Hey all

[Saiban]

I saw this forum and thought it looked really cool so I thought I'd join.

For a bit about myself, I enjoy fitness, gaming, and music archival. I collect mostly CDs but would love to move onto vinyls when I have the space. I'm also planning on starting an IT course later this year as I've always had an interest in it. Hope to help this place grow and get on with you folk.

[wris]

Hey Saiban!

I think a bunch of people on this forum are into physical music media. I bet you'll have lots to talk about.

[Melooon]

Hi welcome to the forum

CDs are great to collect these days, they are SO CHEAP in second hand shops and if you get an old iPod you can make really high quality portable rips too! What sort of music do you like?

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[Saiban]

I mostly enjoy jazz and city pop, even have imported some city pop CDs over, but I'll happily collect all genres if the music interests me.

[manpaint]

I too enjoy CDs - although I am more interested in software than music. Last year, I started to make some hand-crafted square CD covers. Most of them were for games that far exceeded the 700 mb, but I enjoy doing it regardless.

You probably already know this if you are a Windows user, but WinCDEmu is a great tool for archiving the content of CDs or simulating them.

[Memory]

Welcome to the forum. I've only been here a couple months and am really enjoying it, so I hope you have a similar experience.

I collect mostly CDs but would love to move onto vinyls when I have the space.

I tried to get into vinyl collection a few years ago, but was turned off when the copy I bought of David Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" had skips right in the middle of Ziggy Stardust, which is my favourite song of all time. So now the few albums I own are just decorative pieces that I have framed and hanging on my walls. They look great, especially my copies of "The Art of Drowning" and "All Hallow's EP" by AFI, but I'll stick to digital music for listening from now on.

[Melooon]

Ziggy Stardust, which is my favourite song of all time.

Thats a great song, and a very fair contender for my favorite song too! I remember being 8 years old in a plane flying in Cairo in early 2002; listening to that song on my mums walkman and seeing the pyramids below us and shouting out about it and between the headphones and the engine, my voice sounded like Ash in the opening to the first pokemon movie!

Ooph thats a bit off topic! Vinyls are a pain though, what a hassle, but its fun playing them at the wrong speed