Is anyone still using a CD Player

@ghdprentice I definitely would not waste your time ripping. It is a time consuming process and in the end pretty useless. 

My CDs are typical 60s-90s popular top 100 type music, musicals, soundtracks. Do you believe Tidal and/or Qobuz has them, saving me the chore of ripping and the conundrum of giving away to not be wasteful? I don’t want to store it indefinitely - just moved, purging stuff to not store anything we won’t use. 

I’m picking up .80 cent CDs at the thrift store on senior day, just in case.

Neg. All CDs get ripped to disk and streamed. 

@ktgsjs 

"Is anyone still using a CD Player"

No streaming in this house!

Last week my constant nagging to a DAC manufacturer resulted in them adding DoP on SPDIF. What that means is that I can now play CD/SACD on this DAC. I will be sending my DAC in for the upgrade on Monday.

The reason to do this is because my disks ALWAYS sound better than streaming. I think I have very good fibre optic based streaming, but the disks seem to sound a bit denser (in a good way). I know this because I was able to hear these disks with the excellent Meitner MA3i DAC which does support DoP on SPDIF. I like my DAC more than the MA3i, so I am excited to hear these disks again on this DAC.

My transport at the moment is a used $200 Oppo. I will be upgrading that to the following transport in the future.

Shanling Onix Zenith XST20 Premium SACD CD... For Sale | Audiogon

BTW - last week I picked up a used Sonore OpticalRendu for $500. I am using it with a RME ADI-2 DAC in my lesser system. This streamer is running SonicOrbiter v2.9. My older Sonore OpticalRendu cannot be upgraded from v2.8. The v2.9 sounds better than the v2.8 which is on my best system. I did some research and Sonore has a new version called OpticalRendu Deluxe. This is supposed to sound much better than both of my older variants. That will be a future upgrade, maybe it will close the gap with the SACD disks.