CD'S Going The Way Of The Dodo Bird!
 

I heard recently that just as cassettes replaced vinyl in the '80s, CD'S will now be replaced by MP3'S in a short time.

Wal Mart announced recently that they will be starting to stock less CD'S for the first time.
Itunes store is now one of the hottest stores on the internet.

Do you still use CD'S?

I have CD'S both for the house & car.

Ironically they said that sales of viyl albums are up 33% this past year!

Go figure!

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I'm not surprised.

I just loaded all the music from my CDs to my computer, then transferred them to my MP3 player. I put all the CD's in with my yard sale stuff. I'm tired of the lack of space, and anything that hasn't been used in a year is going out in the yard sale.

Now I need to convince my daughters to do the same. They have three times as many CDs as I do.

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Advice: Make sure your MP3's are all backed up to at least three different locations! .....and, make sure that they are all ripped at a high enough bit rate (256k or greater). :)
Just some thoughts. :)

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They have to pry my CDs from my cold dead hands!!!

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yeah I prefer cd's.

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I like CD'S, but I realize that MP3'S may be the wave of the future.

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MP3 is format, not a medium. It is an audio compression not the actual medium you put songs on. CDs are disks. You can put mp3s on CDs

MP3s do not provide the best sound quality either

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My son has a record player and a whole collection of what he calls "vinyls", which I think is hilarious. I told him we had them when I was his age, and he really didn't believe me. He thinks they're a new thang!

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right or rip the to wav format then compress them later

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I think they are just going to have iTune like "stations" to buy songs

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This is interesting to see here today.

Yesterday I went to the local camera store to look at a new lens for my Digital SLR Camera. The woman that owns it was having a fit, saying that it wouldn't be any time at all before all of these photos that people have been saving on CDs and Sticks and even on their computer hard drives - they'll all be lost before much longer because technology moves on. Something better will replace all of our CDs and then what will do for our photos that we've archived that way?

I told her that I always print out the pictures that I consider the best. The rest I do archive on both CD's and on my computer. But I make sure that if there is a picture that is especially important to me, I have it printed out. And I do it for that very reason.

But I honestly don't think that digital photography is a bad thing. I love it!

You just have to use some wisdom and plan ahead. Photos printed on paper will never be considered "obsolete". So for your generations to come behind you, please consider printing photos that they can hold in their hand and look at. But at the same time, don't fear saving your other photos on CD's, or thumb drives or computer hard drives. Or all three :)

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I still refer to new music cds from artists as new albums... What will they be called now?

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What happens if you lose your MP3 player? How will you get all your music back on a new one?

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I rip my music to my home and office computer... put favorite songs on disc for the car and store my original CD's in a folder type thingy... throwing away their cases.

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I store all my music on Pirate Bay...



Not really. :toofunny