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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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ptss
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Kiwi, I think your point is well made. It is ever so. Ether is just that......
I don't think there is a single 'non physical' thing that is collectible-or so far I haven't heard of one having value, unless we want to talk about one of the 3 unmentionables, where-if not value- there is certainly a lot of wealth......
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tboooe
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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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tboooe
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sorry about the double post folks...not sure how it happens.
mlapenta
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i burned all 1900 of my cd's to wav and flac, however holding them cause every once in awhile you find the rip had "noise" in it and have to do over

I use EAC for rip. I resisted PC audio for long time but given the state of outboard DAC's these days (which i was only using CD as transport anyway) why not? and to those who think 24/96 is voodoo, if it is just remaster, it is still a revelation in some recordings (i.e. check out Talking Heads in 24/96 compared to cd)
dhl93449
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Love the irony of this post. Started in 2008 "sky is falling" no more CDs and they are as plentiful as ever, just not in B&Mortar stores. But no trouble getting any on Amazon.

Pretty much the same as vinyl. No as plentiful as the 80's but you can still get much of it on Amazon. Even stuff like Enigma, on vinyl!

I have all the vinyl I ever owned (but not played that much), and all the CDs. Computer storage is great but HDDs fail and software gets obsolete. Ever wonder what happens to all your old photos stored on the Windows 95 computer? Do you ever really recover all your old stuff when an old computer goes bust?

Re-ripping a CD collection would be a pain, but at least you have the backup if you need it. Downloads how do you replace them?

I do like the current digital players like the Bryston simply because bit perfect rips of my CDs (via dbPoweramp) sound BETTER than any CD deck south of Esoteric and even memory players. Given the costs, a decent computer, a USB thumbdrive, and the BDP-1 are hard to beat.
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