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

[Alex321]

Still got all my LPs.

We have a mix of Cds and Lps. We also still even have some cassette tapes - and one player which will play them.

 

[Alex321]

I'm selling most of my old tapes as unlinke Vinyl the sound quality just isn't worth keeping them for. I'm keeping a few for sentimental reasons but the rest are all on ebay.

You are right, the sound quality is not as good. Tapes stretch a little with use, and I don't think the quality was quite as good even when new. But most of what we have on cassette is stuff we can't easily find on CD (or even Vinyl nowwadays), so we still hang on to them for now. They don't get played nearly as often as CDs or LPs though.

 

[wiggydiggy]

You are right, the sound quality is not as good. Tapes stretch a little with use, and I don't think the quality was quite as good even when new. But most of what we have on cassette is stuff we can't easily find on CD (or even Vinyl nowwadays), so we still hang on to them for now. They don't get played nearly as often as CDs or LPs though.

Yeah its some pretty niche stuff - the original release of The Lord of The Rings BBC Radio Play for instance or mix tapes/radio recordings I did in my yoof.

 

[Psamathe]

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.

I also still buy CDs, though tend to rip them and play them from phone/computer. In some weird way I regard the physical CD as my "licence" that I have properly paid for the product.

Ian

 

[Sixmile]

When I was in a rock band around 20 years ago - on one of our CD releases we'd added a secret track. It was an outtake from the studio when our bass player was playing goodness knows what, it was horrendous sounding. So we stuck it on as a track with some canned laughter after it. Seemed like a good way to end an EP at the time but added zero value to the recording overall

 

[welsh dragon]

My car will be 14 years old at the beginning of February and it has a CD player and I've kept the CD's. I always play them in the car. Can't beat a bit of Phil Collins or UB40.

 

[Drago]

The hidden track on the album 1977 by Ash is recording of one of the band members puking and the rest of the band laughing.

 

[Alex321]

My car will be 14 years old at the beginning of February and it has a CD player and I've kept the CD's. I always play them in the car. Can't beat a bit of Phil Collins or UB40.

Mine is only 9 years old and still has a CD player, as does my wie's car. Both 2015.

 

[Sixmile]

My car is 2005, would've came with a factory fit CD player, the previous owner had fitted an aftermarket double din, I found out that it was draining the battery when the car was switched off so now I've a fairly big storage hole but still have cd's in the door pocket just incase

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Back in the 1990s I had a six CD loader mounted in the boot of the car. I’d recorded LPs onto CDs. Because you had to record in real time, some records I’d missed the bit where the needle moves across at the end before lifting. So that ended up on some of the CDs. We were driving to north Wales when we reached such a point on a CD. I pulled up and asked my mate to change the record over in the boot. You can fool someone once 😂🤣

 

[Drago]

I remember getting a car that could read data CD's. Ten or 12 albums on a single disc, times the ten discs in the changer had me proud as a dog with two dongs.

 

[Conrad_K]

Streaming is probably fine when you're near a tower or have a wifi hot spot, but I'm regularly in places where there's neither. You either wait until you get to a town, or pay whatever it costs for an Iridium or Starlink account and hardware.

 

[cyberknight]

you cant play streaming music backwards and find out freddy is the devil

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRFkpQHMYw

 

[rogerzilla]

At the next house I will use CDs again. They are all ripped but I've bever found a wholly satisfactory hi-fi media player that sounds good, does gapless playback and doesn't cost a fortune. I had a Cambridge Audio one for years but it sounded muddy and they stopped supporting it so it was useless for Internet radio. All these modern connected devices can be turned into landfill at the whim of the manufacturer, and frequently are.

 

[wiggydiggy]

At the next house I will use CDs again. They are all ripped but I've bever found a wholly satisfactory hi-fi media player that sounds good, does gapless playback and doesn't cost a fortune. I had a Cambridge Audio one for years but it sounded muddy and they stopped supporting it so it was useless for Internet radio. All these modern connected devices can be turned into landfill at the whim of the manufacturer, and frequently are.

Its one of the reasons (forced obsolesence) I've never adopted any kind of digital music service, its a bit like my gaming collection. If I don't have it in my hand I don't own it.