Do you still use Audio CDs?

[BeBMan]

Those little roundish silverish discish thingies to hear music.

I feel totally retro, but I was still using them quite a lot --- well until yesterday my beloved, age-old Sony CD player decided to go south. It was one of the "changer" thingies for multiple CDs, did a great job for a really looooong time without any prob. Now it's history

Dunno if I just buy some other CD thingie, seems it's outdated tech since MP3/Youtube/whatever. But I still have all those CDs, and they don't seem to sell those "changers" anymore, just see a lot of single disc players. Could copy/convert them CDs all to MP3 I suppose. Bah.

/cts.

[Broken_Erika]

I bought a Gary Numan album not too long ago

[-Jrabbit]

CDs in the car.

[Ming]

Yep... CD's only in my car. Otherwise, all digital.

[Jon Miller]

I have nowhere to play audio CDs now. For a couple of years I had a car that could play them, now I do not.

If I was going to get a new media for audio, I would get vinyl. It is unlikely though.

JM

[Broken_Erika]

Pffffffft! RCA tape cartridges are superior!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_tape_cartridge

[Kidlicious]

"Make sure you have the record player playing at night!"

[N35t0r]

Similar to Jon, I used to only listen to CDs in the car (although most of the time I just connected my cellphone and played Spotify directly), but now but even that.

I think music streaming (though I do have a large amount of songs directly downloaded to my phone for connectionless spots) is so much more convenient that it's very unlikely I'm switch to some physical media again.

[BeBMan]

Pffffffft! RCA tape cartridges are superior!

Glorious days of tape salad. Which were even reborn when VHS became a thing

[Proteus_MST]

I still have Audio CDs in my possession ... but it has been years since I actually listened to one of those.

Some of the songs on CDs I have converted to mp3s, so I can put them on my phone and I also own lots of mp3 files bought from Amazon ...
my mp3 collection alone is several days of listening without rrepeating any song ...
aside from this I also have Amazon music Premium, so theoretically I could put all my CDs on the Attic

[Berzerker]

I have a CD library and I transferred a bunch of songs to mp3. Learning new tech is a pain but worth it to have tunes golfing

[Dinner]

I donated all my old CDs years ago. There is a CD player in both my vehicles but I no longer use it.

[Egbert]

I have never owned an audio CD.

I did have tapes, long ago.

[Lariliss]

CD's are good to explain diffraction to kids. I was in that position to explain the rainbow and the spectrum of 'white light'.
And also they are good to distract sparrows from your window.

I still keep some old CD's with photos and original music albums released in the CD era (although they are copied to HDD's long time ago).

[Bereta_Eder]

long time ago I had a lot of vynil. Then CD came along and I thought I should sell the vinyl. And I did and I got quite a bundle of money.

I made a full list of the records I sold and made a promise that I would buy them again in CDs. That never happened.

So I'm not doing that again. I had a lot of CDs in paper boxes. I got some nice furnitre and placed them in the living room out of the boxes.
But it is parochial now. They are screenshots of older and no longer revelant periods.

Still I thought I should stick to CDs and tried to find record shops that sell CDs, and there are none in athens. Only some very specialised hard rock stores and some with folklore or very laic greek music.

So I started simply burning them from audio files. But that doesn't seem to go far either.

Still they look pretty in the specialized furniture so for now they stay there.