How often do you listen to your music LP's or CD's?

Bretrick

Bretrick

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Perth Western Australia
A year ago I realised that the last time I listened to a CD was more than 12 months previous.
So I gave them all to the local library. About 80 of them.
Why keep them if they never get used? They sit on the shelves gathering dust. Might as well let other people enjoy them.
These are the ones I kept
The Monkees Greatest Hits - 1968
Hollies Greatest - 1968
The Best of the Bee Gees - 1969
Close to You - The Carpenters - 1970
Radio K.A.O.S - Roger Waters - 1987
Affirmation - Savage Garden -1999
 

I've kept the CDs mostly to play in my car, so there's a stack of them in there. The music I listen to at home I have downloaded from Youtube (through ClipGrab) and save them in iTunes. I play the songs on my playlist in iTunes. It just goes from one song to the next, playing the music. When I grow tired of it, I go to the next playlist.
 

Never actually.. not now. I gave away all my albums when CD's became the fashion..fool that I was, but I believed Vinyl was pretty much dead.

I kept all my 45's because they've been played so much I knew no-one would want them, so I have those in the loft still from my teen and 20's years...but I never play them, ... because they're so crackly it's not enjoyable.. to listen to them. Last time was about 10 years ago when I got the record player my daughter had as a teen out of the loft and I had a lovely evening playing the 45's and reminiscing.. but really I should just throw them all out now, but I just can't bring myself to do it..
I gave away just about every CD I own to the Charity shop... the only ones I have left now are ones I burned myself....and no I never play them in the car any more..
 
LP vinyl in the main house, CDs in the car, cassette tapes in my shop. How often? Occasionally. It seems like I'm seldom in one place long enough to make it worthwhile.
 
Devi said:
I think I may have posted this before, but to download from YouTube, I use a Firefox extension (like an app for the Firefox browser):
Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-download/

Every once in a while, YouTube changes its coding to make downloading not work, but the app developer updates his extension within a few days.
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Same here. No more scratchy records or cd's, no more ate up cassette's, (or 8 tracks LOL) just music in my computer folder and thumb drives for driving in the car. :)
Lot's of free You Tube to mp3 converters out there in cyber land.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=youtu...16EE4FC281A0E6526A2B9F03&FORM=QBLH&sp=7&ghc=1
 
Mine have been collecting dust since years ago I copied audio (not illegal digital copies) via the audacity app about 220 songs from vinyl, FM radio, Youtube into mp3 files. Do have an expensive phonograph turntable. Someday just to get rid of the space they take up, may sell the whole row of hundreds of classic rock albums that are probably more modestly valuable for the album cover art. Chump change regardless.
 
David777 said:
Mine have been collecting dust since years ago I copied audio (not illegal digital copies) via the audacity app about 220 songs from vinyl, FM radio, Youtube into mp3 files. Do have an expensive phonograph turntable. Someday just to get rid of the space they take up, may sell the whole row of hundreds of classic rock albums that are probably more modestly valuable for the album cover art. Chump change regardless.
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I tried to sell my 150 plus albums.
A store advertised that they buy albums. Took all mine there and the only one he bought was Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Paid me $2
I gave them to a charity store
 
Used to burn MP3's to CD's, but our latest couple of cars no longer have CD players. Can plug in a flash drive. Usually, we just listen to the car radio, as there's a decent variety of music on local stations.

Donated all my CD's to the library awhile ago. Some would have brought in a few dollars if I'd sold them. Hubby still has a fair collection he can't part with.

Vinyls were donated to Goodwill, ages ago. Now, they've made a comeback. Turn-tables seem to be priced rather on the high side. Records look rather artsy. Nephew is into them (he used to be lead singer in his own bands, years ago).

I listen to my music choices on YouTube or Spotify while I'm on the computer.
 
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I donated and/or threw away most of my CDs. Still have some old cassettes that I should throw away but...memories.

I'm not very interested in listening to music, every so often I remember an old song and then I ask my phone to play it and it finds a YouTube of it (sometimes NOT the one I intended and I have to do my own search).

When my daughter was young I had to listen to that Beiber 'Baby baby' song a million times, it wasn't a bad song, but hearing it over and over didn't help my disinterest in listening to music.
 
Since my 2018 Durango dosent have a CD slot anymore. I put songs I have from 45's, 33 1/3 records on USB flash drives & then I plug that into one of the 4 USB slots in the Durango to listen to my old-time music.

My wife & I were Elvis fans, I think I have every song Elvis ever sang on records or 2 terabit flash drives.
 
I was in the loft today and saw the box with my old 45's in for the first time in ages. I didn't go through it because I was up there doing other things, but it made me smile to see the original ''Oh Babe what would you say '' Hurricane Smith, which I bought age 17 ... almost 50 years ago

I still love that song to this day...

 
Have any of you tried selling your CDs on Amazon?

We have 100s of CDs just collecting dust. I was wondering if it's worth the effort to try to sell them.
 

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