What does your collection look like and how do you organize it?

[The new erato]

It's not how much you have that counts; it's what you do with it.

That is oh so true. I work real hard to get to know my CDs and try to limit purchases to 10 - 15 pr month, I find when I exceed this I will have to take a purchase break sooner or later to allow my listening to cactch up (I listen to existing purchases as well as new ones),

[Tancata]

Hehe...try to limit to 10-15 a month? You saint  .

[The new erato]

You can't blame a man for trying.   

[SonicMan46]

  I am humbelled by everyone's collection...far surpassing anything I have or could ever hope to have.  I think I have seen more classical cds in this thread than in some HMV and Virgin stores across the UK......now I am sure I joined the right discussion forum (who better to give advice on recordings than people with cd collections like the ones posted here!!)

Marvin - not to worry! I'm up to 3000+ CDs (and nearly a 1000 DVDs), but I've been collecting the CDs since late 1984, so believe me that your collection even w/ 'modest' purchases will accumulate - 

[marvinbrown]

Thanks guys and please keep posting those pictures  ....


  marvin

[SonicMan46]

To my eyes it is Don, it really is.

I'd have to agree w/ Harry - I do like looking at my CD collection - below is a pic I just took tonight - probably represents about 80% of my classical music collection; of course, an equal number of non-classical CDs are stored in places elsewhere in the den (and also in our 'computer' room - believe posted a number of pages back) - the 'small' storage unit above the briefcase & next to the books was just made from 'scraps' in my shop - now holding Bach choral works (of course there is room for expansion!  Need to add to my JSB cantata collection) -   

P.S. apologize for the 'flash' from the camera, much more subdued & warm - this is the view from my 'easy chair' - now listening to some Robert Volkmann Serenades - 

[Mark]

Thought it was time to show how my collection has grown. You'll notice that on the right-hand side of the picture, CDs are now gathering on the tops of shelving units and neighbouring cabinets. This is partly due to charity shop bargains in the shape of BBC Music Magazine cover CDs - I've made a commitment to try to collect all the ones I didn't get on subscription. It's proving quite a space-devouring exercise.

Time I stopped buying and started listening. I reckon I must have about 150 unheard CDs now.

[The new erato]

If  have more than 20 unheard CDs I stop buying. And I even listen to them twice - at least - before I move on.

[Tancata]

Time I stopped buying and started listening. I reckon I must have about 150 unheard CDs now.

I think you have more unlistened CDs than I have classical CDs .

[Mark]

I think you have more unlistened CDs than I have classical CDs .

I don't know how I acquired so many so quickly. I've always bought a lot of Naxos discs, simply to explore (cheaply) some of the more obscure corners of the repertoire. But my non-Naxos CDs now far outweigh the 260+ discs I have on that label. It's getting to the point where I'm not sure what to hear next: a newly downloaded album, or one from my shelves. But oh, what sweet dilemma!

[Tancata]

I think that would give me blood pressure problems...a built-in survival mechanism, maybe.

[orbital]

9291 "songs", 23.2 days, 160.8 GB

That translates to a couple of hundred CDs - and it's not all classical. Still, I'm only little  0:).

That should translate to much more than couple hundred CDs. Have you been ripping them?

[Mark]

That should translate to much more than couple hundred CDs. Have you been ripping them?

My thoughts exactly. I have about 3700+ 'songs' on my PC, and that equates to roughly 200 CDs.

[Harry]

At this moment my unlistened pile is reduced to 650. I listen to 8-10 cd's a day, so most of the time 55 a week.

[Tancata]

That should translate to much more than couple hundred CDs. Have you been ripping them?

My thoughts exactly. I have about 3700+ 'songs' on my PC, and that equates to roughly 200 CDs.

Yes, you're both quite right. I realised that a few hours after making that post, but didn't bother updating it. I own about 200-300 CDs I would guess (I haven't counted them and I can't be bothered - it might be a little more than that). BUT, there is also plenty of music in there I don't have a CD of. Things borrowed from friends, downloads (legal, I assure you) and various fragments of my own.

The stuff I have on CD is ripped and encoded losslessly, explaining the 160GB. The rest is in a hodgepodge of formats.

[Solitary Wanderer]

I'm amazed at you guys who have 150+ unheard cds in your collections

I just went through my collection and I have a mere 6!

[Mark]

I'm amazed at you guys who have 150+ unheard cds in your collections

I just went through my collection and I have a mere 6!

I think it was Que who said somewhere on the forum that when one sees a bargain, one has to grab it before it disappears. So it stands to reason that if one sees more bargains than one is able to hear any time soon, one will have an ever-growing mountain of discs sitting unspun.

[sidoze]

I think it was Que who said somewhere on the forum that when one sees a bargain, one has to grab it before it disappears. So it stands to reason that if one sees more bargains than one is able to hear any time soon, one will have an ever-growing mountain of discs sitting unspun.

Precisely. For several years I lived within a 15 minute walk of HMV Oxford Street (the one near Selfridges) and anyone who has been there knows that they have bargains and sales every day of the week. So exhausting was all this--I speak now also for my leather-skinned pocketed companion--that I started to observe the Sabbath 

Back at it Monday though

[Don]

I'm amazed at you guys who have 150+ unheard cds in your collections

I just went through my collection and I have a mere 6!

I probably have about 50 unheard cds at this point.  That's about average for me, and I don't mind at all.  What's important is that I have them for anticipated use in the future.

When I went to Europe for the month of June, I took 30 unheard cds.  Now they are all heard at least three times.  The one that impressed me the most was a disc of Dvorak's Quartet No. 14 in A flat major and the Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major played by the Psophos Quartet on the AR RE-SE label.  It's the one I was listening to while taking the railway train from Budapest to Prague.

[Iago]

Is displayling you "large" cd collections a subterfuge for displaying (what you think) are your rather large penises?
Something like a teenager owning/driving the fastest sports car he can.
Very macho, you know!!