CD's are making a comeback I recently went through my entire CD collection to taker inventory. clean them and to make room for more discs. This vid explains why I still keep my CDs in 2024. :)
I buy CDs because I want to own my music collection. And yes, I also have to replace the occasional jewel case every now and then. _"You will own nothing and be happy."_ NO THANKS!!!
I’ve ripped my 400+ CD collection to FLAC, copied them to an m.2 SSD which I installed in my Eversolo DMP-A6. My original CDs are stored in their cases and kept for posterity. 90% of my CDs were bought in the 80’s & 90’s. I’ve also bought about 20 SACDs. My latest is Dire Straits Brothers in Arms which is a favorite. Sad SACD never took off. They sound great.
I currently have north of 600 CDs! I appreciate the aesthetic of the shiny round disc, the feel of the plastic jewel case.. the clear clean sound. I also have a ton of vinyl and a lot of mp3s.. but honestly, CDs (in my opinion) are about the best medium for music. I will keep collecting. Videos like yours are motivating! Thanks for posting it!
Yes, I have been a fan of compact discs for nearly 40 years, well 38 years. I heard them on the FM radio and listened to a slight difference, too. My 1st CD was Peter Gabriel's "So" and I also had it on LP as well, the CD had NO SURFACE NOISE. My most dynamic-sounding CD is the original concept recording of "Chess" by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus on RCA. My strangest CD is Monty Python's "The Final Rip-Off," where the playing side is still silver, but the label side has turned a light yellow/light gold color. (Virgin, UK, 1987) Since I bought "So" in 1986, I have bought about 4000 CDs or more individual releases and multi-disc box sets and probably 1500 blank CD-Rs as well. All genres of music: mostly rock, jazz, classical, "pop", reggae, spoken word - comedy, too. The main body of my collection is the Grateful Dead.
Been collecting vinyl since 2017 but I've also been buying a lot more CDs lately (17 this year so far), especially jazz albums because the vinyl copies are so expensive!
You can find great used Jazz CD's for cheap. Went for a coffee today and found first Blue Note CD pressing of Louis Armstrong with Duke Ellington for £1! 😁
Hi Joe just tuned into your channel, great stuff , I'm 72 & started off with vinyl as obviously it was more or less the only format around way back in the day I loved my records & took good care of them but ve to agree gibe me cds any day I get all the stuff about vinyl having this warm sound etc etc but I've had it both ways & prefer cd end of !! Amazing cd library , I took your point re different pressings / editions sounding different I recently updated my collection of Jackson Brown strangely enough comparing earlier issues & reissues have always found the vocals on the muffled side , wondering if you came across this or anyone else Keep the videos coming 😀
What most people don't know is, the data on the CD is actually on the label side. So don't worry about scratches on the other side. Now is the best time to buy used CDs, because of the vinyl revival, people are getting rid of them. Here in London we have many charity shops where you can find CD's for £1 or less! And I've been collection vinyl since late 70's and CD's since they came out.
The laser focuses right past the scratches and usually doesn't see them at all. You are right, now is the time to pick up whatever you need to fill holes in your collection. :)
You can mix up a batch of tooth paste and water, use it to polish in radial strokes (inner to outer) and 90% of the scratches will disappear. I have even restored game console disks for the neighbor's kid.
@@InsideOfMyOwnMind That's true, but only for deep circular scratches. For most perpendicular scratches the laser doesn't have problems reading thru it
Hey, Joe! Just found your channel, as I’m an avid CD collector myself. I saw your other video on compilations and when you got to Good Morning Vietnam and started talking about Adrian Cronauer, I was of course thinking about the fact that he once worked for WFIR, a station I was with for years. Glad I was sitting down when you talked about him ending up in Roanoke just as I was thinking that! I spent nearly 25 years in the Roanoke-Lynchburg market at various stations. Are you still at B99?
Just started watching this video and heard the name Phil Ramone mentioned... who knew one man achieved so much. I was watching a video about tbe Caroenters as he produced Karen's Solo album allong with other tracks by the Capenters. I had no idea of how much stuff he'd worked on untill I read his Wikipedia page. Great video as usual Joe.... if you're interested in seeing old CD Players etc being repaired and serviced take a look at 12volt vids here on youtube. He's an ex Sony service tech who keeps old video and audio equipment alive .
