CDs---Grampa's relics?

[billyjoebob]

More like 78s. Vinyl is the new "Black". When that illusion fades away, expect a lot of fire sales.

Don't hold your breath.

 

[Xulonn]

You don't need to rip the video first, can just grab the audio only with sites like this or similar;

I don't. 4KVideoDownloader offers you the choice of saving to video or extracting and saving to audio only. I checked out all of the online and app possibilities I could find a couple of years ago, and I prefer the computer app rather than using a website. In fact, I like it so much, that I bought the $15 version because I wanted a couple of the extra features. (I am a former Novell senior network administrator, DOS and Windows software help desk tech, and corporate deskside support specialist.)

Of course, there may be better options now, but I like what I use - it's simple, fast and foolproof.

 

[Mnyb]

I still buy them some new and some used and collect , I also buy a lot of digital media , from Bandcamp for example . I rip all the CD’s and place it on the music server . The disc collection is about 1,5k and on display in my living room . I buy mostly digital media so the server holds 5k tracks ( which includes rips of the discs ) .

If i’m on a live gig and the band sells discs I always get one in many cases you can get a signed copy .

Our little town actually have two record stores , the guys working in them and owning them are the same dudes as in 1990 . When they go the stores will end to .

Used disc prices are not cents here rather dollars so you may pay a 5$ for used CD in good shape with good music and there is a 1$ bin to , but that’s the stuff no one listens to .

I also stream from Spotify but have not bothered to make many playlists or album collection and their silly track limit They had for a decade made it impossible to actually build an online album collection ( they removed thier 10000 track limit 2020 ) so the habit stuck . it also the case that some music comes and goes and sometimes the release changes and ofcourse you have to re add the song in your saved list . Making online list and albums behave like sand castles.
So still for an active collection your own files and disc rules as it’s under your control.
( the goal of the streaming’s services is to feed you thier curated lists , not you being an music collector).

So give your disc to me

LP’s sold the lot in a move , but I was much younger then so it where only 350 or so of them . I still got an excell sheet where I track if I repurchased ( or downloaded ) the music or not .

 

[Mnyb]

A difference between grandpa media . CD is the first one with transparent sound quality they will be time capsules

I would rarely be able enjoy a78 they are just to compromised, I occasionally listen to some prewar blues that’s mastered from 78’s but that’s the exception .

I would not miss VHS at all they are just to bad ?
cassette tape ? I don’t know I would have been my own when I taped friends vinyls . The prerecorded tapes was so bad that I never bought one in my life ( not true I had two ) I always bought vinyl as a kid , as did most people prerecorded cassette tape did not dominate over vinyl in Sweden as it actually did in some other countries?

 

[JSmith]

prerecorded cassette tape did not dominate over vinyl in Sweden as it actually did in some other countries?

Maybe so... cassette "singles" were a thing here;

JSmith

 

[Mnyb]

Maybe so... cassette "singles" were a thing here;

JSmith

That was new never seen a cassette single before . astonishing !

 

[ThatM1key]

That was new never seen a cassette single before . astonishing !

Cassette singles are more useful than a 12cm CD single

 

[JSmith]

That was new never seen a cassette single before . astonishing !

Ah cool, glad to be able to show someone something they haven't seen before.

As @ThatM1key said, there were CD "singles" too... there were vinyl singles as you probably know, LP = Long Play, EP = Extended Play, but they included more songs than a "cassingle", about 40/50% the length of a full LP.


JSmith

 

[Robin L]

Ah cool, glad to be able to show someone something they haven't seen before.

As @ThatM1key said, there were CD singles too... there were vinyl singles as you probably know, LP = Long Play, EP = Extended Play, but they included more songs than a "cassingle", about 40/50% the length of a full LP.


JSmith

I remember that 10" "LPs" returned from the 1950s around the time cassette singles and CD singles appeared.

 

[dadregga]

Still, it's very strange contemplating that discs I thought to be worth collecting turn out to be close to worthless on the open market. I thought I was a collector, when all along I really was a hoarder

I think a fundamental understanding of the fact that no one but you is going to care about what you collect (and that once the generation that cared about collecting that thing passes, the value will be nil) is generally an extremely healthy understanding to have.

It helps you decide what you actually care about, it helps keep you from forcing things onto your offspring (if you have them) that they don't care about and won't care about, and yeah it keeps you from hoarding.

I've found it a very useful and positive way to think about the things I collect.

Take it from me, having in-iaws that are very upset that you (or your children) don't want any of the junk they've been collecting for decades because you don't care about baseball or comic books from half a century ago to the point where they take it personally is extremely tiresome.

 

[LTig]

I hate those tools & websites, they don't actually strip the audio out. Those tools download the video on there server and then convert to MP3.

It's better to download the video using Tartube and then strip the audio using MKVToolNix, which the end file is MKA.

