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If there is another way to store CDs that’s not just on a shelf, I’d like to know. You know that picture in the OP? It’s gotten to the point where I have to stack them in nooks and crannies. Where am I going to put New Order’s Republic?
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a mysterious cloak posted:I'm an old and I still buy CDs too. You can get a CaseLogic CD binder that will hold 300-500 cds and their jewel case art which will cut down on the space for sure. Just keep in mind if you ever want to sell CDs that without the jewel case/art the street value of a disc drops to zero. If you have no art for a lot of them already you can just throw a bunch on a CD spindle and put that up on a shelf.
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May 7, 2018 22:09
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I just picked up for ~$6 apiece: Insomniac - Green Day Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest Painkiller - Judas Priest The Yes Album - Yes
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May 8, 2018 01:28
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That seems expensive
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May 8, 2018 02:12
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There's nowhere near me that has a great selection of CDs, so I have to take what I can get.
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May 8, 2018 02:39
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Here is an old picture of my CD collection before I boxed it. I probably had 100 more albums than this picture shows by the time I took them down. I use these sleeves and put them in these boxes.     I only get rid of the jewel cases. If they're digipacks or have a nice sleeve with artwork different from the booklet, then I put them in the box. 2+ CD releases go with the album cover/booklet with one disk, and the back page with the second CD. According to iTunes, there are 168 albums in that box pictured above.
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May 8, 2018 16:43
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Beelerzebub posted:Listened to it again recently, and yeah. It's not great. Not dogshit, but definitely nowhere near as good as the first. It does have Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through, though, which is a really great song. The rest ranges from alright to dogshit. That one's good because I'm pretty sure it's the only one that isn't him bellowing the song's title for eight minutes.
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May 9, 2018 22:30
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a mysterious cloak posted:I'm an old and I still buy CDs too. I have all my original copy CDs in a file cabinet with the file type CD holders. I chucked all the jewel cases a long time ago because I was moving a lot and had them in folders, just recently upgraded to the file cabinet things and it works great. [e] these: https://www.amazon.com/Find-Hanging...L70_&dpSrc=srch 
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May 10, 2018 01:57
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All good suggestions, thanks! I have basically all the artwork and booklets, so I'm not sure if I want to really pare that down or not. As I'm ripping I'm keeping an eye out for any unique or rare stuff. Probably nothing, but who knows. Maybe the 2-disc edition of NIN's Broken? I dunno. I'll take my pristine Wax Trax Black Box to the grave though. 
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May 11, 2018 03:25
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I got Dr. Octagon: Dr.Octagonecologyst X-Ray Spex: Germ Free Adolescents Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison UGK: Ridin' Dirty J-Dilla: Ruff Draft The the: Soul Mining Bomb the Music Industry!: Vacation The Roots: Everything Falls Apart D' Angelo: Voodoo Belle & Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister.... Laura Mvula: The Dreaming Room I, uh, have a problem. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 05:25 on May 24, 2018 |
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May 11, 2018 03:42
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Still buy cd's. Why? Because I don't have the room or ready cash for vinyl and I like hardcopy. Since I have 20 yr old discs that still play beautifully I don't feel like I'm missing out.
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May 11, 2018 05:21
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IUG posted:Here is an old picture of my CD collection before I boxed it. I probably had 100 more albums than this picture shows by the time I took them down. Was going to go with a few big plastic bins, but after filling one up about 75% and realizing I have a whoooooole lot more to do, I'm switching over to sleeves and boxes. Way more compact, which is what I'm looking for. Plus, as I randomly research how much CDs are worth... they aren't worth poo poo. Bye, jewel cases (i'm keeping the super cool ones though)!
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May 22, 2018 00:37
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a mysterious cloak posted:Was going to go with a few big plastic bins, but after filling one up about 75% and realizing I have a whoooooole lot more to do, I'm switching over to sleeves and boxes. Way more compact, which is what I'm looking for. Depends on the CDs. Same with vinyl.
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May 22, 2018 11:49
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 $2.99 at ARC Thrift Store the other day, $175 median sale price on Discogs. So, it depends.
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For getting rid of a significant quantity of CDs, is there any reasonable alternative to a site like Decluttr or SecondSpin? I'm making a move that requires fairly significant downsizing, and I'd rather my CDs not just go in the trash, even if I don't get much/any money for them. Some of them look like they're even worth a bit of money according to discogs, but I'm not sure that selling them one at a time is going to be quick enough / worth the effort.
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Aug 9, 2018 18:35
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I don't buy CDs anymore, but I do still borrow them from the library. I only listen to them in the car, since it comes with a 6-disk cd changer.
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Aug 9, 2018 18:43
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The Leck posted:For getting rid of a significant quantity of CDs, is there any reasonable alternative to a site like Decluttr or SecondSpin? I'm making a move that requires fairly significant downsizing, and I'd rather my CDs not just go in the trash, even if I don't get much/any money for them. Some of them look like they're even worth a bit of money according to discogs, but I'm not sure that selling them one at a time is going to be quick enough / worth the effort. You could always give them to Goodwill, and let the charity make the profit (or not, since they'll just go in the same bin with the rest of the music). Let someone who know what they're worth get a "steal". Alternatively, post a picture in the Buy Sell Trade forum, and let us descend like vultures.
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You could also sell the 5 most valuable individually and then bulk sell/donate the rest.
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Lazlo Nibble posted:
How on earth is that worth $175? Is there some super rare mix that was only ever issued on that CD or something like that?
