How Many CD's do you own?

[marvinbrown]

Now, if you like me have a rather small collection... 350 classical CDs is approximately 350 hours of music. These days 350 hours is what I have available in a year for serious listening, which I think most of the classical music I own deserves. On top of that I'm buying 50 new disks a year. So...

   I have about 400 classical cds which is very close to your figure Valentino.  I can relate to what you just wrote, I only have so many hours in a day to listen and I am now overwhelmed by the amount of music I have, but I keep buying more NEW music because I am discovering great works that I love by composers not in my current collection.  One method that I have used to try to curb the amount I buy is to pick the "best" works of each composer and to stop there.  Well this method failed miserably with so many composers (Bach, Mozart, Verdi, Beethoven, Liszt Wagner and recently Brahms) because its difficult to determine what is "best" and once you like something from a composer you always want to hear more from that composer, add to that the fact that my music tastes are constantly changing and growing....there does not seem to be any end in sight...I just don't know what I am going to do about storage?    maybe an ipod is the solution?

  marvin     

[Sergeant Rock]

I have about 400 classical cds and growing....there does not seem to be any end in sight...I just don't know what I am going to do about storage?
marvin     

I was in your position thirty years: I had several hundred LPs but knew my collection would soon outgrow my storage capacity. My solution? I married well. When my brother-in-law, a carpenter, asked me what I wanted for a wedding present, I said shelves, massive shelves that could hold thousands of records. He obliged me and that solved all my problems...until the CD revolution...

I still have the shelves:






So, the solution, my friend, is simple: marry into a carpenter family

Sarge

[Valentino]

You're making me drool again, Sarge!

marvin, we seem to be in the same boat. We are lucky in the way that we still have lots of music and artists to explore.

For myself I would like to add one point: Buying a disk, listening to it once, storing it and forgetting it makes it a bad buy. I have done some of those. I try to avoid them, and that's my main motif for being on GMG. I pray every night for my silver badge to pay for this leech-like behaviour.

[Harry]

You're making me drool again, Sarge!

And that is exactly the reason, why I will not post pictures my friend!

[marvinbrown]

I was in your position thirty years: I had several hundred LPs but knew my collection would soon outgrow my storage capacity. My solution? I married well. When my brother-in-law, a carpenter, asked me what I wanted for a wedding present, I said shelves, massive shelves that could hold thousands of records. He obliged me and that solved all my problems...until the CD revolution...

I still have the shelves:






So, the solution, my friend, is simple: marry into a carpenter family

Sarge

  WOW now that's what I call a collection!  So this is what it looks like when you have 1000s of cds and LPs and vinyl records ! I need to buy some more shelves since it appears that this is the direction I am heading in! Yes buying a cd to only hear it once is not a good idea and it has happened to me on a few occasions, sometimes I forget I have a cd and only when I go through my entire collection do I realize this.  Valentino as our collections grow we need to set up a data spreadsheet of all the music that we have and possibly a column titled Playcount to keep track of what we have listened to.  Yes it sounds tedious and unreasoanable but I can not think of any other way to truely benefit from all the music we will have in the future.  Once again GREAT COLLECTION Sarge 

  marvin     

[Harry]

Just like me insert a little card the size of your cd into the jewelbox, and put on the date of listening.
I did that for almost 35 years and it works.
Low cost solution.

[marvinbrown]

Just like me insert a little card the size of your cd into the jewelbox, and put on the date of listening.
I did that for almost 35 years and it works.
Low cost solution.

  Aahh so there is a method after all  .

  marvin

[Florestan]

Just like me insert a little card the size of your cd into the jewelbox, and put on the date of listening.
I did that for almost 35 years and it works.
Low cost solution.

Harry, doesn't that run the risk of not wanting to hear a CD anymore after you pick it from the shelf and see that you have been listening to it 261 times before?

[Valentino]

Sarge, why is Debbie Harry so prominently displayed?

[Harry]

Harry, doesn't that run the risk of not wanting to hear a CD anymore after you pick it from the shelf and see that you have been listening to it 261 times before?

Apart from the fact that I never listened to a cd 261 times, I listen as often as I can, and when I am in the mood. But the count does not decide.
I have to maintain a strict rule in what I listen too, otherwise it becomes quickly a chaotic situation.

[Harry]

Sarge, why is Debbie Harry so prominently displayed?

He has a life long crush on Debbie, didn't you know?
I also have my crush, see below

[George]

He has a life long crush on Debbie, didn't you know?
I also have my crush, see below

Oh, how that would make an excellent avatar, Harry!

[Harry]

Oh, how that would make an excellent avatar, Harry!

Yeah but somehow not really fitting to me, Tchaikovsky has extended rights.
But yes you are right she would be a excellent avatar.

[Florestan]

I never listened to a cd 261 times

Ah, yes, that was rather hyperbolic from me...

I have to maintain a strict rule in what I listen too, otherwise it becomes quickly a chaotic situation.

Well, I am an anarchist in this respect. I listen by the mood, and often change my mind in the last moment. I may sketch a playlist in the morning with Shostakovitch, Bartok and Prokofiev, and in the evening it'll be Biber, Tartini and Corelli.

The only time I've listened methodically it was the failed experiment with Mahler's Symphonies.

[Valentino]

But of course. I didn't know. Haven't been here long and often enough. Blondie's "Dreaming" is one of those songs that have stuck.
I had Rita Hayworth as avatar before the forum shift, but since I am male and like a bit of grooming and all things Italian I think Mr. Race car driver fits the bill.

As for my crush:


I'm hopelessly devoted since The unbearable lightness of being.

[Harry]

Understandably so, O, yes I understand, indeed beauty and brains!
Fatal combination in my opinion.
Have been a victim all the time.

[sonic1]

Haven't we done this before: anyway I have stopped counting. I have 1000s of CDs and 1000s of LPs. I have rid my home of anything that plays on tape (cassette) and lost my 8-tracks years ago.

I still regularly purchase LPs, because they are cheap and because lots of music (especially classical) is not yet released on CD or if it is, was done a while ago when the move to CD was of a lesser quality. As of this past year I finally got into downloading music digitally. It is a nice space saver, but I hate it. No liner notes and huge limitations on availability. If they are to catch me as a consumer, they need to replace the physical liner notes with SOMETHING. This is especially true with jazz and classical music. It suffices for music I am mildly curious about but don't necessarily want to put a lot of work into.

Jazz is the largest collection I have, second by a close call to classical music. My collection of weird electro-acoustic improv., and other art musics is catching up with the other two, even though the quantity released doesn't nearly match.

jared

[71 dB]

Just like me insert a little card the size of your cd into the jewelbox, and put on the date of listening.
I did that for almost 35 years and it works.
Low cost solution.

CD format didn't exist 35 years ago... 

[Harry]

CD format didn't exist 35 years ago... 

True, but I had the cards already in that time, attached to the cover with a paperclip.

[71 dB]

True, but I had the cards already in that time, attached to the cover with a paperclip.

Attached to the cover of LPs I suppose?

I was already 18 when I started listening to music actively and bought my first CD player and CD (S'Express - Original Soundtrack). That was in 1989 and CD was already a well-established format.