Music CDs - Hidden Tracks - What else have we forgotten after moving to streaming services?

[wiggydiggy]

As a winter hobby I'm listening to all my CDs 1 by 1 to decide which ones to sell or keep (I'm currently upto Cast - All Change), I'd almost completely forgotten that some CDs have 'hidden' tracks at the end of them. Either the last track will keep playing and an extra bit will eventually play or the CD mysteriously has 99 tracks and the last one is the extra bit.

Many people have moved to streaming or perhaps have never used a CD at all, who else remembers these and what else might we have forgotten with a streaming only music service?

 

[Electric_Andy]

Not forgetting as such, but I do sometimes miss the fact that with a physical disk, I would listen to the whole album more often (like in the car). These days, you select an artist or a track and it plays "similar artists based on your listening history". I don't think it's a bad thing, but I often hear a new artist (to me) and go back to listen to their discography otherwise you just get played the most popular tracks

 

[DCLane]

My late mum's car is currently in my posession, until needed elsewhere, and unlike my Honda CR-V it has a CD player. I'm slowly doing the same as @wiggydiggy and working through my CD's.

In clearing out the attic this summer I've also brought down the LP's and cassettes up there. They'll (probably) be heading off to pastures new shortly.

In all three collections I've items that aren't available online.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Along that 'new artists' lines - how about sampler CDs. I've got several from the fronts of magazines, or bought cheap in a shop. Don't really see those anymore as the 'similar artists' feature has taken over.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Along that 'new artists' lines - how about sampler CDs. I've got several from the fronts of magazines, or bought cheap in a shop. Don't really see those anymore as the 'similar artists' feature has taken over.

Many many years ago some of the pubs in Brum started having a carousel of LP's appear in the Bar/Lounge. They were the sort that you'd usually find in Woolworths, often covers of the real artists. One album stood out because the name of the artist and the photo on the cover. Joan Armatrading.

 

[raleighnut]

No intention of getting rid of CD's or my Albums, as for 'hidden' tracks on CD's...................Not a fan, I've got a couple with hidden songs and they've freaked me out sometimes. There you are looking for 'what do I fancy next' and all of a sudden a song starts up, made me jump a couple of times.
Maz has 'Tidal' on her i-Pad bluetoothed to a Marshall mini speaker thing but the sound quality ain't great, just a noise.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

It is not just we who forget. When archaeologists dig up a site in Mesopotamia there is a good chance some cuneiform material will be exposed — inscriptions, clay tablets, seals and so on. From these we get to know a lot about people we can never meet and can piece together elements of our own history which otherwise go unknown. But in places such as central Turkey and the Indus valley there is evidence of civilizations which do not appear to have had any form of writing. Much can be inferred from architecture and artifacts but, in the end, we know little about how these peoples thought and felt, what they found important and what they did or did not know. When the electricity fails, streaming moves us from the vocal to the silent, from the literate to the illiterate from historical facts to mythical guesswork. At the moment we have a rich mixture; but give it a century or two and how much will be left for some future generation of interplanetary travellers piecing together the evolution of the universe from the remains of a depopulated earth? Does it matter? If what you are streaming matters, it matters.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I still use and prefer CD's over streaming.

 

[T4tomo]

sound quality is better on a CD, streaming is more convenient at times. i like the fact that at a party I can leave my old ipad on spotify plugged into the amp & speakers and guest can can just "add to queue" whatever they fancy

 

[dicko]

Found our family Christmas record fortunately we havnt a record player

 

[wiggydiggy]

sound quality is better on a CD, streaming is more convenient at times. i like the fact that at a party I can leave my old ipad on spotify plugged into the amp & speakers and guest can can just "add to queue" whatever they fancy

Brave of you to do that, I've been to parties where the host has password protected their network so its their music or none!

 

[markemark]

Brave of you to do that, I've been to parties where the host has password protected their network so its their music or none!

I would hope that every person password protects their network irrespective of whether they're a host or not.

 

[T4tomo]

I would hope that every person password protects their network irrespective of whether they're a host or not.

you obviously have shoot friends

 

[delb0y]

Still buy CDs here. General second hand stuff. I don't do streaming, but have bought a few downloads over the last few years. I miss the sleeve notes, song-writer details, and info' on who played what instrument.

 

[Drago]

I still buy 78's and the occasional wax cylinder.