Do you still purchase CDs or do you download your music?

Not since around 2008. They get scratched, are hard to keep track of, melt in a hot car in the summer months. I either stream or use a flashdrive to convey data, documents, music, and movies between the net, computers and other media.

Both. I buy CD’s directly from musicians at their shows. I download songs from bigger name acts.

@Espiritus_Corvus Ah I see. Well CDs getting damaged is never an issue for me.

When I have to get the album as a CD, the CD is usually only taken out of its case once. So I burn it to my computer via iTunes. Then iTunes transfers the album to the cloud (which is synched to Apple Music). Then it appears on my iPhone moments later.

Both. I just ordered a CD of a very old Sinatra album, one of the few of his I don’t have in my large collection and only available as an import, AND I downloaded a Sinatra single for my iPod.

@NerdyKeith Yeah. You’re basically using it for data transferal and not storage. I find an external terabyte harddrive good for long term storage so my laptops don;t fill up and get slow, and flashdrives for transfers. I essentially have no permanent home, must move at a moment’s notice, so I have to keep it all light and compact.

@Espiritus_Corvus Pretty much yeah.

Ah I see. External hard drives, I use them for backing up my music, apps, games and movies in case Apple (touch wood) has a server melt down or is hacked. Its generally what they recommend anyway.

Last CD I bought was Radiohead Kid A. I buy digital music and then transfer to CD so I can listen in my car. When I get a newer car I’ll get one that plays music through my phone so I do won’t need to make CDs anymore.

Just another waste this planet does not need.

I purchase CDs because I’m an amateur audiophile and I care about lossless files (I have expensive headphones and an amp/DAC and all that as well).

I download music and then put them on CD’s and onto iTunes….

I don’t buy CD’s anymore, but the CD’s I have bought were from live concerts or “specialty” CD’s like meditation or audio-books, hypnotherapy, etc.

I also love buying CD’s with relaxing music to do yoga too.

Everything else I pretty much get online. It’s nice to have the hard copy CD’s though.

I have an ever growing collection of vinyl, most new records come with a digital download. Haven’t bought a cd in about 7 years.

I mostly use spotify when listening on the go.

I listen to a music streaming service, Pandora, for the vast majority of my music. I bought Adele’s latest album, because it wasn’t available on the streaming service, but otherwise, I just listen to Pandora.

I had about 200 CDs that I put on my last computer and then uploaded to Google last year. I can listen to them whenever I wish. I’ve listened to a few since then. Again, the vast majority of my listening is from Pandora.

Last year, I bought a Sonos streaming music player. I absolutely love it. The quality of the sound is superb. I use it all the time. I can listen to conventional radio with it, too, and I like that. The player is controlled with an app on my tablet or phone.

Both, I have an extensive CD collection but also have tons of music downloaded and a couple flash drives. I still like popping a CD in a portable CD player in my bedroom at might and falling asleep to some nice music.

If and when I buy CDs it is from the bands directly, either at their shows, or online. My favourite musician won’t tour anywhere near my state (I don’t blame her) so I buy directly from her record label, which she owns.

I listen to way more stand-up comedy and comedic/satirical music than I do actual music, and when I do I use my carefully curated “Mitch Hedberg” channel on Pandora.

I still purchase CDs. Amazon and iTunes could always shut down or stop allowing downloads. If you don’t own a physical copy, you don’t own it. That said, I listen to plenty of stuff online. I just don’t purchase it or consider it mine.

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I download. I have no choice.

I was a dyed in the wool vinyl snob. I believed digitization of music was mutilation (it is, still).

My LP collection is huge. I spin it on a Linn Sonndek LP12 deck.

So the only compact discs I own are ones with collectible value. In other words very few.

As a result (that I never could have anticipated) I have had to purchase, or otherwise obtain, all the mp3s I have.

This program http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ has gotten me TONS of portable music.

I do both. I buy CDs but I also stream music.

We have staff for that

I gave in several years ago and sold all my physical media. The space savings ended up being significant. I still get CDs sometimes because the physical media can ocassionally be cheaper than a download.

I have not purchased music in well over a decade. I needed to sing a karaoke song for an upcoming work event. I secretly selected Tracy Byrd’s “10 Rounds with Jose Cuervo” and played it over and over in my car while commuting.

Otherwise I use free Pandora and free Youtube .

Still CDs.

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