You can use the command line tool yt-dlp or any other GUI tool using yt-dlp internally to download any audio and video stream directly from youtube (and many other sites offering unprotected streams as well) without additional format conversion.

 

[LTig]

That's not true. YouTube Music can do 256kbps max but the regular videos are 192kbps or less. Usually encoded with AAC for old videos and OPUS for new videos.

Many videos come with both AAC and OPUS, just choose what you want with a tool like yt-dlp.

 

[TheBatsEar]

That was new never seen a cassette single before . astonishing !

Wasn't a thing in Europe at all. I never had one in my grubby hands either.

 

[pablolie]

CDs... I still buy them, used as a rule, but with some artists I want to support I'll buy the CD or sometimes even the ((gasp) HD download. But the latter only *if* they provide the "cover art". A horrible habit with digital downloads of any kind is the fact they often omit it, and to me it remains important, I like to listen who collaborated, who wrote, who's playing... even how it was recorded ("mastered with blabla .." :-D).
When I buy new CDs, on occasion I'll sell them if I see they go for over $25 (quite a few actually do if you're into classical, jazz or 80s/90s R&B). If I buy them used for $3 or less, I either store them or throw them away.

Cassettes... I used to love the medium to painstakingly record (calibrating for the tape etc) compilations... for the car or for romantic prospects or sometimes friends. But I was an early adopter of CD-R stuff, I remember my first CD recorder was quite expensive.

 

[Prana Ferox]

I think a fundamental understanding of the fact that no one but you is going to care about what you collect (and that once the generation that cared about collecting that thing passes, the value will be nil) is generally an extremely healthy understanding to have.

It helps you decide what you actually care about, it helps keep you from forcing things onto your offspring (if you have them) that they don't care about and won't care about, and yeah it keeps you from hoarding.

I've found it a very useful and positive way to think about the things I collect.

Take it from me, having in-iaws that are very upset that you (or your children) don't want any of the junk they've been collecting for decades because you don't care about baseball or comic books from half a century ago to the point where they take it personally is extremely tiresome.

You have to remember not to fall in love with Stuff. Baseball cards and comic books are pieces of paper, and CDs are pieces of plastic. That's just Stuff. The Art is what is on / in them and love of that art must be cultivated. For CDs in particular it's just a storage medium, and one of many.

(You can argue about album art etc but the CD has never been great there, and that's a tremendously secondary concern.)

 

[JSmith]

There were short story audio versions of movies too;

JSmith

 

[blse59]

I've donated a lot of my cds to Goodwill or Salvation Army. Let them figure out what to do with them. I tried to get back into cds but taking them out of the case, putting the disc in a drive and listening to music that way feels slow and weird.

 

[pablolie]

I've donated a lot of my cds to Goodwill or Salvation Army. Let them figure out what to do with them. I tried to get back into cds but taking them out of the case, putting the disc in a drive and listening to music that way feels slow and weird.

But that is why you rip.

 

[dadregga]

It's my personal goal to own physical copies of the best possible digital masters of music I like, so that my music library access is not at the mercy of the whims of streaming service deals, licensing snarls, mergers, bankruptcies, or corporate lifespans.

Rip them all, and if I want or need to rerip them if all my storage and backups fail, they're there.

I've got more than a few CDs/albums/masterings that aren't available in my region on *any* streaming service, or were but no longer are, etc.

But that doesn't matter to me, because I have *my* music library streaming at my fingertips, not someone else's.

I know what's in it, I know what masterings the files are from, and no one can take it from me or delist any of it or restrict access to it based on my region, etc.

CDs (and other physical digital mediums) are perfect for the above requirements, and vinyl records are spectacularly unfit for them.

 

[Mnyb]

CDs... I still buy them, used as a rule, but with some artists I want to support I'll buy the CD or sometimes even the ((gasp) HD download. But the latter only *if* they provide the "cover art". A horrible habit with digital downloads of any kind is the fact they often omit it, and to me it remains important, I like to listen who collaborated, who wrote, who's playing... even how it was recorded ("mastered with blabla .." :-D).
When I buy new CDs, on occasion I'll sell them if I see they go for over $25 (quite a few actually do if you're into classical, jazz or 80s/90s R&B). If I buy them used for $3 or less, I either store them or throw them away.

Cassettes... I used to love the medium to painstakingly record (calibrating for the tape etc) compilations... for the car or for romantic prospects or sometimes friends. But I was an early adopter of CD-R stuff, I remember my first CD recorder was quite expensive.

There is also the opposite seen some releases on Bandcamp where the cover is different for each song but have a common theme and made by the same artist . That turns some music server algorithms on its head as they often assume “album cover art” in some way .

Yes I rip every disc I buy . I recently discovered that my disc player is broken don’t know when that happened at all