CDs out at Best Buy
Feb 6, 2018 09:55:13 #
According to USA Today, Best Buy will stop selling CDs - sign of the time. My ‘04 Jag roadster has a cassette player - absolutely prehistoric.
Feb 6, 2018 10:02:19 #
The fact of the matter is that a USB memory stick can store more data and is more practical.
Feb 6, 2018 10:13:42 #
Feb 6, 2018 10:34:30 #
Tomcat5133
Loc: Gladwyne PA
CD's well have have close to 800 at least. I tried to give them away or sell them no luck. Over the years producing we used
them for corporate shows. And my own collection of music. I have them neatly in small boxes. Feel throwing them out is a terrible waste.
Moved to FL have smaller place so in small storage space taking up a lot of space I need. Any ideas are welcome.
them for corporate shows. And my own collection of music. I have them neatly in small boxes. Feel throwing them out is a terrible waste.
Moved to FL have smaller place so in small storage space taking up a lot of space I need. Any ideas are welcome.
Feb 6, 2018 10:36:52 #
I have noticed the CDs at Best Buy offer a tiny slice of the music out there. Thankfully, here in Minneapolis we still have the Electric Fetus. Hardly a CD pressed they don't have.
Feb 6, 2018 13:47:24 #
camerapapi wrote:
The fact of the matter is that a USB memory stick can store more data and is more practical.
But it won't fit into the CD player of my car
Feb 7, 2018 06:12:32 #
I agree with htbrown. What else will fit in my CD player in the car but a CD?
Feb 7, 2018 06:27:24 #
James Slick
Loc: Pittsburgh,PA
cdayton wrote:
According to USA Today, Best Buy will stop selling CDs - sign of the time. My ‘04 Jag roadster has a cassette player - absolutely prehistoric.
Cassettes are hot right now, a comeback like the "vinyl revival" - In ten years "hipsters" will re-discover the CD. The beat goes on!
Feb 7, 2018 06:59:33 #
I was just thinking the other day, why am I holding on to all this vinyl? I don't even have a player any more! For some reason it is like saying goodby to old friends.
Feb 7, 2018 07:32:45 #
kodiac1062 wrote:
I was just thinking the other day, why am I holding on to all this vinyl? I don't even have a player any more! For some reason it is like saying goodby to old friends.
I hear you. I had a ton of records, the turntable amplifier really good speakers and my Sony TC 500. Cd's became the new thing. I got rid of all that stuff. I never...never should have done that. Very stupid. Big mistake.
Feb 7, 2018 07:50:19 #
Tom Daniels wrote:
CD's well have have close to 800 at least. I tried to give them away or sell them no luck. Over the years producing we used
them for corporate shows. And my own collection of music. I have them neatly in small boxes. Feel throwing them out is a terrible waste.
Moved to FL have smaller place so in small storage space taking up a lot of space I need. Any ideas are welcome.
them for corporate shows. And my own collection of music. I have them neatly in small boxes. Feel throwing them out is a terrible waste.
Moved to FL have smaller place so in small storage space taking up a lot of space I need. Any ideas are welcome.
We donate ours to our public library. Lots of people go there to find music for downloading to iPhone, MP3 player etc.
They also hold book/music sales twice a year.
Feb 7, 2018 12:40:34 #
Music is so temporary now, and no I did not mean contemporary. It is temporary in that it is streamed or downloaded to one's iPhone. I suspect at some point it is deleted when the listener tires of it. I have hundreds of CD's that go back to the late 80's. I enjoy picking some of them out and loading them into my car CD player or listening to them on my home sound system. When I am tired of it I put them back in case and on the shelf until the next time I want to listen. Having said all of this, I have not purchased a new CD since the late Don Williams released his last CD in 2012. For my taste, there is just not much out there that I would buy. But I am 72 and the music is mostly aimed at the younger generation. I suspect that Best Buy's decision is a business decision that is best for their company.
Feb 7, 2018 13:00:38 #
Jim Plogger wrote:
Music is so temporary now, <snip>
Until the 20th C, all music was temporary.
Feb 7, 2018 13:24:05 #
htbrown wrote:
Until the 20th C, all music was temporary.
True. This appeared in the 1890's.
Feb 7, 2018 13:25:33 #
cdayton wrote:
According to USA Today, Best Buy will stop selling CDs - sign of the time. My ‘04 Jag roadster has a cassette player - absolutely prehistoric.
My wife & I just traded our old car in on a 2018 Equinox - Premier.
Much to my shock, it doesn't have a CD player.
I have now, 15 favorite CD's that are useless now.
I know, I know, put them on a Pocket drive.
To be honest I don't know how to do this.
I have the hardware, but not the software, or even the know how to do it.
Never had the need till now.
Our new car does have Wi-Fi and two USB ports.
I don't think that it could be as simple as just coping each CD disk to separate folders on the thumb drive. ????
Then just plugging in the pocket drive and selecting the disk on my touch screen and picking play.
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