# Sigh...my gigantic CD collection is quaintly anachronistic, isn't it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757 "2011-12-29T21:10:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/1 "2011-12-29T21:10:04Z")
My 20 year old niece was over the other night, and she laughed at it. LAUGHED. At my enormous collection of compact discs, lovingly collected over half my lifetime. She didn’t even know what to say about my godly vinyl collection. And that laugh…it was a mildly tolerant chuckle, a private kind of titter you would give a dotty aunt and her collection of display spoons. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bloodless\_Turnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@Bloodless\_Turnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bloodless_Turnip)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/2 "2011-12-29T21:11:17Z")
Welcome to Dotty Auntdom. I’m rather enjoying it. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/3 "2011-12-29T21:23:50Z")
You have uploaded all of them to iTunes, haven’t you? We’re working on the vinyl and cassette tapes now, with the goal of going all digital at some point in the future. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/4 "2011-12-29T21:29:34Z")
I just moved, I have boxes of the damn things…I did rip a bunch to flacc while they were out though. funny thing is, I knew when I was buying them they would one day go the way of the 8 track. I am just impressed they lasted as long as they did. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/5 "2011-12-29T22:00:27Z")
Aw, chin-up, at least you have your youth shit scratch that, your impressive collection, shit, the old person in a dinosaur museum? Actually, I don’t know myself how I feel about having actual CDs, LPs, and cassettes knocking around (actually alphabetized, mind you!). I don’t have a big collection, but it’s starting to seem a little tatty having these relics around. I did get rid of all of the jewel boxes a few years ago, replaced with sleeves which hold the CD paper stuff, but these still take up a little chunk of space. Also the sleeves were kind of expensive – the good ones. The rest went in mono-slit generic sleeves after I decided to sleeve everything. Fuck no I’m a not going to digitize everything – that would taking fucking forever. Kids today. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/6 "2011-12-29T22:12:50Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > My 20 year old niece was over the other night, and she laughed at it. LAUGHED. Who’s going to be laughing when her hard drive crashes and she loses everything? (Or wherever the kids are storing downloads these days.) There’s no reason to get rid of what you’ve got, unless you need the space for something else. You can import them to whatever player you want and you’ve got the originals as backup. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/7 "2011-12-29T22:17:55Z")
I reckon I’ve got a CD collection that dwarfs a couple of stores I’ve been in, and I don’t care what anyone thinks about it. If I had the money at the time, I would have gladly bought Paul Mawhinney’s Archive, lived in the store and listened to music all day long. I’d have been the single most knowledgable person in the world on 20th century popular music, and I’d have been proud of it. There’s lots of good reasons to buy CDs and I’ll continue to buy them as long as artists are willing to commit to their art. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/8 "2011-12-29T22:29:53Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Who’s going to be laughing when her hard drive crashes and she loses everything? (Or wherever the kids are storing downloads these days.) That’s not really a worry for most people. I have all my music on my hard drive. And on an external hard drive. And on my iPod. And on my iPod acting as an external hard drive. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/9 "2011-12-29T22:37:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I reckon I’ve got a CD collection that dwarfs a couple of stores I’ve been in, and I don’t care what anyone thinks about it. I’ve got you pegged for good and sure, **Bo**! Braggart! Or … wait … Could it be that the supply of contemporary stores is lacking? ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/10 "2011-12-29T22:40:33Z")
Anyone need some laserdiscs? ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/11 "2011-12-29T23:08:22Z")
My library is about to join your disc collection. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/12 "2011-12-29T23:18:49Z")
The jokes on them, Ipods are wonderful but ACCs and mp3 are shit when it comes to fidelity. The sad fact is people are being trained to listen to music in formats that sound horrible compared to CDs and LPs. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/13 "2011-12-29T23:34:03Z")
