I am considering converting all of my music to digital and getting rid of my CD collection. The CD is a dead format, and it's starting to seem pointless to keep them. Have any of you done this? If so, any regrets? Help me decide!
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10 comments:
I don't think I've seen a CD in two years. I gave all mine to a friend who is a hopeless Luddite. And I can't GIVE my portable CD player away. I think the time has come: RIP CD. To 8-track heaven you go. Say hi to my Commodore 64 for me.
Ok, so you get 2 points for the SAT word, but -2 points for the sarcasm, for a net total of ZERO points.
So I should have said the CD is a dying format, not totally dead. But still. My point remains!
hey call me old fashioned (or poor) but i'd be willing to take some cd's off your hands if you need to get rid of them...just sayin...
i've been strongly considering this as well.... i'm afraid of what happens if your external drive corrupts. any thoughts?
-L
We have CDs, but all our music is digitized. We buy the CD, and then rip it almost immediately. The CD is then stored in a book, or on a rack, depending on who is doing the keeping of the CD. (I book them and toss cases; Sam keeps the cases.)
It's cliche, but I can't live without my iPod. When I bought a car, I even considered the ease of iPod use in the car in my decision making.
I agree with Brittany: I like the actual discs. I have been in the process of ripping all the songs to iTunes and storing them there, as opposed to popping in whatever C. D. I want to hear. However, I won't get rid of the discs. What happens if your hard drive crashes, and all of the music is lost? If you do decide to get rid of the discs, the ethical thing to do would be to throw them away once you've ripped the songs to iTunes.
L - I would definitely back up all of my music on an additional hard drive.
Joey - you are ridiculous. I actually feel that it would be UNethical to throw away music like that if someone else wanted it. How is giving away music any different than selling cd's to a used cd shop (a perfectly legitimate and legal option)?
Brittany - because I am not ridiculous like Joey, I will absolutely give you any music that I decide to get rid of.
If you rip an album to iTunes and then give the original disc away, what you will have done is made a copy--even though it is the one you have kept--for which you did not pay. It is the same thing as burning a copy of the original disc and giving it away except, in this case, you are keeping the copy and giving away the purchased disc. The bottom line is that there will be two copies of the album in use by two different people, and only one of the copies was purchased. That is an infringement upon the copyright.
Chew on these ethics... I don't even buy music anymore unless it's some local little-known folks. I check them out from the library and... well, you can imagine the rest... Mwah ha ha ha ha!!!
And you know, feel free to send some CDs my way, too...
Hi Laura -
Warning - TMI!
I have been in the process of doing this steadily for the past several years. I basically rip it to my external hard drive, burn a copy (if it's an album that's hard to find, or if I really don't want to loose it or something - I just end up with a big photoalbum-like thingy with lots of burned copies in it, rather than boxes and boxes of jewel cases), then sell the original back to the used CD store (where I usually purchased it in the first place).
Generally, if you sell a CD w/o keeping a copy, you're just transferring the license, which is totally fine (legal, etc.). If you sell an album having kept a copy, in theory this would be a no-no, under the assumption that the original creator/seller (the artist, or their label, or whatever) does not profit from your sale of their copyrighted work, and you doing something else (i.e., still using the product) after having transferred the title.
However, the issue is less clear (and, I think, both legal and ethical) if you buy the CD/album on the secondary (used) market in the first place. When you do this, no profits accrue to the original copyright holder from your purchase (which is legal, just FYI, and also ethical - unless we're going to argue that used CD stores are inherently inethical - which I am not arguing). Hence, your later reselling of the CD(again on the secondary market), would similarly accrue no profits to the original copyright holder, whether or not you made a copy for your further use in the meantime.
So, if you really want to rest easy, buy everything on the secondary market & resell it there too. :)
This scenario is different from ripping, etc., music from sites with which you already have a copyright licensing agreement, in excess of that agreement (e.g., iTunes' licensing allows you to use the music you "purchase"/license on 5 computers max - so if you rip more than 5 copies you're generally in violation). In these cases, the original copyright holders have (assumedly) already made arrangements with your distributor (iTunes) to be compensated, within the limits of your licensing agreement. Blah blah blah...
Anyway, let me know if you want to trade some musica.
:* Mad
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