What's a Good Way to Buy Music Collections?

@jhnnrrs 

Welcome to the forum, have you auditioned the Onkyo DP-X1? 

There are probably a lot of people who transferred their CD collections to one of those storage devices, have not touched the physical discs for years, and would be happy to sell them. It might be just the disc and the booklet, but that would make it cheaper, particularly because they'd be less saleable to dealers. People might even be willing to sell the cabinet along with them. No legal problem selling physical CDs either.

I think you’re probably heading into uncharted territory here. I’ve never seen or heard of people selling ripped music collections except those that may be included with purchasing a used component with the music already loaded on to it.

 
@yyzsantabarbara  I stream and still rip music to my NAS, I also download and I think there are a lot of people who do. Owning copies of Music is not gone yet.

@kota1 I have not heard the Onkyo, but common sense and many experiments with upsampling have borne out my statement.  Regardless of the nonsensical aspect of it, the claim that this DAP will magically convert MP3 to DSD-Quality audio should be punishable under fraud statutes.

Even if you bought the physical CDs of someone who has ripped his collection to a hard drive, that would still be a copyright violation.  The person buying the CD has a right to the use of the content on the CD, including ripping it to a hard drive for his own convenience.  But, when he sells the CD, he would have to delete the files associated with the sold CDs to be compliant.  It is simple--there was only one purchase of the right to the content, there cannot now be two different owners of the right to use the content unless there is a second purchase of the right from the holder of the copyright.