@HomeVideoHangouts about 2,000 at the moment. I'm not only a collector but a completist just recently bought 5 other Billy joel cds to complete his collection favorite of course BEATLES
Couldn't agree more. I have 500-600 CDs. I don't trust any online streaming services. Like you say, them can remove songs at any time. Buying MP3 leave you at the mercy of the medium you copy them too and even then you are limited to the number of times you can copy, leaving you unable to play on all you machines. Storing things on the cloud is like letting an unknown neighbor keep you whole music collection for you. One day you wake up and they have disappeared. I buy the CD, burn it to a HD with a backup in case of failure. Even if both drives fail, I still have the CD as an original source. I think a lot of young people will be really pissed one day when they realize they don't have their favorite songs to stream anymore and it will happen. Young people think the world is permanent since they haven't lived in it long enough to see that things always go away eventually. Protect your music. If you have the CD, you have it forever. FOR SURE !!
I used to have a bunch of cds. I ended up ripping them all to my PC in lossless format. Then started just downloading albums digitally. But the last couple years, I’ve gone back to buying the CD and ripping in lossless again. They are essentially the same price as the digital version, but better quality.
if they're FLACs they are the exact same as CDs if not better. 24 bit audio, sample rates above 44.1k (though anything above 48k is useless for sound reproduction), and also built-in metadata.
I regularly buy CDs from charity shops - they are still one or two dollars. I pick up records when I see them too. It’s a good hobby and I love filling my shelves with CDs and records. I have about 200 of each media.
Love it. I grew up listening to The Offspring (I'm in my late 30s now) and Smash (the album Self Esteem is on) was one of my favorites and I still enjoy it. It holds up really well and is one of the great albums of the 90s. Enjoy growing your music collection!
Great video! I agree with everything you said. My CD shelves are getting close to 1,500 albums of selective purchases across jazz, punk, blues, rock and hip hop. I am still buying new and used CDs regularly and don't see myself stopping.
Let’s keep buying cds 💿 and support our favorite artist Let the losers stream music and never own anything on there cheap ass cell phones 📲📱📱🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢
As a musician I’ve been surprised how well CD’s sell at our merch table. And just like you said we sign every one that’s purchased. It’s a great memento for fans and a good price. As a collector I’ve seen more and more people at my local stores browsing CD’s. I’d start collecting now before prices start going up.
Great points all around! I just purchased a Sony 5 disc changer from my local goodwill for $9.99 (no remote). Have a dvd player, but I just like putting in 5 CDs in a CD player and hitting shuffle.
NIce! You can typically find remote controls cheap on amazon. I got a $5 Blu-Ray player from goodwill and then payed like 5 or 10 for a remote on amazon. Not sure which one you have but heres an example amzn.to/3vUXxjA
CDs are still a better sound quality than these streaming services which will most likely never get to the CD quality. I love collecting & listening to them. There's so much in CDs that there isn't in streaming such as ownership, tangibility, convenience, beautiful artwork, signed copies, no ads or internet, no removal/editing of songs etc. The prices are still cheap, same with good portable cd players on amazon.
I have 4708 CDs all in my computer and had a GREAT time going to garage sales and ripping them into my computer. I have them all on selves and are stored as they are on my computer. So they are easy to find.
I bought a new Panasonic Stereo for Lana del Rey and Greta Van Fleet 😂 ... i conected my Phone via 3,5.mm and played the same song from Spotify and the CD and the CD has much more depthness ! That really suprised me ! Especially over headphones! I conected my Sennheiser and the sound was so much richer and deeper with the CD its nuts !
As a vinyl collector who got rid of my cd's years ago , I have just started to buy cd's again due to the reason vinyl as just gone ridiculously crazy in prices and cd's seem to be the new bargain. 3:11
Yea I miss the 90s when cds 💿 we’re really popular and Best Buy had thousands of cds 💿 📀📀📀💽💽💿💿🙏🙏🙏 abc selling physical media like crazyyyyy know Best Buy is a aplliance store and got rid of their physical media 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Back in the late 80's I changed from vinyl to CD. This was because I was fed up with having pops, crackles and scratches on vinyl no matter how well I looked after it and I haven't gone back. I have had, probably, 1000's of CDs over the decades but only have a smallish collection of (at the moment) around 360 CDs. This was because I decided I have to like around 50% of the album to have the physical copy. Otherwise I probably wouldn't play it. I have ripped a large majority of the CDs I have owned and have created an MP3 jukebox of all the music I OWN. So I can create playlists or compilations on my PC etc. But if I want to listen to one of my favourite albums I can put the CD on. Best of both worlds.
i find used cds on average for 4.99-7.99 for good albums. i have a huge vinyl collection but for the price of one record lets say the new 45 dollar Nirvana In utero album i can get the intire dicography on cd, or damn near the whole thing. ill add storage is cheap now, i import my cds into itunes Lossless and sounds amazing on mp3 players. lastly the phone is a shit way to "listen" to music, push notifications going off all the time, and spam calls and texts pull you right out of the vibe. good video
WAV files downloaded from online/trusted platforms don't always include the metadata, so ripping my CDs as WAV files guarantees that the metadata will be embedded.
I love my physical media, still buying and collecting Vinyl and CD's, in fact the same topic you covered here is just as valid in respect of books, as I also love to collect and read books. Now some years ago the Kindle was issued, bit like a walkman for book worms, where you could download a book for a fee. Now for me this is great when on vacation, easier to take with me as opposed to a stack of books, but I only use it in that context once, maybe twice a year if that. My main source of reading has always been and always will be a book. And like CD's I have signed copies of my favourite books by the likes of Ian Rankin, Mark Billingham, and the debut novel by Susanna Hoffs, which crosses the boundaries of both Literature and Music, and these hold great memories for me. Don't get me wrong I do stream some music and enjoy that format to a degree, but it's the Vinyl, the CD and the Hardback or the Paperback for me all the way.
