Topic: Size of Music Collection AND Media Breakdown (Read 20419 times)

nescience · « **on:** 10 Feb 2006, 11:16 »

Hey kids, I'm curious to see which formats people are keeping their music in these days, and at what volume, so I'd like to hear the size of your collection in all the formats you have. I will start:

nescience
CD: ~1000
Vinyl: ~250
Digital: ~7500 tracks at 30 GB, roughly 250 full albums
Tape: 0
8-Track: 0
Reel-to-Reel: 0
DVD: 2
SACD (only, not counting hybrids): 0

edit:

When I say CD, I mean ONLY released CD, not albums stored on your computer that once were CDs, not personal CD burns or anything like that. If you have a CD-R you got at a show or as a promo, I call it a CD. If your friend made you a copy of Who's Next, that's a collection of digital files. If you downloaded (even legally) a copy of Who's Next, that's a collection of digital files. If your friend made you a mix, I'd probably call that a collection of digital files, but that's up to you. If a local band you know gave you their CD-R demo, I'd probably call that a CD. Use your judgement.

Anyway, if anyone else can think up any other media, go ahead and post. Well, on with it!

edit 2: realized I have a couple DVD-Audio discs

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #1 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 11:31 »

CDs - 262 (I am but a poor college student, and there's also a bunch of stuff out there that I don't really have a strong interest in buying)
Digital - 5163 (42 GB, no idea how many full albums)
All else - 0 (I don't have a good enough stereo system to justify buying a good record player, a good record cleaner and getting vinyl. I just have a Sony stereo reciever and a pair of NHT SB3's)

surgerydrugsnrocknroll · « **Reply #2 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 11:41 »

CD: about 10-20
Vinyl: about 5-10
Digital: ~1703 albums(95% are full albums), about 20,000 songs
Tape: 0
8-Track: 0
Reel-to-Reel: 0
DVD: 0
SACD (only, not counting hybrids): 0

i really should get a way to backup all my music,
cause at this point, if my harddrive crashes, i say goodbye to almost all of my carefully collected music.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #3 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 11:47 »

Quote from: surgerydrugsnrocknroll

i really should get a way to backup all my music, cause at this point, if my harddrive crashes, i say goodbye to almost all of my carefully collected music.

DVDs are probably my favorite choice. They hold 4.7Gigs of data. What more could you want?

surgerydrugsnrocknroll · « **Reply #4 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 12:27 »

it would take me about 25 dvds to backup my whole collection,
and im too lazy to do that.

im probably going to just buy a new harddrive(probably external) and just copy everything to that

jcknbl · « **Reply #5 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 12:41 »

CDs- Maybe 10 or so, bought my first two in a long time last week.
Digital-12,511 songs, on 54 gigs or so.

nescience · « **Reply #6 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 13:12 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist

All else - 0 (I don't have a good enough stereo system to justify buying a good record player, a good record cleaner and getting vinyl. I just have a Sony stereo reciever and a pair of NHT SB3's)

Understandable. I waited until after college to invest in a record player and buy vinyl. One note: I find that cleaning vinyl with soap and a stiff-bristle toothbrush is sufficient to make significant improvements in sound quality for tired and dirty records. Then again, "tired" and "dirty" can sometimes be a very good thing...

Kai · « **Reply #7 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 14:05 »

CD: A good 300 or so.
Vinyl: Oh, hundreds upon hundreds. Boxes. I mean, too many.
Digital: 17290 at 97.81 gigs.
Tape: Again, like the vinyl, boxes upon boxes, but even more boxes. Because it's the only kind that my car takes.

The rest at 0.

Mikendher · « **Reply #8 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 14:21 »

You guys are going to laugh, but:

Digital - 97

I'm one of those ultraselective people with OCD when it comes to music. I can't keep a song unless it's ridiculous and I never want to skip it.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #9 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 14:33 »

So, this is the music geek's version of "my penis is larger than yours".

Me and my dad's (I'm only 17)
CD: 3500+ Pop/Rock Ordered alphabetically from ABBA to ZZ Top about 300 Jazz /Bossa Nova CDs, about 100 "World music", 400+ Classical and some 200+ Modern.
Digital: 8 Gigs and about 25 Data CDs (soon to be passed into DVD)
Vinyl: About 500, some I have repeated on CD or Digital though
Tape: About 50, no tape player anymore though.

nescience · « **Reply #10 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 14:38 »

Quote from: E. Spaceman

So, this is the music geek's version of "my penis is larger than yours".

EXACTLY! I'm also interested in seeing the preferred media for different people.

sandocho · « **Reply #11 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 15:03 »

CD: Around 50
Digital: 3464 tracks, 47.92 GB, 257:49:17
Vinyl: 3
Tape: 0

edscoble · « **Reply #12 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 15:27 »

CD: 976 (counted them recently)
Digital: 9647 tracks, ALL legal.
Vinyl: 546
Tape: 332

the big irony is that I'm profoundly deaf, born deaf.

edscoble · « **Reply #13 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 15:28 »

Quote from: E. Spaceman

So, this is the music geek's version of "my penis is larger than yours".

