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Goodbye CD's

Seems that Borders by me is unloading all their cd's..They claim they are just not selling...Im sure this is just the beginning of the end in the retail stores for cd's...can it long before cd's are gone completely? Many Ive spoken with including some dealers have mentioned this and said "the writing is on the wall" for cd playback..

I have been on the fence about going to a file data system for music, and have been eyeing a Squeezebox duet and setting up my hard drive to take the plunge..maybe now its that time??

Or..maybe just Im just a geezer in my heart of hearts and should just look for old and new Vinyl to keep me going...hmmm..I could be very happy with a mainly vinyl set up ;-)
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Perhaps I am just nostalgic but I still buy lots of CDs. I rip them to my server then I store the CDs away. I never sell any of the CDs I have ever purchased (even Milli Vanilli or Debbie Gibson), keeping it like a bit of personal history. Maybe one day my kids will go through my CD stash and have a good laugh.
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Kiwi...sadly I dont think my Debbie Gibson or Twisted Sister cds are worth anything. It wont stop me from buying cds though.
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Perhaps I am just nostalgic but I still buy lots of CDs. I rip them to my server then I store the CDs away. I never sell any of the CDs I have ever purchased (even Milli Vanilli or Debbie Gibson), keeping it like a bit of personal history. Maybe one day my kids will go through my CD stash and have a good laugh.
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sorry about the double post folks...not sure how it happens.
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I am kind of in between on this. I will continue to buy CDs as long as they are available but perhaps for different reasons than others in this thread.
#1 - I rip my cds to FLAC, most download sites like Amazon and itunes do not offer lossless downloading.

#2 - I like holding the cd and reading the liner notes

#3 - you never know if your hard drives are going to fail and you lose all your digital music. At least with the actual cd you can always rerip.

#4 - I am old geezer
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Knghifi, I have a RAID 5 as well as another NAS that is synced to mirror the RAID 5. I've had a RAID that completely fried itself taking some of the data with it. Perhaps I am paranoid but I feel better knowing I have the original music in case something happens. BTW, in your example if the cdp goes, my music is still safe. I can simply rerip it or get another cdp. If a HDD craps out you would be lucky to be able to recover the data.
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