How Many CD's do you own?

[amw]

I discovered to my delight that when I changed my iTunes language to French, they became "morceaux".  Perhaps it also works like that for other language settings.

And I'm lagging behind you with 18,286.

If you switch to "Album View" in iTunes, it shows you an exact count at bottom of screen - 1142 for me.

72,423 songs in 5,387 albums for me, although a box set is one "album", as is an EP/single. Not counting a couple dozen albums I've downloaded but haven't yet converted to Apple Lossless to add to iTunes. Also not counting the ~300 physical CDs I still own for some reason, which I guess I should eventually sell or give away.

[aleazk]

I don't own any Cds anymore. I listen to music through the various streaming services avaiable today. And it's a liberation. Also, I'm starting to stop using printed books and it's also a liberation. Also, I bought a tablet with pen and it works very nice; I take all my notes and do all my math 'n physics calculations on it... they look much more nicer than the ones on my notebook! So, no paper notebooks either. Hard drives? I use googledrive and it works fine. I barely use my laptop now. Just for writing latex articles and to make music concrete pieces.

So, today, it's just me and my tablet. 

[Mister Sharpe]

I don't own any Cds anymore. I listen to music through the various streaming services avaiable today. And it's a liberation. Also, I'm starting to stop using printed books and it's also a liberation. Also, I bought a tablet with pen and it works very nice; I take all my notes and do all my math 'n physics calculations on it... they look much more nicer than the ones on my notebook! So, no paper notebooks either. Hard drives? I use googledrive and it works fine. I barely use my laptop now. Just for writing latex articles and to make music concrete pieces.

So, today, it's just me and my tablet. 

You seem very strange to me (and quite possibly enviable)  It does sometimes seem to me that my soul is weighed down by books and CDs, but I think that's half the reason I have them, so it won't feel quite so free to go flying off somewhere from which it won't return...

Edit:  I will have to count tomorrow. 

[Ken B]

You seem very strange to me (and quite possibly enviable)  It does sometimes seem to me that my soul is weighed down by books and CDs, but I think that's half the reason I have them, so it won't feel quite so free to go flying off somewhere from which it won't return...

Edit:  I will have to count tomorrow.

If you love something, set it free. I will send you my address, you can release your collection there!

[Andante]

I stopped buying CDs about 9 – 10 years ago, what I do have must amount to about 2500 classical plus 300 – 400 Jazz and Folk, and of course lots of those that came with magazines such as BBC Music, Gramophone etc. I listen to the old steam radio quite a bit and also have a couple of Internet radios but the audio quality on those is very low but the choice of stations is formidable numbering in the thousands.
I can't be bothered with trying to read books on a PC or such due to failing eyesight so again rely on and prefer real books. Oh I nearly forgot my trusty old ZEN mp3 player which comes in very handy when away from home.     

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

While I'm at uni (for the next few years), I'll have to cease collecting CDs and go digital 

There's no way in hell though that I'll be getting rid of anything from my collection. Most of it will have to be packed away though, I'll only bring my most cherished CDs. There will be lots of "ripping" to do and I'll be restricted to YouTube, Itunes and the university library.

Luckily my score collection will come in handy for assignments   

I am quite sure the library at your university would have at least some kind of CD library which you could always rip to your computer, not to mention streaming services

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I have a number of CDs which are on a shelf. Most of them I am holding on to for someone else who doesn't have enough space to keep the physical copies. I am not a collector but I love to listen and it is much more practical for me to download music these days (cheaper as well) than buy CDs.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

CDs are like books to me,  I prefer having a physical item. Also with books, it hurts after a while to be staring at a screen trying to get absorbed into whatever the contents are.
Books seem more convenient to me for many reasons.
I like reading CD booklets too,  it's my kind of thing I guess 

Same thing goes with studying scores for me too I think 

Ah ok. I just sometimes find them a little cumbersome. I prefer not having 'things' around apart from necessities.

[Mister Sharpe]

If you love something, set it free. I will send you my address, you can release your collection there!

The collection totals 4,172 CDs, and 500 odd LPs.  The dup rate between our collections is likely to be very high.  You'd be getting a new girlfriend too - my wife will love you for unburdening us.  Actually, I shudder from embarrassment at sending it; Ghost doesn't have this?!...he actually kept that?!  

[71 dB]

I don't own any Cds anymore. I listen to music through the various streaming services avaiable today.

One day those streaming services will end or they will drop your favorite music and you'll be f#cked. 

