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How Much Music Do You All Own?

post #1 of 71
5/8/10 at 12:44pm
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How much music does everyone own? A rough estimate more or less...

 

What formats/media types do you all prefer? Can you ever have too much music? I cannot seem to stop acquiring it.

 

I currently have 602 gigabytes of music in FLAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless, and mp3s backed up three times on 3 separate 1 TB external hard drives.

I also own about 5500 CDs, and a handful of Vinyl LPs.

 

When is the collection complete? Will it ever be complete?

 

Opinions please.

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post #2 of 71
5/8/10 at 12:53pm
9000 CDs, 15000 lp, 7000 78s, 2 tb mp3
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post #3 of 71
5/8/10 at 1:04pm

I have about 500 CDs and an unlimited world of music over the internet.

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post #4 of 71
5/8/10 at 8:26pm

Holy s***! 

 

I only have about 1000 physical CDs. All converted to MP3 & FLAC. Sold all my vinyl (70's & 80' pop/rock) and have a few favorite cassettes kicking around that I need to one day convert to digital as they cannot be acquired on commercial CDs.



 

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I also own about 5500 CDs, ...


 

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9000 CDs, 15000 lp, 7000 78s,...
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post #5 of 71
5/8/10 at 11:26pm

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Originally Posted by bigshot  

9000 CDs, 15000 lp, 7000 78s, 2 tb mp3

Geez! I need to tour your music collection. LoL You have about, what, 10 tb of music in .wav format?

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post #6 of 71
5/9/10 at 12:28am

2-300 CDs and 70GB of Apple Lossless

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post #7 of 71
5/9/10 at 12:40am
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9000 CDs, 15000 lp, 7000 78s, 2 tb mp3


Holy mother of Jesus lord...you ought to post some pics of that collection.


Edited by joomongj - 5/9/10 at 6:11am
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post #8 of 71
5/9/10 at 1:37am

395 albums (CD) all are converted to FLAC.

 

The more music I buy and the wider my tastes/knowledge gets the more I realise I have next to nothing

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post #9 of 71
5/9/10 at 1:50am

I have almost everything I want on Spotify 

 

When it comes to proper listening - around 5000 CDs and 200 select LPs and a few Terabytes of Apple lossless junk.  Not counting mini-discs - my favourite high quality travel format. 

 

A single vinyl LP = 10 CDs = 1000 FLAC files = 1500 Apple Lossless files = 10,000 MP3s :D

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post #10 of 71
5/9/10 at 1:54am
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2-300 CDs and 70GB of Apple Lossless


Really? I expected you to have boat loads of tunes!

 

For me its also about 200 cd's and 70GB of MP3's mostly free stuff of the interwebs (mixtapes, bootlegs, etc)

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post #11 of 71
5/9/10 at 11:23am

Damn. I want to see pictures of these large CD collections :D

But I only have around 2500 songs right now. Trying to clean out the library and get rid of stuff I don't like so I can add stuff in the future. 

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post #12 of 71
5/9/10 at 11:52am

About 2,500 songs - only 25 GB on iTunes. Working on reripping in better quality format, and pruning the songs I never listen to.

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post #13 of 71
5/9/10 at 12:48pm
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I used to buy and sell a lot of my albums. Now, that I think about it, I should have never sold any of the CDs I bought. Keeping every album is sort of a musical journal (in a sense), that shows you how your tastes have changed (often times matured) over the years, and also reminds you of specific times in your life/people/places/things. That is why I have nearly 5500 albums. Then again, maybe that is too high an estimate. 4500 probably. Whatever. There is a lot.

 

Those times I sold albums I needed money to buy new albums. Plus, I doubt I would listen to much of it anymore anyways. I have been collecting albums since I was 12 or 13. So, I have 14years under my belt. I cannot imagine what my collection will look like when I am 50. Hopefully USB is still accepted, otherwise I am going to have to transfer terabyte upon terabyte of music files to a new HDs. It will be a major PAIN!

 

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post #14 of 71
5/9/10 at 12:56pm

Couple thousand CDs and over 8000 song files- 53.2 days but some are repeats saved on different external harddrives so you can cut that down by a quarter or so.  This is after twice in the last four years losing almost everything in hardrive failures too. Gotta admit though i scramble to make up some.  Only thing I couldn't really get back in the end were 15-20 full soundboard Grateful Dead shows due to the band stopping Archive.org from allowing soundboard downloads of old shows.

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post #15 of 71
5/9/10 at 2:51pm
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The more music I buy and the wider my tastes/knowledge gets the more I realise I have next to nothing

Ain't that the truth...
 

Foobar says I have a good 200 albums (with ~10 files per album) on disk, about 55 gigs in FLAC or 6..7 days. (There are some more that I didn't consider that great to rip them, plus a few dozen LPs that I "inherited".) I've had to delete things from my 8 gig Clip for months to make room for new stuff, in spite of the rather modest -V 4 MP3 quality setting that I tend to use. That's no fun and pretty much makes my current bottleneck, along with a full harddrive (upgrade is really overdue but so far I've been preferring to buy more music instead...).

 

It has to be said that I tend to buy only what I really, really like, with more input coming from radio shows and the like. Otherwise I'd already be broke by now

 

Those collections in the upper 4-digit / low 5-digit region are pretty amazing - I mean, that's like a YEAR or more non-stop. How much of that does one actually listen to more than once?


Edited by sgrossklass - 5/9/10 at 7:53pm
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