What meduim have you standardized your music collection on?

[Taverner]

For me - mp3

CD's are just used for the purpose of ripping to disk

But not everyone is me...

[Arugula Latte]

1. iPod

:woohoo:

I've kept my CDs as backup, though.

[mike_c]

2. mp3 here, too-- at least at home....

Every CD gets ripped and uploaded to a dedicated mini-ITX server that's plugged into the stereo system. It's on permanent shuffle. Radio Mike plays 24 hrs a day-- all I have to do is turn on the amplifier.

[tXr]

3. mp3.

I ripped my CDs to disk then gave them away.

My home stereo is now a computer and an mp3 player.

[BlueJazz]

4. I put them into 24 bit wave files. I can then do anything to them.

[madinmaryland]

5. Vinyl. Well I used to, until I got rid of them.

My daughter creates our music with her violin. That's all I need.

:hi:

[hunter]

6. mp3-lame-vbr. For my rarer harder to find CD favorites I use flac.

I don't bother with flac for the common music I might easily replace, which is just about any and all popular music.

Some of my music is ripped as higher quality oggs too, but mp3 is universal and that's what I use on my little iPod.

I don't use iTunes and my iPod doesn't miss it.

Lame mp3 sounds best to me, and it's free.

[trof]

7. I still use my old 1945 Peirce 55-B dictation wire recorder.

The wire reels are recorded or listened to at nominally 24 inches per second (610 mm/s), making a typical one-hour reel 7,200 feet (approx. 2195 m) long. This enormous length is possible on a spool of under 3 inches in diameter because the wire is nearly as fine as hair. Since the wire is pulled past the head by the take up spool, the wire speed increased as the diameter of the spool increased.

Makes the Beatles sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks near the end of the song.
;-)

[Taverner]

9. That is some classic gear!

Do you really have a Wire Recorder?

[trof]

14. No, just kidding, but I did use one in the 60s.

I was flying the RF-84/F Reconnaissance Fighter.


Part of our 'gear' was a wire recorder we could use to record our airborne observations of target areas.
The sound reproduction was barely decipherable.

You can read all about wire recorders here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording

[seemunkee]

8. Why?

MP3 at work. CD or vinyl in the living room. CD in the car.

[Taverner]

11. I like to think it always evolves

Back when Cassette tapes first came out, we standardized on that

Then when CD's came out, the improved sound quality gave us impetus to standardize on that

Now it seems mp3 is the only standard - which I am on

[seemunkee]

13. So what happened to all your old stuff?

I still have some tapes around, I have several hundred albums and 45s. I don't want to waste time converting to a format that will probably be obsolete in a few years. Plus, it would cost too much to reaquire everything on MP3.

[lukasahero]

10. MP3

I still have about 50 jazz cds to rip but outside of that, every cd we own (~550) has been ripped to my pc with copies on my ext. hard drive. I haven't had the guts to ditch the discs yet but that's coming soon. My next venture will be to buy a vinyl-to-disc converter so all those albums we have won't go to waste. :)

At this point, I don't even buy the CDs any more, I buy the albums directly to MP3.

[kid a]

12. itunes - mp3

[Broken_Hero]

15. wma's nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Punchcards at 50,000 per second.

It's an amazing machine, and I have an awesome warehouse that my digitized record collection sits in.

My Grateful Dead bootlegs alone take up almost 40,000,000 cubic feet of storage, but the fidelity of punch cards is stunning.

And my staff have gotten so incredible, they can change albums in under 30 minutes.

[kentauros]

17. No standardization

No Aye-Aye-Tunes, either.

I use JetAudio to listen and have a nice mix of mp3, wav, ogg, flac, ape and a few other odds'n'ends.

I organize it all to the way I would "label" it were I a music-industry flunky, and using PowerDesk file-management. That way, I keep it out of the defaulted "MyMusic" folder and where most people (and scanning software) wouldn't think to look ;)

I have not ripped all of the music I own because that would require another couple of terabytes of storage space.

[Tikki]

18. In this order: cassette, reel-to-reel, mp3, vinyl and...

CD. We do have some vinyl we broke the plastic to record, only to record, and then off to storage.

If properly taken care of a cassette will last forever.

The Tikkis

[hobbit709]

19. Currently about 55Gb of mp3s

But I still have about 100 vinyl albums to transfer-mostly out of print stuff from the 60's that never got reissued as CD. I record them as .wav and DSP them to clean them up and convert to 320Kb/sec mp3 afterwards.
I also have a stack of CD's that's at least 6 feet tall.

Have it all backed up on 2 computers, an external drive and about 20 data DVD-R's.

[Mojambo]

20. All digital baby. n/t

[Bragi]

21. itunes, ipod, car adapter, docks, etc.

[qnr]

22. Wax cylinders n/t