Hi! I'm new to CD collecting and have found it quite fun! I've got some MCR, Pierce the Veil, and a Cavetown CD's, hoping to get some Sleeping with sirens and some other CD's in the future.

I'm in love with my CD's and wanna know how to store them properly, I keep them in a box case for CD's but the CD's themselves don't seem to stay in the case they came in, just falling out 😭

If anyone has some general tips too IG, I have never really owned CD's, only DVD'S.

I recently inherited my fathers CD collection, and I always knew he liked Todd rundgren, I never knew how much though! There’s more scattered about the rest of the collection, and this doesn’t even begin to compare to his vinyl collection.

In the course of making MiniDisc labels, I decided to create a reference for SPARS codes you usually see on a lot of classical CDs. The definitions are from Wikipedia, and the standards were established in the early 1980s, so "digital tape" has been superseded by digital data recording for a while now.

If you'd like to use an SVG (vector) for desktop publishing or other purposes, there's a link below to Jumpshare. If you need a PDF, please send me a message.

SPARS Codes and Definitions

Dude I’ve been toiling for so long with finding a solid player for my set up. I bought a 5-disc Sony changer, changed the belt and lubed it but the laser was bad. Bought a Denon player that’s super nice but the eye on that is fucked too and only scrolls “TOC Error” when I try and play stuff. So I got a discman and it’s fine but I felt like I was maybe lacking in audio quality. For the longest time I’ve contemplated pulling my PS2 from storage and using it for a player. But I always came up with excuses to myself for why I shouldn’t or why that’d be lame. Then some wonderful soul posts his PS1 hooked up as a player and says it’s super easy to use even when you aren’t hooked up to a screen. That’s all I needed to hear. Got it out of storage and hooked it up, then found a remote on eBay which is much much better than fuckin with the wired controller. Happy camper right here. I highly recommend this or a PS1 for your set up. It’s legit.

Spinning a very slept on album by a band out of the UK tonight while I do some paperwork. Saw these guys on my birthday at the local theater as an opening act for the band The Vines. Super energetic, trance/dance like rock n roll. Dig it.

The Music self title originally released in 2002, this special edition dropped in 2016 and contains a ton of extra music.

I just bought this used copy of Nevermind by Nirvana and I'm worried that this (the little dot with the hairlike lines) is CD rot. Cany anyone confirm or deny this?

Is this a cool idea or do people appreciate the singular cover more? They’re all original pieces of art I handmade from my stockpile of art pieces. Made maybe 60+ at this point!

Marantz SACD Player.

Any fans of the Prisoners out there? Just found out they dropped a new album so I thought I'd spin their album from almost 40 years ago.

Been looking for one of these toaster washing machine CD players for ages, my boyfriend picked one up for me and had to fix the thing for a couple of hours to get it to work. I'm SO thankful!!!!

Also, it's only fitting that the first CD I play is the first in my collection, Come In by Weatherday :)

I recently got into CD collecting a little over a month ago and bought a Sony D-E225 to listen to them with (since I almost always use headphones I thought a portable CD player would be best). It works almost perfectly, the only issue is a static-y hum/buzz that I can only hear during quiet parts of songs. It comes through my headphones, not noise from the mechanism, so it gets louder if i turn up the volume. Not an issue with my headphones since they sound alright plugged into other devices. Not an issue with any particular CD, I've listened to several. Turning off skip protection doesn't change anything. Does anyone know what caused this and if I can do anything about it?

Pretty sure Rush spent more time stitching together this live album than Luke spent training on Dagobah; in the end, it’s all starkiller, no filler. As for Luke, upon becoming aware that his friends were in trouble, by his own free will, he chose to Rush outta there, by ex-winging it stage left. Many don’t remember that, before Lucas tinkered with the original cuts, instead of lifting Luke’s X-Wing out of the swamp, Yoda pulled up a Red Barchetta.

Wanting to buy one of the above purely based off of looks, but is either one better than the other in terms of build/sound quality?

So I’ve been trying to move away from my broken collection of mp3s and flacs, over the past 10 or so years I’ve been buying CDs and ripping to digital flac from CD. I listen to 90’s music and at first I was usually trying to buy original prints because I figured the original CDs probably had the least type of processing done to it so I thought it would sound best. But then I heard about this thing called loudness wars from the 90’s and people were saying a lot of the CDs from then are mastered poorly.

Do you guys consider this factor when buying CDs? Or do you just go with whatever you get a better deal on?

ive recently stumbled upon this website from this business' discogs and have found out they have a lot of albums id really want for low prices that they dont have on their discogs.

i was wondering if anyone has recently ordered them from their website, not their discogs (ive ordered from them off discogs and theyve been excellent), specifically items with the shipping info having the label "ordered" which have a longer time of delivery

here is some of the stuff im talking about to see if anyones ordered something with the "ordered" tag:

https://www.grooves.land/black-flag-slip-sst-cd-pZZa1-687978431.html

https://www.grooves.land/black-flag-war-sst-cd-pZZa1-2229721.html

https://www.grooves.land/will-wood-the-tape-worms-everything-lot-say-cd-pZZa1-2100921183.html?utm_source=shop&utm_campaign=scroller&utm_medium=artist&utm_content=music

Crack on bottom, near the ravens :( the signatures are on the booklet so not worried about that. I can’t get a new copy of the CD, is is rare.

The Black Metal CD is by an underground band, I got it in 2022 and the Taylor's album I got it like 6 months ago. I always conserve the wrap of the CDs.