bluray. Can't remember last time optical media was noisy either. My Bluray player and PS4 are both relatively silent when it comes to reading optical media.

Craig321 said:
Don't know why latest consoles are still using such an old fashioned format.
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Because their manufacturers still haven't worked out that by cutting out the distribution and manufacturing costs of physical media, that digital downloads should be much cheaper (not £10 more expensive like AAA PSN releases are). Price things appropriately and the market will take advantage of them (irrespective of the disadvantages like not being able to lend to a friend, used resell value etc.)
 
Yes, I have a few hundred of them, they are ripped to my itunes libary and are now on my ipod, however I get a good deal with spotify, so I listen to that.
 
Still buy and rip them to lossless formats. Usually cheaper too over downloading. Poundshops are also full of them now so even better.
 
I still buy them also. A lot of stuff from years back was better engineered first time round without a load of compression applied. (Digital remasters bull etc). Sometimes hard to find but defo worth hunting down for ripping.

Still keep adding to my MFSL collection as well when good ones pop up although some of the vinyl flac rips are pretty decent.

All done through a dedicated panny (mat****a) UJ85.

Got to admit though, Spotify is great to use for window shopping.
 
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Nah, no point really. I have them all ripped to a NAS so I can sync them to iPhones etc and I have Spotify and Tidal accounts with a Mac linked to my HiFi DAC so seem a bit redundant these days. It's why my CD player is in MM.
 
After ripping my CD's to MP3 320 I have now learnt the error of my ways and have just started ripping them to Flac.
Anybody who thinks MP3 320 are as good as Flac need a lobotomy.
 
Craig321 said:
CDs, DVDs, BluRays and all disc formats need to die. They're slow, noisy, bulky.

Don't know why latest consoles are still using such an old fashioned format.

To answer the OP's question, haven't used a CD or DVD in years. I no longer own a DVD player or CD/DVD drive.
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Slow? Not for me. Noisy? Not for me. I occasionally hear the very silent disc searching/beep when jumping through chapters on my Blu-Ray players. Bulky storage? OK. I'll give you that. At least it is always there. Still have my first DVD from 1998. Double sided Lethal Weapon 4.

I like to rip my music to Apple lossless. As my drives are kept in the cupboard when I need to rip a new album.

I also like to watch old DVDs and Blu-Rays on the PS3 drifting to sleep. So bad that I decided to watch an old DVD I hadn't seen that was from 2002. Two Weeks Notice. The PS3 does such a good job upscaling DVDs.


TheHitMan-1973 said:
I miss the days walking around HMV and spending £100 on cds :D
Its all done on-line these days
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MMmm, yes. Going into a huge store browsing for 45 minutes to over an hour leaving with several bags.

 
I've recently started buying CDs again the last year or so, it's a great way to support smaller artists/labels. It's nice having the physical thing rather than just another folder on my HDD of FLAC files. A few of them are quite hard to come by now too.

Craig321 said:
Don't know why latest consoles are still using such an old fashioned format.
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Because people prefer the flexibility of physical media, and because physical retail is still massively important for sales. Why would you want to buy a game on the PS Store which you can't then sell on if you dislike it? Not everyone is blessed with a high-speed internet connection either.

Armageus said:
Because their manufacturers still haven't worked out that by cutting out the distribution and manufacturing costs of physical media, that digital downloads should be much cheaper (not £10 more expensive like AAA PSN releases are). Price things appropriately and the market will take advantage of them (irrespective of the disadvantages like not being able to lend to a friend, used resell value etc.)
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Not really, it's more because the console manufacturers know that they need their physical retail partners and cutting them out of the process would only harm them. Physical copies also have an actual value to them so there's motivation for the retailers to get them sold rather than taking up space and value in inventory, which is good for consumers because it means competition and cheaper games.
 
TheVoice said:
Because people prefer the flexibility of physical media, and because physical retail is still massively important for sales. Why would you want to buy a game on the PS Store which you can't then sell on if you dislike it? Not everyone is blessed with a high-speed internet connection either.
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I'm always shocked for years how much the digital version can be from the physical even with postage. Anything from £10 to £35 extra. Most games I see on there are £59.99 then a sale is classed as £39.99. Let alone the gold, deluxe super charged editions from £70 and up.
 
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