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Poll
Question: How much classical music do you have in your music library?
Option 1: less than 3 hours
Option 2: 3-7 hours
Option 3: 8-12 hours
Option 4: 13-18 hours
Option 5: 19-23 hours
Option 6: 1-3 days
Option 7: 4-7 days
Option 8: 1.5 weeks
Option 9: 2 weeks
Option 10: 2.5 weeks
Option 11: 3 weeks
Option 12: 4 weeks
Option 13: 5 weeks
Option 14: 6 weeks
Option 15: 7-8 weeks
Option 16: 9-11 weeks
Option 17: 12-15 weeks
Option 18: .......quite a bit of music!
Title: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: deafeninglysilent_1.61... on July 21, 2013, 11:23:17 AM
Bonus question: Which composer do you have the most music of?
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: 71 dB on July 21, 2013, 12:26:53 PM
About 900 CDs. That's about 900 hours = 5-6 weeks.

Most music by Mozart, about 200 CDs worth. Then J.S.Bach (~150) and Elgar (~100).
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: The new erato on July 21, 2013, 12:27:08 PM
More than a years worth. Bach.
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: Todd on July 21, 2013, 12:40:10 PM
About 5000 discs, so probably around 30 weeks.  Beethoven accounts for perhaps 700-800 discs.  I stopped keeping accurate count last decade.
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: North Star on July 21, 2013, 12:44:24 PM
Around 10 weeks' worth. Beethoven & Bach, around ½ weeks of both. I don't think the options below 3 weeks are going to get many votes.
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: The new erato on July 21, 2013, 12:46:49 PM
Quote from: Todd on July 21, 2013, 12:40:10 PM
About 5000 discs, so probably around 30 weeks.  Beethoven accounts for perhaps 700-800 discs.  I stopped keeping accurate count last decade.
So did I. Safest that way. But I count (or estimate) CDs in meters of shelf space and arrive at an estimate of the unfortunate truth that way. Beethoven, Handel and Haydn are next up after Bach (around 300 discs) I guess.
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: Brian on July 21, 2013, 01:00:15 PM
On my old computer, I believe my iTunes library accused me of having around 6 weeks of music. And this was excluding CDs I never added to my computer's hard drive. So... a lot.
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 21, 2013, 01:00:29 PM
Not sure, exactly.  Vewwy woughly, I think near a year's worth.
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: Sergeant Rock on July 21, 2013, 01:01:16 PM
Counting CDs, LPs and cassettes about 500 days worth or 71.5 weeks.

Quote from: deafeninglysilent_1.61... on July 21, 2013, 11:23:17 AM
Bonus question: Which composer do you have the most music of?

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler

Sarge
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: Karl Henning on July 22, 2013, 02:08:05 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on July 21, 2013, 01:01:16 PM
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler

Sarge

We're working on the Henning.
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: Sergeant Rock on July 22, 2013, 03:30:07 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on July 22, 2013, 02:08:05 AM
We're working on the Henning.

If only you'd been hired by a prince to compose fulltime, like Haydn, or started to compose while you were still in diapers, like Mozart, I'm sure I'd have as much Henning as I do those two Enlightenment dudes. Alas, we live in a different time.

Sarge
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: Opus106 on July 22, 2013, 05:44:02 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on July 22, 2013, 03:30:07 AM
If only you'd been hired by a prince to compose fulltime, like Haydn, or started to compose while you were still in diapers, like Mozart, I'm sure I'd have as much Henning as I do those two Enlightenment dudes. Alas, we live in a different time.

Sarge

Not Haydn. Recording and music reproduction rights would have been with Prince of the Commonwealth, per the contract. No website, no Sound Cloud, no Headquarters (How dare you have your own place on the interwebs, Herr Henning?).
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: Papy Oli on July 22, 2013, 05:55:14 AM
Just gone past the 1500 CDs recently, so roughly around 9 weeks then...  Main one is Mahler (around 120-150 CDS on top of my head) if I don't count the Bach Brilliant Box (155).


Was talking complete and utter b@ll@cks... that's just gone past 1300 CDs "only", so around 7-8 weeks worth. On the other hand, Mahler is nearly 250 CDs  0:) ... what was I thinking !!  :laugh:
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: springrite on July 22, 2013, 06:03:41 AM
3000+ CDs, which makes for 18 weeks of music listening pleasure if I do not sleep for the entire duration.

My guess is I may have Bach the most.
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: SonicMan46 on July 22, 2013, 08:19:56 AM
Well, I just updated my classical database after over 2 years and now have over 4000 CDs - about 24 weeks worth - composers w/ the most discs in my collection would be Bach first and Haydn second - own no LPs or cassettes - Dave :)
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: kishnevi on July 22, 2013, 08:33:06 AM
Quote from: springrite on July 22, 2013, 06:03:41 AM
3000+ CDs, which makes for 18 weeks of music listening pleasure if I do not sleep for the entire duration.

My guess is I may have Bach the most.

Roughly the same for me (although I may actually be only approaching the 3000 mark, not past it).  Bach and Beethoven lap everyone else--Mahler, Mozart, Haydn, Vivaldi, Shostakovich would probably be the main players in the second pack.
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: dyn on July 22, 2013, 01:38:32 PM
2859 albums, 97 days, 214.78 GB according to itunes (note that i've opted to define multiple discs as part of the same "album", and not every "album" is a CD that has physically passed through my hands although most of them are)

the top 5 are apparently beethoven (42), bach (35), stockhausen (32), mozart (32) and cage (30) although for sheer volume of tracks the complete symphonies of haydn, counted as one album, are probably up there as well
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: classicalgeek on July 22, 2013, 04:51:24 PM
At the moment, 734 days, 11 hours, 40 minutes, 36 seconds.

This includes roughly 53 days of Beethoven, 40 days of Mozart, 38 days of J.S. Bach, and 26 days each of Mahler and Haydn.
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: deafeninglysilent_1.61... on July 22, 2013, 05:45:00 PM
Quote from: North Star on July 21, 2013, 12:44:24 PM
Around 10 weeks' worth. Beethoven & Bach, around ½ weeks of both. I don't think the options below 3 weeks are going to get many votes.

I put them there just in case!  8)
Title: Re: How much classical music do you have in your library?
Post by: deafeninglysilent_1.61... on July 22, 2013, 05:47:51 PM
Quote from: Papy Oli on July 22, 2013, 05:55:14 AM
Just gone past the 1500 CDs recently, so roughly around 9 weeks then...  Main one is Mahler (around 120-150 CDS on top of my head) if I don't count the Bach Brilliant Box (155).


Was talking complete and utter b@ll@cks... that's just gone past 1300 CDs "only", so around 7-8 weeks worth. On the other hand, Mahler is nearly 250 CDs  0:) ... what was I thinking !!  :laugh:

I'm considering the Bach Brilliant Box; would you recommend it? I believe that Brilliant Classics has several editions; the one I'm thinking about purchasing is the one here: http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Complete-Edition-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B0040T7CFS .