r/Cd_collectors

Disclosure: I made this. It's a paid Mac app, $4.99.

When I started DJing on CDJs, I wanted to burn my own CDs that worked properly on them: tracks that cue cleanly, mixes that play straight through, and the artist and title on the deck's screen instead of "Track 07". The burning tools I tried didn't get all of that right, so I built Pregap.

**Track names on the display.** It writes CD-Text from your files' tags, so CDJs that read CD-Text show the artist and title. So do lots of car stereos and hi-fi decks.

**Gapless.** It always burns disc-at-once, with no gap between tracks unless you add one. A mix split into tracks still plays straight through, with a cue point at every tune.

**Any file in.** FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3 and AAC. CD-quality files go to the disc bit for bit; anything else is converted to CD audio as it burns.

**No coasters.** It checks the disc, the running time and every file before it starts, and won't begin a burn it can't finish. Not something you want to find out an hour before a set.

**Native.** Written in Swift on Apple's own burning framework, so it isn't a web wrapper or a port: it's a 6 MB download, runs on Apple Silicon and Intel, opens instantly, and fits right in on macOS.

It works with any USB CD burner, needs macOS 14 or later, and has no accounts, no subscription, and no internet connection. Just a simple modern Audio CD burner.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/pregap/id6814982070

If you burn CDs for decks, the car or the hi-fi, I'd love to know what you'd want it to do next.

According to entertainment industry research firm Luminate, only half of millennials and Gen-Zers that collect CDs have a player!

I find that fact mind boggling, but then I see the number of bulk purchase posts made to this sub and I have to wonder if that's the case here as well.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-collect-cds/

Just kidding, I'm loving it! It's the Fosi Nano player, such a fun design! I got a magsafe stand for it too so it stands handsomely next to the turntable

My dad has been into cds for decades, probably about 40 years of collecting led to this. This is also smaller than it used to be, since about 30-40% of his cds got destroyed in a flood a few years back (which is why we installed these shelves)

Ps: this is the basement.

Very proud of my current collection, and I have more on the way lol- just felt like sharing :]

I'd never thought to go to one before now. If you have them in your area and haven't checked it out, I'd say it's definitely worth trying!

I didn't go back Sunday but decided to pop in today and was pleasantly surprised by a few decent things and them being only 50 cents each today.

Went in hoping to find a copy of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, ended up finding it and a bunch of classic albums :) very cheap too!

I’ve been collecting CDs for years and have never seen anything this absurd. Are graded copies really a thing people seek out? This is TGC levels of hype.

Got my copy of Guardians by The Crimson Armada today, so I decided to take an updated picture of all the CDs I’ve gotten in 2026 thus far!

I 🤩 online marketplaces. 30cts per CD is preeetty good.

Going through rows and rows of CDs and every once in awhile you strike gold. The Pretenders (83) and Mick Jagger (84) lots of hits and memories on these two for me when they were cassettes back in the day. Previous week I found Tony Carey's Planet P Project and Foreigner's Inside Information. So feeling pretty lucky and blessed and thought I'd share. The others are great also. You can never go wrong with Chris Rea (at least for me).