Well said. As of late I've been buying up a few CDs. Some to play, some to keep sealed, a couple sealed which I'll rip once the current one being played starts to skip etc 😆
Once it starts to skip? Is this a thing that just magically happens to some people? I've never once had a CD stop working. Scratches and rot are purely theoretical threats as far as I'm concerned. The CD is an extremely durable medium.
@@ChrisStoneinatornot only have they sell cd machines know on Amazon that fixes scratches on cds 💿 and make them brand new again So problem solved 😅😅😅😅
There was an uptick in 2005 around the price of certain limited edition cds when they went out of print. In my corner, soul music on cd was worth about double once copies dried up. This is pre-cd era music reissued in limited batches but available for a number of years. Some get repressed while others didn't. Labels that are collectible include Sundazed, Rhino-handmade, Hipo-select, Wounded Bird, Spy, Edsel, Raven, Right Stuff, Sequel, Ambassador, Ace, Bear Family, etc. Japanese imports and almost any jazz album with 4-6 players sells well. Cds on the charts in the 90's-2005 like REM were common and will hardly ever command more than $3-5 if that. Cd singles and deluxe reissues with bonus content is where the gains will be as it has limited content. Vinyl albums from the mid to late 70's are very common in number and don't command as much as desired titles outside of that era.
I love 💿 CDs I have never stop buying them the Sound I get from the CDs on my hi-fi system is 10 times better than Spotify & apple music so I stopped the subscription even in my car CDs sound so much better than streaming. I also love my vinyl record collection fantastic, I also keep buying DVD & Blu-ray DVDs collection.
Hey from Australia. As an ex club DJ of 30 years (I'm 63 years of age now), CDs are great but being an 80s DJ, most of my music is on 12 inch vinyl singles. Most DJs today use the CDJ players mostly because of lugging around heavy crates of vinyl. Both Analog and Digital formats have their problems but if you wanna blame someone, blame the engineers because that's where the problems start. My first digital vinyl album was Georgio Moroders E=MC Squared and it was so bass light it was a joke. Fast forward to 2024 and depending on a few things, vinyl can be a better medium than CDs. i love Enya and Clannad and listening to an A B test, the CD won every time. Both Digital and Analog formats are fine when mastered properly. Another thing that CDs have over vinyl is that if you wanna chill with friends, a CD is great because you don't get interrupted half way through to flip it over for side B and if you use a high quality carousel, you don't have to worry about what to play for hours. The biggest problem is how you treat your records and CDs. Sometimes I just wanna quit the digital world and play vinyl because it reminds me of better times. As I've said earlier, CDs when mastered properly sound wonderful.
Vinyl was ruined by hipsters who see records more as a collector's item and a statement about their own personality, but even more than that, as an investment. Instead of something that's meant to be played and enjoyed. Hence the insane prices they now command, even adjusted for inflation often more than what tey were worth when they originally came out in the 70s to 90s. It sucks, and I am still hoping the same doesn't happen with CDs.
Cds are great but cd players are extint. Modern ones are either too expensive or cheap plastic portables but nothing in between like in the 90s. Some say use bluray players but they only have a hdmi output for the tv and no RCA.
Why? This goes for most media. I understand buying the best quality media available for high-quality rips especially, but it also takes up a lot of space and burdens you with more responsibilities of worry imo, having been there myself. Some storage devices and a means to playback nicely and you're golden and have a faster and easier means of use typically.
i personally love to have a tangible copy of an album i'm passionate about along with the extras that come with a physical copy like artwork, signed copies & lyrics. Plus it supports the artist. I understand the storage concern which is exactly why I don't want to store my computer & phone with songs because of the amount of space they take up. It's also not a physical problem if you have a small collection, i'm not even at 20 yet because i'm picky.
@@kathk94well he’s talking about Records that takes up a lot of space Not cds 💿 there smaller and easier to organize on bookshelves. And there much cheaper 📀📀📀🤘🤘🤘🙏🙏💿💿💿💿 records are sooo heavy and more delicate to take care off
I think it's funny how it's called "collecting". As a Millenial, I may have a "Collection of CDs" but I hardly used this therm, they were just "my CDs". Now it feels like I'm a "collector of old things". Prices for CDs are already increasing and therefore I buy used CDs in a bulk just because I may want to listen to them later but wouldn't be able to afford them later on, which led me to a little bit messy collection at the moment. It's "buy now and catalog afterwards" instead the other way around and buy only the CDs you want. But if everybody buying cheap CDs in bulk, I feel the need to do as well. This leaves me a little bit frustrated because I can't listen to every CD I bought.
Ya its the same with movies. I feel pressure to buy titles now when I see them cheap even though I know it will be a while before I actually watch them
CDs is my choice of music format. Being buying them since 1988. I hope record companies will keep releasing them... If there is a market for them these days.... It looks like more vinyl records are being released than CDs now.
my car has a usb port in the center cubby. I rip my cds to my pc then add tons to a flash drive put it on random an good to go! I keep my cds forever but on my shlf safe and just take the flash drives in the car. This way none get lost or damaged and if my pc crashes oh well I can just re rip them if I can't recover it.
My collection of cds is huge and there is no streaming service that has even close to the stuff I have, they have very little good import 70s and 80s and all my CDs have been transferred to USB for the car and streaming is so limited, its a waste of time as far as I'm concerned
Streaming is garbage 🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🗑️🗑️ low sound quality u renting the music paying a higher price fee and h need internet Cds 💿 better sound quality and u own the music forever only pay once it’s yours forever ✌️✌️✌️📀📀💽
i use spotify premium, and i'll continue to do so since it'd cost me thousands in shipping to get every CD i have saved. however, i would like to start collecting CDs of my favourites of each artist - do you still think it's worth to start a collection? probably just a small one.
