Your music collection

^thanks I appreciate it. I do have a few contacts but it’s nice to know that there are folks in the know here as well.
Regarding soundquality though: There’s no difference between FLAC and MP3 320
You can do a blindtest via Foobar2000 and many other similar platforms. Just remember to volume match the files before you do so. Or else the FLAC will be ever so slightly louder and effectively sound better. Louder always sounds better...even when we’re not registering the difference in volume.
I am a complete neanderthal when it comes to IT, but I spent a good amount of time down the Hi-Fi rabbithole until a friend of mine showed me the way out. He works at a professional sound studio and invited me in for some blindtesting sessions..and I am forever grateful. The FLAC vs MP3 320 though was something I did at home

Edited by Guldbamsen - June 10 2021 at 10:10

^I am fairly incompetent when it comes to computers
Merely going by what I remember my buddy telling me.

Guldbamsen wrote: That is basically what a NAS is (I believe).

I really enjoy reading this thread, and big thumbs up for the pics some of you guys are posting. I’m making some mental notes regarding my own situation and what I might go for. One thing’s for certain though, I’m planning on adding a bit of colour to whatever I decide to go for..or merely buy something peacocky from the get-go.

Regarding the more serious pitfalls of this hobby, I think I fairly early on learned my lesson via Pink Floyd. Up until that point I was a man (small boy) possessed with the idea of owning everything by my fave artists. I then bought The Final Cut and A Momentary Lapse Of Reason..and quite frankly didn’t like them. The latter was a pale imitation of the music Infell in love with over Delicate Sound Of Thunder whilst the former made me want to listen to The Wall. Once in a while I spin those suckers and always end up feeling the same.
Since then I’ve also opened up to many different styles of music...so space is limited...and perhaps more importantly: why would I want to own music that I never listen to?
That being said...I do know a few guys that own 7 or 8 “different” copies of Dark Side Of The Moon...and the rest of their collections pretty much follow suit....which basically is the secret recipe for entirely filling out a basement with but a mere 1000 albums

Progishness wrote: Sean Trane wrote: JD wrote: GOOD CHRIST MAN !!!!How do you even know what's in those piles? Helpful hint...if you can get your hands on empty photocopy paper boxes, cut them down to 5" high. Wrap a piece of packing tape around the perimeter (approx one third of the way down for reinforcement) and place the CD's spine up. Makes seeing what you need easier and they are stackable and easy to move. I use wooden 6 or 12 wine bottle crates and do not cut anything at all. This allows for placing other boxes above them and not resting on the Jewel cases or mini-lp formats.  Alternatively, you could wine cardboard wine boxes as opposed to those all-too fragile Xerox boxes. Much sturdier (designed for the weight inside and protecting it from shocks) and ready for moving out With a little DYI, those wooden boxes can be used as superposed shelves and the opened top of the crate downsized a bit to make an inner horizontal shelf . Well chosen boxes can make a quite decorative set up in your stereo/living room. You could license the idea to IKEA for a flatpack version!

Guldbamsen wrote: Lewian wrote: Honestly, I don't really get the attitude that it has to be something material. I mean, OK, I love a nice LP cover, and the discussion about what sounds better is legit, but other than that, music is for the ears, and I want to pay the artists for their imagination and work, not the company that puts some vinyl or polycarbonate plastic in my place. The world is too full of stuff anyway.  I agree with this almost word for word...yet keep buying cds. First of all I don’t trust the internet, external harddrives or a NAS. All those things can go wrong and have done so for me in the past. My buddy’s NAS broke down a little while ago and he lost a lot of music he supposedly couldn’t lose because of the bulletproof design .

Lewian wrote: Honestly, I don't really get the attitude that it has to be something material. I mean, OK, I love a nice LP cover, and the discussion about what sounds better is legit, but other than that, music is for the ears, and I want to pay the artists for their imagination and work, not the company that puts some vinyl or polycarbonate plastic in my place. The world is too full of stuff anyway.

I agree with this almost word for word...yet keep buying cds. First of all I don’t trust the internet, external harddrives or a NAS. All those things can go wrong and have done so for me in the past. My buddy’s NAS broke down a little while ago and he lost a lot of music he supposedly couldn’t lose because of the bulletproof design
Mostly I just like to pay the musicians properly for the music..which is naive I know...but hoping the dough gets to them via streaming services is verging on stupidity....and I don’t like the fact that music nowadays has become such an insignificant commodity that large portions of the world feel they don’t have to pay or support their fave artists.
In a Toyota Corolla world there’s not even a way to make the money back from touring, which is where most musicians have earned their keep during the last decade or so.
Truth be told it’d be so much easier if we just did away with money altogether. It’s a symbol of value, nothing more.

Catcher10 wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I'm totally nuts and a total hoarder. I have tons of papers, a lot of books, a lot of dvds so of course I have a lot of cds too. Would I change who I am? Nope. That said I do plan on downsizing and eventually selling some cds because I admit I have a lot of crap (as in cds that aren't that good). Also, I plan on stopping once I get to around 6,000 cds. They might even stop making them by the time I get close. Who knows.  Jeez.......6,000 CDs  So....... Figure 70min on a CD x 6,000 = 420,000 minutes ÷ 60 = 7,000 hours ÷ 24 = 292 days hopefully you have a lot of vacation days stored up!! . More realistically if you listen 5 hours a day you'll need 1,400 days to listen to all 6,000 CDs once.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - June 09 2021 at 21:02