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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
I like CDs. But, I got rid of all of them and stored my music in a lossless format in the cloud, about 1500 albums. So, I can make a perfect CD copy in about 5 minutes to play on any CD player.
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I still have about 400 CDs in my guest room closet. Maybe half are also on my iPad, laptop, iPhone, etc. I don’t often play one. But in the past couple years I’ve listened to 4 CD sets of The Delmore Brothers, the Louvin Brothers, and Reno and Smiley on CD in my car and found a number of songs I now perform. Also important, these CDs came with song lists, liner notes, the names of composers and players, photos, bios. That isn’t easily available online. I use YouTube a lot for songs and pay $15 a month so it doesn’t have ads. That’s good for single songs and sometimes whole albums. But while SiriusXM has the SiriuslySinatra channel, and that’s delightful, I can’t find the specific song I want. If I go to Spotify as ask for a specific band, I’ll also get lots of other bands or singers. CDs are nearly dead, but I’ll miss them. That said, when I buy a new “album”, it’s usually from iTunes and not a physical CD.