As I agree with you on CD's I'm at a point in my life I'm pairing down. I grew up with Vinyl, & just to bulky to store. I dislike monthly services, Grading is a total rip & ruined many hobbies.
Cds forever ima keep buying them and selling them on 2024 I love physical media. To me streaming dosent exist Let’s keep supporting artist and buy cds 💿 📀📀📀💿💿💿🎶🎶🎶🤙🤙🤙better sound quality and u own the music forever and u get bonus tracks 💽💽💽💿💿📀📀💿
the music industry never wanted us to have access to digital music CD's as it made it easier to steal music. In it a way they we're correct. I collect cause i like'm and glad they're super cheap these days but i don't see'm as much in thrift stores like i used to.
The very first CD I bought was in 1987 when that CD was first released to replace my vinyl album of Floyd's Obscured By Clouds. To hear that album without any hiss or pops or crackles was fuckin' amazing. I still have it, I still buy CD's and I still have all the vinyl albums and CD's I have bought over the years.
Why not buy FLACs instead (or sometimes MP3s)? You own them, they sound really good and the're still conveniently small. I don't get people only thinking about two options: physical or streaming platforms.
It's possible to lose a FLAC collection with a failed storage device. The only way I'm losing my CD collection is in a house fire, and then I've got bigger problems. Plus CDs are the best way to listen to music in the car or at a friend's house, bar none.
@@ChrisStoneinatorur never gonna beat the sound quality of a cd 💿 u can download music stream music on ur cheap cell phones 😅🤢🤢🤮🤢🤢there all crap sound quality u will never own anything 😂😂😂😂😂
I tried FLAC only collection 10 years ago. It's convenient and... really boring. And you should care of it and regularly do back ups. With CD you get nice booklet and information about where it was made.
@@RobertQuant It depends how you do it , sometimes i download music from Qobuz on my high end Astell & Kern portable DAP in cd quality (FLAC 44,1 KHz-16bit) or higher, and the sound quality is exactly the same. So cd quality is cd quality , it doesn't matter if it's on a cd or a download. Things changes only when you "downgrade" to MP3.
I still buy them. I have few thousand. With vynl mak8ng a comeback ebay has cds cheap..people are selling off their collections thinking its going away forever..not everything on cd will make it on to albums .I b9ught 30 or so this month alone..local in door flea market sells them $1 each like new too.bought 40 that day
@HomeVideoHangouts yes and you can open them and inspect them. They only sell them if they have no scratches or marks, must have cd case front back.covers and anything else like booklets. Used to sell them for $5 per cd now all are $1.00 girl who works there calls me when they get a lot of newer ones in .I usually buy them.all unless it's a genre I hate like rap, screamo metal
@@bobf.5538the reason why cds 💿 ate cheap is because there used If ur buying brand new cds 💿 they be like $10 to $15 to $20 counting shipping 😅 sooo noooo cds 💿 are not cheap depending on which ones ur buying 📀🤘🤘💿💿📀📀
I have about 2000 CDs I never touch because d Spotify. Just the price alone is worth it to me. The single price of a new CD is more than a single month of Spotify. As far as physical format, I am a huge vinyl freak. It is just more fun than CDs to me. People still buy LOTS of physical media, it is just not CDs.
Spotify sucks 🤮🤮🤢🤢 cheap sound quality and they always remove music 🎶 and charge soo much all streaming is garbage 🗑️ Physicsl media all the way cds 💿 and records will always be better 📀📀💽💽💿💿✌️✌️
A CD, a vinyl record, a cassette is not only your property that cannot be taken away or blocked, it is also freedom in a certain sense. Like cash in your wallet. Mankind is being actively digitized, lured by imaginary convenience, services.... This must be resisted )
This is the golden age of used CD collecting. In my opinion it will soon be over. I have noticed that the quality of used CDs has already started to deteriorate. I don't find as much good stuff anymore. What is good, is often in poor condition. People in the future will want to buy a CD in near mint condition. Those will be where the value is.
I never understood why people use Apple iTunes when there are far, FAR better services out there to listen to music. Like, for me I mainly listen to 60's -90's music and for that I just switch on the radio (or load in a radio station on my PC,) , or load a TH-cam playlist in the background. I love listening to the radio when I play most video games, which is my main hobby and something I do for at least 12 hours a day as I am 100% housebound. I have not bought any physical media for over 10 years now of anything. Blu-ray, CD, tape, etc. There is no point. It just takes up valuable space which, in my case is at a huge premium as I live in a 10 foot by 10 foot studio flat. Radio stations and TH-cam are perfect for me. And they are FREE! (well, apart from paying the internet provider, but you have to do that anyway.) So, that's my 2 pence worth. I guess we are all different.
Thanks for sharing your perspective! I agree physical media does take up space and it's essential to stay organized. If radio and youtube works for you thats great! Do you buy physical videogames or stick to digital videogames as well?
@@HomeVideoHangouts I stick to digital video games too. Though, to be honest I am over 95% into emulation so I play mainly NES, Sega, and that sort of thing and those I download from sources where I can keep them for as long as I want to. It may not be quite legal, but, hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I do own about 4-5 Steam games but that is about it. And some people say that, "what happens if the server goes offline and you can never play that game anymore," then I just say, "Oh well, never mind," and play something else. I have never been annoyed if I lose anything like that. It's not important, just a toy really. It's not like losing your home or one of your family. There are so many 10's of 1000's of games out there that it doesn't bother me. As long as I get at least a year out of the game I feel like I have got my monies worth out of it. And, even if I havent, cest la vie.
