Yes they are. They said vinyl was dead too. CDs will always have their place, especially with people like me who eschew streaming and like owning their own music.
Agree 100%. I don’t listen to internet music at all. I have full control. I will keep my CD’s forever! I also still use my LP’s too. Love my turntable. Warmer sound.
I want to always own my own music. And the compact disc is , in my opinion the best way to do that. I only " stream " music to check out new albums as they become available on CD.
Thankfully my new 2023 Suzuki Jimny "Jeep" has a CD player as standard ! The author has neglected to say that many of us, as books, like to hold the CD item, look & read the sleeve ! There is nothing comparable so it will live on for decades more
@@davidhusband5022 With all of us music collectors. You can still buy all new albums on CD format and most artists are now releasing deluxe editions with older artists putting out super deluxe boxes with new mixes and outtakes usually with a DVD as well. Every major city in America still has record stores that sell CDs and in Tokyo they have a 9 story Tower Records.
Hold on! DON'T THROW THEM OUT. CD players (if not CDs, too) WILL BE COMING BACK. When I was rearranging my house a few days ago, I noticed my extensive collection (100s) of CDs stored neatly and catalogued in an attractive cabinet on a wall. "Obsolete," I thought. "Time to get rid of them." OH, HELL NO! I thought as I suddenly remembered EVERYTHING audio or video (especially) on the Internet is laced with 4-second ads about EVERY 3 minutes. My CDs are paid for and there is not a single ad on even one of them! Finally, I can GO BACK to watching and listening to quality video and audio without having to endure contiuous INTERRUPTING ads or pay annual extortion fees to the Ad Remover services. It's OUR way to get back at all the greedy people. KEEP AND PLAY your CDs, folks. I am. (I'm going to keep a CD in my car and every time I stop at a traffic light, I'm going to flash my CD around to show everyone my little note: NO ADs!) Come on! Join in the fun! May ALL the greedy people go broke!
Ima cd seller and buyer in 2024 and imaa azzz keep supporting artist and physical media Cds 💿 better sound quality u own the music and no internet 😊🤙🤙📀📀📀💿💿 streaming is garbage for losers that are lazyyyy want all music for free and will never own anything
I hang onto my collection...1000+ CDs and around 300 vinyls...however, i cannot listen to everything, so i do the occasional purge, trading titles i either dont want anymore or got upgraded with deluxe reissues/boxsets or remasters...i guess its polishing an evolving diamond...i was also running out of space, so i was able to condense & eliminate a third of the space of my collection by reducing the number of ugly plastic jewelcases used...
I use CD's in my home recording studio and so do many other people. CD's are not outdated and forgotten, they are still around, and will continue to be so
A few years ago, I sent a CD -hand-delivered- to a producer/recording studio owner in Hamburg. My buddy returned and told me there wasn’t a CD player in the entire studio! Whaddayagonna do?
I still can't understand why CDs became less popular. That usually happens only when something better comes along. But streaming isn't better. It may be more convenient, but at the cost of reduced fidelity. I'm sticking with CDs.
Yeah, I know at 73 I'm an old geezer. The CD is the highest form of recording technology that I listen to. I've run the gambit, 45's, 33 LP's, 8 tracks, cassette's, reel to reel tapes, and CD's. I do occasionally go to Spotify and listen to their playlists of my favorite genres or artists, but again that is rare. For me, picking hits off of an artist's album is cheating myself the opportunity to appreciate some of the lesser-known gems recorded on an album. Some take many listens to appreciate the tracks. I only recently was awakened to the reality of the CD demise when I began searching for a new car and discovered the absence of a CD player in the new vehicles. Same when upgrading to a new computer. I'm not closed minded, but currently there is nothing new, music wise, that interests me. I listen to classic rock and classic country, so my CD collection is very valuable to me. Well, nothing lasts forever and neither will I, but until they carry me away, I'll be playing my CD's!!!!
I'm 66. Always an advocate of quality over convenience and features. In the 60s, 70s and 80s, I stuck with my akai open reel tabe recorder over cassette, believing 7.5 ips speed was better then 1.7ips for cassette. Also, far less wow and flutter. Then, in the 90s when I couldn't afford a DAT recorder or minidisc, I modified a Hi Fi vhs cassette recorder for audio only, which uses helical scan recording the same as a DAT. Then, I began recording on CD, firstly, totally from line in on the computer, and later using Tascam linear PCM recorder and only using the computer to burn the disc. This is the same method I use today. I will not entertain downloads or cloud rubbish as you don't own the stuff and it's inferior anyway. Physical media only. They are better than Hard disk drives or flash memory to archive, as your material is mot reliant on a piece of electronics that could fail or get lost. Instead, you only have to go out and buy another second hand cd unit off flea Bay. And just for the record (or not), I dearly love Rock, ac/dc, Blues Rock and Blues Country ! CD's FOREVER !!!
Have you ever listened to a well recorded vinyl record played back with a good quality cartridge, tonearm, turntable, tube amp and neutral sounding speakers ?
To be fair a car isn't the best environment for listening to recorded music. 1/ Firstly there is no optimal listening position in a car, and 😊 2,The road and engine noise means you can't hear the lower level details in the recording.
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You are and old geezer but you’re alive OG and am sure think every single day any day above ground is a good time for you sir!!
@@melvinjennings6424Man that's epic. I mainly collect punk adjacent demos and singles and I am happy to have 83 currently. 900+ CDs. You definitely have a decent amount of space at home. Congrats haha.
When I was in college in the 1970's I took a class called Physics in the Fine Arts. That was in the days of vinyl records. The professor told us they were working on a new kind of record that did not use a needle, the machine would read the record with a laser beam. It will be great, he said. Perfect sound reproduction, and no scratches, skips, and pops. He was describing the CD, and it took about ten years before the first CD's came out.
He may have read about it in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science magazines. It makes me recall how in the late 60s or early 70s I read in the "Future Technology" section of Popular Mechanics about a futuristic laser machine that would someday read codes on groceries and products for sale just by passing them over a glass checkout stand window. The laser barcode readers actually started showing up in grocery stores in the 80s. I'll never forget the first time I encountered one and remembered seeing that story back when I was a kid.
One thing you missed; When CDs took off, record companies turned to their vaults to include extra tracks on CDs. Sometimes singles that were never available on LP; sometimes previously unreleased tracks or first-time stereo mixes. This was a serious boom to collectors. Often these tracks were already owned by the record companies and royalty rate was either low of nonexistent. It was thrilling to get new, previously unissued by favorite artists.
And then there's the flurry of companies who are remastering those old LP's from the original master tapes using the best modern equipment and releasing them as box sets or some kind of special edition. I hate/love them for this.
I started buying cd's from 1987 on. By 2003 I had more than 1500 cd's in my music collection. In 2010 and 2011 I sold almost all my cd's due to money problems. I always regretted that. Years later I got back on my feet and started my cd collection again from scratch. I have more than 500 cd's now and still buy some and my music collection never looked better. I love music and I love music on cd.
I started buying CDs in 1986, SACDs in 2001 and Blu Ray audio discs in 2013. I have never stopped buying them, in fact now I buy more CDs than ever. CDs are one of my biggest pleasures. I don't see a single reason not to keep buying and enjoying them. By the way, I have NEVER streamed music!
