I kept my CD collection and have just bought a CD player. I am playing them all the way through one by one. Spotify will never give me the feeling I had when I first unwrapped a CD or piece of Vinyl and put in on the turntable, but that is the feeling I am getting now as I go through my life's back catalogue.
I live with a borderline hoarder (i didnt read the fine print in the background check before getting committed) so we have LPs and CDs coming out our butts. And we are playing them. The thing i tell myself is that these big companies end up being run by questionable money hoarding douchebags, looking at you "there's not enough masculine energy around here" Zuckerberg, or "i own a fluffy white cat that i stroke right next to the destroy a small country button" Musk. These maniacal douchelords are just as likely to cut off the service to the whole country because Susan from accounts in a small shipping company told them a few home truths on their own feed. Besides, the LPs in particular will come in handy during the zombie apocalypse (or so Shaun of the Dead has informed me). I figure if LP's are good for normal human zombies, i'm also keeping the CD's for that really outside bet of the Leprechaun Apocalypse. You get really good odds if you kill a zombie leprechaun with an Enya cd.
I have no regrets having done that. It felt saddest at the moment of tossing it into a box for disposal, in very much the same way I feel having to toss out a book, except for one book I have absolutely no regrets over tossing out. I would hang on to a book more readily than a CD too. That's why I have three boxes of books sitting in the garage.
We did have a stack of about 100 LPs to dispose of, but offered them up for donation around the family first. Someone took them all, and gladly too because they have an appreciation for them that we did not.
Maybe have a look around Op shops and markets for used CDs to see if you can pick some of them up again. Warning, you will have to wade through all the classical, folk, Kenny G and Susan Boyle albums that no one wants.
I still have most of my CD collection, and a few DVDs - never been big into buying video. Bought a lot of them from the cheap tables in Newtown, back in the day, but I’m still tight fisted. I did a little winnowing with moves, but not much.
I think I’ll eventually pull my finger out and buy an HDD to copy them all to so I can find stuff a lot easier. Just need to research the right apps to strip the biggest files, and for playback through the computer to my AV unit. Yeah, I’m definitely trailing edge when it comes to my music tech.
I miss my DVDs the same way that I miss VHS tapes. Not at all.
I'm well aware that CDs are nowhere near the sound quality of vinyl. But CDs are my generation, so I have them and I cherish them. I think about subscribing to Spotify or similar mainly so that Little Miss W can keep her wiggles on her own playlist, and not pollute mine. But I'm not there yet.
In preparations for a possible move next year I have been going through old physical media - some being saved selected by others so that they can guard against the sort of losses you have enumerated and disposing of the rest. For myself I am more sanguine about getting rid of it. Whilst I agree there will be stuff I remember watching/listening to that I would appreciate if I watched again, but the sheer volume of the new stuff I can not keep up with so for my future I can not find some new media to occupy my attention, while the world burns.
I kept my CD collection and have just bought a CD player. I am playing them all the way through one by one. Spotify will never give me the feeling I had when I first unwrapped a CD or piece of Vinyl and put in on the turntable, but that is the feeling I am getting now as I go through my life's back catalogue.
I live with a borderline hoarder (i didnt read the fine print in the background check before getting committed) so we have LPs and CDs coming out our butts. And we are playing them. The thing i tell myself is that these big companies end up being run by questionable money hoarding douchebags, looking at you "there's not enough masculine energy around here" Zuckerberg, or "i own a fluffy white cat that i stroke right next to the destroy a small country button" Musk. These maniacal douchelords are just as likely to cut off the service to the whole country because Susan from accounts in a small shipping company told them a few home truths on their own feed. Besides, the LPs in particular will come in handy during the zombie apocalypse (or so Shaun of the Dead has informed me). I figure if LP's are good for normal human zombies, i'm also keeping the CD's for that really outside bet of the Leprechaun Apocalypse. You get really good odds if you kill a zombie leprechaun with an Enya cd.
I have no regrets having done that. It felt saddest at the moment of tossing it into a box for disposal, in very much the same way I feel having to toss out a book, except for one book I have absolutely no regrets over tossing out. I would hang on to a book more readily than a CD too. That's why I have three boxes of books sitting in the garage.
We did have a stack of about 100 LPs to dispose of, but offered them up for donation around the family first. Someone took them all, and gladly too because they have an appreciation for them that we did not.
Maybe have a look around Op shops and markets for used CDs to see if you can pick some of them up again. Warning, you will have to wade through all the classical, folk, Kenny G and Susan Boyle albums that no one wants.
I still have most of my CD collection, and a few DVDs - never been big into buying video. Bought a lot of them from the cheap tables in Newtown, back in the day, but I’m still tight fisted. I did a little winnowing with moves, but not much.
I think I’ll eventually pull my finger out and buy an HDD to copy them all to so I can find stuff a lot easier. Just need to research the right apps to strip the biggest files, and for playback through the computer to my AV unit. Yeah, I’m definitely trailing edge when it comes to my music tech.
I miss my DVDs the same way that I miss VHS tapes. Not at all.
I'm well aware that CDs are nowhere near the sound quality of vinyl. But CDs are my generation, so I have them and I cherish them. I think about subscribing to Spotify or similar mainly so that Little Miss W can keep her wiggles on her own playlist, and not pollute mine. But I'm not there yet.
In preparations for a possible move next year I have been going through old physical media - some being saved selected by others so that they can guard against the sort of losses you have enumerated and disposing of the rest. For myself I am more sanguine about getting rid of it. Whilst I agree there will be stuff I remember watching/listening to that I would appreciate if I watched again, but the sheer volume of the new stuff I can not keep up with so for my future I can not find some new media to occupy my attention, while the world burns.