Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?

redwoodaudio

Ha! A CD is just like a LP record, but it's smaller and silver. Hope that helps. Next will be my too simple answer to 'What is an 8-Track..."

Back to the discussion, I have kept many of my CD's, for both backup and fond memories, much like the records I kept. I love being able to skip that one song on an album that you just can't stand. I stream only to find new music or check out an album I don't have by an artist I like. I have to slightly disagree with thumbing through a record or CD collection is easier or better then using an App. A good app, like the Bluesound or Aurender has, or even Qobuz/Spotify is to me easier and more fun. All good ways to listen, no matter what your favorite way is.

@deadhead1000 - oh, the little silver circular things at goodwill?  Those are for music?

 It was a long time ago when I last upgraded my system. Got rid of all my albums, TT and the rest. Went to CD. Learned my lesson the hard way. I just got around to a new start of replacing my old albums TT and the like. Ironically, I did happen to find a CD player that I like enough to keep along with a few CD discs as well. 
 Nothing wrong with some of the new stuff. Nothing wrong with old stuff either.

Johnspain - I am pleased to hear that you have had no problems when ripping CDs on your Cocktailaudio X45Pro. However, when I have tried to rip CDs I have always encountered problems. It takes around 20 minutes to rip one CD and as I have over 2,500 CDs in my collection it will take me over 830 hours to do them all. So it is a very laborious and time consuming activity, but the main problem is that the resulting file is never the same as the original CD. For example, none of the software I have used has been able to deal with gapless tracks correctly. It always either inserts a gap where none is required, or deletes a couple of seconds of music at the start of each track. At the very least there is a noticeable click when it moves on to the next track, which can be very distracting. Also, I have 130 SACDs in my collection. It is not possible to rip them because they are copy protected, so that would mean downgrading all my SACDs to CD quality. SACDs sound significantly better than similar recordings on CD so I do not want to downgrade them.
The last problem is that the software I have used never labels the music correctly. For example, when I ripped a 2 CD set the first CD was put in a folder with the name of the composer but the second CD was put in a folder with the name of the pianist. So when the process had finished I had to rename the second file and move it to the composer folder. This makes the whole process very messy and labour intensive.
Just out of interest - what was your main reason for deciding to convert your CDs to computer files? I can see few benefits.  

Once I thought my Melco S100/N100/Roon killed my cdp(Linn Ikemi)... Until purchasing Jays Audio CDT Mk.2 cd transport... Which killed streaming. Anyway my analogue(EMT 948) was better than both still.