CDs Anonymous

[vinteuil]

in my small bedroon

... o, happy memories of those small bedroons!

[amateur51]

... o, happy memories of those small bedroons!

Were you & frenchie in the same 'safe house', vints?

[cloughie]

The thing is, I would never buy bulk downloads to fill my hard disc.

And if you do download the odd thing do you immediately put in on CD?

[Curalach]

And if you do download the odd thing do you immediately put in on CD?

Every time, complete with printed details on the cd and original artwork, where available, on the inserts. If unavailable, for off-air recordings, I design my own.
There, I feel better having said that!

[Don Petter]

<< When CDs first appeared, I found myself buying them although I had no means of playing them - Does this count? >>

And now - the voice of sanity speaks: I had a music centre with CD player combined but no CDs. I used to practise by opening and shutting the tray.

If only we'd known each other then ...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And if you do download the odd thing do you immediately put in on CD?

Yes, but printing a suitable label if a bit of a bind. Maybe that's why my total number of downloads remains in single figures, whereas my CD collection is in 4 figures.

Is there anyone out there whose affliction has become so severe that they have reached 5 figures?

[Don Petter]

<< And if you do download the odd thing do you immediately put in on CD? >>

Yes, but printing a suitable label is a bit of a bind.

I do burn all my downloads, as I usually want to play them in the car as well as the house.

I now usually hope to find some cover art from the original LP or some such, print it as a 12cm x 12cm square, and use this as a cover insert in a slimline jewel case, having written some brief details on the CDR with a suitable CD pen. I used to be fairly meticulous in printing track listings and times, to stick on the back of the picture, but I'm afraid life has usually got too short for that, in view of the large numbers involved. (This is CDs-A, after all.)

Quite a few bloggers include a picture of the rear of an LP sleeve, as well as the front, in which case this makes an ideal (if rather small) annotation for the back of the insert.

Of course, downloads purchased from such as Pristine come with ready-to-print inserts for a standard jewel case, so there is no problem.

[gurnemanz]

I don't download much but when Amazon emailed me to say I would get £1 off my next download, not wishing to spurn their offer - niggardly though it was - I looked around for some tempting morsel. I ended up getting the complete (actually not quite) Schnabel Beethoven Sonatas for 9p.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Beethove..._album_lnk_alt

[teamsaint]

I don't download much but when Amazon emailed me to say I would get £1 off my next download, not wishing to spurn their offer - niggardly though it was - I looked around for some tempting morsel. I ended up getting the complete (actually not quite) Schnabel Beethoven Sonatas for 9p.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Beethove..._album_lnk_alt

I prefer CD's, but if there is that kind of download offer around, I think we should be told !
Anyone know the best way of finding these bargains?

[Dave2002]

I don't download much but when Amazon emailed me to say I would get £1 off my next download, not wishing to spurn their offer - niggardly though it was - I looked around for some tempting morsel. I ended up getting the complete (actually not quite) Schnabel Beethoven Sonatas for 9p.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Beethove..._album_lnk_alt

I've had a few of those offers recently when I've ordered/bought CDs, but where do they go to? Are the codes in the order details or in the despatch notification? I've done this before but now they seem to be hiding the codes.

Re addiction - are there only 4 stages? http://ezinearticles.com/?The-4-Stag...ion&id=2173640