I can't remember the last time I listened to an actual CD as I have everything on MP3 nowadays.
As a result I want to finally say goodbye to my collection of about 300 CDs - not huge but fairly eclectic and ranging from mostly mainstream rock
from 90's but some oldies going back 30 years or so.
So what's the best way to do this? If I take them down to my local record store (do they even have those any more?) I will probably get a rubbish
deal. If I stick them on eBay it would take ages just to list them and they would probably only fetch 50p each.
So what's the best way to do this?
Pretty much worthless in CD form. but I would like them in digital form!
Bung a list up here...... its what has been done before on clear-outs...
Got any 70's prog rock? ^_^
I saw an advert the other night (on Motors TV I think) about a company who buys cds.....all you do is type in the barcode of the cd and the value it
and if you go with it they send a courier in and pay you by return.
Sounds ok but could end up like 'we buy any car' ie they haggle on price once they've got them and only offer rock bottom anyway.
I thought about trying them with our collection as we're like you never listen to most of it!
The name of the company......now thats the problem cos I can't remember it, maybe cdmonkey or something like that. I'll have a google in a
minute
Found it www.musicmagpie.co.uk
[Edited on 11/11/10 by grassracer]
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Originally posted by grassracer
I saw an advert the other night (on Motors TV I think) about a company who buys cds.....all you do is type in the barcode of the cd and the value it and if you go with it they send a courier in and pay you by return.
The trouble is that just the simple task of making a list will probably take me ages - or is there an 'app' for scanning them with my Android? Hmmm ....
Bear in mind that if you write a generic copy/pastable description to save time, Ebay brings up the art work and listing automatically, all you do is enter the bar code.
I know because I recycled an album with no reserve, someone paid a penny for it and then complained about the price of a first class stamp (I paid packaging!).
for here all you'd need to do is lay them out and take is some pics - say 20 or more CD's per pic
(but then I want you to sell them here as I've got a few gap in my collection that still need filling :lol: 
)
I've just used the Android barcode scanner and it brings up all the info about the album (in this case a fairly obscure one) and lists all the
websites it can be ordered.
It would be great to just scan the lot and add them all to a text file that I can post up here.
What sort of prices do you lot think I should be asking for these?
I think i was getting £3-4 each CD.
I started down this road a while back and sold a good few on ebay, but by the time you've messed around posting them you need £4 a pop to be
worth it IMO.
I also sold a number on here which worked a bit better as people took multiple discs making the postage more effective.
Best results I've seen by far was a musician friend who took all 700 of his CDs to a car boot in Brighton. Boxed alphabetically and by genre so
it was easy for punters to browse. Asked £2-3 a disc and cleared nearly 400 of them over to boot sales. He figured what was left was worth less and
left them at the local tip for free.
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Originally posted by speedyxjs
I think i was getting £3-4 each CD.
) ; 
^^^^^ beaten to it by the dastardly Nick205 
I have thousands of tracks in MP3 format. If only there was some way of backing them up. Like an optical data storage disc. With a nice protective
case around it. And I can't be bothered with printing out track lists and cover art.
People mourned the loss of vinyl. I mourn the loss of the CD. I have loads that I could probably sell, but to be honest its not worth the hassle. And
I like keeping them.
I don't even have a CD player in my house, apart from the PC. And my car stereo is SD card only, not even a slot for CD. But I like them. Not as
much as I like my minidiscs though.
I've just had a look on Android Market and found a brilliant app called 'My Collection'.
It enables you to scan barcodes for all sorts of collectables and keep track of them (if you loan them out for example) but the best part is that you
can export the lists to an Excel spreadsheet! I just scanned about a dozen CDs and it found all of them, listed things like title, artist, recording
date, genre etc - really clever stuff!
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Originally posted by carpmart
Pretty much worthless in CD form. but I would like them in digital form!
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Originally posted by balidey
...But I like them. Not as much as I like my minidiscs though.
I've still got my old player some where..... Now on FS Section here
the annoying advert mentioned earlier is i believe for music magpie
http://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/?gclid=CIifl-aHmaUCFU0_4wodiy73Jg