Is it all on your computer? Flash drives? Have you kept your CDs? Cassette tapes? Albums?
I’m in the process of putting all my CDs on my computer (and backing up to a hard drive). But I’m not sure I can part with my CDs. I do still play them in our old car and on my old stereo system occasionally. Is it time to get rid of them?
I have albums that I’m keeping and still play.
We finally ditched the albums. My son’s best friend went through them all and took the ones he wanted first. We still have CDs and a couple of drawers full of cassette tapes, but I think the cassette players, including the ones in the cars, are all a bit dodgy - or the tapes are dodgy. Most of my music in on Media Monkey on my computer.
I only listen to music on CDs (or satellite radio or Pandora.) I play the CDs primarily in my car. They are stored in various Amazon boxes and in any compartment in my car where they will fit. They get moved around a lot because I play them often. I don’t have an iPod or anything like that. I don’t want music on my phone because I don’t want the music in my car to stop if the phone rings.
Piles of record albums in the basement (including parents’ 78s). Some of these have walked away with audiophile son.
Boxes of cassette tapes in the basement - these are still raided by DH who has cassette in the car.
More boxes of kid oriented cassettes, from Raffi to Beethoven Lives Upstairs to stuff recorded off the radio.
Three CD racks. I have a CD player in the car and occasionally we play a CD if NPR is on a pledge break on Sunday morning.
I spent several weeks loading CDs onto the computer, but don’t really use them.
Ipod.
IPhone iTunes, but don’t like it especially.
Oh, and there are the piles of mixtape cds that I put into storage boxes when I cleaned out the kids rooms last summer.
I have at least 10 boxes filled with albums going back to the late 60’s that I have been schlepping around from one move to another until we moved here 26 years ago. S played some occasionally when he was in high school. Most are warped now.
I tossed all the cassette years ago and the CD’s are in a few boxes that I move from one car trunk to another when I get a new car. Haven’t played those in a good 10 years.
I have my music on Spotify and play it through the TV when I’m in the house or from my phone in the car. I also have SAT radio in the car too, so plenty to choose from.
Piles of albums in the attic I will probably never listen to again. Towers of CD’s which I sometimes put on my laptop, but what happens in the future?
Amazon Music, but that doesn’t really feel like MY music.
I’ve been pondering the question " When I buy digital music, where, really, is my music?" for a few years now, and I don’t have a satisfactory answer.
Husband has hundreds (thousands?) of old timey vinyl albums and a turntable. Stored in his office. These days young folks are impressed with his collection. He plays them all the time.
I have CDs in my car.
CD’s in a box, mp3/itunes wasting space on a computer, Spotify Premium to the rescue.
I have 80’s mix cassettes in a memory box.
I have ripped all of my CDs and LPs to the computer. I never listen to the physical media any more. However, because I’m a stickler for having legal music, I have not sold or given away those old CDs. I’ve stored them all–although I did toss the jewel cases for a lot of them, keeping only the CD itself. I listen to music on my iPod all the time–usually through Bluetooth in my car.
I’ve ripped all my CD and store them on my computer. I listen to music either on my IPod or directly on the computer
I just bought a CD Saturday night for a $20 donation to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS after a performance of Fun Home (which was fabulous and very powerful so highly recommend if you have the chance to see it while it’s on tour.) It’s a collection of songs from shows on Broadway now song by original casts.) I played it on my way to tennis today. First time in years bought CD and played one.
So those who keep them on the computer, you just shift all the music from computer to computer as the age? External hard drive backup ? Something else i haven’t’ thought of?
That is the nice thing about http://thebrennan.com/. It burns CD’s much faster than a computer, and you can backup the files via USB port and move the mp3 files from computer to computer.
DH has his music backed up to an external hard drive. He also has it on CD, ipod, and the computer. A lttle bit of overkill, if you ask me.
I finished copying all my CDs to my computer, then backing up on an external drive. I also copied my iTunes Music folder to a flash drive. I’m parting with most of the CDs that I wouldn’t buy again today. It is weird though, growing up with “owning” music in a physical format, I can’t quite get used to only having computerized music files.
I have a backup on an external hard drive, but I’ve also been using CrashPlan for cloud backup. I’m going to have to change (probably to Carbonite) because CrashPlan is getting out of the consumer business.