I ditched music streaming for my CD collection for a month — and I can't believe how much I missed it

I've been using CDs instead of music streaming for the last week — is it possible to go completely internet-free?
Stereogum

“I Lost A Part Of My Personality”: The Pain Of Losing Your Entire Record Collection In A Wildfire

When Jesse Kahn imagined what it would be like to be a father, he thought about music. He imagined introducing his future daughter to his favorite records. "I've spent so much time envisioning sitting ...
Ars Technica

One-To-One Copying of CD-To-HDD-Back-To-CD

I have simply never gotten around to cataloging my music collection...until now. I have begun transferring my CD collection over to Hard Disk for storage and play flexibility using Windows Media ...
ZDNet

Home data compression you can see

iTunes has rendered my CD cases obsolete A few weeks ago I realized that I had enough disk space - 1 TB - on my desktop to rip all my CDs as 320 Kb/s MP3s. I had also built a $50 DVD burner so I ...