[zdkaiser]

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.

 

[bigshot]

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

 

[Prog Rock Man]

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

 

[Signal2Noise]

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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9000 CDs, 15000 lp, 7000 78s,...

 

[baka1969]

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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?

 

[krmathis]

2-300 CDs and 70GB of Apple Lossless

 

[joomongj]

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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.

 

[KevDo]

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

 

[Head_case]

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

 

[racer_x124]

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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)

 

[Young Spade]

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

 

[hahahigh]

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

 

[zdkaiser]

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!
 

 

[dallan]

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.

 

[sgrossklass]

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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?