Time to start rebuilding my music collection

[Bretrick]

Years ago I gave all my music CDs to the local library. Now I have decided to rebuild my past memories.
Bought five CDs.
Four of them are “Greatest Hits”…
The Essential Johnny Mathis…40 tracks
Blondie - Greatest Hits… 19 tracks
Little River Band - Ultimate Hits (Original Australian Line up)…25 tracks
Carpenters - Greatest Hits…20 tracks
Plus one that I know the words to every song
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell…9 tracks

 

[OneEyedDiva]

"Years ago I gave all my music CDs to the local library."
I'm reading this in horror! My son (the DJ) would be equally or maybe even more horrified. What on earth possessed you to give all your music away? Well, it looks like you've started out with some good stuff to rebuild your music library. Do you prefer CDs over having a digital collection? Happy hunting.

 

[Bretrick]

"Years ago I gave all my music CDs to the local library."
I'm reading this in horror! My son (the DJ) would be equally or maybe even more horrified. What on earth possessed you to give all your music away? Well, it looks like you've started out with some good stuff to rebuild your music library. Do you prefer CDs over having a digital collection? Happy hunting.

The CDs sat for years, never being played. Surely there are people out there who would appreciate them more than I did at the time.
Sure, a mistake was made. I have a fancy to relive that great music from my youth.
Especially loved the crooners.
Perry Como
Engelburt Humperdinck
Al Martino
Roy Orbison...
Carol King
Brenda Lee
Ella Fitzgerald
Petula Clark

 

[MarkinPhx]

"Years ago I gave all my music CDs to the local library."
I'm reading this in horror! My son (the DJ) would be equally or maybe even more horrified. What on earth possessed you to give all your music away? Well, it looks like you've started out with some good stuff to rebuild your music library. Do you prefer CDs over having a digital collection? Happy hunting.

Back in 2011 Google came out with Google Music. It allowed people to upload their physical music and then be played digitally. This made a lot of sense to me at the time so I uploaded all my CDs and then sold them at a local used book store. I thought it was nice to get rid of the clutter of CDs and I used the money to buy books at the store.

Of course Google discontinued the service and moved the uploaded music to the owners YouTube account. So all the CDs that I uploaded are still accessible to me but retrieving the music isn't as easy as Google Music was. I can easily stream music but it's a pain to download it.I now wish I hadn't done it but it made sense at the time.

So I've been thinking of doing the same thing but I think I'm going to start building my DVD and Blu-ray collection first. I have bought movies online to stream but technically I don't own those movies. There are movies that I want to physically own, even if the format is now considered a dying format.

I know .

So I understand @Bretrick !

 

[horseless carriage]

"Years ago I gave all my music CDs to the local library."
I'm reading this in horror! My son (the DJ) would be equally or maybe even more horrified. What on earth possessed you to give all your music away? Well, it looks like you've started out with some good stuff to rebuild your music library. Do you prefer CDs over having a digital collection? Happy hunting.

My wife and I both have a cabin, her's is a wonderful workshop where she has all her sewing machines and equipment, mine is a man cave, a place where the person who has to clear my clutter after I have popped my mortal coil, will spend weeks, possibly months, decluttering.
Technology might have made vinyl redundant, doesn't mean that my LP's are. The playing equipment still works.

These few are just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[katlupe]

I had sold most of my CDs on eBay because I lived in a house where I could not play them. Then I bought a boom box and used batteries so started replacing them. Since moving here six years ago I have built up my collection once again. I use them almost daily. I have to have my music going!

 

[hollydolly]

I got rid of all my CD's... donated them.... What annoys me is getting rid of all the Albums when CD's became a thing, because we were told we'd never be able to play them again...

Instead.. Vinyl now has made a huge resurgence ..and record shops are springing up again...

These are photos I took in Poole Last week on my trip ....of a fab little Record shop...

 

[katlupe]

I got rid of all y CD's... donated them.... What annoys me is getting rid of all the Albums when CD's became a thing, because we were told we'd never be able to play them again...

Instead.. Vinyl now has made a huge resurgence ..and record shops are springing up again...

These are photos I took in Poole Last week on my trip ....of a fab little Record shop...

Yeah, I did that too. Had a huge collection of albums. My neighbor bought a stereo system at a thrift shop for hardly anything. He has been buying the vinyl albums at the same shop ever since. He said nobody else buys them so he gets them cheap.

 

[hollydolly]

Yeah, I did that too. Had a huge collection of albums. My neighbor bought a stereo system at a thrift shop for hardly anything. He has been buying the vinyl albums at the same shop ever since. He said nobody else buys them so he gets them cheap.

Yes , see here Kat, everyone in the last 5 years or so have realised how valuable Vinyl is.. and in Charity shops etc.. it's very difficult to get any old albums of any worth, because they're snapped up very quickly...

new Albums..unplayed not necessarily new are very expensive. When I saw some of the prices in that little shop I was thinking back to how I used to buy brand new records for less than 50p....in my youth... Albums about £1.50...but in there some are marked at £40

 

[OneEyedDiva]

Back in 2011 Google came out with Google Music. It allowed people to upload their physical music and then be played digitally. This made a lot of sense to me at the time so I uploaded all my CDs and then sold them at a local used book store. I thought it was nice to get rid of the clutter of CDs and I used the money to buy books at the store.

