Say it ain't so, Joe...no more CDs?
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https://www.billboard.com/articles/b...-cds-only-when
So, does this mean we won't be able to rip music to our internal libraries anymore?
edit: I haven't seen more than 2 or 3 CDs in Target that I have any interest in buying. 3/4 of the artists I've never heard of....Home: Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.2.x/4TB USB>LMS 8.5.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet)
Cottage: rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.2.x/4TB USB>LMS 8.5.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI)
Office: Win11(64)>foobar2000
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Controllers: Material Skin, iPhone14Pro & iPadAir5 (iPeng), or CONTROLLER
Files: Ripping: dBpoweramp > FLAC; Post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes, TuneFusion; Streaming: SpotifyComment
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instead you can buy the lossless (FLAC, etc.) downloads and add to your internal libraries. I probably have 6 or 7 thousand CDs, and frankly I'd be happy to purchase 16/44.1 downloads rather than the physical CD. There's not enough places to do that currently (not interested in overpriced HD downloads that are probably not even true HD anyhow). So I still buy lots of CDs (mostly from Amazon) and rip them. Once ripped and booklet read, I store these away to hopefully never see again!...Comment
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The CDs time is nearly up, apart from for albums likely to sell to old people...
Though the irony is they probably still sell LPs...
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Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0
Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..Comment
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Oh no, well CDs are definitely on the way out in the shops. Only real way to get them are the big online stores. What a shame, but honestly I mainly listen to music from my NAs and not put my CDs in a player anymore. Not finished ripping my thousands of CDs yet, but getting closer...
But what to do with all my discs? They are taking up many metres in my apartment. Just storing them in the cellar would be horrible, also they are part of me and someone coming to my place can learn a lot about me looking at my cds and books. Today all you really need is a kindle and an audioserver , or not even that and just Spotify or whatever streaming service.
Well times are changing, but it is taking the personality out of acquiring and owning music. I used to love going to cd stores in different countries etc, but those days are long gone... RIPLMS 7.9.0 - 1470391720 on Pi2 (Max2play)
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Part of my crazyness :-)LMS 7.9.0 - 1470391720 on Pi2 (Max2play)
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Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Boom, Squeezebox Radio, HifiBerry PicorePlayer
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Home: Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.2.x/4TB USB>LMS 8.5.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet)
Cottage: rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.2.x/4TB USB>LMS 8.5.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI)
Office: Win11(64)>foobar2000
The Wild: rPi3B+/pCP7.x/4TB USB>LMS 8.1.x>hifiberry Dac+Pro (LMS & Squeezelite)
Controllers: Material Skin, iPhone14Pro & iPadAir5 (iPeng), or CONTROLLER
Files: Ripping: dBpoweramp > FLAC; Post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes, TuneFusion; Streaming: SpotifyComment
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https://www.billboard.com/articles/b...-cds-only-when
So, does this mean we won't be able to rip music to our internal libraries anymore?
I do think that the CD will be relegated to the big online shops or specialty stores in cities. I imagine with Amazon in the market, the margins have shrunk. According to the RIAA, physical sales have been shrinking, but CD's along with vinyl still represent 16% of all music sales, or $431MM last year. Streaming is 62% of all music sales.
The best thing about CDs is that they offer the biggest bang for the buck. They are priced low, and you can rip into any type of file you want. Although for me they are simply a back-up disc after I have ripped them.Location 1: ReadyNAS Ultra 2 4TB > RPi3 > piCorePlayer > LMS 7.9.2 > Squeezebox Touch >NAD 326BEE > BeoLab 4000
Location 2: Squeezebox Touch, Audio Engine A2+
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Music: Ripping (FLAC) dbpoweramp, Tagging: mp3tagComment
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What's quite interesting in news reports about the demise of CDs is that they are no longer regarded as 'digital'. Digital is very much seen as the opposite of 'physical', rather than the opposite of 'analogue'...
RobertHome: Raspberry Pi 4/pCP7.0/LMS8.1.2/Material with files on QNAP TS-251A
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"Grandpa, tell us a story again about how you used to have to actually own this round thing in your house to play music."Home: Pi4B-8GB/pCP8.2.x/4TB USB>LMS 8.5.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet)
Cottage: rPi4B-4GB/pCP8.2.x/4TB USB>LMS 8.5.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI)
Office: Win11(64)>foobar2000
The Wild: rPi3B+/pCP7.x/4TB USB>LMS 8.1.x>hifiberry Dac+Pro (LMS & Squeezelite)
Controllers: Material Skin, iPhone14Pro & iPadAir5 (iPeng), or CONTROLLER
Files: Ripping: dBpoweramp > FLAC; Post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes, TuneFusion; Streaming: SpotifyComment
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'Retro' RobertHome: Raspberry Pi 4/pCP7.0/LMS8.1.2/Material with files on QNAP TS-251A
Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 > Rega Fono Mini; Naim CD3)
2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 (retired), 1 x SqueezeAMP
Office: LMS8.0.0 running on Raspberry Pi3; Raspberry Pi 3 player with touchscreen/piCorePlayer/IQaudIO DAC and Amp
Portable: Raspberry Pi 3B/pCP7.0.1/LMS8.1.2/Material, files on Seagate portable drive, powered via power brickComment
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Say it ain't so, Joe...no more CDs?
Amazon Echo and Google Home are both round ... so maybe the question will be about stuff that shines.Last edited by Paul Webster; 2018-02-08, 21:59.Paul Webster
Author of "Now Playing" plugins covering Radio France (FIP etc), PlanetRadio (Bauer - Kiss, Absolute, Scala, JazzFM etc), KCRW, ABC Australia and CBC/Radio-Canada
and, via the extra "Radio Now Playing" plugin lots more - see https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...Playing-pluginComment
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All wireless (TM-AC1900) except NAS (ReadyNAS PRO - OS 6.10.3 - 3GB RAM - 3 X 4TB drives - XRAID2 - LMS 7.9.3 )
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Well my LMS has 3099 Albums now (75958 titles, so over the Sonos limit) - and I still have a lot to go... As it is all classical and every album has 2-4 CDs, I guess it is a lot ;-)
That is where my money went. So putting them away in storage after ripping, seems the logical thing to do - but I simply could not do that.LMS 7.9.0 - 1470391720 on Pi2 (Max2play)
Synology DS-414 NAS
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Schiit - BIFROST AKM 4490 Dac
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