Nice, Ya it's amazing how many options for emulation are out there. I have a physical collection of videogames but have an appreciation for emulation too
@@HomeVideoHangoutsI think records take up A lot of space Not cds 💿 cause there smaller and easier to organize on a bookshelf 📀💿💿📀📀 soooo depending how much u have it should be good enough 🤙🤙🤙🤘🤘🤘
Streaming is for lazyyyyy people That don’t want buy music or movies and lazyyyyy and want everything for freee is thd honest true 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ people that stream are greedy with Money The true music collectors buy cds and records and support their favorite artist and want to own the music ✌️✌️✌️📀📀💿💿😊
That’s always gonna be the case with cds 💿 that’s why I love them and u own the music and support the artist 🧑🎨 was a stream 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮 sorry I don’t need internet to listen to music 🎶 😅😅😅😅😅
It depends on what source you stream from. With Qobuz you stream in cd quality or higher (high-res) and i can assure you, the quality is exactly the same (i have about 3000 cd's myself). But of course, you need good equipment.
Nope neverrrrr 😅😅😅😅 streaminv is all garbage 🗑️ with low quality sound cds 💿 will always have better sound quality than streaming cause it’s digital and it comes from a disc Streaming is low file cheap quality sound that comes from a phone 📱
Nope. This is not a dumb opinion, just an incorrect one. The value of CDs will plummet and here’s why: Buying old CDs will produce mixed results in audio quality. Reason being, CDs made in the 80s and 90s used Pre-emphasis (a hidden eq for noise reduction we weren't supposed to know about) and all CD players use De-emphasis. CD burners did not have de-emphasis though and disc makers stopped using it around the early 2000s it's believed. Audiophiles are finally starting to realize that all those thousands of CD's they've backed up to hard drive over the years probably have to be redone or converted with software to de-emphasize them. This goes way deep. There's lots to read about. People are literally trying to figure a way for a class action lawsuit because all CDs are defective (it'll never happen + statute of limitations.)
It seems like a fun thing to do and have but also seems like a huge money and time waster. When will I ever have the time to actually sit and listen to a cd or watch a dvd collection? Never
Nawwww that’s the opposite streaming is a waste of money 💴 to keep paying a licensed Not to own anything Oh I’m sorry 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️😂😂😂 did u hear Spotify is raising the prices on streaming 😂😂😂🎶good luck with that
Well I do that a lot cds burning is really good because u can take care of ur original real cd 💿 from getting scratched and just used the burn one 💿💿📀📀🤘🤘💽💽💽
The price of LPs is ridiculous these days. 30-50€ for an album. That's 'cause it's a fad, a trend, same with cassettes which cost as much as cds these days. Mindboggling. Do they remember how brilliant cassettes were back in the day? Evidently not. I'm not interested in that overpriced bullshit with million different LP colours. You need to have a great turntable to make LP sound close to cd-quality. Hopefully the LP and MC craze will die out soon. I hope for the appreciation of music, not the overpriced item, to come back.
I still buy cds, I never quit. Mostly because I like having physical media. I don't want to rely on the internet.
How big is your collection?
@HomeVideoHangouts about 2,000 at the moment. I'm not only a collector but a completist just recently bought 5 other Billy joel cds to complete his collection favorite of course BEATLES
Couldn't agree more. I have 500-600 CDs. I don't trust any online streaming services. Like you say, them can remove songs at any time. Buying MP3 leave you at the mercy of the medium you copy them too and even then you are limited to the number of times you can copy, leaving you unable to play on all you machines. Storing things on the cloud is like letting an unknown neighbor keep you whole music collection for you. One day you wake up and they have disappeared. I buy the CD, burn it to a HD with a backup in case of failure. Even if both drives fail, I still have the CD as an original source. I think a lot of young people will be really pissed one day when they realize they don't have their favorite songs to stream anymore and it will happen. Young people think the world is permanent since they haven't lived in it long enough to see that things always go away eventually. Protect your music. If you have the CD, you have it forever. FOR SURE !!
Yes the ownership aspect is important for sure and CDs still allow you to have digital copies.
Yes cds 💿 records cassettes DVDs 📀 blue ray all those are physical media better than streaming 😮😮😮and it looks cool on the bokkshelves 😅
I used to have a bunch of cds. I ended up ripping them all to my PC in lossless format. Then started just downloading albums digitally. But the last couple years, I’ve gone back to buying the CD and ripping in lossless again. They are essentially the same price as the digital version, but better quality.
Very true!
if they're FLACs they are the exact same as CDs if not better. 24 bit audio, sample rates above 44.1k (though anything above 48k is useless for sound reproduction), and also built-in metadata.
Invest in at leat two external drives (not SSD) for your FLAC or WAV files.
Great video. CDs rule. Collecting them is a trip...
I never stopped buying cds since they debuted. I just bought a couple this week alone.
Nice!
I regularly buy CDs from charity shops - they are still one or two dollars.
I pick up records when I see them too.
It’s a good hobby and I love filling my shelves with CDs and records.
I have about 200 of each media.
Nice! Keep it going!
I've been building up my DVD and Blu-ray Library again for over a year, recently branching out into building up my CD library
Sweet! All physical media can be fun to collect in its own way
I just bought my first CD earlier today! Self Esteem - The Offspring. I think I'm going to start a collection :)
Love it. I grew up listening to The Offspring (I'm in my late 30s now) and Smash (the album Self Esteem is on) was one of my favorites and I still enjoy it. It holds up really well and is one of the great albums of the 90s. Enjoy growing your music collection!
Awesome! Have fun!
I still buy physical music and mostly on cd. They are affordable and sound good. My cd collection is now almost to 5000.
Awesome! Thats a nice collection!
Great video! I agree with everything you said. My CD shelves are getting close to 1,500 albums of selective purchases across jazz, punk, blues, rock and hip hop. I am still buying new and used CDs regularly and don't see myself stopping.
