Is the CD dead?

Gatefolds are as collectable as vinyl albums, jewel cases ARE dead however

>opening a cd case and sliding the disc in is more engaging than interfacing with a graphical application to search through the world's music library for the track you want

No, it won't play or eject. I don't remember what it is, it's been there for two years and is probably warped by now.

I literally had to tear the stereo out of my dodge and take it apart to get my cd back.

yeah.

CD became a thing because it is more convinient than vinyl. Now streaming is more convenient than CD so there's no reason to keep CDs.

Bros got a Tacoma '19 truck and it came with a CD player. It's not totally dead

Meant to add a comma. U guys are my bros

I still collect them because I've been doing it for 20 years and I don't want to just stop. Plus they're really cheap compared to Vinyl. Streaming is great but sometimes you just want the physical thing.

standard or part of an option kit?

-CD cases are nice to look at on display
-Piss cheap
-Good quality second hand CDs are very easy to find
-Novelty value due to vinyls being more popular
-Having an album on various platforms looks great on display
-Leagues more practical than vinyls and cassettes

CD is dead, but at least it isn't buying music digitally

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Looked it up to make sure, but I'm pretty confident it's standard. Online, all the interior accessories are like extra chargers and shit

and it's the same process for every track you want to play... besides it's just display, you can't touch the disc, see the cover and the booklet.
ah, the youth today, i tell you

nice truck btw

For you

>Me myself, I rather listen to the whole album and the physical act of opening the box and changing the cd is a little more... engaging?
You can listen to whole albums on spotify, dummy.
Also I don't get this "more engaging" BS. Vinyls are fun because you can do stuff like alter their speed and they come with nice big artwork, but CDs just feel like a pain these days

Thanks user, i was gonna ask this any moment.

boomers love it

Client gave me a stack of CDs to make a compilation video for them, took me 2 days to find a computer with a CD. Luckily my Dad still had my old shit PC i made back in 2004 under my old bed. one of the most frustrating things i have ever done trying to find a cd drive

Have you tried taking a pair of tweezers and sticking then inside the player to take it out?

I considered it, but I didn't want to damage the CD if possible, unless I knew what it was. Since it's probably something odd, like a reggae collection or some European folk music, it may not be easily replaceable. If it was one of my homemade mix CDs, I'd scrap and replace it.

Based, CDs are a patrician's choice

exists in asian markets as collectables; cards/photos/lyrics/behind the scenes/etc

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Usb cd drives are like 5 bucks in thrift stores

Nah. It's versatile, has better audio fidelity than a good 90% of digital services and certainly better than Apple's 256 kbps bullshit, is much harder to damage than vinyl (though I do also buy vinyl, has its own different pros and cons), and provides far more creative opportunities for packaging and artwork than vinyl despite the smaller size. Some of my favourite releases are CD singles and EPs containing tracks not available anywhere else. I have demos ~20 years old not even the artists themselves have a copy of, in as close to master quality as it's possible to get. A CD collection is only as good as your hi-fi, but it's a worthwhile investment imo. Shit like the Myspace mass deletion shows what a false economy digital goods are. And if you own a CD you can rip it to you computer so really it's like purchasing two formats in one, which you don't get the other way around.

What you're probably doing is mistaking the death of high street retail, where shops like HMV are charging the best part of £20 for a single newly-released album, for the death of the CD as a format, when online retailers like bandcamp are making it easier than ever for smaller and independent artists to sell produce to their intended demographic.

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this, you can buy second-hand cds for a dollar at library book sales in my county and they're almost always in fantastic condition so you can rip them in flac and have a flawless recording.

I use a USB CD drive but yes, things like this are basically just big business trying to force a totally fit format into obsolescence so they can replace it with more expensive formats like subscriptions where you have to continually pay to keep hearing the music. Same with DVDs being forced towards a false obsolescence in favour of Blu-Ray by including all the special features on the latter and not on the former to entice people over, and so on.

Yes.

Yah i dont live in a first world country so those are abit hard to come by.

Remember when everyone had a portable cd player? Good times

no. I always buy new music on CD. Rip into flac and keep the CD for back-up.

No, but it is considered a niche market product.

DEEZLOADER REMIX
DEEZLOADER REMIX

One of my favourite mainstream pop releases of the past 15 years is still probably Prospekt's March by Coldplay, which shows the band at their creative pre-Rihanna shark-jumping height while also displaying the full utilisation of the EP as a format- Much more than a collection of odds and ends, its use as an appendix to Viva La Vida is still a move I respect even if they are trend-hopping nonces.

Lots of people are familiar with Peter Bjorn And John's most famous album, Writer's Block, and the hit single Young Folks for which it is infamously attached to the height of the 2000s hipster archetype. But how many people know that the dual meaning of the title is made literally by the liner artwork in the CD packaging, with each of the song titles represented? Playful additions like this are why I love the genre. Don't get me wrong, I don't see any issue with people who only prefer digital or vinyl, but I think it is entirely reasonable to expect a market where we add to the number of formats available for artists to choose from, not restrict them. Same as directors filming on film versus digital. Different formats have different uses. The Darkness released a live album on a USB stick shaped like a glam-rock guitar and it's just as great as any of my favourite CDs.

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*made literal

Another favourite: Paul Smith's solo debut Margins, the first edition of which came as a book called 'Thinking In Pictures' showcasing his polaroid tour photography, with a focus on brutalism (before Instagram was a ubiquitous thing) and a short essay about Guy Debord's theories on urban architecture and its links to the psychology of creativity.

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god i fucking hope not. they are superior to all other physical formats in every way possible. i’m just hoping that 20 years down the line, cds become the cool new hipster thing like vinyls are now.

I hope it stays like this desu. CDs are still getting made, but since no one cares about them they can get dirt cheap.

>looks conspicuously at the new David Bowie box sets
dirt cheap, yeah

shit i didn’t think of it like that. good thinking.