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Reply #1475 –
Quote from: Luxor
True. Way more than that.
That is a lot of CDs :sherlock:

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Reply #1476 –
I don't know; if you acquire, say, 10 CDs a year (which doesn't seem like that many[1]) then all having more than 100 means is that you're probably over 20.

I'm not sure how many I've got, but I wouldn't be surprised if I had more than a hundred, but I might have fewer too. My main interest was over a decade ago. Now books, on the other hand… I've got a lot more than a hundred books. On LibraryThing I've tagged 107 books as owned and the stuff I've entered on LT is only a tiny fraction of what I've actually got.
1 Unless you acquire 10 a year at full price. That'd be painful. It also depends on how you count. A couple years back we bought two 12-CD collections for something like €10. Did we acquire 24 or 2 CDs that year? :P↵

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Reply #1477 –
Quote from: Syav on
That is a lot of CDs  :sherlock:
I'm not going to count them to find the exact figure, but if I said roughly 600 of them I wouldn't be too far away with that guesstimate.

Quote from: Frenzie on
I'm not sure how many I've got, but I wouldn't be surprised if I had more than a hundred, but I might have fewer too.
It's amazing how easy it is for them to add up over the years. Mind you I think I most likely had an earlier start than you when it comes to buying them.  ;)
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1478 –
Quote from: Syav on
False. This may sound odd but I always like the smell of silver polish.
It does make you sound a little bit odd.  :P
Never liked the smell of it myself, It always made me feel nauseas.
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1479 –
Quote from: Luxor on
It's amazing how easy it is for them to add up over the years. Mind you I think I most likely had an earlier start than you when it comes to buying them.  ;)
I probably bought most of my CDs when I was in between about 14 to 21. When I was younger it was cassette tapes, like the Lion King soundtrack (ahem, Leeuwenkoning :) ), none of which I have digitally.

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Reply #1480 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
I probably bought most of my CDs when I was in between about 14 to 21
They hadn't been invented when I was that age,  :D
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1481 –
Incidentally, here are today's (2014) kids reacting to tapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_vV-JRZ6E

Me, I love 78 RPM records, except for how fragile they are. I'm terribly tempted by the new record players that don't just play 44 and 33 RPM. Incidentally, have you noticed how the CD sections on stores have been greatly reduced and largely replaced by (new) vinyl? I can only imagine stores might've looked like that back in the '80s.

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Reply #1482 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
Me, I love 78 RPM records, except for how fragile they are.
I had a few of them that I inherited from my parents, I say inherited but truth is no one else wanted them. (Nothing rare in amongst them though). But yeah they are very fragile and you have to handle them carefully. I think you only needed to look at them funny and they would break.  :down:

Quote from: Frenzie on
Incidentally, have you noticed how the CD sections on stores have been greatly reduced and largely replaced by (new) vinyl?
Yep! They even have a special "Record store day" for them over here now, don't know if it's a worldwide thing or not.

Quote from: Frenzie on
I can only imagine stores might've looked like that back in the '80s.
They were great places that you could spend all day in if the owner would let you. I was never out of my local one in the 70's.
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1483 –
Quote from: Luxor on
They were great places that you could spend all day in if the owner would let you. I was never out of my local one in the 70's.
Well, I mean the mixture of CDs and vinyl. To me a record store is a place of CDs, I suppose.

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Reply #1484 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
Well, I mean the mixture of CDs and vinyl.
I think the record store lost something when CDs arrived on the scene. I'm tempted to say it lost it's soul, but a record store with no soul would be ignoring a large part of it's market.   :P

There was something deeply satisfying about browsing through row upon row of LP sleeves, hoping you would discover some unknown gem of an album that you hadn't come across before. Browsing through plastic cases of CDs just wasn't the same somehow.
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1485 –
Stop tempting me to go rebuy albums I already own plus an expensive record player. :P

(On vinyl, I'd get myself a whole lot of Bowie and if they had Eminem I'd get that too — I know I saw Eminem LPs 15 years ago.)

