Storing CD's.

My ears are past the point of no return I’m afraid. When I was younger I had an amazing sound system, then time, relationship breakdown and associated financial ‘penalties’ intervened and I had to sell a great deal of good stuff to survive. That did not include my vinyl collection. Some of those are rare, including early 50’s records which are all in perfect nick, thanks to recording them to other media, becinning with open reel tape, cassettes, CD’s and now digitally transferred to Hdd’s.

After I met the love of my life, kids and more financial penalties prevented me from affording any expensive stuff. Now I can afford it, it has become irrelevant and I much prefer a good pair of headphones attached to the PC, or streaming 320 kbps MP3 around whatever outlet is nearest. I love 50’s, 60’s and 70’s rock: Stones, Creedence/John Fogerty, and Blues. I am saving for a decent Technics system that will allow me to record to & from vinyl, CD and USB: not too fancy, just good reproduction. I don’t have a separate sound card in the PC for the same reasons, the onboard card is fine for my purposes.

I understand your point Jason, it’s clearly against copyright, but I have also bought CD’s from Amazon Music and downloaded the free MP3 tracks associated with the purchased CD. I have no idea how the law would apply when I give some of those CD’s to charity. The gift to charity then makes the CD’s second-hand, or pre-owned, however you think of it. Not dismissing your point, which is absolutely correct, just the stupidity of a law that could be applied to the sale or gifting of a pre-owned product. I have sold books and given many more to charity, how is that different? The Designer of any product: car, furniture, vase, pottery, musical instrument, in fact anything, cannot expect to own the copyright to that product and have a say in its future. As I have said, your legal point is well made. It’s the law that requires change.

Chris: I have quite a few of the larger Really Useful boxes, or should I say, I had a few. I bought several 2 years ago when SWMBO and I went for a Danube Cruise and had the whole place redecorated while away. They were stacked up 5 high in my big shed with household stuff, good job it has a solid base. After we unpacked them, our daughter moved to her partner’s house and began rebuilding her own for sale. Of course she needed boxes… Then our grandson found a flat and he needed boxes. I now have no clue how many I once had.  😥

Steve I like Amazon Music. after I might (someday) finish recording all my collection, I may well use Google Drive to store it, along with my photos. That will cost a bit I expect: I am not halfway through the music and already have 11 GB, 1,000’s of images. I also rip in 320 Kbps. My ears now cannot differentiate between that and WMA. I love rock music and hard Blues, so when I play the Stones, Creedence or any of the old Delta Blues men, the missus banishes me to this room and the headphones. She likes Billy Fury, think she’s been mourning his passing for years! He was the first ‘Liverpool Sound’ of course, before the Beatles, last night I got around to putting all his music on the NAS, was listening to a lot of it and remembered how good he was in most of it. I like all the Beatles’ early stuff, but not anything later, after the Maharishi and the drugs. It got all too weird for me. I particularly like Lennon singing “Revolution” – a real rocker.

Ripping tracks from YT is what my youngest gson does too. Speaking of music copyright issues, he rips CD’s full of requested music for his mates and others, also helps them with PC problems, all for a price. They have to supply the blank CD’s or USB sticks. He will either end up in nick or become a millionaire. Or both. :unsure:  :whistle:  :yes:

Thanks for that Steve, £1.99 a month for 100 GB sounds good to me. I will never go near anything to do with Yahoo if I can help it, too many problems for too long and they keep repeating the same security mistakes.