I stream music but to me that's like a modern radio station. I listen to tons of new music on streaming services and when I hear something I like I purchase the physical copy.
I started buying CDs in the early 1990s and never intend to stop. It is the best medium when you consider overall sound quality, price, packaging, value for you and the artist and possession of physical media as opposed to merely streaming it, which you don't own.
If you throw away good condition CDs in favour of paying to hear those songs via a subscription service then you're an idiot. Right now is the time to buy: accumulate CDs at bargain basement prices & store them (if not playing them) until the inevitable nostalgia trend begins in a decade or so & the next generation will pay silly prices to get them. They have a subjective value as an object, quite apart from the recorded music that's on them, the same as a vinyl LP, a book or magazine etc.
When cd's conquered the audio world we all (well, I at least) thought that it won so easily because of its superior audio quality. To find much later that in fact it was just the superior convenience that brought the masses to cd. The audio quality was just a bycatch. The fast success of streaming audio made me realise this. Inferior sound quality, yet everybody embraced it. Nice short overview in this video. Thanks.
Started buying CD's in 1996, when I bought my first Yamaha CD player. The Yamaha single Disc CD player died awhile ago. But recently I bought an Audiophile grade Stereo System. The CD player I bought was the Rotel CD11MKII , $599, worth every penny. The clarity and quality of the CD being played is outstanding. Hopefully this Rotel CD player will out live my first Yamaha CD player. And yes, I still purchase CD's.
Wait a minute here, CD's are still very much a format widely used by audiophiles. They can be bought both new & used from Record Shops & numerous online Auction sites at very reasonable cost. On a high quality CD player they're sonically superb (especially SACD's) & will easily outclass any 'compressed' download or streamed version of a recording ~ So there's plenty of 'milage' still to go with the 'old silver disc ' !
I purchase my music as a customer and as such I consume said music or put another way I use it with my ears. Yes you consume music, videos and the printed word and everything you use in your life. Words are not that hard.
Music takes me to a place where nothing else.Can my favorite songs are very special to me.And they're like a drug to call them.Consuming isnt that far fetched from that point of view
@bobair2 Strictly speaking, if you consume something, then it's no longer available to you or anyone else- it's gone. You consume food, the fire consumed the building, etc. Pedantic, I know- but this is why the anti-piracy adverts never really made sense, as most people who copied audio and video were making personal copies for themselves, not preventing others from paying full price for their copies or even offering the public cheaper copies. The media wasn't consumed, just copied. And yes, I am being pedantic 🤓.
I still buy cd's. People tend to forget that when you buy a cd, you "own" the music. While streaming is convenient, the day the company decides to remove that cd from its servers, you cannot listem to it anymore. The same applies to Netflix , etc, etc
I agree streaming is nice but you don’t own your music like that you own it by buying the cd or vinyl I love having both and digital too with iTunes on my phone 😊
What a great album and band to start your collection with! Mine was Nico's 'Desertshore'. Purchased @ Tower Records back in 1994. That store had everything!
66 here and remember when CD’s became huge! Over time, I expanded my CD library and out went the vinyl. Now my vinyl collection has grown massively and my CD’s dwindled down quite a bit. I rarely play the CD’s but transferred all of them to digital format and stream through my SONOS speaker system. Creating playlists allow the music to play for several hours without any babysitting!
I love cd's and back to collect them again after 20 years. I'm a vinyl guy, but cd's are great: convenient and sound fantastic. Somtimes i just want to listen to music with good quality without all the preparation that vinyl needs.
Vinyl is too cumbersome; records get scratched even under the best circumstances. Not all vinyl is made the same, some more durable than others; then of course the turntable and needle which aren’t cheap. Tapes had their own problems too. CDs were a blessing which had none of the baggage of the other two, and far better quality audio
I have bought CD's from day one and still buy them today, probably more so than ever. I also stream and download and own vinyl, but CD's are my favoured form of physical media. CD sales are now on the increase again thanks to the high price of vinyl. It's also good to see hi-fi manufacturers continuing to put out high quality players. Long live the CD.
"The high price of vinyl". I hear that a lot, but the fact is...... the prices are in line with what vinyl cost new back in its heyday. For instance, a new LP in the 70's/80's was around $7.99 - $8.99, and most titles today are around $30.00, which is comparable to typical inflation. Remember...... a new car then was roughly $5,000.00 - $7,000.00, and now is at least $30,000.00..... if not considerably more. Yes, I've held onto my CDs, but I was dumb and got rid of all my vinyl.
@@broeheemed32, it may be true that adjusted for inflation, LP prices are comparable to what they’ve always been, but that’s irrelevant to people who weren’t around when LPs were $7 or so. When you look at the price of most CDs nowadays compared to the price of vinyl, the savings are evident with CDs. And most new vinyl isn’t $30 anymore-that was more the general price in say, 2019/2020. Most (obviously not all…you gotta instill nuance with what I’m saying) new records these days you’re looking at price tags of at least $34.99, and since they seem to like to spread what is actually a single album onto two records, the price is often more like $44-$52.
I so miss getting paid on Friday, going to the Record Store or Stores and buying 1 to 3 CDs. I honestly miss listening to CDs (albums) from start to finish because some albums flowed in order of songs and with intros to breaks between songs gave you a memory. And yes.. after listening to cassette tapes and vinyl as a kid. CDs sounded so clear!
CD's never died, and when you see the brands of CD players available today from budget brands all the way to the hi end Accuphase, Esoteric, T&A and many others, CD's are appreciated by very discerning audiophiles.
I was binging on Stargate SG-1 on Netflix. I was just starting the last season, Season 10. They took it off the rotation. If you own the media, they can't do that to you.
If you are a casual music person then you probably got rid of your cds and just stream now. If you are a big music person then you probably still own and buy cds (like I do).
As the economy changes CD and cassettes are as strong as ever in many aspects. As a guy who tinkers with old hifi gear, I've had more and more vintage cassette decks and CD players show up recently. The name of the game now is download it, then burn it to CD and have it forever. For those not driving late model vehicles, Cassettes are the only option. All of my cars and trucks have factory cassette decks in them combined with cd players. My 20 year old truck has both cd and cassette and is blue tooth capable so it can play mp3 tunes as well. Phones are not reliable for long term. I will never purchase anything that relies on my phone's longevity to have access to it. I want it in my hand in a hard copy. Anything less and its a no sale for me.
I wouldn't be without CD's! I love them and use them all the time! And it's outrageous auto manufacturers have stopped putting them in cars! I make my own CD's still through my mixer board connected to my computer and download any song I want from RUclips and then burn it onto a CD on NY computer! Bring back CD's you dopes!!
I still use cassettes and open reel tapes, records of all types, and CD's. Many pieces on those formats are not available in any streaming service. It's also easier to plop a record down, turn on a switch and listen as opposed to scrolling through libraries and playlists to find one song or symphony.
As someone who is passionate for Classical Music, the CD was a godsend as I could make CDs on my Tascam and play them in the car. Most of my music is on vinyl from recordings that never made it into the digital realm, hence not available anywhere. New cars do not allow me to play my recordings while driving since they do not have players and I won't get them from streaming. And of the few that did make it into the digital format all I can say is that many times the re-mastering is not all that good. At times simply horrible as the original people that did the masters for vinyl are long gone. Technology can be great ... but sometimes it really bytes.
