randydevilad:I dont trust storing music files on computer and mp3 is rubbish quality i feel, and i prefer a hard copy ie the Cd! Also on Cd like Vinyl you can see what you got easily and pic out what you want to play and you dont forget what music you have because you can visually see what you have in your collection! To look through a computer is a pain!
Sorry but I have not seen such an ill-informed contribution on this subject in a long time. Every single point you make is wrong.
randydevilad:I dont trust storing music files on computer and mp3 is rubbish quality i feel, and i prefer a hard copy ie the Cd!
Trust... Just because I have ripped a CD to iTunes does not mean I have thrown the disc away! I also take regular whole system (bootable) backups and keep one offsite (locked in my desk at work). Do you have duplicates of your entire CD/LP collection in a safe offsite loacation in case of fire/flood or whatever in your home? (Surviving digital photos on computer/solid state media outnumbered surviving traditional photos and negatives by a factor of 10 to 1 after hurricane Katrina).
randydevilad:Also on Cd like Vinyl you can see what you got easily and pic out what you want to play and you dont forget what music you have because you can visually see what you have in your collection! To look through a computer is a pain!
I can organise my music on iTunes in any way I wish and searching for an artist/genre/track/album title is a doddle and takes a click. Far easier than searching through shelves/boxes/racks of CDs (even if they are kept in order) and then removing the last played disc and loading the new one and waiting for the player to 'initialise' (up to 15 seconds with some CD players like the Rega Apollo.)
I can 'visually see' what I have in my iTunes collection just by flicking through the cover art if I want to do it that way. Again just a click.
How could I possibly 'forget' what music I have?! It is all there on the screen with cover art, organised as albums and various tracks in various playlists of my making and ordered/sorted exactly as I wish with minimal effort.
To access my music on the computer is a joy and a liberation, not a 'pain'.
randydevilad:...and mp3 is rubbish quality.
Who is talking about MP3?
That is just one option and not mandatory! I rip my CDs in lossless with correction so when replayed they sound at least as good as (maybe better) than the original CD on a player. Judging this whole means of replaying digital music (PC + DAC) on just your experience of some ropey MP3s is plain blind bias.
(By the way, not all MP3 is rubbish. I listen to Radio Paradise in 192kbps MP3 quality from the internet and it sounds great.)