Bulk CD Sell - where ?

PaulieC

Hi There,

I have a bunch of CDs (~1000) that I am looking to offload (as soon as they are all safely ripped and backed up). They are mostly of an Indie-ish bent and would cover most of the last 25 years.
Are there still shops about that buy secondhand CDs ? Or can anyone suggest a good way to get rid ?
(I would prefer to get a few quid for them than give away to somewhat cover the costs of NAS, harddrives and network music player).

I've attached a random sample of the content - what I've ripped so far

Thanks
Paul

SilverScreen

Gamestop take in second-hand cds and resell them, you can do trade deals with them as well. You could sell them in bulk on adverts.ie, ebay, DoneDeal or Buy & Sell as well.

Is there any particular reason you want to sell all these cds or are you just having a clearout?

PaulieC

Thanks. Just having a clearout and going fully digital

Mr Trade In

Gamestop give €1 credit for each CD,be that 1 disc or 4 disc, if you have box sets, multi CDs split them up,not sure on the cash value.

nlgbbbblth

Spindizzy, Georges St Arcade

UsedToWait

cambo_gueno wrote: »

Thanks. Just having a clearout and going fully digital

What format are you ripping them into?

From reading about, it seems the best thing to do if going fully digital is to rip them as FLAC, to give you an exact copy of the CD, and then you can archive that and compress them whatever way you want for portable music players etc..

I'm starting the process of re-ripping my collection to encode them in better quality (most are currently 192kbps mp3's)

As I'm keeping the CD's, I've decided the best quality / size ratio for me is to go with 320kbps mp3 at Variable Bit-Rate.

Testing one CD,
FLAC took up over 200 megs
320 kpbs mp3 at Constant Bit-Rate took up around 125 megs
320 kbps at Variable Bit-Rate took up about 75 megs


Bit nerdy I know, but if you have quality audio equipment, the difference is clearly audible between the different formats...

PaulieC

I'm just going for HBR MP3s as they are the most portable and compatible format. Probably 320 KBPS. I went through all of this before and use WMA format, but I found that I couldn't play them on various devices without conversions and then you end up with dupes blah blah blah

I've never looked into FLAC, might have a quick look now to make sure it'll do what I want

henryporter

Check if you have any SACD formats in your collection - apparently they're worth a lot more

paddylonglegs

Ah, I'v had this conversation before of getting rid of my CD collection, and I just can't...

Do i get rid of this huge part of my life? spending your hard-earned on a hardcopy of the artists music, looking through the artwork as you play it when you get home, then adding to the collection that you're building up. Almost every CD I have I'm able to put a story to where I bought it and why I was listening to this type of music at that stage in my life, being able to relate back to seeing them play live when I look at their album cover.

Then I think back to going through my dads vinyl collection when I was young and being introduced to the huge range of music . I probably wouldn't have had such a huge interest if it wasn't for being able to take out these huge 12 inch vinyls, with crazy artwork and think about the sound these guys were making 30 or 40 years beforehand. When I have kids, will they take the same interest if I have them on a hard drive or ipod, will it be fun or novel to flick through a load of file names to listen to some music, but not really connecting with the "style" of the band?

While I take full advantage of the convenience of my ipod and love it to bits, I'm convinced that visuals play a massive part of getting into a band, along with the music obviously. A tangible object to connect with the music is worth a lot more than you think...

PaulieC

yeah PaddyLongLegs, I've been through this myself, many times. But I have justified it now to myself. I'll be keeping a bunch of CDs that I really couldn't face getting rid of, like the Johnny Cash Unearthed boxset, but I've been listening to my music from my PC or ipod for such a long time now that having the physical CDs doesn't really mean that much to me anymore.

twowheelsonly

I'm with PaddyLongLegs!!!

Something that I've long felt actually. There was nothing better than buying a brand new 'LP', going home with it under your arm then sitting down and reading the album cover 100 times as you played it.
Later on it was much the same with CDs'. Sitting on the bus, ripping off the plastic and reading the enclosed pamphlet 100 times on the journey home.
Just going out to buy any of these was in itself almost a ritual, sometimes planned for weeks.
The joy of being the proud possessor of a signed album, either LP or CD was second to none (and still is!!) Out there somewhere is my LP copy of the 'Boy' album, happily scrawled on in January 1982 outside Jurys Hotel in Cork by four scruffs from Dublin that became quite famous afterwards.. What a feeling to own something like that !!

With the advent of digital, stuff like that doesn't really happen any more.
Click....Buy. Click...Download. Click....Read biography. And all because it pops up in a 'Recommended for you' box!!
I'll admit that it's great to have top quality recordings altogether in one place and available at a flick of your finger, but in 10/15/20 years time that's all that our kids will know and most of the music they buy will be practically 'force fed' by marketeers.

PaulieC

i used to feel the same, but these days when I buy a cd, I just rip it immediately and then it's put away in a drawer, never to be played. cds are just not the same as LPs in that way in the main.
as for the kids, you can't stop progress, unfortunately

SilverScreen

Even though I usually rip CDs straight away when I buy them I still listen to them quite regularly. CDs might not be the same as vinyl but in the same way mp3s are just not the same as CDs. If you have a decent audio set up there is a noticeable difference in the sound quality between a CD and an mp3, so any albums I have on CD I'd rather listen to them that way.

I also enjoy looking for and collecting CDs and vinyl and building up a nice collection. Although I still download quite a bit, because it's very hard to find physical copies of a lot of music I listen to, I will still continue to collect CDs and vinyl and I could never imagine parting with my entire collection.

PaulieC

It would be appreciated of people didn't try to make me feel worse than I already do about getting rids of my CDs
At this stage I'm thinking about just putting them in a box in the shed...

Mr.Saturn

e2 on College Green, Dublin, I think. I offloaded some doubles and whatnot, got a score for about 12 CDs of varying quality in the old Mullingar branch way back when. I think Chapters on Parnell St still take them too. Two slightly better options than what the likes of Gamestop are going to offer you. The Comic Book Guy in Blackrock market may be an option too, if he's in a buying mood. Obviously, you can bang them up on Adverts.ie, if you're in no hurry to sell them on.

ned rierson

ebay. i've sold loads on it

PaulieC

I thought about ebay, but the sale amounts are probably going to be too small when p&p and fees are factored in

moonboy

freebird records on wicklow street(in the secret book and record store) are usually pretty good too.

ned rierson

cambo_gueno wrote: »

I thought about ebay, but the sale amounts are probably going to be too small when p&p and fees are factored in

you add on p&p to the sale price. ebay regularly do no fees weekends. thats when i sell stuff on there. the lowest amount i've got for a cd is €4 and i charge €3 domestic postage and a fiver overseas.

PaulieC

I've stuck a few on the ebay to see what happens.