Your Collection

[mahler10th]

GURN:  They aren't specific, really, about what I can do. Can I point it at a folder on my hard drive and it well read and catalog via the IDv2 tags?  That's what I would want, not just reading the ID tags on my CD's. I suspect it will do that, but their blurb is non-specific about it.

The wee program has no problem with tags up to id3.x.     It can read tags from any media you point it at. 
But still, it is not classical.   

[Superhorn]

  My collection is uninteresting?  A lot of people has classical collections filled with the same old familiar masterpieces by Beethoven,Bach,Mozart,Chopin,Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov etc,
   But I have things likes Respighi's only symphony ,the "Sinfonia Drammatica," ,Rubinstein's "Ocean "symphony,
   the three Max Bruch symphonies( quite underrated works) ,  the six Chavez symphonies, the complete Josephslegende by Richard Strauss, Koechlin's Jungle Book complete, Szymanowski's Harnasie balet, the Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsdies,(not to be confunsed with the Slavonic dances), the Stenhammar Serenade in F for orchestra,
some Myaskovsky symphonies,the cello concerto and some string quartets, Taneyev's Suite de Concert for violin and orchestra, the Prokofiev Cantata on the 20 anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the "Color" symphony of Arthur Bliss,
the Bruch oratorio "Song of the Bell",  the D'Indy symphony no 2, to name only a handful of works you have almost zero chance of ever hearing live.
  Among the obscure but interesting operas I have are Roussel's Padmacvati,Nielsen's Saul&David, Enescu's Oedipe, Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, Il Guarany by Antonio Carlos Gomez, Zandonai's Francesca Da Rimini ,
Gwendoline by Chabrer, The Charlatan by Pavel Haas, Flammen by Erwin Schulhoff,  Doe Vogel by Walter Braunfels, Osud and The Excursions of Mr. Broucek by Janacek,  Libuse, The Kiss, The Devil's Wall, by Smetana,
Intermezzo, Friedenstag, and Die Liebe Der Danae by Richard Strauss, Langgard's Antikrist,  Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko, Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko, Legend of Kitezh, Kaschchei the Immkotal by Rimsky-Korsakov,The Demon by Anton Rubinstein etc.
   That's uninteresting?  Try some of these recordings ! Sheesh !!!  And I left our a lot of other ihnteresting stuff in my collection.

[mahler10th]

I think Bulldog was just tugging the bone.  Your collection sounds extremely plunderable, and you make reference to some works that have got me interested. 

Respighi's only symphony, the Sinfonia Drammatica, Rubinstein's "Ocean "symphony, The Demon by Anton Rubinstein

[Bulldog]

I think Bulldog was just tugging the bone.  Your collection sounds extremely plunderable, and you make reference to some works that have got me interested.

Yes, I was "tugging the bone", and Superhorn swallowed it.

My real point was that a person's collection reflects his/her own preferences; what that collection looks like to others means nothing.

[Bulldog]

  My collection is uninteresting?  A lot of people has classical collections filled with the same old familiar masterpieces by Beethoven,Bach,Mozart,Chopin,Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov etc,
   But I have things likes Respighi's only symphony ,the "Sinfonia Drammatica," ,Rubinstein's "Ocean "symphony,
   the three Max Bruch symphonies( quite underrated works) ,  the six Chavez symphonies, the complete Josephslegende by Richard Strauss, Koechlin's Jungle Book complete, Szymanowski's Harnasie balet, the Dvorak Slavonic Rhapsdies,(not to be confunsed with the Slavonic dances), the Stenhammar Serenade in F for orchestra,
some Myaskovsky symphonies,the cello concerto and some string quartets, Taneyev's Suite de Concert for violin and orchestra, the Prokofiev Cantata on the 20 anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the "Color" symphony of Arthur Bliss,
the Bruch oratorio "Song of the Bell",  the D'Indy symphony no 2, to name only a handful of works you have almost zero chance of ever hearing live.

I recently acquired the Boris Tchaikovsky string quartets on Northern Flowers - maybe you'd like to check them out.

[Scarpia]

I recently acquired the Boris Tchaikovsky string quartets on Northern Flowers - maybe you'd like to check them out.

Are they good (the quartets, not so much the recordings)?

