Shop music

I have a box of them

Mike L

I have a lot of CD's and a bunch of albums still. I don't have anything left to play either one. I have a computer DVD/CD drive that plugs into USB that I used to copy all the CD's to my iPhone/Ipad, so I can listen to them. The albums I don't have a way to copy.

I am looking at getting rid of them all just to get them out of my way.

Mike

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dave nichols

have a 100 watt stereo receiver and a 100 disc CD changer in another room and speakers in the workshop. I set the cd player to random play and have music all day.

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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

I want to use my iPad for music in the shop. I want to play music of my choice and off line. Their appears to be many options. I also have a music CD player. Is looking for used cds worth the effort? Thanks

I use an old iPhone for music - either downloaded to the iPhone, or via an Internet radio app (Tune in Radio).

I have copied CDs using Mac DVD Ripper Pro (app) to a MacBook Pro using the Apple USB Superdrive (an add-on DVD player, since laptops no longer have integrated DVD drives).

Once done, either copy across to the iPhone with iTunes or MacFoneTrans (an alternate app).

You can copy across downloads from the App store as well.

I still have a Marantz CD player and a much-loved Thorens TD150 turntable for LPs. It is possible to copy to a laptop, converting analogue to digital. Do a search on the Internet for the software or (cheapish) digital turntables.

Regards from Perth

Derek

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Hank Knight

I have a bunch of '60s and '70s music on vinyl that I can't find on digital media. I've been thinking about investing in one of those cheapish turntables that convert to digital and downloading all of that stuff to my Laptop. I think it would be a slow process, but with COVID, I've got plenty of time, and it would be nice to have the music in my shop.

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Jack Dover

I have an external HDD hooked up to my wifi router that exports my music as a network share. I'm using VLC on iPhone, it supports playing music from a shared drive. iPhone is connected to a speaker over a bluetooth. I believe this saves a lot of hassle dealing with physical data carriers, dust getting into a player, extra space, extra cables, etc. A workshop isn't exactly an audiophile set up, so convenience beats sound quality. I also spend a lot of shop time in silence.

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Gerry in North Surrey

I have done this with a collection of early jazz. I fed the signal from the turntable to the computer using RCA connection, ran it through Total Recorder onto a USB stick and use it in my car. It is converting analog to digital and is done in real time, which can be tedious.

Gerry, grooving in the Columbia Valley.

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Bill Howatt

I converted LPs to digital using free Audacity. I set Audacity to record for about 35 minutes which is longer than the side of an LP. Started the LP recording and then walked away and did something else. Didn't have to worry about it since it will stop recording at 35 minutes. I then cut off the end of the track at the actual sound ending and save as an MP3.

This works well but the problem is that you get one file with the several songs that were on the LP side so you can't pick and choose the songs with your player just the track. You can edit the long track with Audacity and others to break it into individual songs but that is a bit time consuming but doable.

Bill

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walta

The modern thing to do is get wifi in the shop and join one of the music rental services and pay the monthly fee.

I have Wifi in the shop and use the “I heart radio” app with a Bluetooth speaker from my phone. But that is internet radio you select the station not the music.

Walta

Used CDs - bluetooth headphones

David Weaver

I have about 300 cds. compared to some people that's tons, and compared to others, I know that's not many. I gather their residual value (especially without cases) is about none, but there a used music and video game store at the bottom of the hill from my house that just has people pouring in and out of it, so there must be some market for used CDs (meaning you should be able to find them, too).

That said, my advice is to wear bluetooth pass filter or noise cancelling headphones in the shop. I have a pair of cheap headphones that will go 15 hours on charge, they have a high pass filter (lots of low frequency sounds are made much less loud, and higher pitch sounds are less harsh). You can turn the pass filter off if you want, and start and stop audio and change volume. That allows my music to reside upstairs or in a different room downstairs from my filthy working area.

you can also do things like listen to youtube remotely if there's something you don't need to see but will listen to.

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Curt Putnam

If there are no used record stores in your area check out DISCOGS. It allows one to catalog their library and to buy and sell both new and used.

I use Vinyl Studio to convert vinyl to digital. As has been said, getting just the track(s) of choice is tedious. I save as FLAC files and convert to MP3 for download to the phones.

After all that, I use a stupid low-end google speaker to play IHeart Radio over the internet in the shop - where it is just background rather than a serious listening experience.

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John Foster

I use my iPod some, and play a lot of vinyl. I love almost all music, folk, rock, country, gospel, baroque, old jazz, old blues, etc. . While there is a strong market for vintage vinyl for some artists in some genres, I can often pick up a whole box of albums at yard sales for a few bucks. The ideal shop music for me is a dusty disc with a few skips and scratches. Isn't it funny how when we were young we wouldn't have been caught dead with a Jimmie Rodgers ( the Blue Yodeler) or a Tennessee Ernie Ford album and now I realize that these guys ( and other non "cool" artists )made great music.

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Bill Howatt

You are now comparing them to what passes as popular music these days which, IMO, is technically over-produced, and frequently awful stuff. I know I drove my parents nuts with Elvis and the like but I really have a hard time understanding why the younger generations listen to their favorite stuff. Which brings me to my music definitions:

Good music - is what you personally enjoy.

Noise - somebody else's favorite music.

Bill

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Ellis Walentine

I have drawers full of CDs that never get played anymore. I've ripped them all to digital files that I play through VLC media player on a laptop hooked up to my living room sound system through a dragonfly DAC, which makes a huge difference in the sound. I can call out songs or albums, randomize, loop and save different playlists for different listening and social situations.

In the shop, I tune in to Amazon Prime music. It remembers my preferences based on songs and artists I've searched for in the past and delivers an unending stream of related things, under the heading, "My Soundtrack", to a little Bose Bluetooth speaker that is plenty good enough for shop background music. I used to use Pandora and Spotify, but both annoyed me enough to dump them. (Pandora doesn't play in Canada, Spotify somehow decided that all I liked was hip-hop, an they both cost me five or six bucks a month).

Ellis

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Jack Dover

It's only modern if you are subscribed to two or more streaming services, each having about 70% of your favorite bands. Also they should randomly remove content at random times and raise prices every 6-12mos. Oh, and their app should saturate your connection and crash your router every so often.