I'm British, so I'm not 'ung like a horse, horses are 'ung like me.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #14 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 17:40 »

Quote from: E. Spaceman

So, this is the music geek's version of "my penis is larger than yours".

No, of course it's not... Yeah, okay, I'm probably only saying that because mine is profoundly smaller than everyone else's.

Kid Modernist · « **Reply #15 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 18:12 »

CD: ~150
Digital : 4000/20GBs
Vinyl: ~20
Tapes: 5ish
DVDs about bands or music: 6
Other: 0

Or we could cut the rest out and I could just say:
Penis size: 12"

nescience · « **Reply #16 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 18:14 »

The length of my penis is proportional to the number of CDs I own at any given time.

However, I am not at liberty to share the scale of proporation at this time.

edscoble · « **Reply #17 on:** 10 Feb 2006, 18:52 »

Quote from: nescience

The length of my penis is proportional to the number of CDs I own at any given time.

However, I am not at liberty to share the scale of proporation at this time.

ha, that's a nice respond mate.

McTaggart · « **Reply #18 on:** 11 Feb 2006, 00:18 »

Cds: a pitiful 28 but my new years resolution was to at least double my collection (from, like, 18 so I'm well on my way. I'll probably change that to quadruple in a few weeks).
Digital: 35ish, 28 of which I own on cd
Vinyl: 0, due to the lack of a record player or speakers worth playing records through.
DVD's: 0.
Tapes: 0, but I'm currently in the process of copying cds to tapes and making mixtapes because my car only has a tape deck.

ayePod · « **Reply #19 on:** 11 Feb 2006, 03:52 »

CD: 200
Vinyl: 150
Digital: 6000
Tape: 14
DVD: 16

wigfried · « **Reply #20 on:** 11 Feb 2006, 10:25 »

cds: 150 (slowly selling these off)
vinyl - 300+
digital - 25000+

LIVE!Forever · « **Reply #21 on:** 11 Feb 2006, 12:36 »

i have no room for anything but cds and i just rip them to my computer shortly after uh...buying them so basically one day all my music will be on my computer. i probably have like 75% on it so far.

digital : ~13000 songs, 61 gb

almost thursday · « **Reply #22 on:** 11 Feb 2006, 12:42 »

CD: like 3,000
Vinyl: 0
Digital: 50,000
Tape: at least 50
8-Track: 0
Reel-to-Reel: 0
DVD: 0
SACD: i don't even know what the fuck this is.

zoidbergslo · « **Reply #23 on:** 11 Feb 2006, 15:01 »

now let's see

CD: 36
Digital: ~5500 (28GB) (had about 70GB two months ago but deleted a lot albums that I don't find interesting)
and nothing else.

edscoble · « **Reply #24 on:** 11 Feb 2006, 18:51 »

Quote from: almost thursday

CD: like 3,000
Vinyl: 0
Digital: 50,000
Tape: at least 50
8-Track: 0
Reel-to-Reel: 0
DVD: 0
SACD: i don't even know what the fuck this is.

fool! you have no vinyl?? you're not even a He-Man!

Snail of Doom · « **Reply #25 on:** 11 Feb 2006, 20:02 »

My dad has a friend with a Terrabyte of music, and most of it's from his own CDs

The guy could start his own online music store for christ's sake

Edit: "His own CDs" meaning his personal collection, he doesn't have a band or anything

ozphactor · « **Reply #26 on:** 11 Feb 2006, 21:10 »

CD: 9, though I've been meaning to destroy these in some creative fashion. Suggestions?
Digital: About 400 full albums. Exact count: 4983 songs, 13.5 days, 26.68 GB.

Ficus · « **Reply #27 on:** 11 Feb 2006, 21:59 »

CD: ~230
Tape: 2 (Nevermind, and Cream's Greatest Hits)
Vinyl: 10

nescience · « **Reply #28 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 01:47 »

Quote from: almost thursday

CD: like 3,000
SACD: i don't even know what the fuck this is.

Really? You've got three thousand CDs and you've never run into a Super Audio CD before? Not even a hybrid? It's a format that currently competes with DVD-Audio in the high-end digital audio media market. Requires special equipment for playback (but I think a Sony DVD player works).

almost thursday · « **Reply #29 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 06:48 »

i honestly don't have any of those, altho i think i get what you mean now that you've explained it. you have to bear in mind that i'm a fucking idiot, tho, so i didn't get it at first. and edscoble, i'm sorry man. i've been buyin cd's since i was born, vinyl just doesn't do it for me.

zoidbergslo · « **Reply #30 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 09:38 »

what if is says HDCD on cd and it works with normal cd player.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #31 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 10:33 »

Quote from: nescience

Really? You've got three thousand CDs and you've never run into a Super Audio CD before? Not even a hybrid? It's a format that currently competes with DVD-Audio in the high-end digital audio media market. Requires special equipment for playback (but I think a Sony DVD player works).

I have a few hybrids but I just counted them in the CDs. I love my Dark Side of the Moon on SACD though

nescience · « **Reply #32 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 13:36 »

Well yeah, I think hybrids should count as CDs. It's a real commitment to buy an actual SACD and though I have an SACD-enabled player I have balked at doing so to this point.

