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fado · Sep 10, 2003, 09:38 PM

Honestly, I haven't used a CD in forever. Since the iTMS in May... CD's just become obsolete. Now I am in the process of Digitizing all my CD's to my computer and backing up my library.

Then with the CD's, I am selling them back to blockbuster or using them is frisbees.

TheIceMan · Sep 11, 2003, 12:14 AM

My small CD collection is collecting dust somewhere. It's just so much easier listening on my PowerBook using iTunes. And with the help of the HK SoundStick, it looks and sounds great!

Apfhex · Sep 11, 2003, 02:30 AM

My CD collection is collecting dust because anything you leave sitting around here for a day collects dust.

I still listen to my CDs sometimes, I've only ripped a few of them. And I still buy them, too. Just not very often.

Bohemia · Sep 11, 2003, 02:47 AM

I am currently ripping my whole cd collection to iTunes, and all the music I listen to is played off my mac. Still, the feeling I get when holding a brand new album, with a cool cover, can never be replaced by downloading the songs, legal or not.

Heh. Guess that's why I am so poor.. I DO wish I had an iPod though. Who doesn't....

kennedy · Sep 11, 2003, 03:12 AM

Shoulda made that poll multiple choice. I still use CDs in the car... and still buy some... and I use some of them whenever I am listening on my hi-fi system... don't want no compromises there! But most of them just collect dust.

I've ripped my entire collection to my PB and my iPod (which I use in one of my cars), and then I've burned off MP3 CDs for where I have such players. Its really nice to have a 5-disc changer, where one of the slots, for example, always has my Every-Studio-Track-by-Zeppelin disk... 12 hours of Zeppelin playing on my high quality stereo behind me... right now... sweet.

Gee4orce · Sep 11, 2003, 04:17 AM

Well, we don't have a Mac-compatible option for buying online yet in the UK, so I'm still buying CDs.

But I view them just as a way to get the music from the shop to my Mac and iPod. Once that's done, it gets shelved and never played again.

GENERAL_SMILEY · Sep 11, 2003, 07:15 AM

No UK service...

OAW · Sep 11, 2003, 11:52 AM

Before ITMS

CDs were simply a transport mechanism to get music from the store to my home. Once home, I ripped them into iTunes and synced them to my iPod.

After ITMS

I purchase all new music from ITMS if it's available. If not, I get it on CD and then rip it into iTunes and sync to the iPod.

Either way, I rarely listen to music on the home theater system these days since I use it primarily for visual entertainment. But on those occasions that I do, I just hook the iPod to it with RCA cables. In the car I just use the iPod w/ a cassette adapter. At work or on the go I just use the iPod. Consequently, I simply never burn CDs for myself.

So I just don't have much use for CDs anymore. I'm about 95% all digital currently. And when the record labels quit tripping and offer ALL the music on the ITMS I'll be 100% all digital.

OAW

-Q- · Sep 11, 2003, 01:31 PM

I, too, am in the process of ripping my CD collection into iTunes. But I'm finding that my old Beige just isn't up to the task anymore (too many skips and pops in some of the tracks--rip it again and it rips fine. Odd.) so I'm patiently waiting for my G5 to arrive. Then I'll begin in earnest again.

But no, I'm buying most of the music from the ITMS now. Only rarely will I buy a CD. Mainly if it's a local band I like that isn't nationally distributed.