Comment by fullstop
3 days ago
My wife donated all of her CDs and subsequently started buying the same albums on iTunes. I still don't know why.
3 days ago
My wife donated all of her CDs and subsequently started buying the same albums on iTunes. I still don't know why.
Was this recently (say, after 2014?) Try finding a computer with an optical drive today. You need to get an external USB device today, modern cases don’t have external 5-inch bays.
Another problem is all the music apps and services that we’re supposed to use according to the music industry are streaming services: Spotify doesn’t have a CD-player feature; it wouldn’t surprise me if today’s new-computer-user had no idea that CD-ripping was even possible.
It was before 2014 and we still had ways of either playing optical content or ripping the media and storing it ourselves.
I just recently discovered navidrome https://www.navidrome.org
I converted all my old CDs to ogg and installed navidrome on my home server. Basically, now I have my own personal spotify.
I am aware though that this solution won't work for everybody.
Too late, the library has all of the discs now. :-)
She could borrow them all back, one at a time, and re-build the library.
I think it's a brilliant plan! Your wife transfered the cost of ownership to the library :-D
That bothers me less, as finding a device to play CD music is very hard and expensive now.
Also the CDs will degrade in another decade to worthlessness, unlike books
I have a whole drawer full of barely used cdrom drives from decommissioned office PCs to play my audio discs, in case my Philips Player from 1995 is worn down -- didn't even need a repair yet, so no real worries... Additionally the CDs get backuped as FLACs.
I don't see what's "hard" with that approach. Most new releases still get presses as CDs.
Pressed CDs - which most of them are (pressing is much cheaper in quantity) will generally last well. Record able CDs (like you buy from the individual artist won't last much longer.
Either way though I have long since ripped my CDs to my NAS system. I keep the CDs in storage so if someone says copyright I can prove fair use as I still own the media.