I’d rather burn a CD than look for the original
My wife asked me today if I knew where a recent CD I received as a gift was. I tried my best to recall its location but soon realized I had absolutely no idea where it was.
This may make me sound unorganized but the truth is that I didn't really care where the CD was. Whenever I receive a new CD (usually as a gift since I buy almost all of my music digitally now) the first thing I do is plop the CD in the CD drive in my computer and rip the music into my iTunes library.
Once the CD contents are in iTunes, I can transfer the music to my iPhone or any of the other iPods collectively owned by my family.
What about when I want to play a CD in my car?
Even if I want to play the CD in my car, I still don't need the original CD. The reason for this is that I would rather burn my own throw-away copy of the CD than keep track of the original CD.
There are other benefits to this as well. When my throw-away copy of the CD gets loaded with kid fingerprints or gets scratched from all of the mishandling and stops playing correctly, I just throw it away and make a new one. Hence, the reason I call them throw-away CDs.
Meanwhile, my digital copy of the CD stays safe and sound on my computer and in my Carbonite backup set.
As for the original CD my wife asked me about, I still don't know where it is.
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