What Did You Do With Your Old CD's?

[Hives]

I am pretty sure everyone has a ton of old CDs they burned or purchased over the years. I am interested in know what you guys have done with them.

- Do u still have and listen to them?
- Did u put it in a box in the basement and forget about them?
- Did u give them away?
- Did you throw them in the garbage?

I plan on going through all of mines b/c it needs sorting out, and im not sure what to do with them, so let me know what you guys have done.

[condor888000]

Sitting on a shelf.

[Anrky]

I still buy CD's so I have 100's, sitting in boxes, after I rip them I almost never listen to the CD anymore. But I'm happy to have the original backup if need be, not that I couldn't get 95% of them online easy.

[insaini]

All mine are in my hand rest thing in car....

I have about 60 or 70 in there I believe and every single one of them is scratched ...

When I'm sick of new songs I put a old cd in and listen to the tracks that still play... Though most of them don't and skip lol

[Malcolm991]

Down loaded them to hard drive and put the cds in a box to collect dust!

[dentinger]

they're all sitting on a shelf in my room.
i listen to them now and then, but as Anrky said, i burn them to my hard drive, and forget about em.

[DumpInfo]

I ripped all my good cds and stored them. All the cds ripped are sitting on 2 hdd's just incase one goes and some of them are on my ipod :)

[froggy]

same ripped then I purposely scratch the hell out of them then throw them out

[aris]

In a box sitting in my basement

[SL3VIN]

Not a lot of ppl know that CD sound quality is actually ten times better than mp3, IMO i would keep the CD's.

When you rip your songs off CDs you are compressing the data hence making the quality of sound worse b/c of a lower bit rate!! Only advantage is the song is 10 times smaller then its original size.

So unless you rip it into a raw wav file i wouldn't sell your old CD's...

[Hives]

Not a lot of ppl know that CD sound quality is actually ten times better than mp3, IMO i would keep the CD's.

When you rip your songs off CDs you are compressing the data hence making the quality of sound worse b/c of a lower bit rate!! Only advantage is the song is 10 times smaller then its original size.

So unless you rip it into a raw wav file i wouldn't sell your old CD's...

Ohhh, interesting to know. I don't even own a MP3 player. I still use CDs. I have so many old ones from like high school laying around, and that was from like 4/5 years ago lol

[froggy]

Not a lot of ppl know that CD sound quality is actually ten times better than mp3, IMO i would keep the CD's.

When you rip your songs off CDs you are compressing the data hence making the quality of sound worse b/c of a lower bit rate!! Only advantage is the song is 10 times smaller then its original size.

So unless you rip it into a raw wav file i wouldn't sell your old CD's...

That is true, but really most peoples sound systems, and speakers aren't of high enough fidelity for the average person to notice the difference. And if you really want to go for quality you have to go to the Dat tapes and the old reel to reel machines. good luck finding the latest singles in that format! I personally prefer the sound of vinyl but it's not easy to dj and drive at the same time.

[SL3VIN]

Actually when I listen to a wav file and than a mp3 file of a song, I notice that the wav file is more fuller, has more range and is less chunky in spots...
All on my 80 dollar head phones. But yeah what you said is true a lot of ppl cant tell the difference and they prefer the convenience of having a mp3 on the go.

lol not to mention the vinyl will prolly melt in your car on a hot summer day :chuckle

[Mazda3X2]

All my CDs are either in a large holder in the rec room or in a milk crate in the furnace room. I still listen to them sometimes.

I miss my LPs.

[Anrky]

When the storage capacity gets much, much higher for the iphone or ipod nano i'll go to lossless, for the car i doubt you'll really hear the difference with all the other noise you'll deal with. I do hear a difference when i have my headphones on.

[DumpInfo]

Not a lot of ppl know that CD sound quality is actually ten times better than mp3, IMO i would keep the CD's.

When you rip your songs off CDs you are compressing the data hence making the quality of sound worse b/c of a lower bit rate!! Only advantage is the song is 10 times smaller then its original size.

So unless you rip it into a raw wav file i wouldn't sell your old CD's...


To my knowledge 192kbps is cd quality. Anything less of that would be noticeable when playing.

[Pimpin_29y]

Collecting dust in my room...

[Dave_The_BMXER]

Most of my collection got stolen from my truck.

Bummer.

[_3G]

I keep the originals in a CD book for back up purposes.

[Luxury_Tax]

Mine are scattered through out my house/car.

[SilentJay]

Could make 'em into fashion accessories?

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=s&tid=1379564

[froggy]

To my knowledge 192kbps is cd quality. Anything less of that would be noticeable when playing.

the wav format (cd format) is 1440 kbps, most of the cd's that I've ripped i've ripped at either 256 kbps or 320 kbps, which basically translates to about 2.5 megabytes/min of song or 3.2 megabytes/min of song respectively. with the regular cd fromat its basically 14.4 megabytes/min of song. 128 is the lowest quality that I would consider actually listening to. you really notice it when you get down to 96 and 64. I've heard answering machines with better sound quality. at the higher ends there's enough information left that the sound quality doesn't suffer as much. At the higher bitrates to me at least it's like comparing dvd to divx, it's the same info/quality just that ones compressed and takes more processing to play it back. I could be wrong in that comparison but I don't think so

[Sean80]

ripped them onto my hard drive then sold them to a used cd store. Got a couple hundred bucks outta them :p

[crystal8484]

I have some pretty retarded CD's that's for sure, but still have them in my room. My burned CD's I've either chucked out, or they're stacked in a CD spindle... I'll bust some out from like 1999 or 2001 and laugh my ass off because I put some crazy songs onto them.

[Dave_The_BMXER]

I have some pretty retarded CD's that's for sure, but still have them in my room. My burned CD's I've either chucked out, or they're stacked in a CD spindle... I'll bust some out from like 1999 or 2001 and laugh my ass off because I put some crazy songs onto them.

I did that and wrote a blog about it... embarrassing (http://www.havokproductions.ca/randomasrhyme/?p=74).

Only back to 2002 though I think I threw out the rest.

[vlad5434]

i threw 100 of them out my car window well my friend did lol while i was drivin

[kaval]

They got stolen :complain Including my U2 Greatest Hits Limited Edition album.

[boost123]

i had some pretty sick cds but i gave them away for some reason

[Ogata]

i farted on them

[SirWanker]

puppies..........I still have over 300 vinyl LPs with 1000 CDs ( excluding 100GB of sample mp3s) all ripped onto the HD for purpetual mixes....

music will always be your life's soundtrack..constantly changing yet constant

peace