On all mainstream albums and many obscure ones, too, the names of the album and individual tracks will be correctly recognized through an online database, though in some cases you may be asked to confirm names if multiple matches are found. If you selected the Ask to Import CD option, a pop-up asks if you want to import the CD into your music library.

Now insert the CD you want to rip into the drive. If multiple titles are found on the internet for your CD after you insert it into the drive, you’ll be asked to confirm which one you want to use. DVD and Blu-ray players also can play standard CDs.

And you still listen to the discs on your prehistoric CD player, though CD-capable players are still available from brands that include Cambridge Audio, Marantz, Onkyo, Panasonic, Sony, Technics and Yamaha.

While you may not be buying as much - or any - new music on physical media as you once did, many of you have also proudly held on to your old CD collection. Of course, most music aficionados nowadays get their fix listening through Spotify, Apple Music or another streaming service. Sure, that’s just 3.9 percent of total revenues for all recorded music formats, but it’s the first increase for CDs in 17 years. Sales of the discs jumped 21 percent in 2021, to $584.2 million, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Yet just as vinyl has been undergoing a renaissance lately, it appears CDs have also hit the comeback trail. They were less glamorous than vinyl, less cool, less tactile, less sexy, less magical.” CDs “were never about romance - they were about function,” Rolling Stone contributing editor Rob Sheffield wrote in January. The sounds of nicks and scratches are part of vinyl’s charm. Compact discs may be less fragile than your old records, but music purists insist CDs can never match the aura of vinyl.

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