Nice! That's a good collection.
I just crossed the 800 mark with my collection. I never abandoned physical media.
Awesome!
Let’s keep buying cds 💿 and support our favorite artist Let the losers stream music and never own anything on there cheap ass cell phones 📲📱📱🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢
Ima start laughing cause Spotify announce Higher prices on streaming knos😂😂😂😂😂🤦♀️🤦♀️
I still buy CDs and I love it.
Was at a bookstore today, saw Fleetwood Mac "Rumors" LP for $28.99 the same price in the store in CD was $10.99
The limiting factor in quality isn't the cd or stream; it is the original source.
To be more precise, modern artists (except hip hop) abandoning the album format
I have bought a couple a month for the last 20 or so years. The problem is that new releases that I actually want are few and far between.
As a musician I’ve been surprised how well CD’s sell at our merch table. And just like you said we sign every one that’s purchased. It’s a great memento for fans and a good price. As a collector I’ve seen more and more people at my local stores browsing CD’s. I’d start collecting now before prices start going up.
I recently started after seeing my dad collect them and holy shit buying cd's is so exciting it makes me happy!!
Nice! Glad your enjoying it!
Great points all around! I just purchased a Sony 5 disc changer from my local goodwill for $9.99 (no remote). Have a dvd player, but I just like putting in 5 CDs in a CD player and hitting shuffle.
NIce! You can typically find remote controls cheap on amazon. I got a $5 Blu-Ray player from goodwill and then payed like 5 or 10 for a remote on amazon. Not sure which one you have but heres an example amzn.to/3vUXxjA
I had a Sharp player that damaged my CDs when it changed from one cd to another ( made them jump) and stopped using it
CDs are still a better sound quality than these streaming services which will most likely never get to the CD quality. I love collecting & listening to them. There's so much in CDs that there isn't in streaming such as ownership, tangibility, convenience, beautiful artwork, signed copies, no ads or internet, no removal/editing of songs etc. The prices are still cheap, same with good portable cd players on amazon.
Couldn't agree more!
Cd boxsets are definitely what’s hot imo when it comes to cds these days
I have 4708 CDs all in my computer and had a GREAT time going to garage sales and ripping them into my computer. I have them all on selves and are stored as they are on my computer. So they are easy to find.
I bought a new Panasonic Stereo for Lana del Rey and Greta Van Fleet 😂 ... i conected my Phone via 3,5.mm and played the same song from Spotify and the CD and the CD has much more depthness ! That really suprised me ! Especially over headphones! I conected my Sennheiser and the sound was so much richer and deeper with the CD its nuts !
Thanks for sharing!
As a vinyl collector who got rid of my cd's years ago , I have just started to buy cd's again due to the reason vinyl as just gone ridiculously crazy in prices and cd's seem to be the new bargain. 3:11
Nothing like going to a thrift store and finding a bunch of CDs someone took care of
Good points. All 90's and 2000's releases I collect them on CD format only, I like it because that was the original format during those years.
Nice!
Yea I miss the 90s when cds 💿 we’re really popular and Best Buy had thousands of cds 💿 📀📀📀💽💽💿💿🙏🙏🙏 abc selling physical media like crazyyyyy know Best Buy is a aplliance store and got rid of their physical media 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Back in the late 80's I changed from vinyl to CD. This was because I was fed up with having pops, crackles and scratches on vinyl no matter how well I looked after it and I haven't gone back. I have had, probably, 1000's of CDs over the decades but only have a smallish collection of (at the moment) around 360 CDs. This was because I decided I have to like around 50% of the album to have the physical copy. Otherwise I probably wouldn't play it. I have ripped a large majority of the CDs I have owned and have created an MP3 jukebox of all the music I OWN. So I can create playlists or compilations on my PC etc. But if I want to listen to one of my favourite albums I can put the CD on. Best of both worlds.
Cool thanks for sharing
caring for vinyls, turntables, styluses is a headache. Cds, FLACS on the PC and phone, and itunes on the tablets
One day the internet will be no more there to help you with your music... stay analog!
i find used cds on average for 4.99-7.99 for good albums. i have a huge vinyl collection but for the price of one record lets say the new 45 dollar Nirvana In utero album i can get the intire dicography on cd, or damn near the whole thing. ill add storage is cheap now, i import my cds into itunes Lossless and sounds amazing on mp3 players. lastly the phone is a shit way to "listen" to music, push notifications going off all the time, and spam calls and texts pull you right out of the vibe. good video
That is true. Other apps on the phone can create a lot of distractions with notifications.
I am an old soul 😂 that's why I like them!
Nothing wrong with that!
WAV files downloaded from online/trusted platforms don't always include the metadata, so ripping my CDs as WAV files guarantees that the metadata will be embedded.
I love my physical media, still buying and collecting Vinyl and CD's, in fact the same topic you covered here is just as valid in respect of books, as I also love to collect and read books. Now some years ago the Kindle was issued, bit like a walkman for book worms, where you could download a book for a fee. Now for me this is great when on vacation, easier to take with me as opposed to a stack of books, but I only use it in that context once, maybe twice a year if that. My main source of reading has always been and always will be a book. And like CD's I have signed copies of my favourite books by the likes of Ian Rankin, Mark Billingham, and the debut novel by Susanna Hoffs, which crosses the boundaries of both Literature and Music, and these hold great memories for me. Don't get me wrong I do stream some music and enjoy that format to a degree, but it's the Vinyl, the CD and the Hardback or the Paperback for me all the way.
Yes books are great too! I listen to a lot of audiobooks myself.
Love cds..got a burner and burned tons of great TH-cam concerts onto cds..
Some cds, I've found, are really expensive. Such as those out of print and Japanese pressings.
