When to give up CDs and TT?

@pindac Limitations: The AHRA applies primarily to digital audio recording devices and prohibits the distribution, sale, or uploading of those copies to the internet or sharing them with others.

Beginning streaming, want to use Roon with Tidal and/or Qobuz. I’m unsure whether to go through the trouble of burning my CDs as much may (don’t know) be available via streaming.

If I do burn my CDs, I don’t want to store them indefinitely. I just moved so I’m still going through boxes of 35yrs of stuff.  I’m am weeding out anything that I will not ever use to give away. I don’t want to store stuff that I’ll never use to takes up valuable space.  I’m trying create and maintain an uncluttered (stressful) environment especially for my wife and family.

Tossing them away seems like a waste, but giving away violates the AHRA. This is a tough decision.

Don’t sell.  I have state of the art streaming but I find  CD and Vinyl sounds better. Vinyl the best.  Streaming is for convenience and exploring new music.  

@kennyc 

”…giving them away violates the AHRA.”

Why?  If you purchased the physical media then you own them and you can dispose of your own property.  The act only says that you can’t sell and distribute them.  It doesn’t prevent you from d, for example, donating them to a library or charity.

@alfa100 I know what you mean, but not exactly. 

Streaming relies on an internet connection. In environments with unstable connection speeds or high network jitter, the real-time transmission can introduce data delivery inconsistencies. But a CD completely bypasses the network noise or instability that can sometimes affect real-time cloud streaming. 

​However, a file stored on a local solid-state drive contains the exact same digital ones and zeros as the CD. Because the data is stored locally, it plays back with absolute consistency, zero network latency, and no dependency on an internet connection. So there is no difference between a CD and local digital file.

​For me Convenience wins! A local library gives you the instant accessibility of streaming through a media server interface, but with the rock-solid reliability and sonic integrity of physical media.

HI here is my opinion.

Easy answer, never. Its so nice to have all 3 options as each represents a different aproach/ lisining culture.

With LP's yuu have all the artwork and a sublim size of the cover,

Lisining to LP's are mostly one side at the time and the ritual of puttin it on the turntable makes you  biased for what to come, beside that they often feel more precious because they were hard to get. The music was made for recordplayer and often sound best there and its the way you are biased.

Lisining to CD hasent the same as the LP but still you have some kind of album but you somehow dont have the same respect for them, they dont feel so much like art but they still are something fysical and like the LP's is made a lot of fun finding them. They mean something.

Streaming music are much more consumerist, you have access to millions of tracks but dont have the same feeling for the tracks and you easily tend to quickly skip. Here a track dosent have any value for you and its easy to forget the music again when you hunt for something new. You easily spend a lot of time searching and its so far away from the experience of going into a good record store and feel the vibrations and passion for the music.

Streaming is a new way to acquire music and great for finding new music but it easily leads to a bad culture of "using of throw away" and you are now that emotionel connected. which easily means you dont dive so deep into the music and may miss a lot.

SO dont throw your old music culture out, once the streaming isent the exciting new gadget anymore you will miss the old LP's and CD'c.