Well, I love my vinyl records (I've got about 1500 in my collection), but that's in addition to the 2000 CD's and the 800 or so cassettes. I've been busy digitizing them (recording them, cleaning up the sound, splitting out to tracks, and converting to MP3 - and that's for both albums and cassettes). I took pictures of all my album covers and use my pictures for the album art, scuffs and everything. I've also ripped my CD's to MP3 as well. Because, well, I just can't listen to my vinyl in the car or walking the dogs or while camping, which these days seems to be where I do most of my listening. Alphabetically, I am almost through the S's and plan to have everything ripped to MP3 by sometime next year (and then I start tackling my dad's fairly extensive collection). I rip to both 320 and 128. The 128 goes on my phone, which has a 512GB micro SD card in it and I've currently got about 40,000 songs I take with me everywhere. And it's all a fun project. Both have their place.

But like RHarv, there's something about pulling out the album from the sleeve and keeping the sleeve at hand while you listen and read or just admire. Liner notes are readable (unlike on CD's) and the sound of the needle dropping down just, well, brings it all back.

I suspect once everything is ripped, I'll probably be getting rid of them as we downsize. They do take up a lot of space, whereas my MP3 collection fits on either a USB drive the size of a pack of playing cards, or an SD card the size of a dime.

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