How Many CD's do you own?

[Florestan]

400+ and counting. Mostly classical. And around 350 LPs. Mostly classical, too.

[Harry]

My collection is strictly classical, no other music to speak of.
Last time I counted wrongly, the amount is exactly 7203 cd's, so there you are.

[knight66]

That will now be 7204.

Mike

[knight66]

That will now be 7205.

Mike

[Harry]

That will now be 7205.

Mike

How have you established the speed of cd's coming in Mike?

[knight66]

From your own thread on purchases....7208.

Mike

[Harry]

From your own thread on purchases....7208.

Mike

Well every time I find cd's not yet in my data base. And I did some cleaning up after the renovation of my listening room, so the figure is moving constantly! I think I stop counting altogether, what's the use. I am getting to old for that.

[Bogey]

Harry,
All in fun here I assure you:

Let us say you live to be 85....I would take that happily.

35....the years left after subtracting your 50  .  Multiply the 35 by 365 which would give you 12,775 days. 

You listen to music about 16 hours per day so that would leave you 204,400 hours or 12,264,000 minutes of listening pleasure to be had at this pace.

Let us say each cd runs 70 minutes (I am counting box sets as 1 cd....so you are gaining, or losing, listening time here. ).  Therefore you have 504,560 of recorded cd minutes on your shelf.  So, divide 12,264,000 by 504,560 and you get about 24.  So, if you stop buying now, and continue to listen 16 hours a day, you can listen to your collection about 24 more times.

Somebody please check my math!

[Harry]

Harry,
All in fun here I assure you:

Let us say you live to be 85....I would take that happily.

35....the years left after subtracting your 50  .  Multiply the 35 by 365 which would give you 12,775 days. 

You listen to music about 16 hours per day so that would leave you 204,400 hours or 12,264,000 minutes of listening pleasure to be had at this pace.

Let us say each cd runs 70 minutes (I am counting box sets as 1 cd....so you are gaining, or losing, listening time here. ).  Therefore you have 504,560 of recorded cd minutes on your shelf.  So, divide 12,264,000 by 504,560 and you get about 24.  So, if you stop buying now, and continue to listen 16 hours a day, you can listen to your collection about 24 more times.

Somebody please check my math!

I am impressed Bill and you know what, this calculation is making me happy.
Must have cost you quite some time huh?

[Bogey]

I am impressed Bill and you know what, this calculation is making me happy.
Must have cost you quite some time huh?

Yes.  You can still double your cd collection and make it through a dozen times my friend.  So, let the steamrolling continue I say!

Either way, Sarge better get on his horse and ride hard as well!

[Heather Harrison]

I haven't counted recently, but the totals are probably close to the following:

CDs:  2000-2500
LPs:  3000-3500
78s:  1000-1200
45s:  300-400
Music DVDs and Laserdiscs:  Approx. 100

At this point, probably about half are classical.  Most of the rest are pop music from before c. 1970 and world music.

Heather

[Bogey]

78s:  1000-1200


Heather

That's pretty neat.  What type of music here and how often do they get a spin?

[SonicMan46]

That's pretty neat.  What type of music here and how often do they get a spin?

Heather has amazed me at the number of these 'old' LPs & their predecessors that she owns (my BIL has about 4K LPs at the moment) - my main concern would be not to 'spin them' but to convert them to digital & place them on CDs (or DVDs), but WHAT at effort! 

[Heather Harrison]

That's pretty neat.  What type of music here and how often do they get a spin?

Roughly half of them are pre-1925 acoustic (no microphone used) recordings of whatever music was popular at the time.  This consists of pre-jazz pop music (basically a light classical style), early jazz/big band, ragtime, and classical, including opera - even a few Caruso records.  Caruso's rendition of "Over There" is quite interesting.  The earliest ones date to 1898 and are on the Berliner label.  Those are 71RPM (nominal) 7" records.  The other half of the 78s are mostly big band and pop vocals from c. 1925-1960, with some classical and world music and a few early rock & roll records.

Right now, my 78RPM turntable is sick (probably a power supply problem), and I need to either repair or replace it, so I haven't played them much lately.  I am thinking of replacing it with a fancy one that is designed for pre-1925 recordings and their varying speeds (like the 71RPM Berliner discs).  Once I get that situation taken care of, I will likely play them regularly, and I'll probably try to digitize some of the more interesting ones.  I play LPs regularly and still actively acquire them.

Heather has amazed me at the number of these 'old' LPs & their predecessors that she owns (my BIL has about 4K LPs at the moment) - my main concern would be not to 'spin them' but to convert them to digital & place them on CDs (or DVDs), but WHAT at effort! 

A few of the rarest ones have been copied onto CDs, but most have not.  It would be a massive task.  I will probably soon convert more of them, but I will certainly have to prioritize them.  Top priorities would be music that cannot be found on CD.  There is no way that I will ever be able to digitize all of them.

Heather

[Sergeant Rock]

Yes.  You can still double your cd collection and make it through a dozen times my friend.  So, let the steamrolling continue I say!

Either way, Sarge better get on his horse and ride hard as well!

I've only two-thirds the amount Harry has (around 5000 CDs of which approxiamately 3000 are classical) but I make up for it with another 5000 LPs. I also still have hundreds of cassettes and singles). I think I'm older than Harry, too, so I definitely need a fast horse 

Sarge

[Harry]

I've only two-thirds the amount Harry has (around 5000 CDs of which approxiamately 3000 are classical) but I make up for it with another 5000 LPs. I also still have hundreds of cassettes and singles). I think I'm older than Harry, too, so I definitely need a fast horse 

Sarge

Ride it fast and furious!

[LapsangS]

About three hundred cds...

[Valentino]

Some 650 CDs (350 classical), and 300 LPs (70 classical). These days I buy 1 non-classical disk for every 19 classical...

It has taken me about 20 years to build this library. I seem to have these hifi/music-bursts every 7 years or so. New equipment expands my musical horizon, it seems.

[marvinbrown]

Some 650 CDs (350 classical), and 300 LPs (70 classical). These days I buy 1 non-classical disk for every 19 classical...

It has taken me about 20 years to build this library. I seem to have these hifi/music-bursts every 7 years or so. New equipment expands my musical horizon, it seems.

  That 1 in 20 is an interesting ratio Valentino, it keeps you in touch with current non-classical music. I have not bought a non-classical cd in 2-1/2 years.   I walked into HMV on Oxford Street last week and I DID NOT recognize any of the new pop/rock/jazz artists......that can't good can it?


  marvin 

[knight66]

Age dear boy, age. Or as a famous judge put it....the effluxion of time.

Mike