Yes unfortunately some can get very expensive
I still buy a couple Cds now and then especially if the artist doesnt release a vinyl format. I dont like the casings for most. I prefer jewel boxes.
Thanks for sharing
Well said. As of late I've been buying up a few CDs. Some to play, some to keep sealed, a couple sealed which I'll rip once the current one being played starts to skip etc 😆
Nice! Always good to have backups.
Once it starts to skip? Is this a thing that just magically happens to some people? I've never once had a CD stop working. Scratches and rot are purely theoretical threats as far as I'm concerned. The CD is an extremely durable medium.
@@ChrisStoneinatornot only have they sell cd machines know on Amazon that fixes scratches on cds 💿 and make them brand new again So problem solved 😅😅😅😅
There was an uptick in 2005 around the price of certain limited edition cds when they went out of print. In my corner, soul music on cd was worth about double once copies dried up. This is pre-cd era music reissued in limited batches but available for a number of years. Some get repressed while others didn't.
Labels that are collectible include Sundazed, Rhino-handmade, Hipo-select, Wounded Bird, Spy, Edsel, Raven, Right Stuff, Sequel, Ambassador, Ace, Bear Family, etc. Japanese imports and almost any jazz album with 4-6 players sells well.
Cds on the charts in the 90's-2005 like REM were common and will hardly ever command more than $3-5 if that. Cd singles and deluxe reissues with bonus content is where the gains will be as it has limited content.
Vinyl albums from the mid to late 70's are very common in number and don't command as much as desired titles outside of that era.
Thanks for the additional insights.
I've been collecting CDs since 1994.
Thanks for sharing
Vinyl, CD, whatever. Collect a tangible copy of the album.
I love 💿 CDs I have never stop buying them the Sound I get from the CDs on my hi-fi system is 10 times better than Spotify & apple music so I stopped the subscription even in my car CDs sound so much better than streaming. I also love my vinyl record collection fantastic, I also keep buying DVD & Blu-ray DVDs collection.
Great video
Thanks!
Hey from Australia. As an ex club DJ of 30 years (I'm 63 years of age now), CDs are great but being an 80s DJ, most of my music is on 12 inch vinyl singles. Most DJs today use the CDJ players mostly because of lugging around heavy crates of vinyl. Both Analog and Digital formats have their problems but if you wanna blame someone, blame the engineers because that's where the problems start. My first digital vinyl album was Georgio Moroders E=MC Squared and it was so bass light it was a joke. Fast forward to 2024 and depending on a few things, vinyl can be a better medium than CDs. i love Enya and Clannad and listening to an A B test, the CD won every time. Both Digital and Analog formats are fine when mastered properly. Another thing that CDs have over vinyl is that if you wanna chill with friends, a CD is great because you don't get interrupted half way through to flip it over for side B and if you use a high quality carousel, you don't have to worry about what to play for hours. The biggest problem is how you treat your records and CDs. Sometimes I just wanna quit the digital world and play vinyl because it reminds me of better times. As I've said earlier, CDs when mastered properly sound wonderful.
Thanks for sharing!
Vinyl was ruined by hipsters who see records more as a collector's item and a statement about their own personality, but even more than that, as an investment. Instead of something that's meant to be played and enjoyed. Hence the insane prices they now command, even adjusted for inflation often more than what tey were worth when they originally came out in the 70s to 90s. It sucks, and I am still hoping the same doesn't happen with CDs.
I have 800+ cds. I recently had to sleeve them all and get rid of the jewel cases to save space. Kept all the artwork and booklets though.
Good idea! All the benefits but while taking up less space!
@@HomeVideoHangoutsI wouldn’t recommend though it scratches ur cds 💿 more easily without the jewel case
Cds are great but cd players are extint. Modern ones are either too expensive or cheap plastic portables but nothing in between like in the 90s. Some say use bluray players but they only have a hdmi output for the tv and no RCA.
Great video.....I'll NEVER rent music or movies
Why? This goes for most media. I understand buying the best quality media available for high-quality rips especially, but it also takes up a lot of space and burdens you with more responsibilities of worry imo, having been there myself. Some storage devices and a means to playback nicely and you're golden and have a faster and easier means of use typically.
i personally love to have a tangible copy of an album i'm passionate about along with the extras that come with a physical copy like artwork, signed copies & lyrics. Plus it supports the artist. I understand the storage concern which is exactly why I don't want to store my computer & phone with songs because of the amount of space they take up. It's also not a physical problem if you have a small collection, i'm not even at 20 yet because i'm picky.
@@kathk94well he’s talking about Records that takes up a lot of space Not cds 💿 there smaller and easier to organize on bookshelves. And there much cheaper 📀📀📀🤘🤘🤘🙏🙏💿💿💿💿 records are sooo heavy and more delicate to take care off
Collect them all the time i never stop CDs and Vinyl , get the same album/songs on both.
Sweet!
I still buy cds 💿 and vinyl albums as well
Awesome! Keep it up!
Let’s pray for a cd 💿 revival in 2025 ✌️✌️✌️👍👍 physical media forever
I think it's funny how it's called "collecting". As a Millenial, I may have a "Collection of CDs" but I hardly used this therm, they were just "my CDs". Now it feels like I'm a "collector of old things". Prices for CDs are already increasing and therefore I buy used CDs in a bulk just because I may want to listen to them later but wouldn't be able to afford them later on, which led me to a little bit messy collection at the moment. It's "buy now and catalog afterwards" instead the other way around and buy only the CDs you want. But if everybody buying cheap CDs in bulk, I feel the need to do as well. This leaves me a little bit frustrated because I can't listen to every CD I bought.
Omg, need to change the numbers after my username.
