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Goodbye CD's

Seems that Borders by me is unloading all their cd's..They claim they are just not selling...Im sure this is just the beginning of the end in the retail stores for cd's...can it long before cd's are gone completely? Many Ive spoken with including some dealers have mentioned this and said "the writing is on the wall" for cd playback..

I have been on the fence about going to a file data system for music, and have been eyeing a Squeezebox duet and setting up my hard drive to take the plunge..maybe now its that time??

Or..maybe just Im just a geezer in my heart of hearts and should just look for old and new Vinyl to keep me going...hmmm..I could be very happy with a mainly vinyl set up ;-)
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jafant
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Kehut -

keep it real! I, too, will never abandon CDs.
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tboooe
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I am kind of in between on this. I will continue to buy CDs as long as they are available but perhaps for different reasons than others in this thread.
#1 - I rip my cds to FLAC, most download sites like Amazon and itunes do not offer lossless downloading.

#2 - I like holding the cd and reading the liner notes

#3 - you never know if your hard drives are going to fail and you lose all your digital music. At least with the actual cd you can always rerip.

#4 - I am old geezer
knghifi
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#3 - you never know if your hard drives are going to fail and you lose all your digital music. At least with the actual cd you can always rerip.
Just back up your music? Just drag and drop if not automated.

External USB drives are cheap. 1 TB USB 3.0 for $79 shipped, 3TB $130 ... What happens when your transport goes especially a CD Player is the more complicated and $$ issue IMO.
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Knghifi, I have a RAID 5 as well as another NAS that is synced to mirror the RAID 5. I've had a RAID that completely fried itself taking some of the data with it. Perhaps I am paranoid but I feel better knowing I have the original music in case something happens. BTW, in your example if the cdp goes, my music is still safe. I can simply rerip it or get another cdp. If a HDD craps out you would be lucky to be able to recover the data.
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Tboooe, That's the point of backing up, if one goes, it's backed up on another drive. For backing up, just use an inexpensive USB drive. If you are paranoid, backup on 2 drives. :-)

I had one died but it was backed up so no big deal. Now my music is running off my internal hard drive but still backed up on one USB external drive.

Of course you have cds when cd player dies but it will be an expensive repair or replacement.
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