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Making The Move From CD to iPod
New Jersey.com ^ | September 18, 2005 | Allan Hoffman

Posted on 09/18/2005 7:44:51 PM PDT by SamAdams76

I am giving up CDs. Within the next several months, I expect most of my family's CDs will be converted for playing on our iPods and personal computers. The actual CDs will either be sold or given away. As more people connect their digital music players to their home stereos and car stereos, they realize they have no use for the racks of CDs taking up space in their homes. If you no longer play CDs, why keep them? That is the conclusion my wife and I reached, and that is why I am completing the arduous process of moving the music to more compact computer storage from the CDs.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cds; foolsandtheirtoys; ipod; lossofhearing; music; waste; wasteofmoney; wasteoftime
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To: GOP_Proud

You're not alone. I'm a music junky, I get 1 or 2 CDs every week and have since I got my first job 18 years ago. No way I'm going to MP3, I like how albums work, I like how CDs work, and trying to convert my collection would take hundreds upon hundreds of hours, there are more entertaining things to do with my time than convert my CDs over to a format I don't actually like (it's just not how I listen to music).


81 posted on 09/18/2005 8:41:22 PM PDT by discostu (When someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back)
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To: SamAdams76

idiotic reasoning --- he's an apple user?


82 posted on 09/18/2005 8:41:55 PM PDT by hombre_sincero (www.sigmaitsys.com)
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To: JohnLongIsland
give me my thirty three and one thirds or give me death...

Hah! You young punks don't appreciate the quality, the depth, the warmth of the 78s.

83 posted on 09/18/2005 8:42:27 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (The best things happen just before the thread snaps.)
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To: corkoman
I want to be able to use windows explorer to move files onto and off of my mp3 player.

'tis why I have a Creative Zen Micro.
84 posted on 09/18/2005 8:43:15 PM PDT by kingu (Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
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To: Last Dakotan
I'm keeping my CDs, thank you. They are all encoded using a lossless format, played through an Emu soundcard on Mackie HR824s.

Beats the hell out of an iPod. :)

85 posted on 09/18/2005 8:43:51 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: GOP_Proud

I'm gonna get one! When the price drops to around $5.00 to $10.00...


86 posted on 09/18/2005 8:44:26 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear
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To: SamAdams76
Does that mean all the 78RPM Jazz records I have from the 20's and 30's are no good anymore?
87 posted on 09/18/2005 8:44:45 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: SamAdams76
The actual CDs will either be sold or given away

Sounds like some legal issues here. Anyone have a hotline number for the RIAA?

88 posted on 09/18/2005 8:46:59 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: SlowBoat407
Hah! You young punks don't appreciate the quality, the depth, the warmth of the 78s.

Heh. I'll never give up my wire recordings, or my LPs that are etched into large stone discs. I have teams of oxen to turn the turntable.

89 posted on 09/18/2005 8:47:22 PM PDT by Riley (STOP CASTING POROSITY!!)
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel

I can't be awake without listening to music. Literally if I don't have music playing for real I have it playing in my head (I've always been really good at memorizing songs), I'm always listening to music sometimes even music other people can hear.


90 posted on 09/18/2005 8:48:10 PM PDT by discostu (When someone tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back)
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To: GOP_Proud
Sometimes I think must be the only person left who doesn't have an iPod and doesn't feel the need for one.

I feel the same way. Except for me it's an iPod AND a cell phone. I have neither, don't want either :)

91 posted on 09/18/2005 8:48:35 PM PDT by upchuck (A fireman running up the stairs at the WTC as the towers began to collapse: HERO defined ~ Ben Stein)
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To: SamAdams76
That has also been my experience. I am a gym rat and technologically incompetent (Living proof that right wing Neandertals exist and are amongst you). I bought a new computer, an Ipod and started buying new songs off Itunes and taking the best songs off my CD's. No longer did I have to wait 3 or 4 tracks for a good song to come over my walkman-now every song gets me pumped through my workout. For example, thee is no AC/DC on Itunes-so I bought a couple of their CDs-uploaded the songs I liked with a siple drag and click and voila' "Thunderstruck" is on my Ipod. The shuffle feature is great. I no longer know what song is coming next on the dreaded cardio deck like I did with a walkman. I noticed

I then go to my office and listen to XM all day. I am no longer a luddite.

92 posted on 09/18/2005 8:50:14 PM PDT by MattinNJ (Allen/Pawlenty in 08-play the map.)
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To: Hank Rearden
Also, you can't burn a compatible CD for yourself or anyone else very easily with MP3s or whatever silly format crApple uses.

Hank, I'll give you a pass on the ad hominem attacks on Apple and iPod users, but I have to correct you on this one. I have burned CDs consisting of songs downloaded from iTunes and converted to AIFF - the standard CD music format. It's built into the software.

93 posted on 09/18/2005 8:50:47 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (The best things happen just before the thread snaps.)
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To: manic4organic

I doubt that Roger Dean would have created the fantastic art for the Yes LPs for a CD cover, much less for an iTunes download.


94 posted on 09/18/2005 8:52:30 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (The best things happen just before the thread snaps.)
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To: Revolting cat!

Some of those tufa in your picture of Mono Lake are now under warer as the streams and creeks that used to be diverted are now again feeding into the lake.


95 posted on 09/18/2005 8:55:13 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Life is like a cow pasture, it's hard to get through without stepping in some mess. NRA.)
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To: SamAdams76
I never thought I needed an IPod, and wouldn't have gotten around to buying one. But we gave my father one for a present, and he didn't really want to use it. He has very poor eyesight and didn't like the interface at all, so he gave it to me.

After about a month, it's indespensable to me. I LOVE it.

My only complaint is that it doesn't hold enough of my CDs. It's 20meg, and holds just over 5,000 songs, but that's only about 20% of my 2,000 CDs.

I figure in a couple of years, that problem will disappear too.

I still love my CD collection, and have no intention of getting rid of it. I view it like other people view their baseball cards. My tastes are all over the map and a lot of them are from small companies all over the world.

But now, I can just leave them where they are and carry my music collection with me at all times.

It's just an awesome creation for a music lover.

96 posted on 09/18/2005 8:55:23 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: SamAdams76
Is an iPod like a cassette player that holds a lot of songs? I heard Bush has one. I don't think I've seen one except on tv. At least that's what I think it was. I've heard my daughter talking about them.

I thought you just had a set of headphones that allowed you to listen to it. I didn't know you could hook it up to everything.

97 posted on 09/18/2005 8:55:35 PM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Inyo-Mono

warer= "water"


98 posted on 09/18/2005 8:56:27 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Life is like a cow pasture, it's hard to get through without stepping in some mess. NRA.)
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To: BlessedBeGod

You can add me to the list, though for an odd reason: when I got my last PDA, I found that by buying a $20 memory card, it would function as an mp3 player.

I've got most of my music collection duplicated from CD onto iTunes on my iBook, and am seriously considering getting the hardware to copy all the music I have on vinyl into mp3 format.


99 posted on 09/18/2005 8:58:38 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know . . .)
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To: Mike Darancette

Actually old 78's are great, though you need a computer and some specialized hardware to see how magnificent they are. They have sonic detail beyond what any digitized format can support, or the human ear can discern, and infinitely more than the equipment they were made to go with could reproduce. They will be able to be translated into better and better digital formats to play on better and better versions of the iPod as technology progresses.


100 posted on 09/18/2005 9:02:10 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know . . .)
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