I just got three new cd’s in from Amazon last Thursday. They are perfectly valid media for me. I do rip them to my mp3 player. But, I also still use copies of the cd’s in my Denon 5-Disc Carousal player home stereo. Those 5 Cd’s typically give me over 4 hours of uninterrupted music. That’s all I need. I’ll never stop buying music on CD. They’ll have to stop manufacturing them to stop me. 😃 It does help to reduce the huge bulk of CD’s. I found a large binder that holds 520 CD’s. It’s got a pocket for the CD and another pocket for the CD Booklet. Several packed shelves of cd’s easily fit in a couple of these binders. It’s fun throwing those slippery jewel cases away too. 😃 > **[Amazon.com: Artisan 528 520 Disc Black Canvas CD DVD Wallet Metal 3 Ring Binder...](https://www.amazon.com/Artisan-Canvas-Wallet-Binder-Organizer/dp/B0030571ZO)** > > Made with durable easy care outer materials, using metal 3 ring binder, not plastic or vinyl. You may easily add and organize DVDs as your collection grows. With high quality material and workmanship to protect your valuable discs. Each pocket has a... ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/14 "2011-12-29T23:34:06Z")
I’ve got about 50% of my old collection on cd. I’ve had two computers crash in the last 4 years so my digital collection is relegated to an older iPod that I can’t move the data from. It’s really annoying. I don’t feel like taking the time to rip new copies when i have them right there but can’t play them on my computer without plugging the old iPod in. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/15 "2011-12-29T23:45:41Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > My 20 year old niece was over the other night, and she laughed at it. LAUGHED. At my enormous collection of compact discs, lovingly collected over half my lifetime. Your job now is to live long enough so that something your miserable bitch niece owns become obsolete, then you can totter over to her house, laugh in her nasty little face, and for good measure, keel over dead, after leaving her all your now-collectible antique CDs in your will. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/16 "2011-12-29T23:46:44Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > The jokes on them, Ipods are wonderful but ACCs and mp3 are shit when it comes to fidelity. The sad fact is people are being trained to listen to music in formats that sound horrible compared to CDs and LPs. I believe that’s correct. MP3 is fine for trucking around town or whatever – in the car, over crappy powered micro-speakers. But pump any format through some crummy little earbuds with dinky preamps and amps? Doesn’t matter. I’m a cassette man for on-the-go from way back, so obviously I don’t give too shits about the odd tape glitch, and so I fucking love compressed music, but the map is not the territory. The map is not the territory. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/17 "2011-12-30T01:12:02Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > The jokes on them, Ipods are wonderful but ACCs and mp3 are shit when it comes to fidelity. The sad fact is people are being trained to listen to music in formats that sound horrible compared to CDs and LPs. Ogre should’ve gone full-on hipster and scoff at her that she thinks mp3s or even CDs are good quality. Then give her a 30-minute lecture on the superiority of vinyl. Try to work in terms like “poisoning your auditory cortex” or “digital-based hegemony.” Still, I doubt 99-100% of people can tell the difference between CD-quality and 320-kbps mp3. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/18 "2011-12-30T03:48:30Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Ogre should’ve gone full-on hipster and scoff at her that she thinks mp3s or even CDs are good quality. Then give her a 30-minute lecture on the superiority of vinyl. Try to work in terms like “poisoning your auditory cortex” or “digital-based hegemony.” > Still, I doubt 99-100% of people can tell the difference between CD-quality and 320-kbps mp3. Well maybe not listening to a punk rock band on a car stereo but serious music on a good system is noticeable. And how many people store their music at 320 kbps? ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/19 "2011-12-30T05:19:18Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Anyone need some laserdiscs? My brother-in-law collects them and has a player. He also owns tons (literally) of vinyl, cassettes, 8 track, VHS in NTSC and PAL (He lived in Britain for 18 years, and it all moved back to the states with him.), DVD, Blu-Ray, and everything needed to play it all. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757/20 "2011-12-30T05:49:35Z")
I have a handful of burned CDs in my car I listen to, and a few boughten ones. I don’t care, I don’t listen to music much any more. Though I’m hoping for someone here knowledgeable to make me up a new CD using the iTunes card I got for Christmas. I’ve got a list of songs. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-my-gigantic-cd-collection-is-quaintly-anachronistic-isnt-it/607757.md?page=2)