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Reply #1486 –
 
Quote from: Frenzie on
Stop tempting me to go rebuy albums I already own plus an expensive record player.  :P
Oh go on, you know you want to.  :D
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1487 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
Stop tempting me to go rebuy albums I already own plus an expensive record player. :P
The record players are not expensive. They start at maybe 40 e. But I think it makes only sense to buy it when you already have a collection of vinyls. I don't. I have even distributed my CD's mostly away, after I copied them to harddrive.
 

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Reply #1488 –
Quote from: ersi on
I have even distributed my CD's mostly away, after I copied them to harddrive.
I don't think I could do that as I would constantly worry about HD failure and losing all my music. I would still keep hold of all my CDs just in case that ever happened.
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1489 –
External harddrive. Those don't fail, except at a nuclear catastrophe. But the music I used to own was basic commonly available top of the pops that gets overplayed anyway and can be regrabbed from YT or whatever anytime.

Ah, but there is one tiny point in owning some original CD's - the sleeves. For example the Motorhead remastered series that I still have, they have nice text and lots of photos, and some Metallica editions are also very good. The sleeves make it worth it. Compared to this, I don't see the value of hassling with vinyls.

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Reply #1490 –
Quote from: Luxor
Just watched the news and they showed a French gymnast breaking his leg when he landed. Not nice.
That was the most horrible gymnastic accident I have ever seen. I think I actually saw that French gymnast's calf broke and twisted sideways. I've a feeling he already had previous calf injuries and forced himself to compete for the Olympics.

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Reply #1491 –
Quote from: ersi on
The record players are not expensive. They start at maybe 40 e.
But are they any good? However my primary concern, 78 RPM, seems unfounded. Still, as far as it goes it makes more sense to find out if there are digitally remastered CDs available. I don't have a super special attachment to the act of putting a needle on a scratchy record.

Quote from: Luxor on
I don't think I could do that as I would constantly worry about HD failure and losing all my music. I would still keep hold of all my CDs just in case that ever happened.
I've got all of my stuff duplicated with Unison. A less geeky alternative would be Syncthing. I don't have all of my CDs digitally and for the most part only in a sort of lossy iTunes-like quality (i.e., not as good as CD). In practice I sometimes even seem to just use YouTube even if that quality is slightly worse still. Incidentally I don't own the album I linked in any shape or form. No vinyl, no cassette, no (SA)CD, no DVD. Above all I just don't really listen to music that much anymore.

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Reply #1492 –
Quote from: ersi on
Ah, but there is one tiny point in owning some original CD's - the sleeves. For example the Motorhead remastered series that I still have,
Bonus kudos points given for enjoying a bit of Motorhead.
Quote from: Syav on
That was the most horrible gymnastic accident I have ever seen. I think I actually saw that French gymnast's calf broke and twisted sideways. I've a feeling he already had previous calf injuries and forced himself to compete for the Olympics.
It did seem to break far too easily, so you could be right that he had a previous injury.
And as if his day wasn't bad enough they then dropped him as he was loaded into the ambulance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fKLjpm4Vk
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1493 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
Quote from: ersi on
The record players are not expensive. They start at maybe 40 e.
But are they any good?
In terms of sound? If you are a sound connoisseur (which I am not and don't intend to be - I prefer silence in my spare private time over everything else), then you already have the speakers and other sound equipment and all you need is a compatible turntable.

I don't believe there are any differences between turntables, just like there are no differences between CD players. The player is always the same; the differences are in connectors, sockets, and extras.

Quote from: Frenzie on
Still, as far as it goes it makes more sense to find out if there are digitally remastered CDs available. I don't have a super special attachment to the act of putting a needle on a scratchy record.
Same here. And a good CD sleeve makes the price of a brand new CD seem worth it, occasionally. But now it appears to be a dying art, just like vinyls were upon the arrival of CD.

