Buying CDs. Why?

[amateur51]

Indeed - and 'twas your good self who put me on to the Spotified universe - for which, eternal thanks!

And you have introduced me to so much of twentieth/twenty-first century music on this Forum this past year, ferney, so we're all even, I'd say

[Phileas]

BUT files on a computer are just DATA , a physical object has a different life all together

To me, files on a CD are just DATA.

[MrGongGong]

To me, files on a CD are just DATA.

Yes they are
BUT the key difference is that a physical object has a different existence
It's all vibration anyway (maaan )

[teamsaint]

Yes they are
BUT the key difference is that a physical object has a different existence
It's all vibration anyway (maaan )

Ah good point. Does a physical CD have a higher vibrational level than an mp3 file on my laptop?
pretty sure it does.

[teamsaint]

Yes they are
BUT the key difference is that a physical object has a different existence
It's all vibration anyway (maaan )

Ah good point. Does a physical CD have a higher vibrational level than an mp3 file on my laptop?
pretty sure it does.

[Stunsworth]

...I crave the day when I can fully connect to my hifi a hard disk storage device onto which I can store all my CD's and be able to search and play EASILY at full CD quality

That exactly what I do. CDs ripped and played back from iTunes using a Mac Mini. The 'pain' is in the ripping, but once it's done it's done.

[MrGongGong]

There is (IMV) an assumption in the original post that we all listen to and use music in the same way.
I don't think we do
I don't think that we even mean the same thing when we use the word MUSIC

Which is all rather interesting and wonderful IMV

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

When I visit friends, I like to admire and discuss their books and CDs/LPs.Not much chance of this with libraries stored on a hard disc recorder or a Kobo/Nook/Kindle.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I don't think I understand why anyone would want a Ring on a stick. There must be a reason, otherwise they wouldn't have done it.

Tommy Cooper might have needed one, for something... But then he probably wouldn't have managed to do 'it' anyway!

[amateur51]

When I visit friends, I like to admire and discuss their books and CDs/LPs.Not much chance of this with libraries stored on a hard disc recorder or a Kobo/Nook/Kindle.

May I join youi n the 1980s, EA?

You can also lend friends your CDs, safe in the knowledge that if you bought them from Amazon, you've got the music already stored in your cloud

[LeMartinPecheur]

Friends and music evenings

I don't think anyone has yet mentioned the pleasures of unstructured music evenings with friends. If asked, while something else is playing, if I've got X's recording of Y I can have a look at the shelves, pass it over to be checked as 'the right one', maybe then discuss how/ when it was bought...

[Phileas]

You can do a similar thing with a ripped library if you use an iPad to control things. You can pass the iPad round and browse and search your ripped CD collection or Spotify.

[cloughie]

You can do a similar thing with a ripped library if you use an iPad to control things. You can pass the iPad round and browse and search your ripped CD collection or Spotify.

You need to take care not spill Port on the tablet!

[teamsaint]

the tyranny of choice......

[LeMartinPecheur]

You can do a similar thing with a ripped library if you use an iPad to control things. You can pass the iPad round and browse and search your ripped CD collection or Spotify.

Hmm, won't work for all my cracked 78s and scratched LPs. And what please is an iPad? Some sort of disc-cleaning device perchance?

And Cloughie's nearly right: wouldn't give long odds on the iPad's survival amid beer, wine, cheese, olives Seriously though, grappling with an iPad doesn't sound anywhere near as much fun as dragging out a once-treasured, long-unplayed disc.

Must ask if my musical mate drinks port...