How much music do you own?

[dfc]

How much music do you own and what genre takes up the majority of your collection?

I'm re-importing all of my music into my library as a different file type which made me think of this. It will be a long and tedious process as last time I checked I had over 3 weeks (continuous) of music in my library. I have since acquired more and was curious as to what you guys had.

I actually own the CDs of all of my records and have two 3'X4' custom built racks in order to house my collection. I attribute this to music being a huge part of my life seeing as I've been playing drums over half my life (18 years) and bass almost as long (about 15 off and on). I also currently work as an audio engineer.

What are you working with as far as a music collection?

 

[dfc]

BTW, most of my music is punk and hardcore, but I have some metal, old school country, a little bit of pop, some funk, R&B, etc.

 

[drainbamage]

I haven't tried to count, but I probably have somewhere around 250 albums, mostly CDs. I'm one of those old-fashioned people that still likes to have hard copies of things.

Genre-wise, it's mostly alternative of various sub-genres, starting with the grunge and 90s alt that I grew up on, and going to modern alternative/indie stuff from there. There's also some metal, classic rock, punk, prog/experimental, and trip-hop/electronic.

 

[Rivenin]

Same with the hard copies... i like having my CDs, DVDs, Video games, etc all around.

i probably have 30-40 records, i slowly collect those as they're just, expensive sometimes and you usually have to go out of the way for them.

Cds... prolly close to 150-200?
in my google play account it says i have roughly 10 days of music if it was continuous

oh, and types are all over the place, folk to death core to metal to punk to electronic to industrial...

 

[MaxStout]

Over 2500 CDs that I have gradually collected since the 1980s. Mostly progressive rock and classic rock from the '60s, '70s and '80s. Also, lots of electronica and ambient (Eno, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, etc.).

I recently took on the task of ripping every one of them to .WAV and storing it all on a 3TB hard drive. The project was an hour here, and hour there, for close to a year. If anything happens to a disc, I can always burn a new one.

 

[dfc]

Over 2500 CDs that I have gradually collected since the 1980s. Mostly progressive rock and classic rock from the '60s, '70s and '80s. Also, lots of electronica and ambient (Eno, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, etc.).

I recently took on the task of ripping every one of them to .WAV and storing it all on a 3TB hard drive. The project was an hour here, and hour there, for close to a year. If anything happens to a disc, I can always burn a new one.

Nice. I have a 2TB drive and all of the stuff was .wav. Then I had to reformat my hard drive and iTunes didn't recognize ANY of the songs. That's why I'm reimporting them as .aiff.

 

[MaxStout]

Nice. I have a 2TB drive and all of the stuff was .wav. Then I had to reformat my hard drive and iTunes didn't recognize ANY of the songs. That's why I'm reimporting them as .aiff.

At least AIFF is lossless. But if you want to burn CDs from those, the choice of burning software that will burn straight from AIFF is limited. iTunes can burn from them, of course, but Nero isn't compatible with AIFF.

I hear of people archiving entire collections in mp3 and shake my head. For all the time it takes, and the fact that huge hard drives are dirt cheap, I don't know why someone would not choose a lossless format, such as WAV, FLAC, APE, etc. You can always make derivative copies in compressed lossy for portable players.

 

[Picker]

I have about 20 Gb in various formats, mostly rock and blues.
Still amazed at how much I don't have from those genres. I always hear tunes and think "I have to get that"!

 

[dfc]

At least AIFF is lossless. But if you want to burn CDs from those, the choice of burning software that will burn straight from AIFF is limited. iTunes can burn from them, of course, but Nero isn't compatible with AIFF.

I hear of people archiving entire collections in mp3 and shake my head. For all the time it takes, and the fact that huge hard drives are dirt cheap, I don't know why someone would not choose a lossless format, such as WAV, FLAC, APE, etc. You can always make derivative copies in compressed lossy for portable players.

I've been called a liar for telling someone I can tell the difference between .mp3 and .wav. Ignorance is bliss I guess.

 

[dfc]

I have about 20 Gb in various formats, mostly rock and blues.
Still amazed at how much I don't have from those genres. I always hear tunes and think "I have to get that"!

Get to it!

 

[Picker]

Get to it!

Working on it!