Best Buy to cease in-store sales of music CDs

[Angel_Bradford]

There was nothing like thumbing through the 45s at the record store!

 

[Angel_Bradford]

You may be able to donate them to a military organization to be sent to our troops overseas.

 

[ThinkingSapien]

I actually think they deliver the best bang for buck in terms of sound quality.

CD’s use a lossless format while MP3 and most MP4 use a lossy format (meaning there is loss of quality from the encoding process alone). You could raise that from a subjective statement to an objective one. That said, optical drives are not as ubiquitous as they once were. Like @michaelArc said,

I still have CD’s but I don’t have anything to play them.

I think that may be the case for many in the younger audience.

I jumped on the streaming bandwagon a year or so ago; the funny thing is, unlike buying cd’s, vinyl records, or even disembodied albums from the iTunes store, when you have a streaming service, it’s as if you have all the records in the world and none simultaneousl

I had the Zune service for a while (yes, I was one of those people). The thing I liked about it is every month I could select up to 10 tracks that I could keep DRM free, so my offline music collection would grow through that streaming service. I had started digitizing my music back in 1995. Data storage and encoding techniques were not as good then as they are now so I have some music I need to re-encode because it sounds pretty bad.

I like to use CDs in my car. It would suck if they stopped making CDs because then you have to fill your phone up with extra junk or lug along a MP3 player.

I’ve never used the CD player in my car. It’s about 8 years old. The car has a USB port which has a data drive connected to it with MP3 files. The CD player also supports file CDs containint MP3s. My sister’s car, which is 10 years old, has a compact flash slot in which she’s put a 512 Gig card with music. Hers also supports MP3 music. My mother has a car that’s now 17 years old with a 6 disc in dash changer. In addition to music CDs if she put’s a lot of MP3s on a CD it will play those too. You might want to try this out in your car. You may be able to get several albums worth of music on a single CD in your car. Then again a lot of computers don’t have optical drives with which to write to a CD.

 

[tomarin]

You may be able to donate them to a military organization to be sent to our troops overseas.

I got rid of mine long ago (though i did just buy one yesterday to have the album, since that particular title isn’t available from iTunes or Spotify).

 

[tomarin]

I think that may be the case for many in the younger audience.

My Play Station 4 plays blu-ray discs and (I’m pretty sure) music CD’s as well.

 

[Bataar]

I honestly can’t even remember how long it’s been since I purchased a CD or even listened to one.

 

[Potter]

The only CDs I’ve bought from Best Buy in the last 20 years have been bargain cds. ALl of my music has been either mp3s or used CDs, both purchased from amazon. The generic pop-rap stuff BB had was of no interest to me, anyway…

 

[JamalChristophr]

What’s a CD?

 

[Potter]

A certificate of deposit. The real question is, when did Best Buy try to branch into the banking business?

 

[lilypadrees]

If they wish to stop selling CDs, that’s up to them. There are other stores that sell them as well as purchasing online.

 

[Spyridon]

Dangit!

And to think, I was headed to Best Buy today to check out records, VHS tapes, super 8s, cassette tapes, atari games, and floppy disks!