It's great when my son (15) brings friends from school over because they're all into 80s music now. "Stranger Things" kicked that whole thing off, and I've been having a BLAST with it. When I slide out the bottom drawers of the entertainment center, the kids lose their ever lovin' minds because I've got EVERYTHING.
I collect CD's every weekend at the local swap meet for $1 each. Sound quality superior and I own them for the life of them. Streaming has made music worthless and they sounds terrible.
OMG CDs are NOT dead. I buy nothing but compact discs. I have high end equipment and the sound I experience my music is exquisite. Nothing will kill CD, like vinyl, it will always be there. 😊
I still have my albums and CD's, don't know if they will make a come back or not. I just enjoy the ability to hold, view and listen to the music. It would be nice if things would return to the way they were but I doubt it. It is not about you and I but its all about the industry and $$$$$$.
I had a 100 disc player in the late 90s, when I moved house I should have either taken all the discs out or remembered to keep the player upright as all the discs fell out of the rotary thing inside and was a absolute nightmare sorting that out lol 😆😆😆🤣🤣
I have a very large collection of musical CD's. I use them at home, and in my vehicle. I will never get rid of them. In fact, I am always looking for more.
I am still keeping my huge collection of CD's, all sorts of them including melodious music and precious softwares and drivers those come very handy today in some very crucial situations, cds are not going to go away so quickly because even today some manufacturers are giving the softwares and drivers along with the device in a CD, I understood the importance of the software CD when I searched around the internet for nearly 4 to 5 hours never to find the proper or appropriate driver or software for my 9 year old scanner, finally I had to go through my huge collection to find it and there it was I felt so happy after I found the software CD it felt so crucial and precious at that time, giving life to my scanner. and along with high quality music CDS even the high quality DVD has also left behind a huge history
I have a 4000 strong CD collection and am frequently adding to it. No shortage of new content being released on this media and it is the only practical format for multi disc re-issues and box sets. Vinyl is incredibly expensive to produce and content on streaming is subject to constant change. The CD is a sure musical bet.
Cds are still holding their own, all physical media will maybe become more niche but it will never die.People love physical media in a way they never will with streaming services.Even cassettes are making a comeback of sorts.❤.
CDs aren’t “obsolete” for me. I still have a collection of over 1,000 which I play every day on my very expensive high end stereo system. LPs or “vinyl” may in some respects offer marginally better sound, but you can’t beat CDs for convenience and good overall sound quality.
What u mean cds 💿 have better sound quality than cheap ass streaming ur force to listen to the full album 💿 in good 👍 sound quality and u suppoort the artist
I refuse to get rid of my CD collection. I got my first CC in the summer of 1986. It is Paul Simon’s Graceland. It still sounds great on my 2002 Bose Acoustic Wave AM-FM-CD audio system. I do useYT music in the cars, the bathroom during my morning ablutions, and when I am forced to cut the lawn. It has its uses. However, when listening to Classical, or jazz and Folk on a weekend afternoon, or evening, I play the CDs.
My husband still buys CDS, and the only CD player we have is in the car, a 2014 Mitsubishi ASX. CDS haven't gone on the way side, can still buy them in second hand music stores.
Don't believe the hype. A friend told me CDs and DVDs and books were going to stop being manufactured. That was in 2010. It won't happen. There are too many people who still want physical copies.
Don't decide for people! Streaming services are way too expensive, with no privacy at all. I love to be offline listening to a nice cd and just relaxing. CD's are still there and vinyl is coming back too. Love it!🎉🎉😊❤
CD sound quality was a nightmare, not a dream. I remember buying my first two classical CDs - both by Decca - and they sounded appalling. It took years before the sound was acceptable to hardcore audiophiles with the biggest problems being jitter and the filters used to prevent aliasing. The sampling rate was a compromise as well because it barely covered off the audible sound spectrum meaning the aforementioned filters had to be relatively steep and aggressive. Telarc for example, realised this from the start which is why their own recording system had a higher sample rate at 50 Khz - it allowed them not only to record more of the audio spectrum itself but to colour the resulting analogue output sound less due to the less aggressive filtering. I believe the early bespoke Decca gear was 48 Khz - also a higher sample rate. And of course the later DAT standard encompassed 48 Khz as well due to the superiority of that compared to 44.1 khz. Over many years all these problems were mitigated to the point where CD did sound good but all that said, any serious sound engineer or audiophile will still agree that higher bit depths and higher sample rates can and do produce better results. Had CD been 18 bit with a 48 khz sample rate from the very beginning, it would have sounded better than it did in the early days and it sill would have held the same length program that any typical LP had previously held. It is for all those reasons I wish the introduction of the CD format had been delayed a few years. But because it wasn't, every CD sold today is bound by those original specifications and thus does not sound quite as good as it could (whilst still obviously sounding pretty good though).
Same cds 💿 forever ima 2024 cd buyer and seller and will always support Artist Better sound quality u own the music no internet and support the artist 💿💿💿💿💿🤙🤙🤙🤙📀📀💿💿💿💿💽💽💽💽💽
@garethde-witt6433 And besides, you don't get any information with a stream. I like the artwork, the credits, information about the artist/composer, all the good stuff that comes with an LP or CD.
I have all my vinyl albums from the 60s and 70s and a collection of about 400 CDs. I have an excellent component stereo system. Young people today who listen on their phones have a degraded listening experience and they don't even know it. Vinyl is best, and it is making a comeback. Corporations and public education have left two generations of young Americans totally ignorant of American music from the 1920s to the 1970s, some kids are so ignorant they don't know what a tambourine is!
I was the first in my neighborhood to have the first generation Sony Walkman with the cassettes. It was magical at the time. Hop on my moped and just cruise. In my own mobile world. I'm lucky I'm still alive. Lmaooouuut!!
In the last 2-3 years, where I live, CDs, cassettes, and album sales have been in another ORBIT! I have about 1k 💿s, and have NO intention of getting rid of ANY of them! I've also got gangs of blank cassettes, along with a multitude of high quality recorders, and have a deck in my car, AND a 💿 player too, with albums, and turntables to boot...I'M COOL!🙄👍🏿
Streaming cannot replicate the joy of collecting and displaying your favourite albums. Those who think otherwise do not understand the collecting gene. Who would want to collect images of stamps online?
