QotD: CDs
Posted June 27th, 2004 @ 08:57pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: Do you listen to CDs anymore?
My Answer: No. I buy them, but I just put them in, rip them, and put them away.
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Posted 27 Jun 2004 at 9:57pm #
Rarely. Since my wife bought a new car with a CD player, I only listen to a CD when I'm driving her car.
Personally? Never. If I buy a CD, instead of buying them from iTMS which is how I usually aquire my music, I ust rip it and put them away as well. It's much easier that way.
Posted 27 Jun 2004 at 10:29pm #
Erik: Is there any reason you don't use the iTMS then?
Posted 27 Jun 2004 at 10:48pm #
I do use iTMS. Sometimes I like to own the actual CD and get stuff at more than 128 kbps, too.
Posted 28 Jun 2004 at 1:33am #
I don't have an iPod, so anytime that I'm not at my computer and I want to listen to my music, I have to have either an mp3 CD (if I'm at another computer like at work) or an honest-to-goodness CD (often burned that day, but sometimes the original).
If anybody has a spare iPod kicking around, head on over to my site to let me know;).
Posted 28 Jun 2004 at 2:26am #
Sometimes, but I prefer records.
Posted 28 Jun 2004 at 4:50am #
Point taken. I have to buy all my songs via CD and not having the iTMS down here is one reason I miss America.
Posted 28 Jun 2004 at 6:38am #
Buy, rip, place in shelf.
And in the last five years I haven't bought a single CD that I didn't download first. Got to do a quality check, you know.
My downloading albums increases the likelyhood of buying the CD, no matter what the music mafia is trying to spin. It if's something I really really like, I want to have the CD in my shelf even if I got the contents for free from the 'net.
Also, I always re-rip it from the CD even if I have the downloaded version. That way I know it's ripped in good quality with a good encoder.
Posted 28 Jun 2004 at 12:34pm #
Compact Disc
I have tried to give up on the Compact Disc recently, only to fail. I was really fired up about the iTMS when it came out and have used it regularly since its inception, but still have trouble kicking my...
Posted 28 Jun 2004 at 2:27pm #
I use a CD player in the car and at the gym.
I also have an old Sony 100-disc changer, which I occasionally use when I want to hear music without hearing the whining fans of my G4.
Posted 29 Jun 2004 at 6:20pm #
If I actually buy a CD, I expect to get my money's worth. I try to purchase CD directly from the band, usually at the show. Then I open my shiny new album exactly once, to rip it. Then it's onto the shelf. If I want to listen to said CD somewhere besides my computer (ie my car, or main stereo) I simply burn a copy.