leejacksonaudio Posted March 15, 2023 52 minutes ago, Azuris said: Have your Tygress Album here on my Phone i am writing on, on my PC at Work and the PC at Home. Just curious - where did you purchase the album, and in what original format? 0 Share this post Link to post
SealSpace Posted March 15, 2023 Apart from our desktop computers used individually as a family, we have a Sony CD Boombox. Does that count? 0 Share this post Link to post
DrinkyBird Posted March 15, 2023 (edited) I have a DVD drive in my computer that can read CDs I think. But I own no physical music whatsoever. Simply double clicking an album in winamp is infinitely more convenient, and takes up none of the limited physical space I have available. It's such a shame when artists only make music available in physical formats. 0 Share this post Link to post
Azuris Posted March 15, 2023 10 hours ago, leejacksonaudio said: Just curious - where did you purchase the album, and in what original format? On Bandcamp, Flac and MP3, the latter one i would otherwise convert myself to save Space on my Phone :D 4 hours ago, DrinkyBird said: winamp Best Player ever, i also am still using it. 1 Share this post Link to post
leejacksonaudio Posted March 15, 2023 6 hours ago, DrinkyBird said: It's such a shame when artists only make music available in physical formats. Not me, my friend. Visit https://leejackson1.bandcamp.com for my albums in digital formats. I go both ways. <grin> 3 Share this post Link to post
unerxai Posted March 17, 2023 I use the DVD drive in my PC mostly. I sometimes use a PS2, which I shouldn't do since they can break so easily. 0 Share this post Link to post
jval Posted March 18, 2023 My home stereo has a cd/dvd/b-ray player. A 19 old pioneer DVR 620H-S dvd-recorder. A portable AIWA CD player. An external USB DVD recorder drive. My car has a cd player also. An old Sony CD/Cassete/Radio portable player. Finally, I've got more than 800 original CD music albums. 0 Share this post Link to post
HavoX Posted March 20, 2023 I still have a 5.25" SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner installed in my case. In fact, just yesterday I used it to install the '95 version of Monopoly. (I had to use the updated 64-bit installer from elsewhere, since the original installer is 16-bit and won't run on 64-bit Windows.) 0 Share this post Link to post
continuum.mid Posted March 20, 2023 (edited) I collect CDs but I mostly just rip them and copy them to my phone, so as to have a DRM-free digital copy. To that end I own a USB CD/DVD drive. I also own a CD player, but pretty much entirely for novelty, I don't use it much as the rips generate better quality for playback. 0 Share this post Link to post
PeaveySolidState97 Posted March 24, 2023 i have a portable CD laying around somewhere, as well as a disc drive. i have an old macbook pro but it isn't setup atm. pretty sure my 2022 Subaru oddly enough came with a CD player.. 0 Share this post Link to post
Insaneprophet Posted March 24, 2023 Im so stuck in the 90s that I buy every new album I want on CD, and when buying the sound system for my car my main concern was that the head unit had a CD drive, USB port was a "yeah, ok, I guess thats ok but I'll probably never use it". My home stereo system has a 10 disc changer and Ive still got and use a couple of portable CD players (mostly for while mowing the lawn.) And yes it kinda irks me that my newer laptops dont have the drive. Im gunna be pissed if when I get a new home PC if I cant burn cds anymore. But alas, Im a thing of the past and I too will soon be completely fazed out... the newer generations already disregarde my very existance. 😀 2 Share this post Link to post
Blzut3 Posted March 25, 2023 On 3/24/2023 at 4:44 AM, Insaneprophet said: Im gunna be pissed if when I get a new home PC if I cant burn cds anymore. If I were to guess, you'll probably run out of blank media well before it becomes impossible to hook a burner up to a PC. Both USB and PCIe would need to die and it will be a really long time before either of those are replaced. More than likely whatever replaces them will have some way to bridge old devices. As for internal drives, we're definitely heading towards 5.25" bays being phased out. Which is especially annoying since they're good for more than just optical drives (for example hot swap drive bays), but everyone is focused on water cooling compatibility (even if never going to be used) so guess we can't have that. 1 Share this post Link to post
Graf Zahl Posted March 26, 2023 14 hours ago, Blzut3 said: As for internal drives, we're definitely heading towards 5.25" bays being phased out. Don't forget that they also take up a lot of space in the case. So without them they finally have the chance to make smaller computers. I guess in this case the drawbacks are meaningless for most users while the advantages are obvious. 1 Share this post Link to post
HavoX Posted March 26, 2023 (edited) Faster USB ports have already replaced 5.25" drives long ago, eliminating the need for the drive bays. I'm considering getting a new case, but when that time come, I'll have to get an external DVD drive, since it would be my first case without a single drive bay to install the to-be-useless 5.25" burner in. 0 Share this post Link to post
Misty Posted March 26, 2023 My laptop has DVD and CD drive included, I don't remember when last time I used it tho. It also has slot for ethernet cable that proved really useful since it's much better use cable than search for better wi-fi connection. 0 Share this post Link to post
Anber_liang Posted August 15, 2023 With the advent of the digital age, people hardly ever use CD drives anymore. For example, when I listen to songs in the car, I will choose to download and convert the songs into MP3 format and then connect them to my car device via USB, so basically no CD is needed. 0 Share this post Link to post
enigma101 Posted August 15, 2023 I have a small collection of CDs but mainly use a DVD/CD drive to put them on iTunes or rip them to mp3s. I also have my old iPod, but I mainly use that for listening to game soundtracks not on Spotify. 0 Share this post Link to post
Eurisko Posted August 15, 2023 Have and will always own a stereo to play Cd’s on. I have amassed a huge library of music over the years to the point that I don't need to subscribe to Spotify etc…… I think having music in physical format is still the way to go. 0 Share this post Link to post
Devalaous Posted August 16, 2023 My PS3, when it wasnt bricked, was often used to rip music from CDs, including the asshole CDs with ten layers of anti-computer DRM to stop ripping (The PS3's firmware could get through all that easily!) These days, its not worth hunting down physical CDs when my PC has no CD player, when car stereos chew up CDs, and the sole CD player indoors is a 'never use it because loud noise is bad for neighbours, plus your music sucks', so I just either buy it digitally on Bandcamp, from other digital stores, or in dire straights when I cant legally own the files, listen to it on youtube 0 Share this post Link to post
Linuxmaster1992 Posted August 16, 2023 I have a small CD player in my bedroom. I enjoy collecting CDs, it's fun browsing for something new at a record store! 1 Share this post Link to post
GooberMan Posted August 16, 2023 I buy CDs for archival/artwork/support purposes, and listen to that very music on streaming services. I own several devices capable of playing CDA, but they basically never get used anymore. 0 Share this post Link to post
Koko Ricky Posted August 17, 2023 I got rid of my CDs years ago and can't remember the last time I actually paid for music that wasn't attached to a streaming service. I have zero nostalgia for the CD format. 0 Share this post Link to post