[Bulldog]

Are they good (the quartets, not so much the recordings)?

Yes, they are VERY good and recorded in 1991.  Actually, I haven't heard any Boris that I don't enjoy.  For me, Boris trumps Pete.

Edit:  I was way off concerning the recording date - it's 2008.

[Scarpia]

Yes, they are VERY good and recorded in 1991.  Actually, I haven't heard any Boris that I don't enjoy.  For me, Boris trumps Pete.

Oooops, I missed "Boris."  I do have one release of Boris Tchaikovsky.

[Mirror Image]

The way this thread has gone, I have to say that mine is smaller than yours.   

Well, my CD buying has slowed down considerably this year so far. I just don't see a whole lot that I want right now and I own most of the recordings that I have wanted to buy. There are still a few stragglers that I haven't gotten around to yet like Wagner's operas, which will be some of my next purchases I'm sure. In terms of organizing my collection, this is still a work in progress. I would at least like to get all the composers in alphabetical order, but I would also like to get some larger storage cabinets like an armoire or something. I have many of them in filing cabinets right now and also in large plastic containers.

[Grazioso]

As for my CD collection, I have many thousands but decided that counting them up is a waste of time.  I don't catalog them either, just keep them in alphabetical order by composer.  Also, no listening log - I'm not interested in what I heard but what I'm hearing and will hear in the future.  I do have a few downloads, but they're not important to me.  Overall, my collection is perfect.

Storage can be a pain.  Many of my cds are in a large entertainment center that also houses my audio equipment; remaining cds are in closets.  As you all know, a well-decorated home does not show musical products or equipment.  That's why I kept my clarinet and sold my piano; it wouldn't fit in any of the closets.

This pretty much mirrors what I was going to say. Maybe 1 to 1.5k CD's (don't know or care the precise number), organized on shelves alphabetically. Space is a challenge. No digital files. No databases, catalogs, listening logs, logbooks, or logarithms.* I can easily find what I need as is. I don't buy too much anymore since I already have a comically large number of discs that will last me til Kingdom come. I haven't listened to all the discs I have yet.

As for content: mostly classical, then jazz, then rock and misc. My classical section includes most of the core repertoire and a good number of obscurities, covering all periods and genres. My chief focus is symphonies: 653 different ones by 119 composers so far. I will slowly add the complete symphonies of about 80 other specific composers. *This is the one area I do keep databases.

[mahler10th]

Grazioso:  ...653 different ones by 119 composers so far...

Not a bad estimation for one who has no mind to count his discs!

[Brahmsian]

I also churned out a printed, appendable catalogue and a 'list' of the works I have, which can be seen in this photo of my little 'drawer' of music.  The media device on display is not my primary one.

Well John, that is one way to CAT-a-logue!    Looks very much like our cat, Bunny.

[DavidRoss]

That's why I try never to read my GMG posts from more than, say, a month ago: it's really scary.

Wonderful...that means you're growing and learning at a phenomenal rate.  Just wait until you get out of school, Brian.  I think most folks go through the most rapid period of change, re-evaluation, and adjustment during their first two or three years out of school.  (Perhaps this helps account for why so many academics, who never leave school, seem stuck in perpetual adolescence.  )   And then there's having children....

[mahler10th]

Well John, that is one way to CAT-a-logue!    Looks very much like our cat, Bunny.

The Woots listening to Depussy.

[Brahmsian]

I had not done a count in a long time, but my collection is now as of today - 609

I'm quite happy with my collection, even though it is a merely pea-sized collection compared to some. 

[chasmaniac]

I have a cd collection, now that you mention it. 1,329 classical, 425 jazz and 414 everything else. I also like to cuddle and take long walks in the park. 

[Ataraxia]

When my external hard drive dies, I am in big trouble...

[Todd]

When my external hard drive dies, I am in big trouble...

Buy an extra one, or backup in "the cloud" (justcloud.com, carbonite, etc).

[bigshot]

My big regret is that my LP and 78 collection got scrambled three years ago when I moved. With about 15,000 disks, there's little hope of getting them back into order again.

[Ataraxia]

Buy an extra one, or backup in "the cloud" (justcloud.com, carbonite, etc).

Yeah, I might do that. They couldn't possibly both die at the same time, right?