As far as HDCDs, Wikipedia says that it is a Hi-Def CD format that Windows owns. I don't know anything about it other than what I skimmed from the article.

Borondir · « **Reply #33 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 14:44 »

Haha, this is like a contest for most music nerds, but I've never found a reason to keep music I don't like, so if I don't like it, I try to get rid of it somehow. I don't see the point of having a music library I will never listen too. I also try to mostly stick with legal ways of obtaining music.

CDs: about 220
Digital: 3700 tracks at 18 gigs, about 300 full albums
DVDs: one
Vinyls: like 2, but they're both at home...
Tapes: Probably 10 or so, I haven't used any of them in years

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #34 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 16:13 »

Quote from: Borondir

Haha, this is like a contest for most music nerds, but I've never found a reason to keep music I don't like, so if I don't like it, I try to get rid of it somehow. I don't see the point of having a music library I will never listen too. I also try to mostly stick with legal ways of obtaining music.

But, If you have more music your penis gets larger.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #35 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 19:42 »

Also, the more music you have, the more choices you have. I've gone through massive phases of not liking certain bands/albums, only to come back to them years later.

Technetium · « **Reply #36 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 19:44 »

I have around 250-300 CDs. All of it is copied to my computer (and then to my Creative mp3 player), so I also have around 2100 mp3s at around 19.1 GB.

sjbrot · « **Reply #37 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 21:56 »

CD: 700-800
Vinyl: 500
Digital: 1500 songs
SACD: 2 (Neil Young's Harvest= Good stuff. Elton John's Honky Chateau= Mandolins coming out of every corner of the room. MANDOLINS COMING OUT OF YOUR MIND.)
DVDs: 6 or 7

McTaggart · « **Reply #38 on:** 12 Feb 2006, 23:16 »

update: a pitiful 29 cds.

Cap'n Derk · « **Reply #39 on:** 13 Feb 2006, 09:14 »

So far...

CDs : 91 (just got my hands on a Silver Apples re-issue)
Vinyl : 23
Digital : 2830 tunes
Tape : 4, given to me by my dad (Dylan, The Cars, ZZ Top and AC/DC)
8-track : nil
Reel-to-reel : nil
DVD : 30-ish total, 2 music-related
SACD : nil

But hopefully, with access to both a kick-ass record shop and a sprinkle of OCD, I can build on this. Not helping is the fact that I have no internet at home at the moment.

sketchyjoe · « **Reply #40 on:** 13 Feb 2006, 09:49 »

CDs: 100ish
Vinyl: 1
Tapes: Probably a couple lying around
Digital: 21000 songs, 71GB, don't know how many albums.
DVD: 1 or 2

rive gauche · « **Reply #41 on:** 14 Feb 2006, 16:48 »

CDs: 78
Vinyl: ~30, they are at home.. and I am not.
Digital: 42 albums

edscoble · « **Reply #42 on:** 14 Feb 2006, 17:22 »

Quote from: E. Spaceman

Quote from: Borondir
Haha, this is like a contest for most music nerds, but I've never found a reason to keep music I don't like, so if I don't like it, I try to get rid of it somehow. I don't see the point of having a music library I will never listen too. I also try to mostly stick with legal ways of obtaining music.

But, If you have more music your penis gets larger.

don't encourage him!

edscoble · « **Reply #43 on:** 14 Feb 2006, 17:22 »

Quote from: almost thursday

...and edscoble, i'm sorry man. i've been buyin cd's since i was born, vinyl just doesn't do it for me.

vinyl has soul! they're big and black! it's... shiny!, I mean c'mon, it's shiny, all men like shiny!

Kai · « **Reply #44 on:** 14 Feb 2006, 17:23 »

Shiny... and big! Like your penis will be if you buy more vinyl!

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #45 on:** 14 Feb 2006, 19:00 »

Am I the only one here who isn't that exicted by the idea of a shiny penis?

Kai · « **Reply #46 on:** 14 Feb 2006, 19:21 »

rive gauche · « **Reply #47 on:** 14 Feb 2006, 19:34 »

Definitely.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #48 on:** 14 Feb 2006, 19:42 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist

Am I the only one here who isn't that exicted by the idea of a shiny penis?

Well, if you prefer having a dull penis... well you have the right to have a shitty taste in cock.

and to make this semi on topic, I now have less CDs because some bastard stole my bag with all my Belle and Sebastian and another 10 CDs.

nescience · « **Reply #49 on:** 14 Feb 2006, 21:27 »

I'm more excited about the prospect of having a penis with grooves in it corresponding to sound waves.

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Author Topic: Size of Music Collection AND Media Breakdown (Read 20419 times)

nescience

surgerydrugsnrocknroll

surgerydrugsnrocknroll

jcknbl

nescience

Mikendher

nescience

sandocho

edscoble

edscoble

Kid Modernist

nescience

edscoble

ayePod

wigfried

LIVE!Forever

almost thursday

edscoble

Ficus

nescience

almost thursday

nescience

sjbrot

Cap'n Derk

rive gauche

edscoble

edscoble

rive gauche

nescience