ITunes was not the only game in town as far as CD ripping was concerned at the time, but if you lived in the Apple ecosystem, it became your digital playback platform.
My Rega Planet CD player got packed up and disappeared into a closet.
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I did keep my MoFi, DCC, and JVC XRCD cases because they feel like a part of history and the album art is of a much higher quality.Īfter organizing all of my music into some rather expensive photo albums with static-free sleeves, I came to the realization that other than saving shelf space, I had not made listening to CDs any easier.Ĭomputer-based audio servers were not really a thing in 2003 audiophiles tend to be early adopters of unproven technology at great expense, but a brand new Apple Mac Mini backed-up with an external hard drive became the CD player. They also lack the mystique of album covers which look sexier in your hands when listening to music. Frustrated with having to reorganize, and reshelve every CD that I’ve purchased since 1984, I made the decision to toss all of the jewel cases please accept my belated apology to the environment for all of that plastic I dumped. The last time I moved, the 2,000+ CDs in my collection required over a dozen large boxes and were not kind on my back. Roon is also not an inexpensive investment, but arguably the world’s best digital music management and playback platform and something that I’ve become a little obsessed with. If you have been buying CDs for more than thirty years, there is a fairly good chance that your investment in both music, hardware, and media furniture to store all of those jewel cases has not been a small one.
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