I still buy CDs because that's how I keep track of my favorite rock bands. Each release is a snapshot of the year that the album was produced. You get to experience the growth and change of your favorite bands this way. A music collection becomes like a photo album. Say for instance I want to hear what Aerosmith sounded like in 1976, I play ROCKS. If I want to hear their breakthrough comeback album, I listen to the sound of 80s metal on their PERMANENT VACATION album (1987). And then lets say I want to peddle back in time a little and listen to when Aerosmith had been all but forgotten as rock stars, I listen to 1984's DONE WITH MIRRORS, or 1982's ROCK IN A HARD PLACE. If I want hear what they sounded like when they were nobodies, before they ever became stars, yet were recording some of their best music ever, I listen to 1973's debut AEROSMITH or 1974's GET YOUR WINGS. If I want to listen to what they sound like as celebrities that every home knows about, with Grammy wins under their belt and their sweet soulful tender and effeminate side revealed, I listen to NINE LIVES or JUST PUSH PLAY. I've got every Aerosmith release on CD, and many other bands too, and each is a snapshot, with a CD and liner notes and pictures of the band. Also, I have them boxed up. I listen to them at my convenience not by popping in the CD, but with my computer or phone. I rip the CD to harddrive and save the albums to my phone, and with computer, and I can use bluetooth to connect to my vintage receiver, which has a bluetooth receiver, and listen to it like in the good ole days from real speakers, not headphones or phone speaker. With streaming music, the service can change delete tunes as they become politically incorrect over time (censorship). They can delete artists if they like. And they can even swap your songs out with edited versions to delete politically incorrect terminology. For instance Aerosmith has a couple of different versions of Same Ole Song and Dance, and streaming services choose which version to pipe out to listeners. One year it's one lyrics, the next year its different, and probably not even noticed by most fans. And, old bands have their entire career homogenized into a single sound, a single picture of their personality, zero band growth, a band becomes the average of everything they've ever done minus the older material they once did that's now censored. CDs are a total win win for me. I'm going to have my collection always and plan on passing it alone to the next generation as memorabilia. And, if I want to pop in my first CD I ever bought in 1988, I can, a "collectors choice" edition of Aerosmith's DRAW THE LINE (1977) that was released that year because at the time DRAW THE LINE was considered a ground breaking work for Aerosmith did after they originally rose to fame, and stepping stone and major influence for 80s bands and the 80s sound, especially for bands like GnR who made 1987's Appititite For Destruction (GnR's ground breaking album). Today, DRAW THE LINE is considered a failure, but in 1988, it was considered a success and major 80s influencer. My "collectors choice" edition has that as evidence no matter what the new generations think. And when a youth tomorrow tries to remember, when they turn 50 or 60, what their favorite songs were as teens, they won't be able to, and no streaming service will help them, and they won't be able to pass down their musical influences to the next generation, because its going to be erased, censored, and lost forever, even from their own minds due to age. But it really won't be that important to them anyway, because music isn't that important to them, because the music industry was largely destroyed when the elders destroyed their music industry. I believe it was on purpose, engineered to do what it do. Industries that want to thrive in the future protect themselves, the music industry self destructed, and the remaining artists by monetary value are small compared to the huge number of great artists we had to choose from in our youth. Devastating Social Deprivation along with politicians passing censorship laws and nanny laws to hold the youth down was at play. Evidence that those politicians never really cared is rock solid in the school lunch programs, compared to the 70s and early 80s: hot solid meals with real vegetables and meats and breads and milk prepared by cooks on campus, compared to today and prepackaged open a plastic envelope and eat processed whiz hot or cold made a thousand miles away. The youth were attacked by politicians who pretended to protect them. sad generation, and poor music choices too
The CD is alive and well thank you.
Yes they are. They said vinyl was dead too. CDs will always have their place, especially with people like me who eschew streaming and like owning their own music.
Agree 100%. I don’t listen to internet music at all. I have full control. I will keep my CD’s forever! I also still use my LP’s too. Love my turntable. Warmer sound.
I want to always own my own music. And the compact disc is , in my opinion the best way to do that. I only " stream " music to check out new albums as they become available on CD.
I still have my CD'S, Audio Cassette Tapes , LP's , 45's 7" & 12 " singles some 78rpm. Not dead they never left .
They came they went and now make no mistake they are slowly coming back (just like vinyl did).
I've got hundreds of CDs and still play them. My car (2017) has a CD player. My PC plays CDs, my TV plays CDs.
CDs are here to stay.
Thankfully my new 2023 Suzuki Jimny "Jeep" has a CD player as standard ! The author has neglected to say that many of us, as books, like to hold the CD item, look & read the sleeve ! There is nothing comparable so it will live on for decades more
I use CD in my radio station all the time?
Love this OP. I agree 100% ❤
@@postersm7141A sentence does not require a question mark!
CDs are still Alive And Kicking
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where?
@@davidhusband5022Thrift stores and garage sales everywhere. 😃
@@davidhusband5022 In people's living rooms and in record shops.
CDs are alive and kicking (lower case 'a' and 'k').
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With all of us music collectors. You can still buy all new albums on CD format and most artists are now releasing deluxe editions with older artists putting out super deluxe boxes with new mixes and outtakes usually with a DVD as well. Every major city in America still has record stores that sell CDs and in Tokyo they have a 9 story Tower Records.
Hold on! DON'T THROW THEM OUT. CD players (if not CDs, too) WILL BE COMING BACK. When I was rearranging my house a few days ago, I noticed my extensive collection (100s) of CDs stored neatly and catalogued in an attractive cabinet on a wall. "Obsolete," I thought. "Time to get rid of them." OH, HELL NO! I thought as I suddenly remembered EVERYTHING audio or video (especially) on the Internet is laced with 4-second ads about EVERY 3 minutes. My CDs are paid for and there is not a single ad on even one of them! Finally, I can GO BACK to watching and listening to quality video and audio without having to endure contiuous INTERRUPTING ads or pay annual extortion fees to the Ad Remover services. It's OUR way to get back at all the greedy people. KEEP AND PLAY your CDs, folks. I am. (I'm going to keep a CD in my car and every time I stop at a traffic light, I'm going to flash my CD around to show everyone my little note: NO ADs!) Come on! Join in the fun! May ALL the greedy people go broke!
Good for You. 👍👍👍
Ima cd seller and buyer in 2024 and imaa azzz keep supporting artist and physical media Cds 💿 better sound quality u own the music and no internet 😊🤙🤙📀📀📀💿💿 streaming is garbage for losers that are lazyyyy want all music for free and will never own anything
They also are still superior sounding in many ways over streaming.
I'll never get rid of my CD collection. Long live physical media.
I hang onto my collection...1000+ CDs and around 300 vinyls...however, i cannot listen to everything, so i do the occasional purge, trading titles i either dont want anymore or got upgraded with deluxe reissues/boxsets or remasters...i guess its polishing an evolving diamond...i was also running out of space, so i was able to condense & eliminate a third of the space of my collection by reducing the number of ugly plastic jewelcases used...
I use CD's in my home recording studio and so do many other people. CD's are not outdated and forgotten, they are still around, and will continue to be so
come on man...i collected music from the early 80s and still do, nobody is using cds anymore.
@@davidhusband5022 I do
There is no apostrophe in the plural word 'CDs'.
The know-it-all says *_nobody_* uses them. Even though the commenter said flat out that he *does* use them
A few years ago, I sent a CD -hand-delivered- to a producer/recording studio owner in Hamburg. My buddy returned and told me there wasn’t a CD player in the entire studio! Whaddayagonna do?
CD is here to stay.
CD's, and Blu Ray's are the best format for quality listening, nothing beats them!
CDs were not only the music, they usually included booklets with lyrics and phogographs.
I still can't understand why CDs became less popular. That usually happens only when something better comes along. But streaming isn't better. It may be more convenient, but at the cost of reduced fidelity. I'm sticking with CDs.
That was true for a long time, but many streaming services now offer better-than-CD quality (up to 32 bit/96 kHz)
Normal people don’t give two hoots about fidelity.
@CanAlternateLostTape Actually up to 192khz@24 bits(Tidal, Qobuz), but who's counting?😂
@@CanAlternateLostTape upsampled is a better word.
The average person doesn’t seem to care about audio fidelity.
