What music format do you prefer...

For those of you who collect music, what format do you prefer, CD or vinyl? I have been collecting CDs since 1991 and I have around 330. In the 80s I had a couple of vinyl - Rez Hostage and Daniel band Run From the Darkness but they got lost. I started collecting vinyl in June and I have around 13:

 

Rez Band: Bootleg

Stryper: Reason For the Season, Yellow and Black Attack 1986 version black vinyl and blue vinyl with the cut cover, Soldiers Under Command, Together As One, To Hell With the Devil angel cover, In God We Trust

Soldier: Beyond Babylon

Crystavox: Crystavox and Crystavox Bottom Line.

I also have on order Petra: Never Say Die, More Power to Ya, Not of This World, Beat The System and Back to the Street

I keep a list of CDs I would like to get but I don’t have one for vinyl. Usually if there is a good deal I will try to get the vinyl format of the CD I currently have and when I buy a newly released CD I may get the vinyl as well.

Prefer vinyl but mainly because we no longer have a working CD player in the house (not counting the one on the computer). Loaded down with CD's, I probably have 5,000 or more and many of them I have had for years and they still have the shrink wrap on them (granted I did work at a radio station and got tons of free CD's).

Records, I have probably 400-500 and that's more than i had in the 80's. We play them almost daily so I gotta go with vinyl.

I know its not the popular option but Ive been digital only for the last 5 years, got 2 kids and always on the go and hate having to switch out physical media. I know the knock on digital is that you can lose quality and have media go corrupt. I store everything in the Google Music cloud and pull down a copy to a external hard drive once a year.

Just cant get into vinyl and wont go back to CD.

just my 2 cents

I have nearly 7,000 albums in various formats but prefer digital. I have over 2,000 CDs and a few on vinyl and cassette. Due to lack of room, I mostly have hard to find, import, and OOP CDs. I rip and download FLAC when available as you do not lose any quality.

Tombie wrote:I have nearly 7,000 albums in various formats but prefer digital. I have over 2,000 CDs and a few on vinyl and cassette. Due to lack of room, I mostly have hard to find, import, and OOP CDs. I rip and download FLAC when available as you do not lose any quality.

Wow FLAC, how much storage would you estimate that takes up?

I'm probably 50/50 between cds and digital.

Vinyl LPs where great in the 80's when I listened to most of my music as teen on my living room stereo or copied them to cassette to play in my car stereo.  But now I listen to 90% of my music while at work and it is completely impractical to drag a turn-table and records into the office.

Staybrite wrote:I'm probably 50/50 between cds and digital.

Vinyl LPs where great in the 80's when I listened to most of my music as teen on my living room stereo or copied them to cassette to play in my car stereo.  But now I listen to 90% of my music while at work and it is completely impractical to drag a turn-table and records into the office.

Lol but it would be fun to see. Im with ya I only spam the "Whats listening Thread" from work

I have CD's. I tossed my entire secular collection after coming to Christ in 09. I have maybe 800 or so now. I only use them for lyrics. I don't use CD's in the car anymore. Every CD is ripped to the computer and put on a USB flash drive for the car. Around home I use the computer or my old 80GB iPod.

mothy wrote:

Staybrite wrote:I'm probably 50/50 between cds and digital.

Vinyl LPs where great in the 80's when I listened to most of my music as teen on my living room stereo or copied them to cassette to play in my car stereo.  But now I listen to 90% of my music while at work and it is completely impractical to drag a turn-table and records into the office.

Lol but it would be fun to see. Im with ya I only spam the "Whats listening Thread" from work

It would be fun to try, but the people I work with know me too well and none of them would probably even be surprised.

CD and vinyl. I buy important music in physical format. I have Spotify and I use it only when I run.

mothy wrote:

Tombie wrote:I have nearly 7,000 albums in various formats but prefer digital. I have over 2,000 CDs and a few on vinyl and cassette. Due to lack of room, I mostly have hard to find, import, and OOP CDs. I rip and download FLAC when available as you do not lose any quality.

Wow FLAC, how much storage would you estimate that takes up?

one album on average occupies 364 Mb.

I do a mix of digital and CD.  I don't get the whole vinyl craze, and I don't understand the resurgence of cassettes, either.  I buy a lot of secular stuff as downloads just because it is easier to find that way.  I don't have the room to store that, either.  With Christian music, a lot of the specialty labels don't release anything but CD or vinyl in limited runs.  So, I buy the CD to ensure that I can get my music back if my hard drive crashed where I ripped the disc to MP3.

For collectibility, I prefer vinyl and cassettes.  For practicality, CDs.  For not ever, eight track tapes.

stevegarveyfan wrote:For collectibility, I prefer vinyl and cassettes.  For practicality, CDs.  For not ever, eight track tapes.

What???!??? So are you saying I am wasting my money collecting those? LOL... Not to mention my reel to reel collection.

CDs by far.  I almost never buy digital only although I rip my CDs onto my computer/iTunes and use my iPod at work and on long car trips.  I also have a bunch of cassettes that I'm too cheap to replace, but I don't collect them anymore.

I'm in awe of some of your collections.

I'm with alldat, I really don't get the vinyl trend.  I'm not trolling or trying to start something, I just don't understand it.

Digital, since a lot of artists I like cant easily be found in stores (the area I live in doesnt have any real music stores around anyway). I suppose I could go the mail order route, but when I buy an album I like to have it immediately (though I do make sure to preview). I still occasionally buy cds, and I do pick them up when I find them at yard sales or thrift stores or the like. Ditto cassettes, but only if they're a dollar or less. While I do have a decent vinyl collection, I dont really seek it out anymore unless I find something rare.

I love vinyl and I have about 600 pieces, but my turntable is broken at the moment (and has been for many years) and the reality is I probably wouldn't play 'em that much anyway. They obviously involve more maintenance than other formats (well I guess unless you are Metal Theologian).

I did the toss almost all vinyl thing back in '87ish (although I only had probably 20-30 at the time) and started buying CDs...now have around 900.

I will buy digital if it's the only option for something I like or if its a freebie.

I do rip all my CDs to the computer for backup and listening.

All that said, my favorite is Vinyl but it is so ridiculously expensive and honestly more work than I probably want to put in. Sometimes I wish I didn't want tangible products. It would be so much easier to just have everything on the hard drive...

When it comes down to it, hearing the music is really the point right? So take I'll take it however I can...

crucifyd wrote:Sometimes I wish I didn't want tangible products. It would be so much easier to just have everything on the hard drive...

When it comes down to it, hearing the music is really the point right? So take I'll take it however I can...

Truth!

I listen to most of my music digitally, but I like having the music I like the most on CD. So what do I prefer? I'd have to say CDs