Ya its the same with movies. I feel pressure to buy titles now when I see them cheap even though I know it will be a while before I actually watch them
CDs is my choice of music format. Being buying them since 1988. I hope record companies will keep releasing them... If there is a market for them these days.... It looks like more vinyl records are being released than CDs now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the case
my car has a usb port in the center cubby. I rip my cds to my pc then add tons to a flash drive put it on random an good to go! I keep my cds forever but on my shlf safe and just take the flash drives in the car. This way none get lost or damaged and if my pc crashes oh well I can just re rip them if I can't recover it.
Good plan!
My collection of cds is huge and there is no streaming service that has even close to the stuff I have, they have very little good import 70s and 80s and all my CDs have been transferred to USB for the car and streaming is so limited, its a waste of time as far as I'm concerned
Thanks for sharing!
Streaming is garbage 🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🗑️🗑️ low sound quality u renting the music paying a higher price fee and h need internet Cds 💿 better sound quality and u own the music forever only pay once it’s yours forever ✌️✌️✌️📀📀💽
i use spotify premium, and i'll continue to do so since it'd cost me thousands in shipping to get every CD i have saved. however, i would like to start collecting CDs of my favourites of each artist - do you still think it's worth to start a collection? probably just a small one.
There seem to be a lot of people commenting that buy cd's. Why is it that I constantly hear about the demise of the cd?
Its not for everyone but their are still many benefits to buying them.
@@HomeVideoHangoutsbetter sound quality 📀📀💿💿💿💽💽 u own the music support thd artist 🧑🎨 and it’s urs forever 👍👍👍
As I agree with you on CD's I'm at a point in my life I'm pairing down. I grew up with Vinyl, & just to bulky to store. I dislike monthly services, Grading is a total rip & ruined many hobbies.
All true! Physical media can take up a lot of space but organization can help.
@@HomeVideoHangoutsnoooo that’s records cds 💿 are smaller and take up less space and easier to organize on bookshelves
Cds forever ima keep buying them and selling them on 2024 I love physical media. To me streaming dosent exist Let’s keep supporting artist and buy cds 💿 📀📀📀💿💿💿🎶🎶🎶🤙🤙🤙better sound quality and u own the music forever and u get bonus tracks 💽💽💽💿💿📀📀💿
Good points!
I am great fan of cd’s and final no vinyl
I’s not good enough ! 😔
In the late niteen ‘ i drop my vinyl and I Will never go back !
Streaming is no go 👎
the music industry never wanted us to have access to digital music CD's as it made it easier to steal music. In it a way they we're correct. I collect cause i like'm and glad they're super cheap these days but i don't see'm as much in thrift stores like i used to.
Ya it seems they are a little harder to find now
The very first CD I bought was in 1987 when that CD was first released to replace my vinyl album of Floyd's Obscured By Clouds. To hear that album without any hiss or pops or crackles was fuckin' amazing. I still have it, I still buy CD's and I still have all the vinyl albums and CD's I have bought over the years.
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
I still buy cds. I also look out for editions
Awesome!
Why not buy FLACs instead (or sometimes MP3s)? You own them, they sound really good and the're still conveniently small. I don't get people only thinking about two options: physical or streaming platforms.
It's possible to lose a FLAC collection with a failed storage device. The only way I'm losing my CD collection is in a house fire, and then I've got bigger problems. Plus CDs are the best way to listen to music in the car or at a friend's house, bar none.
@@ChrisStoneinatorur never gonna beat the sound quality of a cd 💿 u can download music stream music on ur cheap cell phones 😅🤢🤢🤮🤢🤢there all crap sound quality u will never own anything 😂😂😂😂😂
I tried FLAC only collection 10 years ago. It's convenient and... really boring.
And you should care of it and regularly do back ups.
With CD you get nice booklet and information about where it was made.
@@ChrisStoneinator You never lose a FLAC collection because once you buy it you can re-download it as many as you want.
@@RobertQuant It depends how you do it , sometimes i download music from Qobuz on my high end Astell & Kern portable DAP in cd quality (FLAC 44,1 KHz-16bit) or higher, and the sound quality is exactly the same. So cd quality is cd quality , it doesn't matter if it's on a cd or a download. Things changes only when you "downgrade" to MP3.
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Physical media is the best way
Agreed!
Buying DVDs n CDs helps with jobs tgat make them for our entertainment
I still buy them. I have few thousand. With vynl mak8ng a comeback ebay has cds cheap..people are selling off their collections thinking its going away forever..not everything on cd will make it on to albums .I b9ught 30 or so this month alone..local in door flea market sells them $1 each like new too.bought 40 that day
Nice! Not a bad deal!
@HomeVideoHangouts yes and you can open them and inspect them. They only sell them if they have no scratches or marks, must have cd case front back.covers and anything else like booklets. Used to sell them for $5 per cd now all are $1.00 girl who works there calls me when they get a lot of newer ones in .I usually buy them.all unless it's a genre I hate like rap, screamo metal
@@bobf.5538the reason why cds 💿 ate cheap is because there used If ur buying brand new cds 💿 they be like $10 to $15 to $20 counting shipping 😅 sooo noooo cds 💿 are not cheap depending on which ones ur buying 📀🤘🤘💿💿📀📀
I have about 2000 CDs I never touch because d Spotify. Just the price alone is worth it to me. The single price of a new CD is more than a single month of Spotify. As far as physical format, I am a huge vinyl freak. It is just more fun than CDs to me. People still buy LOTS of physical media, it is just not CDs.
Yes all types of physical media have their benefits
Spotify sucks 🤮🤮🤢🤢 cheap sound quality and they always remove music 🎶 and charge soo much all streaming is garbage 🗑️ Physicsl media all the way cds 💿 and records will always be better 📀📀💽💽💿💿✌️✌️
@@HomeVideoHangouts except 8 tracks.
You shouldnt collect, just purchase and keep the albums you like. Collecting is just buying and hoarding everything you see.