Still love a CD. I still have my 115 cd collection.
Yeah, I know at 73 I'm an old geezer. The CD is the highest form of recording technology that I listen to. I've run the gambit, 45's, 33 LP's, 8 tracks, cassette's, reel to reel tapes, and CD's. I do occasionally go to Spotify and listen to their playlists of my favorite genres or artists, but again that is rare. For me, picking hits off of an artist's album is cheating myself the opportunity to appreciate some of the lesser-known gems recorded on an album. Some take many listens to appreciate the tracks. I only recently was awakened to the reality of the CD demise when I began searching for a new car and discovered the absence of a CD player in the new vehicles. Same when upgrading to a new computer. I'm not closed minded, but currently there is nothing new, music wise, that interests me. I listen to classic rock and classic country, so my CD collection is very valuable to me. Well, nothing lasts forever and neither will I, but until they carry me away, I'll be playing my CD's!!!!
I'm 66.
Always an advocate of quality over convenience and features.
In the 60s, 70s and 80s, I stuck with my akai open reel tabe recorder over cassette, believing 7.5 ips speed was better then 1.7ips for cassette.
Also, far less wow and flutter.
Then, in the 90s when I couldn't afford a DAT recorder or minidisc, I modified a Hi Fi vhs cassette recorder for audio only, which uses helical scan recording the same as a DAT.
Then, I began recording on CD, firstly, totally from line in on the computer, and later using Tascam linear PCM recorder and only using the computer to burn the disc.
This is the same method I use today.
I will not entertain downloads or cloud rubbish as you don't own the stuff and it's inferior anyway.
Physical media only.
They are better than Hard disk drives or flash memory to archive, as your material is mot reliant on a piece of electronics that could fail or get lost.
Instead, you only have to go out and buy another second hand cd unit off flea Bay.
And just for the record (or not), I dearly love Rock, ac/dc, Blues Rock and Blues Country !
CD's FOREVER !!!
Have you ever listened to a well recorded vinyl record played back with a good quality cartridge, tonearm, turntable, tube amp and neutral sounding speakers ?
To be fair a car isn't the best environment for listening to recorded music.
1/ Firstly there is no optimal listening position in a car, and 😊
2,The road and engine noise means you can't hear the lower level details in the recording.
You are and old geezer but you’re alive OG and am sure think every single day any day above ground is a good time for you sir!!
Gamut. You've run the gamut. Gambit is a calculated risk. Gamut is an obstacle course.
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I am reverting back to cds because youtube is getting so many commercials that the listening pleasure gets ruined.
RUclips is now a joke for listening to music. Every second song there's a commercial. I stopped using that media.
Yeah I know it sucks popular bull prop
@@btzimmer More like 2 commercials per song of late.
Use Ad Blocker extension
@@btzimmerIf you subscribe, you get rid of commercials.
I have over 500 CDs and I love them all💽
That's a really nice collection what music genre are you collect I collect only country music CDs I have over 900
DITTO...!!!!!
@@melvinjennings6424 my CD collection started in 1986 to the present day. I get all sorts of rock, classic rock Motown and a little bit of country.
@@melvinjennings6424Man that's epic. I mainly collect punk adjacent demos and singles and I am happy to have 83 currently. 900+ CDs. You definitely have a decent amount of space at home. Congrats haha.
I have about 1500 cd's and i love to pick out several on a day to listen and relax. 😊🥰🎶🎵👍🏻
I,m used to streaming, but recently I put a CD in my Sony equipment, pressed Play, and there you go, I was blown away, a true WTF experience.
Even with lossless sound, streaming cant match the sound quality of CDs.
@@ChrisAtkins-l7p Wrong. Lossless is lossless, dude.
@@clementfontaine5547 that’s true! But.., good vintage hi end CD players make the difference, that sound is hard to beat.
Streaming is a CON.
@clementfontaine55I47 I have ears, cd is better.
When I was in college in the 1970's I took a class called Physics in the Fine Arts. That was in the days of vinyl records. The professor told us they were working on a new kind of record that did not use a needle, the machine would read the record with a laser beam. It will be great, he said. Perfect sound reproduction, and no scratches, skips, and pops. He was describing the CD, and it took about ten years before the first CD's came out.
He may have read about it in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science magazines. It makes me recall how in the late 60s or early 70s I read in the "Future Technology" section of Popular Mechanics about a futuristic laser machine that would someday read codes on groceries and products for sale just by passing them over a glass checkout stand window. The laser barcode readers actually started showing up in grocery stores in the 80s. I'll never forget the first time I encountered one and remembered seeing that story back when I was a kid.
One thing you missed; When CDs took off, record companies turned to their vaults to include extra tracks on CDs. Sometimes singles that were never available on LP; sometimes previously unreleased tracks or first-time stereo mixes. This was a serious boom to collectors. Often these tracks were already owned by the record companies and royalty rate was either low of nonexistent. It was thrilling to get new, previously unissued by favorite artists.
More tracks on tapes and cds than vinyl.
And then there's the flurry of companies who are remastering those old LP's from the original master tapes using the best modern equipment and releasing them as box sets or some kind of special edition. I hate/love them for this.
Have tusk on cd has a whole cd of unreleased versions of the album.
I started buying cd's from 1987 on. By 2003 I had more than 1500 cd's in my music collection. In 2010 and 2011 I sold almost all my cd's due to money problems. I always regretted that. Years later I got back on my feet and started my cd collection again from scratch. I have more than 500 cd's now and still buy some and my music collection never looked better. I love music and I love music on cd.
Wow! That was a big investment.
DITTO......!!!!
I still own a Sony 400 disc changer and over 1000 CDs 💿. I still make mix CDs on blank discs. Long live CDs 💿!!
I started buying CDs in 1986, SACDs in 2001 and Blu Ray audio discs in 2013. I have never stopped buying them, in fact now I buy more CDs than ever. CDs are one of my biggest pleasures. I don't see a single reason not to keep buying and enjoying them. By the way, I have NEVER streamed music!
Fully agree on all points. My CDs and stereo are in a room with no screens. It's a respite from the 21st century.
I also started my CD collection in 1986...
My latest CDs are the Beatles Red and Blue 2023 remix albums I bought a year ago...
Well Said!!
I stream music but to me that's like a modern radio station. I listen to tons of new music on streaming services and when I hear something I like I purchase the physical copy.
@@NormanDoll-rr6lhbut unless it’s on YT, don’t you have to pay for streaming?
I still buy CDs. You can support your favorite artists. It feels good to have the full body of work with the artwork, pictures , lyrics
I started buying CDs in the early 1990s and never intend to stop. It is the best medium when you consider overall sound quality, price, packaging, value for you and the artist and possession of physical media as opposed to merely streaming it, which you don't own.
Depends who does the " digitising"
If you throw away good condition CDs in favour of paying to hear those songs via a subscription service then you're an idiot. Right now is the time to buy: accumulate CDs at bargain basement prices & store them (if not playing them) until the inevitable nostalgia trend begins in a decade or so & the next generation will pay silly prices to get them. They have a subjective value as an object, quite apart from the recorded music that's on them, the same as a vinyl LP, a book or magazine etc.
Stop putting ideas into their heads! I like it when they dump their CD's. Keeps the prices down for collectors like us!!! 😂
Still very much part of my growing music collection and always will be
When cd's conquered the audio world we all (well, I at least) thought that it won so easily because of its superior audio quality. To find much later that in fact it was just the superior convenience that brought the masses to cd. The audio quality was just a bycatch. The fast success of streaming audio made me realise this. Inferior sound quality, yet everybody embraced it.
Nice short overview in this video. Thanks.
I streamed an album on a high end hifi system and then played the same album on CD. The CD was far superior.
I discovered the same thing. I buy all my albums on cd now.
And there you are.
Unless you can buy 48+ KHz 24+ bits lossless music files, CD is still the only media better than any lossy compressed format.
Started buying CD's in 1996, when I bought my first Yamaha CD player. The Yamaha single Disc CD player died awhile ago. But recently I bought an Audiophile grade Stereo System. The CD player I bought was the Rotel CD11MKII , $599, worth every penny. The clarity and quality of the CD being played is outstanding. Hopefully this Rotel CD player will out live my first Yamaha CD player. And yes, I still purchase CD's.
As a classical collector, nothing beats CDs played over a good home system.
Classical doesn't sell. Youcan buy classical all day long for pennies
I play my CD's over a $10000 stereo system with a 1000 W. Watts when I can get away with turning the volume up loud?
Lossless audio on a good system is exactly the same thing. Doesn’t matter the medium.
Absolutely ❤😂🎉😂❤❤
Wait a minute here, CD's are still very much a format widely used by audiophiles. They can be bought both new & used from Record Shops & numerous online Auction sites at very reasonable cost. On a high quality CD player they're sonically superb (especially SACD's) & will easily outclass any 'compressed' download or streamed version of a recording ~ So there's plenty of 'milage' still to go with the 'old silver disc ' !
I do not "consume" music, as you put it. I listen to it.
I purchase my music as a customer and as such I consume said music or put another way I use it with my ears. Yes you consume music, videos and the printed word and everything you use in your life. Words are not that hard.
Music takes me to a place where nothing else.Can my favorite songs are very special to me.And they're like a drug to call them.Consuming isnt that far fetched from that point of view
@@bobair2 You don't eat it. You don't consume music. That is a stupid expression.
@bobair2
Strictly speaking, if you consume something, then it's no longer available to you or anyone else- it's gone. You consume food, the fire consumed the building, etc. Pedantic, I know- but this is why the anti-piracy adverts never really made sense, as most people who copied audio and video were making personal copies for themselves, not preventing others from paying full price for their copies or even offering the public cheaper copies. The media wasn't consumed, just copied.
And yes, I am being pedantic 🤓.
You are a consumer.
I still buy cd's. People tend to forget that when you buy a cd, you "own" the music. While streaming is convenient, the day the company decides to remove that cd from its servers, you cannot listem to it anymore. The same applies to Netflix , etc, etc
I agree streaming is nice but you don’t own your music like that you own it by buying the cd or vinyl I love having both and digital too with iTunes on my phone 😊
I understand your point, but you don't own the music. You own a copy of it.
@@mikeb5343 The OP put quotation marks around "own." I say it's not a copy of it; it's an edition of it. Copying is illegal taping of it for others.
Stream it and you've "rented" it.
@@mikeb5343which is a physical copy.
I still have mine. My first CD was Roxy Music Avalon ,
Avalon song was the first time I heard a song on cd in 1983. The start blew my mind on how clear it sounded.
What a great album and band to start your collection with! Mine was Nico's 'Desertshore'. Purchased @ Tower Records back in 1994. That store had everything!
Great sound on that album 👍
I used to have Avalon on tape and then bought it on CD when I bought my first CD player.
66 here and remember when CD’s became huge! Over time, I expanded my CD library and out went the vinyl. Now my vinyl collection has grown massively and my CD’s dwindled down quite a bit. I rarely play the CD’s but transferred all of them to digital format and stream through my SONOS speaker system. Creating playlists allow the music to play for several hours without any babysitting!
I still use/collect/love listening to music on compact disc. It is a pleasant experience.
I love cd's and back to collect them again after 20 years. I'm a vinyl guy, but cd's are great: convenient and sound fantastic. Somtimes i just want to listen to music with good quality without all the preparation that vinyl needs.
Vinyl is too cumbersome; records get scratched even under the best circumstances. Not all vinyl is made the same, some more durable than others; then of course the turntable and needle which aren’t cheap. Tapes had their own problems too. CDs were a blessing which had none of the baggage of the other two, and far better quality audio
Compact Disc are never gone.
I have bought CD's from day one and still buy them today, probably more so than ever. I also stream and download and own vinyl, but CD's are my favoured form of physical media. CD sales are now on the increase again thanks to the high price of vinyl. It's also good to see hi-fi manufacturers continuing to put out high quality players. Long live the CD.
"The high price of vinyl". I hear that a lot, but the fact is...... the prices are in line with what vinyl cost new back in its heyday. For instance, a new LP in the 70's/80's was around $7.99 - $8.99, and most titles today are around $30.00, which is comparable to typical inflation. Remember...... a new car then was roughly $5,000.00 - $7,000.00, and now is at least $30,000.00..... if not considerably more. Yes, I've held onto my CDs, but I was dumb and got rid of all my vinyl.
@@broeheemed32, it may be true that adjusted for inflation, LP prices are comparable to what they’ve always been, but that’s irrelevant to people who weren’t around when LPs were $7 or so. When you look at the price of most CDs nowadays compared to the price of vinyl, the savings are evident with CDs. And most new vinyl isn’t $30 anymore-that was more the general price in say, 2019/2020. Most (obviously not all…you gotta instill nuance with what I’m saying) new records these days you’re looking at price tags of at least $34.99, and since they seem to like to spread what is actually a single album onto two records, the price is often more like $44-$52.
Not a fall cds will be coming back , people are buying cds again more than vinyl now . I still buy CDS all the time and always will forever !
I so miss getting paid on Friday, going to the Record Store or Stores and buying 1 to 3 CDs.
I honestly miss listening to CDs (albums) from start to finish because some albums flowed in order of songs and with intros to breaks between songs gave you a memory.
And yes.. after listening to cassette tapes and vinyl as a kid. CDs sounded so clear!
CD's never died, and when you see the brands of CD players available today from budget brands all the way to the hi end Accuphase, Esoteric, T&A and many others, CD's are appreciated by very discerning audiophiles.
Cds still sell new at 17 dollars a pop! Where's the obsolete in that game.
Rip off!
They were the same price when they first came out. I'd say they've held the line against inflation.
Ha ha! I’m still buying CDs, Blu Rays, & DVDs! Superior to online in so many ways! ⭐️🎶🙏🏻😎
I was binging on Stargate SG-1 on Netflix. I was just starting the last season, Season 10. They took it off the rotation. If you own the media, they can't do that to you.
They savvy still play CD's. It is now the only media I use.
If you are a casual music person then you probably got rid of your cds and just stream now. If you are a big music person then you probably still own and buy cds (like I do).
Yep!
As the economy changes CD and cassettes are as strong as ever in many aspects. As a guy who tinkers with old hifi gear, I've had more and more vintage cassette decks and CD players show up recently. The name of the game now is download it, then burn it to CD and have it forever. For those not driving late model vehicles, Cassettes are the only option. All of my cars and trucks have factory cassette decks in them combined with cd players. My 20 year old truck has both cd and cassette and is blue tooth capable so it can play mp3 tunes as well.
