Do You Still Have CDs ?

I've still got hundreds of CDs. Do I listen to them? Almost never. 

Tons....I've got more music I haven't gotten to yet then I have minutes left in my life to listen to them all

I have maybe five hundred, mostly material that was originally digitally sourced and is also out of print.

i used to have around 5k but ripped them all to a hard drive and started fresh a while back

I have cd in my vehicles and use it basically every time I go somewhere 

plus like 90% of the GD vault release stuff is HDCD format so I have the dvd player with the HDCD decoder for those

I have hundreds, and listen to them regularly.  I still like to make CD copies of various shows and gift them to friends. 

I need physical media. Books and music in particular are for some reason meaningless to me if I can't physically own them. 

Thousands 

Surprisingly, just got two more for XMas.  Legion of Mary and JGB. Volumes I don't have. Apparently I had put them on a wish list years ago and a relative ran across the list this year. Score!

> I've still got hundreds of CDs. Do I listen to them? Almost never.

Ditto. When I do get a CD now, like with Dave's PIcks, I rip them straight to a hard drive, and then the discs collect dust in a closet.

I have many and do listen to them. My grandson has been listening to both The Best of Donovan and Freewheelin' Bob Dylan on repeat.

Your Grandson must be Mellow Yellow...

My brother still has 8-tracks.  To this day,  he still doesn't know that it was my hash stash that gummed it up long ago.

That's all I have is CDs despite everyone trying to get me to switch over.   I am not looking forward to getting a new car that doesn't have a cd player.  

Often I buy the hi rez files/Blu Ray, the vinyl, and the CDs as well. I'm a master at purchasing the same music over and over. If the Blu Ray is offered, and hi rez are same resolution(often), I just buy the Blu Ray. 

I do. It's all I listen to besides radio.
I have never used Spotify before.
I have used Apple music, just because wife has an account.

I have a CD of every official GD or Jerry release.
Got an HDCD player for home, to take full advantage of the 20bit sound.

Mark, he does like that song. He's a kid who is usually moving, and his brain and body are on their own trajectory, so whatever he can sing or dance along with or get Mellower with are good for him (and me). He's an amazing young guy. He's learning to play chess (on Duolingo) and I wanted to play with him but I didn't have a chess set. We created one, actually the first one wasn't good for playing with, so we created another that's great. We did it with his ideas of how he wanted it to look and work and I provided the tools and materials and answered questions. We do well together.

Hundreds of commercial releases and hundreds more bootlegs.  Listen to them all the time and it's usually 50/50 CDs and LPs on the stereo.  Listening to a commercial Paul Butterfield anthology on CD right now.  CDs are also very inexpensive, especially the used ones, and it's a great way to expand your collection with artists or albums you don't have want to spend $30 a pop for as with LPs.

Sometimes will put on Sirius Jam On or Nugs Radio, but otherwise it's all a physical collection.  If the Internet ever went down or we were hit with an EMP bomb or solar storm, I will be rocking the Apocalypse.

I have about 1500. Mostly live, but there are a couple of hundred official releases. Tend to listen to files on the computer these days, CDs in the cars cause they're both older vehicles. 

Got a bunch - usually listen to them in the car, where the slightly less warm tone, compared to vinyl, seems to cut through the road noise.

However, we bought a new Subaru Crosstrek a year ago and of course it has no disc player.

I want to get either an installed player or a portable I can hook up via Bluetooth or USB.

Any suggestions?

I have basically every released CD except two or three I wasn't particularly interested in plus almost every cassette I traded for or recorded in the 70's and converted to cd. I am close to being out of available storage space. Who knew when I began that this is what it would end up becoming. 

Surfdead, my Subaru's sound system lets me play music from a USB drive. The problem is it only plays MP3s, and it sorts everything alphabetically by track title. I convert files to MP3 using the highest quality/lowest amount of compression, and need to manually number each track title so they play in the proper order. It's kind of a hassle, but works well for me, and sounds good enough for that environment.

Another way to go would be to store lossless files on your phone, and play them on an app like VLC via Bluetooth. Overall, I'd say that's the most straightforward solution, but I don't like having to deal with my phone when I'm driving.

I don't know how well a portable CD player would work in a car because of their tendency to skip when they get bounced around.

Thanks for the feedback, Mike, but I don't want to do any of that stuff. I just want to buy a box I can have in my car that I can put a CD in and music will come out. The whole point of being able to play the CDs is that the music is already on them.

Guess I have to get a player installed.

Sigh.

To quote Carl Sagen, "Billions and billions...."  I WAS going to catalog them in retirement. Found more fun things to do instead, but I need to do something with them along that front.  

But you're right PLF, those were fun days.

Tons - and buying more all the time.  All I listen to. Fuck em if they can't take a joke.

(although I sure wish I had a Kenwood tape deck in my car .)

i have quite a bit...they have been in boxes. we moved this last year and I need to completely re-configure how/where we play music.

I would like to integrate what I have digitally and what I have physically into a cohesive setup. I need new small speakers/turntable and amp. 

CDS, 8-track, reel to reel, cassettes, Records.  the only thing i cant listen too currently is the reels to reels. My teac reel to reel finally bit the dust.