Phil was one of my idols and I reached out to him in 2008 to tell im so. To my surprise, he responded and we became acquainted. He had no reason to but he was very kind to me... Get his book called "Making Records" and you'll be amazed even more.
I have the first 3 yes albums on CD, didn't get into their later stuff. Also have Best of Joe Walsh and Edgar Winter they only come out at night. Had them on record, 8-track, cassette and CD. Also have found a lot of vintage jazz lounge MCM big band stuff. CDs are fun!
Don't know about a come back but I'll roll with it. This is why I'm glad I "save" things , norms call it hoarding lol. I did this in reverse. I wanted to get all of my DVD/CD on spinning rust. You can't sell them or even give them away. It started as a gift idea to rip and or download all old TV shows/Movies that my Dad used to watch as a kid. Needless to say he doesn't like change. I had amazing bootleg connection 20 years ago so I also have duffle bags of movies. It took a while after also incorporating music but its all easily accessible over a network share on the Spy Tv's, I mean Smart TV's. He also hates the smart TV so I kept it simple. It was a meaningful gift and if the internet goes away, who knows in this world, we have decades of entertainment. It took a long time to rip them all but like I said, worth it in the end.
Seems like we are of the same generation. I'm born in 1973, and even remember a world without Television and mobile phones! … and still we survived without knowing everything about our family, friends and houndres of acquaintances and what they did all day, every day. ;-) I too collect CDs, although I only ripp them using an old Gnome program, «grip» (I am the current maintainer) and store the physical CDs in boxes in an upstairs storage room. There is nothing that can compete with having a local copy of media one consumes. I do not use any music of movie/TV streaming service. I have everything on local drives. I don't think the younger genearation have any idea that they don't really own things they think they «bought» on streaming services like Netflix, RU-vid Premium, Apple Music and so on. They actually don't Buy the content, they Rent it. If I can't buy something on a CD or DVD, I am not buying it and will find it elsewhere, and I have no qualms of the legality of grabbing, uhm, «the Linux ISOs» as the Linus Tech Tips WAN Show calls it. :-) One reason i don't care about the legality is that the norwegian government actually pays for the private copying for private use anually via a «mutual fund» which was created in 1982. I have a portable Samsung USB DVD burner which I use for the ripping of CDs, and I still have at least 10 internal DVD RW drives upstairs for computer cases that still allow for mounting internal optical drives. Greetings from Norway.
They are getting expensive again tho. In some cases I have spotted a good condition lp for less than cd price...so I'm not surprised people are going streaming.
Looks like my old gaming Library, Have software, games and music from back in the early 90's. Yep need to do a bit of cleaning myself. Have some Vinyls to from back in the 50's to even a Elvis. Going to give some of it away as my kids won't know what to do with most of it, they don't game. some of it stored away in a bedroom.
I copied all of my cds onto iTunes in the early 2000s and then sold them later on I now own a couple of modded iPods with that entire collection I play the music through my stereo set up using an iPod dock that has built in DAC and sounds great but I have thought about collecting them again in the same way that I've been buying vinyl albums and singles again
I've been buying cds since 92, won't ever stop. The only vinyl I get is special/ limited edition pressings from artists I really like but that is for collecting purposes.
Ah, early CDs, from back when dynamic range was a selling point for ditching your vinyls. Yes, I just said vinyls. 🤣 Most modern day players are just using DVD transports, which is funny that they should skip because read ahead tech is not even special today. I have worked on players that you could lift the CD off the player, put it back and it would spin it up and never miss a beat.
Records, dammit! LOL If they are putting DVD transports in these machines, they are the cheapest they can find. A good DVD transport has to be more rugged than what you use for CD alone but I think they're all pretty chintzy these days. I'm still lookin, though. :)
@@EzeeLinux As a side note, if you have a DVD player that won't play movies anymore sometimes they will still play CDs. You would be aMAZED at how many people don't even know you can play a CD in a DVD player.
The Other format that is better is Mini disc - at least the disc in those cases are protected a bit better. I wished Sony would bring that format back but Ohh well.
eBay is your friend, then. You can buy nice refrubed units for not much money and if it breaks just buy another. I was going to say that in the vid but got side tracked.
Not only are your Linux videos inaccurate, but so are your audio videos. Do some research prior to posting things you claim to be fact whether Linux are audio. I've been doing this a tad longer thenyou, so I know what I'm talking about. You present material well, it's just not accurate.
