CD Availability Nearing It's End And The Consequences

[Musicophile]

I’m a bit late to this thread but it really shocks me that anybody would miss CD as a format. 
 

My extensive CD collection has been ripped years ago and I can’t even remember when I last purchased one of these horrible plastic thingies, in these awful plastic containers. 
 

My current combination of lossless streaming with purchasing high res versions of stuff I really care about, plus easy access to my large CD back catalog is really just perfect. I really don’t get this “everything was better in the past” mentality here. 

 

[Musicophile]

11 hours ago, TubeLover said:

See how you feel if lossless streaming one day soon goes under, taking with it any favorites you had on Tidal or Quobuz, as well as your streaming access to anything else. That's my worst nightmare. They are both losing lots of money, it is, sadly, not a stretch to think they could easily both be gone. And the millennials populating the world couldn't give a hoot about sound quality, period. Not lossless, not hi rez, or even cd quality recordings. That's why Tidal and Qobuz have only a tiny fraction of the audience they deserve for providing their excellent services. 

 

Also, purchasing hi rez stuff is great, but I honestly don't know a lot of people who can afford two or even three times the price of a cd to purchase those. Then there is also the issue that simply because it's labeled hi rez may not mean anything. There is no provenance available, it could technically be a hi rez recording, but made from a garbage master. In Hi Rez, there is the good, the bad and the ugly, and it's a crap shoot every time you pay the big bucks to buy a recording. 

 

At least when everything being put out, or previously released were readily available on cd, you knew you had access to any recording. There is a potential to have no access to any new (or old)recordings if cd's disappear, and quality streaming services go away. And even if one could afford any hi rez album, they aren't even close to all being available in that format. It's a fraction of the whole music catalog. 

 

JC 

I could perfectly live if streaming is dead tomorrow due to my large existing collection. 

 

And prices for high-res with the Qobuz sublime discount are dead cheap. Now how sustainable this is discount will be is a different story, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts.