[Closed] What to do with a large collection of CDs

Keep em

Or split em up into genres/artists and sell them in batches if you want to get rid

Sell on ebay as job lot? Let / give someone else the opportunity to sell them separately for profit?

just a thought!

give them to a charity shop!?

Selling em means you're gonna have to type out a list at some point, that should kill a few hours of your life too, so type up a list, stick on ebay and sell em in minimum batches of ten, that should cut down on postal nightmares.

I don't think you can sell them and keep a digital copy. You only paid for one copy, now you have two, so I don't think you can sell one.
(But doesn't stop people doing it.)

Just sold mine at a car boot sale this afternoon 🙂

E-mail me a list when you have made it....

I don't think you can sell them and keep a digital copy. You only paid for one copy, now you have two, so I don't think you can sell one.
(But doesn't stop people doing it.)

Eh?

Do what you want with em since you've bought them there yours. If you want to sell them then go ahead

Yeh, also email me a list especially if you've got any older hardcore/punk or ska stuff.

Do what you want with em since you've bought them there yours. If you want to sell them then go ahead

Technically he's right - you should really give them to charity if you're keeping a copy imo.

It's simple. You buy a cd, then you sell it. That doesn't let you keep a copy. Even giving it away means there are now two copies, which, strictly speaking, means there is an illegal copy.
But everyone does it so if you're happy with that do it.

What richmars said.
Even if you give to charity you technically still breaking the law by not having the original copy although if you want rid of the disc it is at least more moral than selling them, will be less hassle than selling and will give you a nice warm feeling inside for giving to chariddy 😀

Listen to them on a decent hi-fi system instead of the low-fi copies on a crappy portable with in-ear phones. You'll be amazed how much we've compromised quality for convenience.

Listen to them, the music will come to life again.

Bloody hell, some strange people on here. Technically it's illegal, but seeing as your copies are cd rips, in the eyes of the law, they're legal, and would never be identified as illegal, so just sell them on. No moral dilemma as far as I can see.

Agreed with Swift. Sell 'em and use the cash to buy bits for your bike. 😆

[url= http://www.cashconverters.co.uk/sell ]Cash Converters[/url]

i ebayed all mine individually, 6-700, a few years ago, don't regret it. just remember to back up your itunes

Listen to them on a decent hi-fi system instead of the low-fi copies on a crappy portable with in-ear phones.

I don't have the budget to fork out on a Linn separates system, but I did used to listen to them with a Denon CD player, Technics amp and Mission speakers. IIRC, they were all well rated in What Hi-Fi etc at the time.

I actually think an Ipod and decent in-ear phones bring out just as much quality.

Again, please email me a list if you go down the sell route. Gary

Would be interested in Rock/Metal especially from 70's and 80's

When I moved 12 years ago sold most of my vinyl (approx 500 lp's) and been building up the collection again over the past few years

I have 3 Prodigy cds for sale if anyone's interested? Experience, Jilted generation and Fat of the land. All in good nick £10 posted.

smash them up and make them into very poor quality 'artworks' which you can then leave zip-tied to trees/lamp posts/tramps/slow moving oaps..

wipe your hard drive and make a vast and tedious photo collection of your 'art project' with the spare space..

music is SO last year

People who chunter about the sound quality of MP3's obviously weren't bought up listening to music on something like this!....

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Think technically you can't even rip them to a hard drive in this country as you paid for the official merchandise a copy is just that, a reproduction, which is expressly forbidden on the sleeve.

Not stopping folk though. Go the bundle and e-bay route BUT post a listing here first there'll no doubt be a few buyers.

Edit:

Yeah looks like i'm right [url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7299505/Millions-of-iPod-fans-breaking-law-by-copying-CDs.html ]Clicky but no copy[/url]

Typing the list up is a real pain, if you have a Mac, buy [b]Delicious Library[/b] (one of the best bits of software on mine) and bar code on the camera them all in very quickly then stick the list up here, else where etc, as above sell in batches even swop.
Or find a poor student/teenage give them commission to do the work - my daughter got dragged into this /did OK for pocket money on a similar project.

Technically it's illegal, but seeing as your copies are cd rips, in the eyes of the law, they're legal, and would never be identified as illegal, so just sell them on.

Buzzlightyear - Member
Listen to them on a decent hi-fi system instead of the low-fi copies on a crappy portable with in-ear phones. You'll be amazed how much we've compromised quality for convenience.

Listen to them, the music will come to life again.

Ah just what I intend to do, spend a few grand on a hi-fi and become a pretentious pillock .
😉 no offence, like

"What's the best way to get rid? "

CD shooting, its like clay pigeon shooting but with CDs instead.

If you've gone to the trouble of ripping them, you've implicitly got a list of the CDs, haven't you?

Anyway, I'd rip them all to FLAC or some other lossless format, then sell 'em. I've done the first bit, but can't bring myself to sell the discs! 🙂

Listen to them on a decent hi-fi system instead of the low-fi copies on a crappy portable with in-ear phones. You'll be amazed how much we've compromised quality for convenience.

Listen to them, the music will come to life again.

Only half true, the problem isn't MP3 its the what its played back through that counts. Linn recently stopped producing CD players all together as digtal media players are capable of producing much better sound

Couldn't sell any of my music, cd's or vinyl even if i'm not particularly listening to it @ the mo'. put it in a box somewhere.

Blimey didn't expect that! And I'm no hi-fi bore (bike bore maybe).

I didn't get vaguely-decent hi-fi separates (£150 amp, £150 CD, £150 deck and £130 speakers) until I was mid-twenties, but it opened up the glory of the LP and CD recordings I owned.

Like everyone, I love the convenience of MP3s but the compression does impact the dynamics and reverb, sounding more like FM radio output IMO. Combined with tiny headphones it really is a degraded experience from what the musicians and producers heard when making the recording.

If you have never been to a hifi separates shop with a demo room, I urge you to. But it might turn out to be an expensive trip. In the mean time, hang on to those CDs.

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Only half true, the problem isn't MP3 its the what its played back through that counts. Linn recently stopped producing CD players all together as digtal media players are capable of producing much better sound

Well that's what they say their reason is; could be marketing speak you know.... I'd go with a Naim CD555 given the choice.

There is a company that will take them all and sell them on eBay for you, take a commission and give you the rest. Can't remember the name though....

But, as warned above, I'd make a copy of your harddrive if that's 20 years of CDs you've got ripped.

Oh, and if you haven't rip them lossless quality, can always burn them back on to CDs for the car etc. if required.

Getting a list is fairly easy if you are windows savvy - [url= http://www.theeldergeek.com/file_list_generator.htm ]How to do a list[/url] - won't be perfect but it'll do 95% of the work for you.

Buzzlightyear - Member

Listen to them on a decent hi-fi system instead of the low-fi copies on a crappy portable with in-ear phones. You'll be amazed how much we've compromised quality for convenience.

Listen to them, the music will come to life again.

+1!!

Also, when you get high quality streaming technology, you will find you need to re-rip in lossless. Impossible without your original discs.

What if you loose your copy on HDD for whatever reason?

Get some cardboad boxes and put them in your loft/cupboards and regard these as your master archive, unless of corse, you decide to get a proper hifi.

If you have a coupleof hundred quid to spare, consider adding a Cambridge Audio DacMagic DAC. This can run off a PC or accept TOSLINK feeds. Either way, you will hear the best of your digital music collection.

i'll have them!!!!!!

Loft them.
If not, send me a copy of the list too please.

Listen to them on a decent hi-fi system instead of the low-fi copies on a crappy portable with in-ear phones. You'll be amazed how much we've compromised quality for convenience.

Listen to them, the music will come to life again.

Don't forget your directional speaker cable 😆

Only winding you up.

i had the same problem was just running out of space in the small flat i was in at the time, just brought somke of those cd holder cases from hmv kept the album cover and cd in that and chucked the case's. Just wanted a backup in case my harddrive goes tits up

Sold some of my CDs and DVDs to www.musicmagpie.co.uk. Don'y get much for them, except the odd one or two and the turn around from posting to getting the cheque is bloomin slow. May be worth emailing a list to those on here who have expressed an interest. Possibly get more than Magpie. Maybe put them on magpie 1st (you enter the bar code to get a quote and you can save the list without having to complete the sale).So you could see how much you'd get that way and then you would have a benchmark. I think on eBay by the time you've packed and posted and paid charges you wouldn't be getting much more than Magpie.

While the video buying public has become High Def obsessed (and questionably so), why is it that they are so happy to flush away High Def. sound??

The reason why I say the pursuit of HD video is questionable because of the scarcity of broadcast HD media. The time one spends watching a BlueRay, or DVD is negligible. Conversely, high quality digital audio recordings have been available in overwhelming volume for at least 20 years. With music, you do listen for a considerable percentage of your time to audio recordings, rather than compressed FM/DAB radio (the latter being a bigger disappointment at 128kbps).

SACD sounded like an interesting development, but the media was virtually unobtainable. The CD through a decent system was/is jaw droppingly good, so I think the format didn't need much improving. What is so disappointing is when a great band use a uselss recording studio, thus turning out audio mediocrity. Anyone with a good hifi will totally understand what i'm getting at! The meduim of CD is not a problem, just the will and ability of the record producers to make a good master copy.

Sorry if I sould like i'm banging on about sound. I love music, but it is ten times, a hundred times better when it's well recorded and reproduced.

The situation with regard to the decline in sales of decent audio quality recordings is totally exasperating!

Basically, those who know no better, or who are just lazy, or impatient are creating a situation where the CD will no longer be viable. Then we'll be left with no source of decent recordings!

What a depressing thought!

The saving grace will be when the industry wakes up to the commercial opportunity to market HD Audio. I bet this is on the cards now since the cost and size of storage has shrunk dramatically.

" What is so disappointing is when a great band use a uselss recording studio, thus turning out audio mediocrity. Anyone with a good hifi will totally understand what i'm getting at!"

Amen. The variation of production quality can be startling on even budget hifi separates. It's much less apparent if you just listen to mp3s IMO. I just don't think recording and reproduction quality is that important to most people though.

Hifi was a sonic revelation to me, especially with my old LPs. Some of them came to life with new excitement, involvement, three dimensional depth and detail. Sadly, the fabulous German record player broke and I went entirely to CDs. And now I'm not in a living situation where I can play music at proper volumes though loudspeakers which is a shame. Possibly another reason my it's not much of an issue for many.

good ol' vinyl for me everytime over cd and mp3 or similar files. but you do need the right kit......................

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Totally agree with Spongebob and Buzzlightyear regarding recording/mastering quality. I rip all my cd's at 320kb, which, while not up to lossless, takes up less space but is clearly better quality than lower bitrates. I use Ultimate Ears canalphones, and variations in mastering are [i]very[/i] clear to my ears, and I hope that the music business doesn't 'dumb-down' recording quality. Somehow, despite the 'yoof' wandering around playing tinny music on their mobiles, I think that there's enough desire in the music buying public to have their records play in the highest quality available. I've recently replaced my dying Yamaha SACD/DVD-A player with a Cambridge Audio equivalent. I've got over 8000 tracks in iTunes and on my iPod, but I'm still buying cd's on a regular basis because I still prefer to sit down and listen to an album as an album. I love the random nature of a big iPod stuffed with music and left in shuffle mode; mine's in the car and it's like having my own 6Music station, but I love my cd's, a significant number are signed by the artist, and I would never get rid of them; they're a reliable backup, and I don't trust HDD longevity enough to entrust 1000-odd cd's collected since 1982 to that sort of storage and get rid of them. Some are irreplacable, or at significant cost, so I'm keeping them all.

Bravo CountZero! Bravo!

So... assuming I've ripped all my CDs as WAV files and they're all on either my laptop or an external HD, how do I get them through my amp and out of my speakers?

I assume there's a box with a bloody great HD in that can sit in the space currently taken by my CD player?
I don't suppose Marantz do one in silver to match the amp?

Higgo - use flac - not wav

+1 for lofting them - came across my Dad's old records (those black flat round things) - some valuable classics and a window into another world - your children's children's children will be fascinated.

It's much less apparent if you just listen to mp3s IMO.

Bet you couldn't tell the difference between a 320kbps MP3 and a CD in a blind test.

So... assuming I've ripped all my CDs as WAV files and they're all on either my laptop or an external HD, how do I get them through my amp and out of my speakers?

I assume there's a box with a bloody great HD in that can sit in the space currently taken by my CD player?
I don't suppose Marantz do one in silver to match the amp?

you could just invest in a decent audio card and play straight from your laptop into the amp!
and i agree with stuartm555 to use flac instead of wav.

Higgo - use flac - not wav

I think my phone (Nokia 5800) supports WAV but not FLAC. I could be wrong.

And I use it quite a bit when travelling with work as a music player.

you could just invest in a decent audio card and play straight from your laptop into the amp!

Laptop and amp aren't always in the same room.