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I can only assume it’s Wiggles completists buying it for the Cockroaches track. Other than that and a couple of songs by other bands most people outside Australia have never heard of (The Chantoozies, Models) everything on there is unremarkable, easy-to-find radio pop.
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The Leck posted:For getting rid of a significant quantity of CDs, is there any reasonable alternative to a site like Decluttr or SecondSpin? I'm making a move that requires fairly significant downsizing, and I'd rather my CDs not just go in the trash, even if I don't get much/any money for them. Some of them look like they're even worth a bit of money according to discogs, but I'm not sure that selling them one at a time is going to be quick enough / worth the effort. I feel the same way. I need to get rid of my CDs because I still have a ton at my parent's house, and there's some cluttering my current residence. I don't want to make money off of them, but for some reason, because my brain is broken, I want them to go to a "good home".
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Lazlo Nibble posted:I can only assume it’s Wiggles completists buying it for the Cockroaches track. Other than that and a couple of songs by other bands most people outside Australia have never heard of (The Chantoozies, Models) everything on there is unremarkable, easy-to-find radio pop. I checked out that Cockroaches track, and in all honesty, it has nothing on the Wiggles later masterpiece.
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Twin Cinema posted:I feel the same way. I need to get rid of my CDs because I still have a ton at my parent's house, and there's some cluttering my current residence. I don't want to make money off of them, but for some reason, because my brain is broken, I want them to go to a "good home". IUG posted:Alternatively, post a picture in the Buy Sell Trade forum, and let us descend like vultures.
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You're better of selling individually, of course. Consider Murfie (which I mentioned here before). You send all your CDs to them, and they give you a license to stream the songs from those albums. You can then operate a storefront to sell each CD at the price you want, and they'll revoke your streaming license as they transfer the CD's rights to a buyer. I think it costs something to send and process each CD, so you'd want to think about whether you're likely to recoup the cost per CD. If not, you're probably better off just selling a box of CDs on Craigslist or through the options you already know. EDIT: It sounds like getting everything out of your house is a priority, so this may work well for you. You can decide later how much any given CD will get you.
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I got a hard copy of The Very Best of Rainbow from Amazon (10 bux), and on CD "Man on the Silver Mountain" sounds WAY better in my car than the MP3 I have does. I swear all the MP3s I have ever downloaded are poo poo quality, the only good MP3s I have are the ones I burned myself.
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 Bought this for less than $300, which I find to be a win - after all, this collection is the only place these mixes can be found.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I got a hard copy of The Very Best of Rainbow from Amazon (10 bux), and on CD "Man on the Silver Mountain" sounds WAY better in my car than the MP3 I have does. I swear all the MP3s I have ever downloaded are poo poo quality, the only good MP3s I have are the ones I burned myself. I've found the same thing too, which has resulted in me (who previously never bought CDs, prior to graduating and getting full-time employment) to buying CDs all the time, in the last ~7 years. So at this stage I'm 27 and I've got two huge CD books in my car - which by this point is no doubt way more than all my other (non-old) friends combined.  (As for storage, I've got some in a rack, but most of my cases are stored in a cardboard box in my spare room)Now that you all have got me thinking about it, I should probably rip all my CDs and try entering the 21st century by using a (non-iPod) media player, but I don't recall what all the good+free CD ripping apps are; I've used them in the past, but not in over a decade, I'd say. (And well, 99% of the music I listen to is in the car, so not needing to change CDs would be good) Also, I know this isn't the recommendation thread, but if you like Rainbow's MotSM you might like stuff by Angel (specifically "The Fortune" and "The Tower") and White Lion, perhaps? I recently discovered those bands myself, after looking for songs that are similar to MotSM.
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Major Isoor posted:I've found the same thing too, which has resulted in me (who previously never bought CDs, prior to graduating and getting full-time employment) to buying CDs all the time, in the last ~7 years. So at this stage I'm 27 and I've got two huge CD books in my car - which by this point is no doubt way more than all my other (non-old) friends combined. For Windows the one that I use is Exact Audio Copy. http://exactaudiocopy.de It's the one that the torrent sites use to get exact copies of FLAC, but it also does just MP3 in good quality as well. (I think it requires you to download a plugin for that due to copyright reasons, but it is easily done). Good guides on setting it up if you want the perfect rips are online. For Mac I just use iTunes of course, but there's also XLD. https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/ It's basically the Mac version of the above in terms of quality (but an entirely different UI). SecondSpin is going to be the financial end of me. I just got an email today saying that my order of 23 CDs has shipped for $83. They just had a 30% off code that I used to knock off like $25 off. That and I have the latest Coheed and Cambria album on order with Amazon that I think comes out this week.
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on a similar note, i tried burning an mp3 audio cd for my wife's car and the audio wasn't working properly - as in it would only come out of the left channel most of the time, not to mention being at a really low volume overall. i used windows media player because it seems to be the default now. are there any better cd burning programs in tyool 2018 that work with windows 10? a lot of stuff that comes up on google seems sketchy as hell
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EAC also writes.
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Assuming you care about getting bit-perfect rips (and why wouldn’t you; if you’re going to do something, may as well do it right the first time) pick a ripper with CTDB integration to checksum/repair the results. And FWIW don’t waste time and drive life on “secure” rips until you know that the disc needs one. Reading the right bits off a CD in the right order has been a solved problem since the ‘80s and in my experience nine out of ten times you’ll get an accurate rip in burst mode.
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