my music is playing on my cd player and my record player...

Ive been giving serious consideration to stacking all of my CDs in a box and putting em in the attic. They are just taking up space now. Ive started downloading my music instead of purchasing hard copy as ive no real room to keep stacks of cds

Still listening to CDs at home, radio and tapes in the car, and when I'm walking or bussing it nothing......I'll probably get an mp3 player at some stage but haven't yet. I assume it's like the mobile phone, once you get one you can't imagine how you lived without it.

Space for all those CDs becomes more of an issue with each passing month as I never really get rid of old stuff..........

Space for all those CDs becomes more of an issue with each passing month as I never really get rid of old stuff..........

Yeah, I know what you mean. Ive stacks of demos and singles as well.
I dont really get time to listen to cds/music at home. Its always on the Go. Made the move the MP3 about 2 years ago and havent looked back. Before that I had a mini disc player, which I thought was great... cept for the carry around of stacks on mini discs part..

i don't mean to be patronising here but... can you ever properly listen to music on the go?... i just about only ever give an album my full attention when i sit down at home with my headphones on... the only time i could imagine it working whilst moving is walking around late at night when the traffic has gone...

...that said, there's always a place for background music...

MP3 has saved me from carting all my CDs over to Australia so it gets my vote. Having said that, as soon as I can afford to take them over here they'll be here. I've got an expensive need to have the original CD as opposed to just downloading the MP3 file. It's just not tangible enough

Well, for me I can listen to records on the go with my iPod. Sure it's not the same as lying in bed and listening to the cd player but its still fine (better than walking around to the sounds of daily life anyway).

I have to use an iPod shuffle cause my mp3 is broken. I wouldn't recommend it on anyone...ever!

Can I listen to music and walk at the same time? Yeah, I usually manage it ok.

Have to admit that while MP3's are dead handy I do miss the CD packaging and reading the sleeve covers and art work all that. It does add to the overall enjoyment of an album. I usually end up burning MP3's onto blank CD's for my Home Cinema at home. My living room is now getting full of bland CD cases with my scrawly writing.

Well iPod on the go and CD player at home and toying with the idea of getting a record-player. As Kloot said the old CDs really take up a load of space. Mine are all over the place crying out for a reasonably priced shelving unit that can accommodate what i have and cater for the inevitable additions. Getting a record-player would present further storage problems. Anyone know where CD units for people with a considerable music collection can be procured?

On the subject of music on the go i have to say that i enjoy listening to it this way. I sometimes enjoy not listening to any music on the bus but when i'm walking i love to plug out and tune in.

I would have said it's quite easy to listen to music on the move.

The bus/dart/train is the perfect location to zone out and absorb yourself in the music.

What I can't understand is folk who listen to music and read at the same time, that's not giving the music your full attention.

Ipod or laptop mostly

That said i never buy the digital versions, either cd or, every now and then, vinyl.

The laptop is handy cos i have everything on it, and its always on in my room

That and Last FM clocks everything you listen to which is pretty cool.

Anyone else here use it?

But I've found that inlaycards are rarely up to spec these days ... A few photos is about all we get now.

I used to love joining the dots, see who is thanked by the band, & who the guest musicians are etc.

Is there anyone about town that would buy a big box of cds ?
Is Freebird still in the 2nd hand cd business ? I haven't ventured in there in about 15yrs.

You still can't beat CD's for sound quality over mp3's though.. whatever way mp3's are compressed, they lose a lot of the fullness that you get with proper CD's! I know of a lot of initial mp3 download converts, who then went back to buying CD's for playing on their home systems, because once compared the difference was very noticable!

But in saying that mp3's are very handy on the go..

Hey Mully,

You could try Road Records on Fade St. I flogged some CDs to them a year or 2 ago. That gave me between €4 and 6 per CD. I was happy enough with that cause it was stuff I was prepared to give away anyway. I just wanted rid of it.

I used to think I was the only person who read the liner notes and looked at who was thanked....Maybe bands are making less effort with liner notes cause they reason people are gonna download the album anyway.

Cheers Bort, but I'm pretty sure that Road have closed their 2nd section downstairs, I could be wrong.

I understand about the quality issue between the 2 formats, but I just don't use cds anymore ... Rip them, put them in the pile. Thats just the way it is for me

well considering that average traffic noise in dublin is damaging your ears, i doubt you're managing to zone it out completely... guess it depends what you're listening to... any music that requires a bit of concentration is very hard to listen to with background noise... maybe you're hearing without listening?

anyway, each to their own... a time and a place for everything etc... etc...

Mully - try City Discs along with Freebird on Wicklow Street for flogging your cds. If you're left with anything after both shops then I'd say Chapters would take it or else you could just give them to Oxfam.

mp3s are cool for hearing/stealing new music but i'm not into buying music that way. i tried eMusic - good service but i still want a cd or record.

anyway do many of ye listen to music on a proper hi-fi setup? i bought one from a friend a few months ago (amp, cd player + BIG speakers) and it's awesome.

I don't have separates but when I listen to music in my bedroom I use my hi-fi.

I listen to music exclusively now from mp3 format played from either my PC or from my iaudio x5.

Me too, though I can't deny MP3s are so bloody handy. Use Sony mp3 when out and about and CDs at home on a fairly standard hi-fi with surprisingly good sound.

I would have to completely disagree by the way that you can't properly listen to music when on the go. There are certain situations that just require music, and those places and situations enhance the music and vice versa. For example, I was walking to my friends house just before christmas, kinda late kinda dark and very quiet, and it started raining really heavily, it was cool. And then the perfect song came on my MP3 player (don't ask me to remember what) and the effect was incredible.

I also find that when I'm just walking along a route that I have to walk every day, I can just switch off and listen directly to whatever's playing in a totally different way to usual.

I route my PCs audio output through an 80s Pioneer HiFi. My soundcard is an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 so it has proper stereo phono outputs (seperate left and right channels. Best of both worlds.

Ally - does concentrating on music make it better? Does it always heighten your appreciation for a track? I find for some bizzarre reason that listening to music in different contexts brings out things I hadn't noticed before, or that some music I hadn't quite got before suddenly makes sense. It's like if you keep listening with your conscious mind, you don't give the subconscious a chance. Donal Dineen used to always maintain that his show was best listened to as a soundtrack to a long late night car journey.

agreed binokular... sometimes you need to let certain types of music wash over you... certainly, i do not always give my full attention to listening to every lyric... however, i like getting the most out of the music and i find i can't do that on the bus or walking along the road... i most definitely do have music on in those circumstances but i choose certain types of music and it is always albums i feel less precious about (i.e. ones i don't have a loving connection with)...

...but i agree with your point... it can be like reading a very literate novel... sometimes you need to let some understanding pass you by and get with the ebb and flow of the author's writing style...

Yeah, I do this aswell. Some albums Ive listened to so much, that I have to ration them. On the rare occasion I do play them (like Hunky Dory over the weekend f'rinstance) its definitely one of those sit down and absorb situations. Letting the mind wander is a waste.

Other stuff gets played all the time though.

actually, i should have read your post properly... i also know what you mean about different contexts bringing out different things in the music... it's all emotionally connected, isn't it?...

...maybe it's just because i'm listening to a fair bit of free-folk and minimalist stuff at the moment that i'm making my point... if i put that on whilst in the gym, i'd only catch the odd few sounds every other minute...

so, if you want to listen to pixies on the bus, fair enough.... but try listening to systems/layers by rachel's and you're well and truly f**ked

I keep my music as mp3's on an external hard drive that I take to work with me and home on weekends. For listening in the car I burn cds. I do most of my listening in the car---I commute for at least 2 hours a day.