Of course Google discontinued the service and moved the uploaded music to the owners YouTube account. So all the CDs that I uploaded are still accessible to me but retrieving the music isn't as easy as Google Music was. I can easily stream music but it's a pain to download it.I now wish I hadn't done it but it made sense at the time.

So I've been thinking of doing the same thing but I think I'm going to start building my DVD and Blu-ray collection first. I have bought movies online to stream but technically I don't own those movies. There are movies that I want to physically own, even if the format is now considered a dying format.

I know .

So I understand @Bretrick !

Is agree that Google Music was much better than YouTube Music. I don't know what the heck they were thinking when they made that change! What I did was I had uploaded music into iTunes and Google Music. So I can still access songs from my iTunes or iTunes back up folders in my external hard drives. YouTube music is a pain. You can't download from there onto the computer and when I rearrange the order of songs in my playlists, they don't always stay in that order. Also, I noticed that when playing the songs on my devices, sometimes they start a couple of seconds into the songs.

I guess since most other digital music platforms charge now, I shouldn't complain because YT Music is still free . Another thing I noticed that I don't particularly like is that since I my YT is connected to my Google email account, Google mixed in my YT video playlists with my audio playlists.

@hollydolly My son would be in 7th heaven in that record shop. DJs still stay there's nothing like vinyl. He has a 6 ft long 6ft high bookcase full of albums. I still have my albums. Here's my son at their Old Skoolers ball, a few years ago, where he and his DJ friends brought their vinyl and spun for several hours. It was a multi generational, multi genre event and we all had a ball (pardon the pun). Danced all night long.

 

[MarkinPhx]

Is agree that Google Music was much better than YouTube Music. I don't know what the heck they were thinking when they made that change!

I thought you may have used Google Music also ! It was great. But that was a time when Google was fun and trying to stick to their mantra and tried a lot of different things (Wave, Buzz, Plus, etc). I'm guessing that they figured out that it was too expensive to digitally maintain people's digital music. Of course this was after once Larry Page left Google. And yes, the YT system is horrible. I have the same issues when I do download my library onto a hard drive.


My primary digital app is YouTube music though. I do watch a lot of You Tube so I subscribe to that so I don't get the commericals and so I get all the features of YouTube music (no ads, downloads, etc). Ideally, I would download all of my digital music onto a server at home but like you said, doing the ID tagging is pita now.

 

[dilettante]

I rip CDs to my hard drive and store the CDs. I'm pretty sure that it's a copyright violation to sell or give away the CDs and continue listening to any copies you have made.

I've also bought MP3 downloads from Amazon et al. over the years.

So my entire music catalog is on my PC. From there I can copy songs or albums to my phone and to a USB flash drive I leave plugged into the car. The car accepts voice search commands to play by artist, album, title, or genre on both the flash drive or my phone when it is plugged in.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I rip CDs to my hard drive and store the CDs. I'm pretty sure that it's a copyright violation to sell or give away the CDs and continue listening to any copies you have made.

I've also bought MP3 downloads from Amazon et al. over the years.

So my entire music catalog is on my PC. From there I can copy songs or albums to my phone and to a USB flash drive I leave plugged into the car. The car accepts voice search commands to play by artist, album, title, or genre on both the flash drive or my phone when it is plugged in.

I doubt giving CDs away is a copyright infringement. A few years ago, someone was selling my CD as a rare collector's item on Amazon for more than $900! I almost fell over when I saw that. You'd better believe I wouldn't see a penny of that sale if someone was dumb enough to buy it for that price. So apparently selling them isn't either.

 

[Pinky]

I listen to free music on Spotify .. of course, because I use the free version, there are adverts.

 

[Bretrick]

@OneEyedDiva, @MarkinPhx, @horseless carriage, @katlupe, @hollydolly, @dilettante, @Pinky

I visited the op shops today. Bargains to be had.
$1 CDs
The Inkspots - American vocal group prominent in the late 1930s and ’40s. One of the first African-American groups to reach both black and white audiences, they exerted great influence on the development of the doo-wop vocal style.
Gene Pitney
Roger Whitaker
The Platters
The Drifters
60s Compilation - 16 tracks
Savage Garden - Affirmation
Smokie - Living Next Door to Alice
$3 CDs
Heartbeat Soundtrack - TV show double CD, 35 tracks
60s Compilation - double CD - 50 tracks

 

[Pinky]

You got lots of good music, for great prices! Enjoy

 

[katlupe]

I have been buying compilations of the 60's, 70's & 80's. Then I search for the artist of music I loved but over the years forgot about. That is a good price! You have encouraged me to check out my local thrift stores for CDs. I normally just buy off Amazon and eBay.

 

[Mr. Ed]

I collect music from various online sources, Spotify, YouTube music, 8tracks.com, pandora and Apple Music. Soundiiz.com lets me transfer music from one source to another. Mediahuman lets me download YouTube music to iTunes and Apple Music. CarPlay iOS lets me play various music sources in my car through my iPhone.

 

[MarkinPhx]

Actually, it was illegal to do what I did which was to burn a CD and then sell it. I just searched it just to make sure. Same with burning DVD's and Blu-ray movies. At least in the US. Looking back, it was wrong for me to do because artists now make such little money from royalties. I know this is an old link but still applies.

The Common Law.

At the time though I was still bitter at Lars Urlich from Metallica for the whole Napster thing. I know, lame excuse. I guess it's similar to making a cassette copy of a friend's LP which happened all the time back in the 70s.