Your call of course, but imo, memories are not in things. Take a photo if necessary, then give them away to others or to somewhere so that others might get some pleasure out of them rather than them being just sat there taking up space etc.
my last car's cd player didn't work. almost all my cd collection is now on a mini sd card in my phone (nearly 30,000 tracks). i wanted to add bluetooth to my car. it would have cost under a tenner but my insurance company wouldn't let me. i also wanted to add cruise control (it's on the car's computer menu and needed a small and cheap control arm adding to the steering column) but they wouldn't let me do that either. anyway, i bought a gadget that plugs into the cig lighter, can pick up bluetooth from my phone and then transmit an fm signal that my car radio can pick up. very handy. i can listen to stuff from the internet too. i have to start the sound on the phone before i start the car, but it works well. the gadget allows change of sound source, pausing, and phone calls, but anything else i have to stop to deal with. well worth the money though. this kind of thing: currently only 12 quid: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07N767T35/?tag=not606-21 it can also take a usb stick with music on it. i'd guess that a bluetooth cd player might exist if you prefer. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTC6T5LN/?tag=not606-21
As the long running FNMT thread seems to attest to a high number of avid & knowledgeable music fans on this City forum, attached is a roughly 30 min video I just stumbled upon which may add some more credence to THE EXCLUSIVE 10%'s (opening poster's) observations about current popular music trends. Perhaps some may consider the attached video as a somewhat pretentious analysis with heavy bias by the compiler/editor of the piece, others may be interested in seing a catalogue of bands from the past, which I feel may span the music experience of a high percentage of forum members on here (myself obviously). Given my particular timespan of exposure to recorded music, I still get great pleasure from listening to tunes by artists posted on the FNMT which I have never heard before from many youger posters than me. Long may the FNMT continue.
I would imagine Napster, Grokster, Limewire et al, in addition to Youtube, aided you in building up your collection of tunes? Presumably mp3/4 formats?
if i can, i still buy cds. i'd rather have a physical thing. i can't imagine that i'd ever buy vinyl again. i have long used youtube as a jukebox, so when i hear of some artist that i maybe don't know about i can check out their back catalogue and see if i want to spend money on them. haven't used the others, but youtube usually delivers what i want to hear, even if i detest the people that run it. i think of myself as a music archeologist, especially of 60s stuff, but finding interesting new old stuff is getting harder. modern stuff isn't doing it for me, but perhaps in 20 years i might find i like 2024 music. in 2012 i ripped something like 1500 cd discs to mp3 using exact audio copy. at some point i'll do the vinyl (approx 500 45s and 500 LP discs), but that's a different thing because it's not just a file copy or conversion that takes minutes per cd disc. the mp3s take up 103gb at the moment, i used a 128gb micro sd card but changed to a 400gb instead to allow for future growth. i decided in 2021 that i had to make a start listening to all my collection. it was meant to be an album (or disc from a multi-disc album) per day, but i've not managed one a day. i've done around 880 in three and half years. i'm about 40% of the way through. i'm getting through about 21 per month.
i do about a thousand miles a month, so plenty of sitting in the car time. the cd on the current one works, but the glove box is ridiculous so i try not to leave cds in the car. if a podcast or something finishes i'll try whatever else, sometimes including the radio.
you may have a point, though not understanding japanese isn't a plus. then again, that sort of thing never got in the way with jacques brel.
Napster, Grokster, Limewire et al essentially disappeared after operating for maybe 3-4 years due to "copyright infringement" laws and Youtube & Spotify jumped in to take over the market. I must have spent a couple of hours 5 times a week searching and downloading tracks. The original software all have messaging functions, so met many music afficionados all over the world through conversations. Like yourself, I started digitizing my analogue vinyl, reel-to-reel and cassette collection to mp3/mp4 using a variety of sofware and "conversion" hardware units, but found Youtube was was far the more timely. A few years ago I estimated I had somewhere around 40,000 tracks in one form or another on multiple media but never completed full migration. Seems like 1 terrabyte of disk space could house 200,000 average sized mp3 tunes !! Having just recently downsized homes in the last couple of months and with most of my "physical" media stashed in boxes in the completely full garage, the project may well need to end up being completed by my son !! The love of music still remains in the family thank goodness. FNMT is probably now my best source for discovering new artists. Guilt - not really, logic being I've spent a fortune on purchasing stuff over the years (and attending live concerts etc).
dunno if anyone is interested in this, but when it's fnmt time, i search the folders i've ripped my cd collection to on whatever words i can think of that could be relevant to the week's theme. it's normal for tracks to turn up that i've never listened to more than once and may well have no memory of.
Good choice although they're all good choices. Have a look at their official live videos, no backing tapes or any **** like that, it's all their talent.
