Physical CD's

[kumakuma]

16 minutes ago, davide256 said:

I hang on to mine "just in case". Who knows, maybe "son of Roon" will come out some day with a better ripping format for streaming playback

 

I'm also keeping mine as a physical backup. I take them out of the jewel cases and put them in one of these together with the booklet and inserts:

 

https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-8062/

 

The jewel cases go into the plastic recycling and the CDs into Rubbermaid bins.

 

 

[kumakuma]

8 minutes ago, jtwrace said:

How many Rubbermaid bins for how many CD's?  

 

Haven't bothered to count but CDs stored in these sleeves are about 1/3 the width of CDs in jewel cases.

[kumakuma]

2 minutes ago, Bystander said:

But with lossless music you can literally recreate the exact bitstream from a CD. Like, what difference does it make whether the exact same data is stored on a CD, hard driver platters or solid state disk? What sort of scenario are you envisioning that could possibly require the original medium in order to convert the stored data into a new format?

 

Look for a dissenting opinion to be made once our friend from down under wakes up... 

[kumakuma]

17 minutes ago, sandyk said:

Boy George .

The simple fact remains that many of you (most likely you as well) are still unable to get as good an SQ from your PC Audio as you can from a high quality CD player, despite having the advantage of being able to play the music from System Memory, let alone extract a higher order of performance from a ripped CD than a good quality CD player is capable of !
Others seem to believe that streamed, paid for music in flac format where you keep on paying for your favourite music over and over again sounds as good as it gets.
W.A.L.O.C !

Dream on !!!

 

 

Haven't owned a CD player for at least a decade. Don't stream. Happy with my music and system.