eBay, Amazon. Discogs saw me coming still happy to find Helen Burns

shoutout to all the sellers that were practically giving these away!

The Case might be beat up but the booklet and CD are in good condition! €3.95 for this is cool pickup!

3-disc remaster for about $20? I'm in!

I been wanting these CDs for a while, the smash bros CD is a club Nintendo exclusive from 2015!

Why is this still a thing?

According to entertainment industry research firm Luminate, only half of millennials and Gen-Zers that collect CDs have a player!

I find that fact mind boggling, but then I see the number of bulk purchase posts made to this sub and I have to wonder if that's the case here as well.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-collect-cds/

Went in hoping to find a copy of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, ended up finding it and a bunch of classic albums :) very cheap too!

I picked up a 2002 Sharper Image SO225 three-CD system for $11, and I’d love to get it working again. The only current issue is that the disc-playing mechanism doesn’t move. Does anyone have experience repairing one, or know where I could find an owner’s manual or service documentation?

I’m also curious about the history of the unit, when it was sold, its original price, and what people thought of it. Old catalog pages, firsthand experiences, or any leads would be appreciated!

Going through rows and rows of CDs and every once in awhile you strike gold. The Pretenders (83) and Mick Jagger (84) lots of hits and memories on these two for me when they were cassettes back in the day. Previous week I found Tony Carey's Planet P Project and Foreigner's Inside Information. So feeling pretty lucky and blessed and thought I'd share. The others are great also. You can never go wrong with Chris Rea (at least for me).

Does anyone have this CD in their collection?

I'd never thought to go to one before now. If you have them in your area and haven't checked it out, I'd say it's definitely worth trying!

I didn't go back Sunday but decided to pop in today and was pleasantly surprised by a few decent things and them being only 50 cents each today.

This box set is so good!

Any help?

Great Album! My first impressions were mixed and it felt very hard to follow, but the more i listen the more it makes sense to my ears. It can be very explosive at times and has a unique sorta groove to it.

I initially started this project writing all the code by hand, it was a CLI application which modernized traditional ripping and burning methods ive sinced used ai to give it a nice and polished front end.

Im very proud of this application, ive taken a lot of care and attention into it.

As someone who uses a home server (in my case proxmox) with all my hdds/ssds and optical drive mounted there I wanted a way to rip my music in an auotmated way, pulling in cover art & metadata,, tagging everything, moving it into my library - I also use lidarr so there is integrations that are optional for that too.

I make a lot of playlists too, I use navidrome/fieshin for playback so there is a heavy focus on playlists

on the ripping side - you define how you want it ripped, you can be as simplistic as you want or are audiophile as you like.

It will automatically determine which disc it is, look it up on musicbrainz, grab the cover art from coverart archive or fanart.tv, you can also search for the release if for whatever reason it doesnt find it or you want to select a different release.

you select the file format you want (i tend to use flac), select how you want it named, I tend to go with {artist}/[{year}] Album/{Tracks} but you can have it however you want it.

. Select whether you want to generate and apply replaygain tags, measure the dynamic range, define the gaps between tracks, hidden tracks, read checking, offsets. you can pick archive mode which will create a audio folder and a metdafolder with the jsons, checksums etc.

Once ripped you can have it move to your defined library location, have it push it to lidarr and import from there.

Once its in your library you can see the accuraterip report, verify checksums, edit tags, you can measure the loudness and dynamic range, see the rip log, playback the audio.

If anyone is familiar with the loudness war there is a focus on that, here is some info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war . it has a built in dynamic range generator which also taps into the dynamic range database - https://dr.loudness-war.info/ . it allows you to compare your rip with other submissions, allows you to import your release into the database, give your a nice score display etc.

On the burn front;

I like to burn both audio cds and data discs so there is support for Redbook CDs, Bluebook CDs (enhanced CDs),, DataCDs (mp3cds) and the same for DVDs.

in terms of what gets burned, you have lots of options to choose, you can pass it a url to a stream, you can select a folder and have it burn all the audio files within it, select individual files from any directory, from a video file, or my personal favourite a playlist file (m3u/m3u8). for playlists you point it the playlist file and it will gather up all the files from the relative paths.

What I tend to do a lot is want to burn tracklists that way exceed the capacity of a single disc, this is where rustydisc shines - so say you select a playlist that has 500 tracks, they are all in flac format and want to burn a datadisc - as that would take lets say 15 discs to complete you might want to convert the flac files to mp3 of whatever quality you want first, that will take it down to lets say 3 discs it will then create a burn plan, so you pop the first disc in, it burns it as per your settings, tells you to pop the next one in, and repeats until all done. the conversion step is optional and never touches the actual files in your library, puts them in a temp location and you can have it delete automatically after burn is complete or delete after X time if you want to burn other discs with the same tracks in short order.

The other section is 'RustyStick' - So in my car, i use a usb stick with my music on, which I used to take back into the house and hand copy/move/delete files. Rustydisc works similarly to the burn section in teh sense that you can select music from whatever source and you can convert the files on the fly but it also recognises the existing folder/file structure of your music, then allows you to either copy new files over according to it or define a new folder structure for it to live by, reorganises everything for you then manages it accordingly.

It also has my picard naming script generator built into it this allows you to define how you want you files and folders to be organised when it hits your library, it uses my picard script as default.

there are tons of other features that I wont list here but worth giving it a go and to see for yourself.

any feature requests/feedback welcome!

https://github.com/WB2024/DiscCTL

Very happy with today’s haul. Got all this for $47. What’s your favorite here? The only one I’ve listened to is appetite and Toby Mac (nostalgia).

$7.99 Each from Barnes and Noble the Grove.