How big is your music collection?

JLM · « **on:** 17 Jun 2010, 09:21 pm »

How many LP's, CD's, downloads?

How many of them do you listen to routinely, occasionally, never?

How does your investment in music compare to what you've put into your equipment?

Sparky14 · « **Reply #1 on:** 17 Jun 2010, 09:27 pm »

Let's see, my spreadsheet says I have 1,432 albums.

I'd estimate that 500 of those are CDs. Rest are mp3, aac, etc.

low.pfile · « **Reply #2 on:** 17 Jun 2010, 10:32 pm »

Not big enough!

I noticed in iTunes last night that my library was in the neighborhood of 850 albums. I estimate that only 1% of those are digital downloads, otherwise they are CD rips to hard drive. My vinyl collection is meager--only about 80 black disks.

In Itunes you can turn on song "play count" under View options. Filtering by thay column I can see that some songs are blank. so I havent listened to probably 20% of my 850 albums. last.fm makes it clear what I listen to the most (since 2007 anyway)

What would a reasonable value for a CD/Album be? new or used? so average = $10? (I think I only have a couple of rare $25+ CDs and just surprised myself buying a vinyl album over $100 ) But lets round it off and say $9000 worth of music media. That's about 75% of the value of my music gear. Roughly.

Ronm1 · « **Reply #3 on:** 17 Jun 2010, 10:47 pm »

About 2500 lp's in storage
About the same # of redbook
300-350 SACD's/DVDa's

Very few media files in comparison, about 40

SteveFord · « **Reply #4 on:** 17 Jun 2010, 10:57 pm »

Large enough where I don't like moving. There's probably another 300 CD-Rs not pictured.
The albums appear to be multiplying since I took this picture.
As to cost, I have no idea. 25% of the artists get 75% of the playing time.

Berto · « **Reply #5 on:** 17 Jun 2010, 10:58 pm »

Up to 650gb, bout 26,100 files & growing everyday. All on a 2tb external, of course backed up on another external.

Have a Transporter (Modwright) has really opened my mind and ears to listening to more music then I ever dreamed of. Has definitely enriched this hobby of mine

mcgsxr · « **Reply #6 on:** 17 Jun 2010, 11:05 pm »

1TB of FLAC. 0 vinyl.

Airborn · « **Reply #7 on:** 17 Jun 2010, 11:33 pm »

800+ cds
1500+ lps
100 or so digital files--I'm just getting used to using my SB3 and its already obsolete.

decal · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 03:40 am »

How many,how much,how big,how long,etc.,etc.,etc.Why are people so intrigued with what others have?Just curious.

jsaliga · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 03:47 am »

3,120 CDs and I sort of lost track of how many vinyl LPs I have....but I would put the number at close to about 2,500

--Jerome

pumpkinman · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 03:48 am »

CD's 1500 give or take LP's 5000 give or take

Wind Chaser · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 04:01 am »

Quote from: decal on 18 Jun 2010, 03:40 am

How many,how much,how big,how long,etc.,etc.,etc.Why are people so intrigued with what others have?Just curious.

I agree. There's nothing wrong with talking about your latest purchase, but soliciting others for this kind of information is along the lines of asking 'How much money do you make?' Hopefully people will remember that this is an audio board or we'll soon be seeing questions like 'How big is your penis / your wife’s boobs?'

Wayne1 · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 04:01 am »

600+ vinyl albums
400+ CDs
6400+ albums on hard drive

Phil A · « **Reply #13 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 04:07 am »

Probably 350 SACDs/DVD-As and DADs and about 800 CDs. I guess I have a bunch (few dozen) of cassettes around too (many made when I had a turntable from a Mobile Fidelity or other good source.

Len_Dreyer · « **Reply #14 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 04:21 am »

Big, but not as big as some of these other mofos!

low.pfile · « **Reply #15 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 04:24 am »

Quote from: decal on 18 Jun 2010, 03:40 am

How many,how much,how big,how long,etc.,etc.,etc.Why are people so intrigued with what others have?Just curious.

Why? Maybe just to see if the AC'er are just as enthusiastic about collecting music as they are cables?

The OP didn't only ask how many but indirectly asked about listening habits. A fair question with those who have many thousands of albums.

Does it always have to be a who's stick is bigger analogy?

HsvHeelFan · « **Reply #16 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 04:29 am »

I have around 600 CD's. They are fairly evenly split between Classical (Beethoven and later), Jazz and Rock.

I have probably 50 CD's that I've played less than 10 times. I have 30 - 40 CDs that I listen to frequently, depending on my mood. The rest I listen to 5 - 6 times a year.

HsvHeelFan

mjosef · « **Reply #17 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 04:50 am »

Would take me 4 round trips to Mars Prime before I could play every album/track ...how big are your eyes?

rwdrey · « **Reply #18 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 06:50 am »

2530 CDs +++ ripped to Apple Lossless = 850GB. Music has never been so much FUN!

satfrat · « **Reply #19 on:** 18 Jun 2010, 07:15 am »

As of yesterday, I have 13,300 albums, all on hard drive, not counting thursdays downloads. I would say I haven't heard the complete album of about 90% of my library. Much of the time I sample the tracks, do the download, then forget about it. It's the result of downloading 3-5 albums each and every day.

I've probably got around 300 CD-R's that I've burned for the car but other than that, I'm totally computer audio.

I use J.River Media Center and it's favorite feature of mine is it's radio feature which will either randomly play tracks from your library or you can set up the radio to numerous parameter settings for it to follow. I use the random selection a lot for the variety.

As it is with my system, I don't keep track of the money drain,,, it's too depressing. I don't want to know.

edit: as Wayner mentioned a few posts ahead, my whole library is backed up on 2 exterior 750G hard drives while the main library is on one 1.5T interior hard drive. All my drives are Seagate, I'll use nothing but.

Cheers,
Robin