[Chronochromie]

One day those streaming services will end or they will drop your favorite music and you'll be f#cked.

But until then we're saving hundreds of dollars and skipping the wait of many weeks or months for the shipping of CDs, sounds good to me. 

[Jo498]

Most of us had >1000 CDs before downloads and streaming became an option. So the money for them has been spent years or decades ago.

[PerfectWagnerite]

Most of us had >1000 CDs before downloads and streaming became an option. So the money for them has been spent years or decades ago.

If we had invested even 25% of what we spent on CDs on the stock market over the yrs we would have all been millionaires.

[Jo498]

Certainly not even if I had invested ALL I spent for CDs. I don't think I ever spent more than EUR 2000-2500 p.a. on CDs even when I was buying a lot ca. 2005-10. A decent guess for an average over the last 20 years is probably around 1200 p.a. or 100 EUR/month. [edit: I found some notes on my buying ca. 2010-12 that suggest that as an average this is probably too high because I bought far less in the 1990s and also in the last ca. 5-6 years and I don't think I bought so much more when I bought a lot to get such an average] The order of magnitude is certainly correct.

I usually saved/invested more than that but as I put this usually where the bank guy recommended it I lost money both in the dot-com bubble around 2000 and in the 2008 crisis. I should rather have bought more CDs...
Maybe a very smart investor can become rich over ca. 20 years, investing 150 EUR/month but I have my doubts and someone who doesn't have a clue about investing  and just puts 150 EUR/month in some investments/savings accounts the bank guy recommended certainly will not. And I have serious doubts that one can become rich by investing 50 EUR/month (which would be around 25% of my CD budget when I bought a lot)

[71 dB]

If we had invested even 25% of what we spent on CDs on the stock market over the yrs we would have all been millionaires.

Sometimes you lose money on the stock market. One of the stocks I have are at the moment about 5000 euros less than what I put in them. Thats a lot of CDs... 

[PerfectWagnerite]

Sometimes you lose money on the stock market. One of the stocks I have are at the moment about 5000 euros less than what I put in them. Thats a lot of CDs... 

I had one stock as my company 401k plan that languished for years around $50-$60 per share. Then it hit around 80 and I sold it. Now it is at $175... and I had 2000 shares of them. Now I know why I am not rich.

[Jo498]

So don't blame innocent CDs! "A cup of wine at the proper time is worth more than all kingdoms of the earth" and so is music!

[Ken B]

The collection totals 4,172 CDs, and 500 odd LPs. 

I spoke to Jill Stein. We demand a recount.

[SonicMan46]

I don't own any Cds anymore. I listen to music through the various streaming services avaiable today. And it's a liberation. Also, I'm starting to stop using printed books and it's also a liberation. Also, I bought a tablet with pen and it works very nice; I take all my notes and do all my math 'n physics calculations on it... they look much more nicer than the ones on my notebook! So, no paper notebooks either. Hard drives? I use googledrive and it works fine. I barely use my laptop now. Just for writing latex articles and to make music concrete pieces.

So, today, it's just me and my tablet. 

OH, you youngsters!    I'm a retired academic radiologist w/ plenty of CDs, but now reading most of my books and computer mags on my iPad Air 2 - have a lot of my music as MP3s on my old iPad Touch and newer iPad and also stream on Spotify and Pandora - however, I do miss those large LP jackets w/ readable text and also paper books and magazines - love the smell, flipping pages, and their look - 'something' is just lacking making this 'digital shift' in the last few decades less enjoyable for me.

Currently, I'm reading a new book on my iPad, i.e. Revenge of Analog (heard the author in a recent interview on NPR - forget which show?) - a real 'eyeopener' - the re-emergence of LPs is phenomenal, but the book goes into so many other 'non-digital' media w/ discussions on books (and book stores reappearing) and other 'brick & mortar' establishments - if you've gone digital in recent years/decades and feel that something is missing in your life, then this book is a recommendation - now I may start buying 'real' books again in the future, but will not return to LPs at this time in my life -    Dave

[NJ Joe]

My current iTunes library has 535 classical, 286 jazz, and 1530 rock/other cd's.

There's more of everything in hard copy in my basement, plus a few hundred vinyls. I probably threw out about 1000 vinyls about 15 years ago when my basement flooded.

Small potatoes compared to you folks!

EDIT:  I'm counting any classical multiple sets, box sets, etc. as 1 cd. If I counted the individual cd's I'd have around 1700 in my iTunes library.