Classical music on LP and CD

[andy20066]

found this place near huddersfield that will take classical records and cds if you give them some info https://hillsideharmonies.com/

[crb11]

Just in case anyone wants to take them, the pile of about 200 mainly old Naxos CDs is stil here at the house (Selsdon near Croydon). Can be collected 10-4 today tomorrow or Monday. Drop me a PM to make arrangements.

[hmvman]

found this place near huddersfield that will take classical records and cds if you give them some info https://hillsideharmonies.com/

Thank you for that link, they look to be very good and I've ordered and LP for my collection!

[mikealdren]

Just in case anyone wants to take them, the pile of about 200 mainly old Naxos CDs is stil here at the house (Selsdon near Croydon). Can be collected 10-4 today tomorrow or Monday. Drop me a PM to make arrangements.

PM sent.

[Piazolla]

It's tragic, I have well over a 1000 CD's, all now painstakingly put into a hard drive and backed up. Now the discs gather dust and never get played, they are worthless, nobody want's them. They don't even sell at a car boot or charity shop for 50p! I haven't got the heart to throw them away, they have become a bit of a burden so I try and forget about them!

[Bryn]

It's tragic, I have well over a 1000 CD's, all now painstakingly put into a hard drive and backed up. Now the discs gather dust and never get played, they are worthless, nobody want's them. They don't even sell at a car boot or charity shop for 50p! I haven't got the heart to throw them away, they have become a bit of a burden so I try and forget about them!

CDs, and to some extent LPs, are fine storage devices. Hard discs fail, eventually, sometimes quite unexpectedly. There again, I assume you cycle backups of your hard drives.

[MickyD]

It's tragic, I have well over a 1000 CD's, all now painstakingly put into a hard drive and backed up. Now the discs gather dust and never get played, they are worthless, nobody want's them. They don't even sell at a car boot or charity shop for 50p! I haven't got the heart to throw them away, they have become a bit of a burden so I try and forget about them!

That's very sad to hear. I love to see CDs on my shelves in the same way as books - there is something rather comforting and reassuring about them.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It's tragic, I have well over a 1000 CD's, all now painstakingly put into a hard drive and backed up. Now the discs gather dust and never get played, they are worthless, nobody want's them. They don't even sell at a car boot or charity shop for 50p! I haven't got the heart to throw them away, they have become a bit of a burden so I try and forget about them!

It’s illegal to copy CDs to a hard drive and then to sell/donate them, unless you clear the hard drive as well.

[Bryn]

It’s illegal to copy CDs to a hard drive and then to sell/donate them, unless you clear the hard drive as well.

Much the same as with "home taping" - also illegal but rarely prosecuted except in gross cases. Still both illegal and of questionable morality, however widely practised.

[mikealdren]

I have over 4,000 CDs (and lots of LPs) in boxes in the attic. The CDs are all on disk but I keep them:
a. As EA points out, it's illegal to copy and sell them.
b. Occasionally there are problems with the computer copy and I have to re-copy - ~I don't always listen to them when I copy them!

Yes it takes up a lot of space and we're hoping to move house soon and it's just something else to move.

[Bryn]

I'm more worried about the thousands of vinyl LPs up in the loft which will probably never get played again and are so very difficult to recycle. How best to dispose of them (mainly re-issues, rather than sellable original releases).

[richardfinegold]

I'm more worried about the thousands of vinyl LPs up in the loft which will probably never get played again and are so very difficult to recycle. How best to dispose of them (mainly re-issues, rather than sellable original releases).

Well surely you are aware that unlike CDs, lps have resale value these days. There are many second hand shops that will buy them in batches so you don’t have to have the tedium of listing them separately on eBay. Of course you will make more money selling them individually but then the hassles multiply several fold, so it depends on your situation.

[Bryn]

old;912425]Well surely you are aware that unlike CDs, lps have resale value these days. There are many second hand shops that will buy them in batches so you don’t have to have the tedium of listing them separately on eBay. Of course you will make more money selling them individually but then the hassles multiply several fold, so it depends on your situation.

I consulted sites such as https://revolutions33.co.uk/classica...s_wanted-html/ , which is why I mentioned the reissues limitation. Some companies dealing in used LPs have no interest whatever in 'classical' records, only pop, rock and the like. The vast majority of my LPs were purchased after 1972 when I sold off the majority of what I then had to raise the funds to go to a conference in Dublin. Those that might command a price worth bothering with I would be likely to keep, anyway.

If you started buying vinyl records in the mid 1970’s then it is most likely that there is nothing in your collection that has any great value. If you started buying vinyl records in the 1950’s & 1960’s, however, then you may have a few or indeed many valuable records that are of interest to collectors worldwide.

[hmvman]

I do some part-time work for a charity here in York that has several charity shops in the area and a donation centre. We have someone who comes to the donation centre to go through the donations of LPs to see if any are of value. Some get sold for a few pounds in the shops but unfortunately, many boxes full of records that haven't sold have to go to the landfill skip. It's not a good situation but we don't have the space for records that people don't want. Most of the classical records end up in the skip.

[gradus]

Since vinyl records are made of recyclable material, absent selling on, the last resort could be to shred them to pellets and oblige current manufacturers to include the recycled pellets in the manufacture of their new vinyl records. The effect on pressing quality should enhance the 'superior sound of vinyl' that is touted so loudly in some quarters.