Future of CD's - Hard drive based music


The big change/future I have found is the use of all digital music - I havent used my CD player since christmas - I got a Mac Mini and ripped all my CDs to the harddrive lossless formated and got a decent DAC - I Ripped only the songs I liked and I now have over 4 days worth of music I enjoy - no more getting up changing CD's,I can instantly play any song from my entire library of favorites. I use my Sony Hi-def TV as the monitor so I can web browse while listening to music. The sound quality is as good as CD's as far as I can tell - I wonder how long it will be before lossless songs are offered online - this will completely kill the need for CD's for me.
thymanst

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Jrun & Gibson58: Hard-drives are not new technology, and today they are inexpensive and getting more so -- they are also easy to configure for reliabity and security (RAID arrays and the like) . Computers are hardly new either (older than CD players I believe).

iPods can be used in car audio systems very easily and AUX jacks are becoming standard in cars.

No one is saying you have to sell your CD's. I can understand the discomfort, it is more an issue of comfort and how you like to interact with your music. Since I made the change I have listened to more parts my collection than ever, and been buying more music, worrying less about the gear.