A couple that jumped out at me from a stop in a unique novelty antique shop. They focus more on vinyl so the pricing is pretty decent.

i dont mean the case, i mean the cd itself. since i wanna organize my cd collection with memories with cover arts!

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Disclaimer: I’m fairly new to CDs and I’ve just started my collection.

I’m hoping this will be a good place for some more experienced CD collectors to help me troubleshoot some problems I’m having playing burned CDs.

I recently picked up a Phillips AX2420/17 portable CD player on eBay.

It works great and was new in-box. It plays officially pressed CDs just fine.

I wanted to burn some of the albums I have on Bandcamp to some CDs so I bought some Verbatim Digital Vinyl CD-Rs to burn.

I found some documentation in my CD player box that says it can only play MP3 or WMA files burned to a disc. I had wanted to burn WAVs if it was possible (I’m not sure if it is) but I’m ok with MP3 at 320kb/s.

So with all that in mind I tried burning some MP3s to a CD but nothing seems to work. My CD player will try to read the disc but after a moment it will display “No Disc”.

I tried burning one CD as a data CD and one as an audio CD but the result is the same.

My PC can read the discs and play from them so I don’t think there’s an issue with the disc drive. I’m not sure where to go from here. My only guess is it could be defective CD-Rs?

Thanks for any guidance in advance.

Any Westside Gunn fans ? I always get doubles or triples from Griselda. I also have Benny’s and Conway’s albums too

Restarted buying CDs about year ago. Most are sourced from my local goodwill including the CD player.

Devotion - JESSIE WARE

Songs Of A Lost World - THE CURE

Imaginal Disk - MAGDALENA BAY

Like many, I am honestly astounded to be holding this new Cure album in my hands after so long. The Cure have been a constant for me since I first picked up Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me as a kid, truly one of the most formative experiences with music I've ever had. Regardless of how I end up feeling about this new album (although I'm fairly certain I'll love it), it's just good to have new recorded music from the band when I had long ago accepted that we probably wouldn't. EDIT: Just finished listening to the album and the solo in Endsong absolutely CRUSHED me. Fighting back tears, for real. I'm dead now. What a band🖤

The Imaginal Disk album I picked up just because I'd been hearing such good things about it from so many places (in here, too), and it was an instant "Going in the Top Ten for the year" album for me. Very good. Very consistent. Fun. Great songs. Great production.

I've never listened to Jessie Ware but have wanted to for a loooooong time. My local had this album, brand new, for $0.99c. Legit. Had to get it. Listening to it now and it's definitely great.

Finally found the Sony CMT-EX100 system for a great deal on facebook marketplace. Drove an 1.4 hours in traffic to pick it up, don’t regret it at all.

I've got a few autographed paper music cd sleeves (really wish the band used plastic jewel cases but clearly not my option) that I'd like to display but I'm looknig for some kind of a protector to keep them in to prevent dust build up. I don't want to keep dusting the paper album sleeves off and in the process potentially affect the signatures and over time the artwork itself.

I looked on Amazon and couldn't find anything. Of course the search "paper cd album protector" just comes up with paper sleeves to put CDs in. I imagine I could put them each in a ziplock bag but that's not exactly ideal to look at I imagine even if I fold the excess to the back of the album.

Anyone have any suggestions? Otherwise I guess it's ziplock and try and hide the excess on the back of the album.

Cool little thing I noticed… are these common in Japanese hotels/Japan in general?

I got a Fever You Can't Sweat Out coming in soon also

But of course I came out with more!

any favorites? suggestions? guess my age (just kidding i’m 22) what do y’all be listening to these days :0

Title. The slip in the case is dated 2005, and it was apparently produced in Knoxville TN. Last Breath is their name, album is called "These dreams became nightmares". It's a metal album. would love to know more about them, but there are several bands by that name, and none of them I found online are the right one.

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There was a time it seemed pretty common when a western-based artist had an album that released in Japan it would include one or more Japan only bonus tracks. I don't see this happening much anymore, thankfully, but most of these older releases never had digital versions or any way to listen to the exclusive songs besides dropping close to 40 dollars per CD to import them. Recently I found some much cheaper methods and went a little wild. Any recommendations based on this slice of my collection?

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