(Anttila declares bankruptcy. Their music department was the number 1 mainstream choice for the people of Finland for a very long time. Evidently CD's have become a fringe hobby.)

Quote from: Luxor on
Bonus kudos points given for enjoying a bit of Motorhead.
My appreciation of heavy metal has always gone hand in hand with my appreciation of classics. I see them as sort of the same thing, and they sometimes are. For example, this piece (which I bought on CD the year it appeared) quotes at length from Mozart's symphony #25.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPhbrjx6QIE[/video]

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Reply #1494 –
Quote from: ersi on
I prefer silence in my spare private time over everything else
Me too, but that doesn't mean I want to listen to my cellphone speaker whenever I do want to listen to something. :P

Quote from: ersi on
I don't believe there are any differences between turntables, just like there are no differences between CD players. The player is always the same; the differences are in connectors, sockets, and extras.
There is no difference in audio quality between CD players if they have S/PDIF output; that's the beauty of digital. For (digital to) analog there are definite differences. For turntables there are additional concerns still, like speed accuracy. I've heard an el cheapo turntable and it didn't sound at all "warm" (the distortion we like about records, which of course we could simply record and put on CD…) but "thin" and "metallic". See e.g. here to read someone who presumably actually knows what they're talking about.

The most interesting thing about CDs is that 1980s CDs often sound better than 2000s CDs. I've learned that this is because of something called loudness war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

Even more interestingly, sometimes if today's LP audio were put on CD it'd sound just as good if not better because vinyl gets the better master:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EScPiP2QjXM

There is another addition to this in the 2010s: most people listen on portable devices. And those don't have as much dynamic range either. Remasters can sometimes account for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UjQc0dM4H4

Quote from: ersi on
My appreciation of heavy metal has always gone hand in hand with my appreciation of classics. I see them as sort of the same thing, and they sometimes are. For example, this piece (which I bought on CD the year it appeared) quotes at length from Mozart's symphony #25.
I prefer my Mozart more traditionally, but I was reminded of Hollenthon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtznUh8ZBgg

Quote from: ersi on
(Anttila declares bankruptcy. Their music department was the number 1 mainstream choice for the people of Finland for a very long time. Evidently CD's have become a fringe hobby.)
Probably not quite fringe yet, but yeah, what music I have bought (in e.g. special editions of games) has all been digital only.

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Reply #1495 –
Bought a 32gig microSD for my tablet. I was going to settle for a 16gig for $12 but I decided for $5 more I can get a 32gig twice the memory.  I remember a few years ago when I bought a microSD for my cellphone it cost $30 just for 2gig. Those memory chips were freakin' expensive back then :sherlock:

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Reply #1496 –
I figured I'd check. In '07 I paid €39,99 for a 2GB Sandisk MemoryStick (M2).

In '14 I paid €34,17 for a 64GB Samsung EVO MicroSDHC UHS-I Grade 1 Class 10.

Sadly, 64GB may not be sufficient anymore. Full Kiwix Wikipedia with pics has grown from 30ish GB to 54GB. Oh well, I guess I'll just switch back to Aard with pics on demand.

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Reply #1497 –
Quote from: Syav on
I remember a few years ago when I bought a microSD for my cellphone it cost $30 just for 2gig.
How times have changed. I remember paying nearly £150  for just 512k of memory for my first Amiga and more than £250 for a 100MB 40MB hard drive. Now I can buy a 64GB pen drive for about £14.

Don't know you're born you young'uns.  :P
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

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Reply #1498 –
Eh, the first computer I owned had a 30MB HDD. And that was in the 2000s. :P

I stuck a 320 GB HDD into the first computer I built myself, back in '07. It's actually sitting next to me on the desk, awaiting secure erasing.

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Reply #1499 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
Eh, the first computer I owned had a 30MB HDD. And that was in the 2000s.  :P
When you said that, I started to wonder if I was correct in stating my one was 100MB. Turns out my memory is playing tricks on me and I was wrong  it was only 40MB. An ugly brute it was too as you can see at this linky.
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.