Why did you left CDs?

[dark_virus]

I have all my CDs converted to MP3 on my HD and I can find any song in just a few seconds.

Why is that harder with your CDs? It certainly isn't the case with my collection.

For various reasons. Lazyness certainly is one of them. Besides, I never was an "album guy", I like to listen to random stuff, even to the point of skipping intros, outros or the song itself in the middle of the playing.

Finally, as I said, I don't have a 100% working CD player that enhances the CD experience. All my CD drives are choppy or simply doesn't work. One of my computers even gives a blue screen whenever I play a music CD on it.

[BONES]

I am the exact opposite - I ONLY play albums and I never skips songs, even ones I don't like. Given the amount of thought and effort we put into assembling an album, I think it's the very least you can do if you appreciate someone's work. If I had my way, I wouldn't allow single downloads of our songs, only full albums.

[vurt]

I am the exact opposite - I ONLY play albums and I never skips songs, even ones I don't like. .

im the same.

used to hate visiting friends who would play a few tracks, then change the album, why would you do that? its like cutting the mona lisa in half

[whyterabbyt]

I still buy albums on CD and rip them myself. The only exception is when I cant get it on CD, or its significantly cheaper as an album as a download.
I dont tend to listen to the original CD though. At home, there's a networked drive 'right there' from anything, elsewhere Ive been using my (4th-gen) iPod.
I listen album-by-album only, Ive never used a playlist in my life, and generally I only put the original album tracklist onto the iPod, not any extras.

[Forgotten]

generally I only put the original album tracklist onto the iPod, not any extras.

That practice of putting extra tracks on CDs got really out of hand. Adding the odd non-album single or good B-side is one thing, but I really don’t need to to hear 4 different mixes of a song that was deemed not good enough to include on the album in the first place

[BONES]

I tend to collect those things into separate "releases". e.g. I got the bonus tracks from several XTC remastered albums and created a "Singles & B-Sides" album with them (which I listen to as much as I listen to any of the proper albums) and Gang of Four's Solid Gold remaster came with the Yellow EP as a bonus, so I just separated it out into it's own release. Sometimes, though, I don't bother with them and if there are just one or two, and they are appropriate, I'll leave them in.

[Jace-BeOS]

I never left CDs. The industry, mostly, did. CDs are great. They can be packaged however you like, so it’s not like they force artists to have small art. Hell, cassette tape is experiencing a retro-fetish revival and that is even SMALLER.

The industry likes the idea of killing second-hand markets and having zero expense on deliverables. It does not serve the customers. The demand is not being supplied. The demand is being prescribed.

I do not align whatsoever with the culture that thinks CDs are lame or inferior. That attitude is especially irritating when the same people have a vinyl fetish (which sellers are eager to milk with outlandish pricing of artificially scarce product).

I buy things on CD when possible, but that has gotten way more difficult, and I “own” quite a few things now that only exist as digital purchases.

My favorite artist thinks CDs are lame (due to the small package size... and the fact that he grew up with records, so...). Vinyl is the only physical medium he wants to offer. It makes me think a little less of him (people who fall so blindly into logical fallacies just feel lesser to me), but there’s nothing I can do about it. I hope he corrects this weird attitude at some point, and I keep supporting the art, which I like... not that he needs my money.

I still capture my CDs into my iTunes library as lossless AAC, and I usually play the continent from an older iPhone, but I definitely prefer owning the CDs (edit: and I own disc players). Aside from having a backup that would survive a digital apocalypse (I’m not actually really afraid of that), I also love having a physical object to represent that art in the physical world. I never liked the notion that we only “have a license” to “use” intangibles, and I hate that this notion has been oozing from the computer industry, poisoning other markets.

Physical releases that still come out are being sabotaged and shortchanged by the notion that they’re not important. When CDs are only grudgingly released, they usually have zero content in terms of liner notes.

As for the notion of only listening to singles... I prefer listening to entire albums and rarely skip songs. I don’t get people complaining about albums being “mostly filler”. I think that’s a problem with manufactured acts, divas & boybands, whatever you want to call them. If an album is perceived as “mostly filler”, the music isn’t for me. I won’t buy singles from such acts either, so I have no experience with that complaint nor the cause of it.

My girlfriend likes a lot of mainstream pop and she makes the same complaint about filler. It makes me sad for music as art when people think that an artist would consciously put “filler” on an album. That’s a corporation doing that to make more profit from their manufactured pop music, not an artist who cares about the integrity of their art.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I am the exact opposite - I ONLY play albums and I never skips songs, even ones I don't like. .

im the same.

used to hate visiting friends who would play a few tracks, then change the album, why would you do that? its like cutting the mona lisa in half

Maybe it's more like people not being as into the same rituals as you are

[Jace-BeOS]

I am the exact opposite - I ONLY play albums and I never skips songs, even ones I don't like. .

im the same.

used to hate visiting friends who would play a few tracks, then change the album, why would you do that? its like cutting the mona lisa in half

Maybe it's more like people not being as into the same rituals as you are

I wouldn’t call it a ritual. For me (and it seems also for the artists I like), albums usually mean something as a whole. When I listen to music to focus on music (not as background), I’m in it for the whole package. Each song often belongs with the others on the album, and that is especially the case with concept albums (my favorite).

Even when it’s music for the background of another activity, there’s still a sense of an entire album being appropriate for whatever I’m doing that supports listening in that way. Random songs won’t have the same effect for me, and, while I do have a couple of “mood playlists” of tracks from various sources, I took care to carefully choose songs that fit those moods, and which work together... like an album.

I can listen causally, but I’m not a casual listener.

[Bombadil]

I would like CDs to come in 12" jackets, same size as LPs. One of the casualties of CDs is album art. So many great album covers reduced to not much more than a postcard. That, and the originally inflated prices are the things I have issues with. We have a turntable. We don't use it, and I've only bought 1 LP at a flea market since around 1987, or so.

[vurt]

I am the exact opposite - I ONLY play albums and I never skips songs, even ones I don't like. .

im the same.

used to hate visiting friends who would play a few tracks, then change the album, why would you do that? its like cutting the mona lisa in half

Maybe it's more like people not being as into the same rituals as you are

exactly! and just look where we are now

[Calenberger]

the stash

There's a cow in your living room...

[fedexnman]

Most my CDs are buried in a closet somewhere . I think I bought a CD round X-mas because your couldn't stream it . Neds Acoustic Dustbin (Atomic) . Not on any of the streaming sites . I use Spotify now . I don't miss CDs , I miss Blockbuster video and VHS though .

[vurt]

Most my CDs are buried in a closet somewhere . I think I bought a CD round X-mas because your couldn't stream it . Neds Acoustic Dustbin (Atomic) . Not on any of the streaming sites . I use Spotify now . I don't miss CDs , I miss Blockbuster video and VHS though .

who thought the neds would get a mention? not me

may have to kill my television now.

[fedexnman]

Yeah I'm still a sucker for Neds Atomic Dustbin , wish I could go to UK to see a show , but I'm in USA .