Hey its Balok!
A CD, a vinyl record, a cassette is not only your property that cannot be taken away or blocked, it is also freedom in a certain sense. Like cash in your wallet. Mankind is being actively digitized, lured by imaginary convenience, services.... This must be resisted )
This is the golden age of used CD collecting. In my opinion it will soon be over. I have noticed that the quality of used CDs has already started to deteriorate. I don't find as much good stuff anymore. What is good, is often in poor condition. People in the future will want to buy a CD in near mint condition. Those will be where the value is.
Yes very true!
I never understood why people use Apple iTunes when there are far, FAR better services out there to listen to music. Like, for me I mainly listen to 60's -90's music and for that I just switch on the radio (or load in a radio station on my PC,) , or load a TH-cam playlist in the background. I love listening to the radio when I play most video games, which is my main hobby and something I do for at least 12 hours a day as I am 100% housebound. I have not bought any physical media for over 10 years now of anything. Blu-ray, CD, tape, etc. There is no point. It just takes up valuable space which, in my case is at a huge premium as I live in a 10 foot by 10 foot studio flat. Radio stations and TH-cam are perfect for me. And they are FREE! (well, apart from paying the internet provider, but you have to do that anyway.) So, that's my 2 pence worth. I guess we are all different.
Thanks for sharing your perspective! I agree physical media does take up space and it's essential to stay organized. If radio and youtube works for you thats great! Do you buy physical videogames or stick to digital videogames as well?
@@HomeVideoHangouts I stick to digital video games too. Though, to be honest I am over 95% into emulation so I play mainly NES, Sega, and that sort of thing and those I download from sources where I can keep them for as long as I want to. It may not be quite legal, but, hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I do own about 4-5 Steam games but that is about it. And some people say that, "what happens if the server goes offline and you can never play that game anymore," then I just say, "Oh well, never mind," and play something else. I have never been annoyed if I lose anything like that. It's not important, just a toy really. It's not like losing your home or one of your family. There are so many 10's of 1000's of games out there that it doesn't bother me. As long as I get at least a year out of the game I feel like I have got my monies worth out of it. And, even if I havent, cest la vie.
Nice, Ya it's amazing how many options for emulation are out there. I have a physical collection of videogames but have an appreciation for emulation too
@@HomeVideoHangoutsI think records take up A lot of space Not cds 💿 cause there smaller and easier to organize on a bookshelf 📀💿💿📀📀 soooo depending how much u have it should be good enough 🤙🤙🤙🤘🤘🤘
Streaming is for lazyyyyy people That don’t want buy music or movies and lazyyyyy and want everything for freee is thd honest true 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ people that stream are greedy with Money The true music collectors buy cds and records and support their favorite artist and want to own the music ✌️✌️✌️📀📀💿💿😊
CDs forever📀
Graded media seems weird, tho... because you can't use it. It's an art that can't be appreciated. Graded cards make way more sense.
Ya I feel the same way
have both but i buy cd more vinyl is 100 dollars in austrlia. and cd 25 new or second hand 10. no brainer godd video thoughtprovoking
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
CD's sound better than streaming.
Very true!
That’s always gonna be the case with cds 💿 that’s why I love them and u own the music and support the artist 🧑🎨 was a stream 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮 sorry I don’t need internet to listen to music 🎶 😅😅😅😅😅
It depends on what source you stream from. With Qobuz you stream in cd quality or higher (high-res) and i can assure you, the quality
is exactly the same (i have about 3000 cd's myself). But of course, you need good equipment.
Nope neverrrrr 😅😅😅😅 streaminv is all garbage 🗑️ with low quality sound cds 💿 will always have better sound quality than streaming cause it’s digital and it comes from a disc Streaming is low file cheap quality sound that comes from a phone 📱
Nope. This is not a dumb opinion, just an incorrect one. The value of CDs will plummet and here’s why: Buying old CDs will produce mixed results in audio quality. Reason being, CDs made in the 80s and 90s used Pre-emphasis (a hidden eq for noise reduction we weren't supposed to know about) and all CD players use De-emphasis. CD burners did not have de-emphasis though and disc makers stopped using it around the early 2000s it's believed. Audiophiles are finally starting to realize that all those thousands of CD's they've backed up to hard drive over the years probably have to be redone or converted with software to de-emphasize them. This goes way deep. There's lots to read about. People are literally trying to figure a way for a class action lawsuit because all CDs are defective (it'll never happen + statute of limitations.)
I buy nothing. I've been pirating music since the late 1990s, and I'm not going to stop.
It seems like a fun thing to do and have but also seems like a huge money and time waster. When will I ever have the time to actually sit and listen to a cd or watch a dvd collection? Never
Nawwww that’s the opposite streaming is a waste of money 💴 to keep paying a licensed Not to own anything Oh I’m sorry 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️😂😂😂 did u hear Spotify is raising the prices on streaming 😂😂😂🎶good luck with that
Im sorry to hear you don’t have the time. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment on my video.
Everyone in life has time to do stuff that’s ur excuse just for being lazyyyy😅
Or anyone could just burn a cd lmao
good luck torrenting the exact mastering of the album that you're looking for.
Well I do that a lot cds burning is really good because u can take care of ur original real cd 💿 from getting scratched and just used the burn one 💿💿📀📀🤘🤘💽💽💽
I just pirate music digitally
The price of LPs is ridiculous these days. 30-50€ for an album. That's 'cause it's a fad, a trend, same with cassettes which cost as much as cds these days. Mindboggling. Do they remember how brilliant cassettes were back in the day? Evidently not. I'm not interested in that overpriced bullshit with million different LP colours. You need to have a great turntable to make LP sound close to cd-quality. Hopefully the LP and MC craze will die out soon. I hope for the appreciation of music, not the overpriced item, to come back.