What to do with ripped CDs?

[Aquaman]

I‘m curious to learn what others do with CDs that have been ripped.

When I went through the process of ripping my CD collection to FLAC about 15 years ago there were voices on the internet to keep the disks anyway for copyright reasons.

I discarded that right away. Who would ever challenge me? I‘m not using it commercially.
So I sold them to a local second hand CD shop in Berlin for a price between EUR 0.50 to EUR 5.- per album. Maybe a rip-off at the time, but I got rid of them.

Only two years later my girlfriend also consented to eliminate the removal box in the cellar that contained ‚her CDs‘.
So I went to the same shop and they outright refused to buy any CDs any longer. So they went in the bin.

Whenever I come across a CD today I try to sell it to Medipops/Momox. This is Germany, no idea if they are also active elsewhere.
50 cents is the usual price they will pay, with exceptions for highly sought after stuff.

What do you do?

 

[Patagonia]

At least people here in Chile are going crazy for physical media such as old CDs and also cassettes!, they are selling for us 5-20 for popular artists on facebook or ebay style marketplaces.

Dont know if in Germany its the same but maybe for the more requested items of your collection it can be worth the hassle, would shoot myself before I had to sell my whole collection in one of those marketplaces!

 

[HansD-NL]

I‘m curious to learn what others do with CDs.......

Why? You already know that there are people that get rid of them (like you) and others that don't.

 

[HighNRG]

Asked me that a few years ago when we split our stuff to two smaller flats. Now I have in each of the two places a box with 100 CDs. We still buy a lot. Sorted by time of purchase. So every new CD replaces the last in the box. 100 is more than enough for us. Only new releases, the old stuff can be streamed. But that is rare enough. (Maybe a generation thing, but with the exception of some early Pink Floyd albums, I can't do anything with all the dusty 60s and 70s stuff. Music is for dancing!)
Still rip the CDs, but to be honest more for nostalgia than for daily use. Once they are sorted out they go to a local refugee organization. They sell it. They can use every Cent.

 

[Aquaman]

At least people here in Chile are going crazy for physical media such as old CDs and also cassettes!, they are selling for us 5-20 for popular artists on facebook or ebay style marketplaces.

Dont know if in Germany its the same but maybe for the more requested items of your collection it can be worth the hassle, would shoot myself before I had to sell my whole collection in one of those marketplaces!

Good to know. I shall send them to you .,.
But seriously, this is really not the same over here. Except for vinyl.

 

[Aquaman]

Asked me that a few years ago when we split our stuff to two smaller flats. Now I have in each of the two places a box with 100 CDs. We still buy a lot. Sorted by time of purchase. So every new CD replaces the last in the box. 100 is more than enough for us. Only new releases, the old stuff can be streamed. But that is rare enough. (Maybe a generation thing, but with the exception of some early Pink Floyd albums, I can't do anything with all the dusty 60s and 70s stuff. Music is for dancing!)
Still rip the CDs, but to be honest more for nostalgia than for daily use. Once they are sorted out they go to a local refugee organization. They sell it. They can use every Cent.

Oogh, so you are still listening to CDs instead of the ripped copy?
That‘s rare.
I don‘t even own a CD player any longer. Got rid of it once my CDs had been ripped.

 

[HighNRG]

CDs and some Vinyl. Still and most likely for the rest of my life. CD is digital enough. Of course streaming is convenient and from time to time in use, but I have time enough and stable bones to reach the player . Even my Roon stuff gets dusty. And as I wrote, ripping is more or less a pavlov reflex.

 

[goodmore]

Donate them to your local used CD store. I took two large boxes to my local guy. Pay it forward.

 

[Aquaman]

Donate them to your local used CD store. I took two large boxes to my local guy. Pay it forward.

I don‘t like donating these days. It will usually either serve commercial purposes or end up with the wrong people.
In most case I‘d rather pay for the disposal than donate it.

 

[AlanB]

I have my old CD's stored in the loft of my house, you never know when you may need to re-rip them.

 

[slartibartfast]

I don‘t like donating these days. It will usually either serve commercial purposes or end up with the wrong people.
In most case I‘d rather pay for the disposal than donate it.

Who are the "wrong people"?

 

[slartibartfast]

I have my old CD's stored in the loft of my house, you never know when you may need to re-rip them.

Same. Once I started using a ripper with AccurateRip I haven't had any issues but I think I originally ripped using MediaMonkey and I did find one album track, which I had obviously never played before, stopped abruptly halfway through. I re-ripped it after I found the CD in the loft.

 

[HighNRG]

Once when started ripping of CDs I belonged to the camp of "archivers", believing in secret obstructive powers who will destroy CDs sooner or later. Not a single one was destroyed. Since a few years I never used any of my "archives". It was only a routine left from Pleistocene. CDs keep stored, but leave the collection as mentioned above the moment the number of 100 is reached. (There is a treasure box, but it is really not so big.) If I really want to listen to older music I use the streaming services.
The last reason for giving especially the HDDs to the bin was the laughter of my daughter when I told her that she will own all this stuff when I am dead.

 

[QuarryHunslet]

I am still buying used CDs from eBay, and Discogs, and am paying too much for them. It’s hard to get any from the UK, but there are plenty available from Australia, America, and Canada. I’m typically paying anything up to around £40 for one CD, including delivery.

 

[Valentino]

Mine are stored since I did the big ripping job in 2008. My father has becme more physical media and hardware dependent the last couple of years, so he is keeping (and playing) many of my classical and jazz CDs now.
I’m in Norway. Here it’s internet streaming or vinyl now. CDs are basically moneyworthless.

 

[d6jg]

In boxes around the place.

Apart from the legality of selling them but keeping the digital rips there is also the thorny issue of Artist remuneration. I have paid an Artist for a copy. If I sell the CD the Artist never sees another penny. It’s a fatuous argument but I support Qobuz rather than any other streaming service because they are known to give more to the Artist than the other streamers. Makes me feel better

 

[HighNRG]

In boxes around the place.

Apart from the legality of selling them but keeping the digital rips there is also the thorny issue of Artist remuneration. I have paid an Artist for a copy. If I sell the CD the Artist never sees another penny. It’s a fatuous argument but I support Qobuz rather than any other streaming service because they are known to give more to the Artist than the other streamers. Makes me feel better

Was it ever answered how keeping the files while selling the media is seen from legal perspective? And how it can be checked or who checks it?

 

[slartibartfast]

Was it ever answered how keeping the files while selling the media is seen from legal perspective? And how it can be checked or who checks it?

Of course nobody ever borrowed a CD from a library and copied it

 

[hgo58]

Was it ever answered how keeping the files while selling the media is seen from legal perspective? And how it can be checked or who checks it?

In EU it is legal to Buy a CD → Rip it for personal use → Sell the physical CD → Repeat.

There are of course some ethical perspective in this but it is legal.

 

[slartibartfast]

In EU it is legal to Buy a CD → Rip it for personal use → Sell the physical CD → Repeat.

There are of course some ethical perspective in this but it is legal.

I haven't got a clue what the law is in the UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-33566933