Phones are not reliable for long term. I will never purchase anything that relies on my phone's longevity to have access to it. I want it in my hand in a hard copy. Anything less and its a no sale for me.
Good to know, thanks
Warning: About Burn CD's - you will find that they become unplayable overtime - depending on the Brand of the CD-R's.
CDs, and other physical media, are better in areas where internet access is limited or nonexistent.
@ericbogle9054: AND, where the song that you were “renting” is no longer available.
I wouldn't be without CD's! I love them and use them all the time! And it's outrageous auto manufacturers have stopped putting them in cars! I make my own CD's still through my mixer board connected to my computer and download any song I want from RUclips and then burn it onto a CD on NY computer! Bring back CD's you dopes!!
I still use cassettes and open reel tapes, records of all types, and CD's. Many pieces on those formats are not available in any streaming service. It's also easier to plop a record down, turn on a switch and listen as opposed to scrolling through libraries and playlists to find one song or symphony.
As someone who is passionate for Classical Music, the CD was a godsend as I could make CDs on my Tascam and play them in the car. Most of my music is on vinyl from recordings that never made it into the digital realm, hence not available anywhere. New cars do not allow me to play my recordings while driving since they do not have players and I won't get them from streaming. And of the few that did make it into the digital format all I can say is that many times the re-mastering is not all that good. At times simply horrible as the original people that did the masters for vinyl are long gone. Technology can be great ... but sometimes it really bytes.
I love CD's and have a big collection.
I still buy CDs because I want that physical copy to keep forever. I don’t trust that online purchases will still be there in 10 to 20 years.
so.true..i stll love the cds format
5:03 "People no longer needed to buy an entire album to get the one or two songs they liked." This was *MAJOR.*
It's great when my son (15) brings friends from school over because they're all into 80s music now.
"Stranger Things" kicked that whole thing off, and I've been having a BLAST with it.
When I slide out the bottom drawers of the entertainment center, the kids lose their ever lovin' minds because I've got EVERYTHING.
Still listening cd,s allmost daily.
I collect CD's every weekend at the local swap meet for $1 each. Sound quality superior and I own them for the life of them. Streaming has made music worthless and they sounds terrible.
OMG CDs are NOT dead. I buy nothing but compact discs. I have high end equipment and the sound I experience my music is exquisite. Nothing will kill CD, like vinyl, it will always be there. 😊
I still like buying CDs and physically owning them. Great sound, durability.
I still buy them. Maybe I'll start with a (small) vinyl collection next year, but I won't give up buying CD's.
It is alive and kicking and sounds better with a good set than streaming
If Second Spin website was still around, I'd be buying CDs every month and making opening and playing them the highlight of my weekend once again.
I love CD , Vinyl and Cassettes.
I collect CD's, one day the cloud will disappear into space unknown----hang on to CD's.
I still have my albums and CD's, don't know if they will make a come back or not. I just enjoy the ability to hold, view and listen to the music. It would be nice if things would return to the way they were but I doubt it. It is not about you and I but its all about the industry and $$$$$$.
I still have all my cds from the 90s and early 2000s and still use them at home in my 300 disc player and a hard to beat sound
I had a 100 disc player in the late 90s, when I moved house I should have either taken all the discs out or remembered to keep the player upright as all the discs fell out of the rotary thing inside and was a absolute nightmare sorting that out lol 😆😆😆🤣🤣
Dogg forget cds 💿 will always have better sound quality than cheap ass streaming but these youngsters will never understand 😅😅😅
That’s awesome 👌👌👌
I have a very large collection of musical CD's. I use them at home, and in my vehicle. I will never get rid of them. In fact, I am always looking for more.
Still crank CDs in my car everyday!!! Don’t feel like relying on the phone for everything
I am still keeping my huge collection of CD's, all sorts of them including melodious music and precious softwares and drivers those come very handy today in some very crucial situations, cds are not going to go away so quickly because even today some manufacturers are giving the softwares and drivers along with the device in a CD, I understood the importance of the software CD when I searched around the internet for nearly 4 to 5 hours never to find the proper or appropriate driver or software for my 9 year old scanner, finally I had to go through my huge collection to find it and there it was I felt so happy after I found the software CD it felt so crucial and precious at that time, giving life to my scanner. and along with high quality music CDS even the high quality DVD has also left behind a huge history
Thank you so much!
@historyofsimplethings thanks for making this video which explained how really cd had its own history and changes it created,
I have a 4000 strong CD collection and am frequently adding to it. No shortage of new content being released on this media and it is the only practical format for multi disc re-issues and box sets. Vinyl is incredibly expensive to produce and content on streaming is subject to constant change. The CD is a sure musical bet.
Cds are still holding their own, all physical media will maybe become more niche but it will never die.People love physical media in a way they never will with streaming services.Even cassettes are making a comeback of sorts.❤.
I bought a 7-year-old Audi A1 earlier this year. And the main reason I chose this car? It has got a CD player! My most important reason.
CDs aren’t “obsolete” for me. I still have a collection of over 1,000 which I play every day on my very expensive high end stereo system. LPs or “vinyl” may in some respects offer marginally better sound, but you can’t beat CDs for convenience and good overall sound quality.
Every now and then I buy a CD, I still like it, it may be retro, but that doesn't matter to me.
What u mean cds 💿 have better sound quality than cheap ass streaming ur force to listen to the full album 💿 in good 👍 sound quality and u suppoort the artist
I have thousands, still buy them and enjoy listening to them.
My preference for audio format is the CD. I still buy and listen to them. Long Live the CD
The Compact Disc is alive and well! I buy cds every months, new releases sold on internet, I also get some on second market.
Theyve NEVER gone out of Style & still widely used proudly both nationwide & worldwide
I refuse to get rid of my CD collection. I got my first CC in the summer of 1986. It is Paul Simon’s Graceland. It still sounds great on my 2002 Bose Acoustic Wave AM-FM-CD audio system.
I do useYT music in the cars, the bathroom during my morning ablutions, and when I am forced to cut the lawn. It has its uses. However, when listening to Classical, or jazz and Folk on a weekend afternoon, or evening, I play the CDs.
I still play CDs.
But, vinyl records still had more of a fascination in collecting.
My husband still buys CDS, and the only CD player we have is in the car, a 2014 Mitsubishi ASX.
CDS haven't gone on the way side, can still buy them in second hand music stores.
I hope paper books won't suffer the same fate😢
Don't believe the hype. A friend told me CDs and DVDs and books were going to stop being manufactured. That was in 2010. It won't happen. There are too many people who still want physical copies.
I still own CDs. In fact, I just bought the Beatles remastered Revolver CD from Amazon.
I have Thousands of them!! I now buy vinyl but I buy new releases on CD. I will Never get rid of my CD collection.
