What have you done with your CD collection?

[mr. tegu]

I’ve got a huge box of CDs I really don’t know what to do with. A few years back I took the time to put them on the computer so I have them digital now. But now they seem mostly worthless just taking up space. Have you thrown yours out? Keeping them for nostalgia? Are they worth anything? Better to just sit on them for any reason?

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by stevieray

I do!


You have great taste in music.

Well you'll have to remind me if I'm coming that way. I have pretty much everything on my computer, a thumb drive and my phone. I can't imagine any real reason I need to keep them.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

Just got rid of the last of mine (sorry stevieray...they would have been yours had I known). I was totally prepared to toss them or take them to goodwill like some have mentioned. I ended up getting something for them through Dcluttr https://www.decluttr.com/

I didn't get much and it was probably more hassle than it was worth to pack and ship, but I did get about $26 for my last 93 CDs. It was a relatively easy process...just scan the barcode and they tell you what they'll give you for them. Some are worth more than others based on demand and their inventory I guess. Strange that Poison's Greatest Hits was far and away the one I got the most for. Here is a sample from my receipt.....

Interesting! Did they ask about condition of the CDs or cases? Like did you have to examine them or anything?

[alpha_omega]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

Interesting! Did they ask about condition of the CDs or cases? Like did you have to examine them or anything?

Well, they really didn't ask except to say that the CDs must be operable, the insert included and an undamaged jewel case. There were a few that I sent in that were denied (artwork missing, case damaged, etc.). But overall, I was pretty happy to get anything out of them.

[alpha_omega]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

Interesting! Did they ask about condition of the CDs or cases? Like did you have to examine them or anything?

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

Well, they really didn't ask except to say that the CDs must be operable, the insert included and an undamaged jewel case. There were a few that I sent in that were denied (artwork missing, case damaged, etc.). But overall, I was pretty happy to get anything out of them.

It is also notable that anything bought through a record club is basically worthless. I had a few really old ones from the BMG music club that don't have bar codes on them. No bar code...no buy, just FYI.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

It is also notable that anything bought through a record club is basically worthless. I had a few really old ones from the BMG music club that don't have bar codes on them. No bar code...no buy, just FYI.

Rejected ones are just tossed out I assume?

[alpha_omega]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

Rejected ones are just tossed out I assume?

I'm assuming so. They didn't send them back, but did mark my receipt on the ones that weren't accepted and the reason why.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Does it? All sounds the same to me.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Spott

I gave away the Kill Em All CD that had the two extra songs on it as well as the original Garage Days EP from 1987, along with the rest of their CD from the 80’s. All those old CD’s sat around for quite awhile before I finally got around to converting them.

Those early Elektra (pre-'remaster') "target" CDs are the truth.

[Graystoke]

I was stubborn and kept buying LPs. My CD collection is maybe 20-25. I will keep them and use my super combo AM/FM CD boom box.
LPs have been an endless journey at garage sales, used record shops and the internet.
Something about holding a record, looking in the sleeve, reading who produced and played is a tactile art experience. I’m glad I never let it go.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Graystoke

I was stubborn and kept buying LPs. My CD collection is maybe 20-25. I will keep them and use my super combo AM/FM CD boom box.
LPs have been an endless journey at garage sales, used record shops and the internet.
Something about holding a record, looking in the sleeve, reading who produced and played is a tactile art experience. I’m glad I never let it go.

100%

[Spott]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Those early Elektra (pre-'remaster') "target" CDs are the truth.

Maybe it’s just me, but whenever I hear a song that is remastered I can never tell the difference from the original. Although I haven’t bought a CD in at least 20 years, I do miss the days of getting a new disc and reading the lyrics seeing the extra pics, etc on the inserts.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Spott

Maybe it’s just me, but whenever I hear a song that is remastered I can never tell the difference from the original. Although I haven’t bought a CD in at least 20 years, I do miss the days of getting a new disc and reading the lyrics seeing the extra pics, etc on the inserts.

Right, it really only becomes noticeable when you ****ing crank it (or wear ear buds), and "remastered" usually only means 'digitally louder'

https://www.npr.org/2009/12/31/12211...c-sounds-worse

There really is NO POINT in "remastering" unless something really sounded like shit. I laugh every single time Jimmy Page re-releases "Zeppelin remastered under the supervision of Jimmy Page" because of 2 things :

1. None of the Zeppelin CDs have ever been remastered by Jimmy ****ing Page. Barry Diament and Joe Sidore did the first ones (in the 80s), George Marino did the 2nd round (early 90s - remember the 'crop circles' box set? He did that, too), and John Davis did the latest reissue campaign.

And

2. None of the remastered CDs really sound any better than the original Diament/Sidore CDs. At all. In fact, a case could be made that the Diament Zep II, Houses of the Holy, and Physical Graffiti are absolutely superior to any digital version that came after. Indeed, the transfers were done in like 1984-86, so the tapes were fresh. The Japanses 32XD of the Diament Houses of the Holy is like a flat transfer of the master tape. And that record was mixed in New York with Eddie Kramer, original LP mastered by Robert Ludwig...so those tapes were in New York when Diament did the tranfer - you can HEAR the difference in his mastering and the Marino/Davis remasters on that one because Diament is the only one who actually used the closest thing to a 'master' tape, probably a 1gen production mixdown on 1/4" tape. The "remastered" version all use whatever 2gen production copy that got sent to the UK, because what "under the supervision of Jimmy Page" really means is that he provides the actual engineer with the tapes he wants used.

And the pictures of the tape boxes in the Super Deluxe Editions tell the same story that I've surmised.

[Baby Lee]

Does anyone have a strong preference for both ripping and cataloguing a large CD collection?

I haven't used my CD collection in some time, but I have somewhere in the range of 1500.

I thought about ripping and cataloguing all of it, but that was around the time Itunes was renaming and rearranging your collection with its own conventions, and then taking away your access, or even the data copy from your storage, when the rights arrangement changed for them.

Then Microsoft's 'Groove' came and went like a wet fart, and I just figured there was no market for personal control of a digitized personal music collection.

I want what I have, arranged as they are on the CDs, tied to a database that lets me find something as easy as going to the CD rack and pulling the CD, all on an HDD where I can 'lend it out' to my phone to carry around as needed.

I don't need cloud storage or internet streaming, just a manageable collection digitized that doesn't get meddled with by prying corporations.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Does anyone have a strong preference for both ripping and cataloguing a large CD collection?

I haven't used my CD collection in some time, but I have somewhere in the range of 1500.

I thought about ripping and cataloguing all of it, but that was around the time Itunes was renaming and rearranging your collection with it's own conventions, and then taking away your access, or even the data copy from your storage, when the rights arrangement changed for them.

Then Microsoft's 'Groove' came and went like a wet fart, and I just figured there was no market for personal control of a digitized personal music collection.

I want what I have, arranged as they are on the CDs, tied to a database that lets me find something as easy as going to the CD rack and pulling the CD, all on an HDD where I can 'lend it out' to my phone to carry around as needed.

I don't need cloud storage or internet streaming, just a manageable collection digitized that doesn't get meddled with by prying corporations.

I am assuming you are PC, with that in mind -
Jet Audio is your answer :

http://www.jetaudio.com/

Free and easy, perfect for cataloging and burning.

Set your output to FLAC Level 8 and set the destination folder to where you want the files ripped to.

Easy peasy

[mr. tegu]

All I did was burn my CDs to the computer and then loaded them on to itunes. From there it was basically like I bought them on iTunes so everything is organized just as you would expect.