Don't decide for people! Streaming services are way too expensive, with no privacy at all. I love to be offline listening to a nice cd and just relaxing. CD's are still there and vinyl is coming back too. Love it!🎉🎉😊❤
CD sound quality was a nightmare, not a dream. I remember buying my first two classical CDs - both by Decca - and they sounded appalling. It took years before the sound was acceptable to hardcore audiophiles with the biggest problems being jitter and the filters used to prevent aliasing. The sampling rate was a compromise as well because it barely covered off the audible sound spectrum meaning the aforementioned filters had to be relatively steep and aggressive. Telarc for example, realised this from the start which is why their own recording system had a higher sample rate at 50 Khz - it allowed them not only to record more of the audio spectrum itself but to colour the resulting analogue output sound less due to the less aggressive filtering. I believe the early bespoke Decca gear was 48 Khz - also a higher sample rate. And of course the later DAT standard encompassed 48 Khz as well due to the superiority of that compared to 44.1 khz. Over many years all these problems were mitigated to the point where CD did sound good but all that said, any serious sound engineer or audiophile will still agree that higher bit depths and higher sample rates can and do produce better results. Had CD been 18 bit with a 48 khz sample rate from the very beginning, it would have sounded better than it did in the early days and it sill would have held the same length program that any typical LP had previously held. It is for all those reasons I wish the introduction of the CD format had been delayed a few years. But because it wasn't, every CD sold today is bound by those original specifications and thus does not sound quite as good as it could (whilst still obviously sounding pretty good though).
I don’t understand why people stream music as the quality is crap. You want high quality then Cd is the answer I still buy cd
Me too..
Same cds 💿 forever ima 2024 cd buyer and seller and will always support Artist Better sound quality u own the music no internet and support the artist 💿💿💿💿💿🤙🤙🤙🤙📀📀💿💿💿💿💽💽💽💽💽
Yep and you can upload them on your computer and make your own Playlist
@garethde-witt6433 And besides, you don't get any information with a stream. I like the artwork, the credits, information about the artist/composer, all the good stuff that comes with an LP or CD.
You are definitely wrong!
As a classical musician I can say without hesitation, the sound quality of CD far surpasses that of the internet !
I have all my vinyl albums from the 60s and 70s and a collection of about 400 CDs. I have an excellent component stereo system. Young people today who listen on their phones have a degraded listening experience and they don't even know it. Vinyl is best, and it is making a comeback. Corporations and public education have left two generations of young Americans totally ignorant of American music from the 1920s to the 1970s, some kids are so ignorant they don't know what a tambourine is!
The CD is the last tangible form of music media. I will never get rid of mine.
I have a cd player and my wonderful collection of cds. I will continue to use this.
CD, when paired with a high end amplifier system and speakers are really unbeatable
I went to several music stores, they still selling CDs, so they are alive, in fact, I bought a CD Celine Dion - These Are Special Times
I still buy CDS & buy Vinyl to collect! Don’t get rid of the 💿 CD! Or Vinyl!
I love seeing my friends going through my 500+ CDs collection when they come over. Looking forward to reaching 1000.
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M still buying new cd And I have a vintage 90s CD walkman. 😊
Still got all of my CDs. Physical media is the way to go.
Τhe era of personal portable music paved by Sony Walkman. Discman was just the evolution.
I was the first in my neighborhood to have the first generation Sony Walkman with the cassettes. It was magical at the time. Hop on my moped and just cruise. In my own mobile world. I'm lucky I'm still alive. Lmaooouuut!!
Just like vinyls are making a comeback, CDs will be back.
In the last 2-3 years, where I live, CDs, cassettes, and album sales have been in another ORBIT! I have about 1k 💿s, and have NO intention of getting rid of ANY of them! I've also got gangs of blank cassettes, along with a multitude of high quality recorders, and have a deck in my car, AND a 💿 player too, with albums, and turntables to boot...I'M COOL!🙄👍🏿
Streaming cannot replicate the joy of collecting and displaying your favourite albums. Those who think otherwise do not understand the collecting gene. Who would want to collect images of stamps online?
I still buy CDs because that's how I keep track of my favorite rock bands. Each release is a snapshot of the year that the album was produced. You get to experience the growth and change of your favorite bands this way. A music collection becomes like a photo album. Say for instance I want to hear what Aerosmith sounded like in 1976, I play ROCKS. If I want to hear their breakthrough comeback album, I listen to the sound of 80s metal on their PERMANENT VACATION album (1987). And then lets say I want to peddle back in time a little and listen to when Aerosmith had been all but forgotten as rock stars, I listen to 1984's DONE WITH MIRRORS, or 1982's ROCK IN A HARD PLACE. If I want hear what they sounded like when they were nobodies, before they ever became stars, yet were recording some of their best music ever, I listen to 1973's debut AEROSMITH or 1974's GET YOUR WINGS. If I want to listen to what they sound like as celebrities that every home knows about, with Grammy wins under their belt and their sweet soulful tender and effeminate side revealed, I listen to NINE LIVES or JUST PUSH PLAY. I've got every Aerosmith release on CD, and many other bands too, and each is a snapshot, with a CD and liner notes and pictures of the band. Also, I have them boxed up. I listen to them at my convenience not by popping in the CD, but with my computer or phone. I rip the CD to harddrive and save the albums to my phone, and with computer, and I can use bluetooth to connect to my vintage receiver, which has a bluetooth receiver, and listen to it like in the good ole days from real speakers, not headphones or phone speaker. With streaming music, the service can change delete tunes as they become politically incorrect over time (censorship). They can delete artists if they like. And they can even swap your songs out with edited versions to delete politically incorrect terminology. For instance Aerosmith has a couple of different versions of Same Ole Song and Dance, and streaming services choose which version to pipe out to listeners. One year it's one lyrics, the next year its different, and probably not even noticed by most fans. And, old bands have their entire career homogenized into a single sound, a single picture of their personality, zero band growth, a band becomes the average of everything they've ever done minus the older material they once did that's now censored. CDs are a total win win for me. I'm going to have my collection always and plan on passing it alone to the next generation as memorabilia. And, if I want to pop in my first CD I ever bought in 1988, I can, a "collectors choice" edition of Aerosmith's DRAW THE LINE (1977) that was released that year because at the time DRAW THE LINE was considered a ground breaking work for Aerosmith did after they originally rose to fame, and stepping stone and major influence for 80s bands and the 80s sound, especially for bands like GnR who made 1987's Appititite For Destruction (GnR's ground breaking album). Today, DRAW THE LINE is considered a failure, but in 1988, it was considered a success and major 80s influencer. My "collectors choice" edition has that as evidence no matter what the new generations think. And when a youth tomorrow tries to remember, when they turn 50 or 60, what their favorite songs were as teens, they won't be able to, and no streaming service will help them, and they won't be able to pass down their musical influences to the next generation, because its going to be erased, censored, and lost forever, even from their own minds due to age. But it really won't be that important to them anyway, because music isn't that important to them, because the music industry was largely destroyed when the elders destroyed their music industry. I believe it was on purpose, engineered to do what it do. Industries that want to thrive in the future protect themselves, the music industry self destructed, and the remaining artists by monetary value are small compared to the huge number of great artists we had to choose from in our youth. Devastating Social Deprivation along with politicians passing censorship laws and nanny laws to hold the youth down was at play. Evidence that those politicians never really cared is rock solid in the school lunch programs, compared to the 70s and early 80s: hot solid meals with real vegetables and meats and breads and milk prepared by cooks on campus, compared to today and prepackaged open a plastic envelope and eat processed whiz hot or cold made a thousand miles away. The youth were attacked by politicians who pretended to protect them. sad generation, and poor music choices too