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dr wu23 
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 Posted: June 08 2021 at 10:53 |
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Not a completist at all....I only buy it if I like the album and will play it. I make an exception if I get a good buy on something collectable like orignal prog or psych vinyl. I'll buy it even if the music is not up my alley because I know it's worth something to collectors if I decide to unload it.
I still look for that odd piece of used vinyl if it's in good shape but in the last 10 years I have become picky about what I buy. Sadly in the late 80's I dumped a lot of vinyl to buy cd's instead not thinking about the loss of the original vinyl....so I might end up buying first Allman Bros lp or Goodbye by Cream even though I have them on cd.
Currently have about 1,000 pieces of vinyl and about 500 cd's. I don't buy many new cd's except for a few favorites like Wobbler , IQ, KC, etc. I still look for obscure vinyl for fun (and profit) and soon will pick up Gracious! and Mighty Baby on original vinyl. |
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Mirakaze
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 10:42 |
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I own 478 CDs and CD sets, all stored on three Ikea shelves; the moment those become completely full is fast approaching and I'm not sure where I'm going to put the fourth one I'll inevitably have to buy... All CDs are ordered alphabetically by artist regardless of genre, and chronologically within artist subsections. Even soundtrack albums get filed under the (lead) composer's name. Classical music albums are tricky since most of them are compilations: I generally file them under the composer's name, and sort them chronologically (based on the first track if a disc contains works from different years); if a disc contains works by multiple composers I file them under the first composer listed on the spine, and if none are listed on the spine they go in the "various artists" section along with any non-classical multi-artist compilation albums. The most valuable item in the collection is probably a 4-CD box set of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Hymnen which includes a 200-page booklet containing intricate details about the composition, the process by which it came about and the madman who thought it all up. Cost me €70 in total which is the most I've ever paid for a music-holding item by a large margin. I do not own any vinyl but I am expecting one cassette to arrive in the mail any day now, which will then comprise my entire cassette collection. I guess I should maybe look into buying something to actually play it on... 🤔
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 10:26 |
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Probably about 3,500 but I haven't counted. I'll do that soon.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 09:59 |
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I posted this 16 years ago. The list is of course outdated meanwhile; lots of artists have been added. We digitalized our whole collection meanwhile. Revised and complete list of our collection; new additions in red.
The first list was off the top of my head. I also listed solo projects
of artists that played in certain bands seperately this time. This
especially refers to bands like Gong and Hawkwind. The entry for "Amon Düül" was split up into three, as should be done. Unless otherwise noted we have ALL of the official records of the listed artists. Aera |
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 09:22 |
I'm the same way. EVERYTHING is alphabetical regardless of genre. The only exception is classical music which has many artists. I own the music because of the composer so i sort by Mozart, Bach, Beethoven instead of whichever artists are performing. Various artists, soundtracks and spoken word albums (such as comedy) also exist in their own section.
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nick_h_nz
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 09:16 |
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I have no idea. I would guess around 2500 CDs, and goodness knows how many MP3 albums (though certainly far less than I have CDs).
I used to be a completionist when I was younger, but I gave that up long ago. I haven’t worried about having “everything” for about 25 years, and I’m very glad I stopped feeling that compulsion. Everything is in alphabetical order, because that’s the only thing that makes sense to me. I could never order by genre, as so many bands and artists either make music that takes in more than one genre, or have changed genre over time. That means whether it is classical, jazz, metal, hip hop, pop, rock or any other genre, it’s all in together, in alphabetical order. I thought this was normal until I came to this forum, and found people ordering by record label, or by genre, or anything else other than alphabetically. When it comes to MP3s, tagging does allow a lot more “organisation” so I tend to retag as necessary whenever I add to my MP3 library, but again am not too worried about genre. Rather I note the country of origin - so that I can quickly see what I have from, for example (in a recent post on the forum) Finland. Because I like to have my MP3s sorted in the same alphabetical fashion as my CDs, then I also amend the sorting tag where necessary so that, for example, Peter Hammill still displays as Peter Hammill, but is sorted Hammill Peter. |
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 08:45 |
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How big? Too friggin big. Last time i counted it was well over 10,000 albums. I'm overwhelmed and dreading moving
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moshkito
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 08:17 |
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Hi,
Still have 1500 LP's down from 3K at one time. The weight and the lack of a house that I own is a serious issue and moving is a pain! CD's are up to about 1500 now, although these will likely drop off considerably now that almost everything is downloaded, of which I already can count about 20 of them, but it will likely be 100 before the year is out. I'm not a "completist" at all ... I simply have the things that I love to listen to and anyone can pick out an album put it on and I will know what it is ... these days I might not remember the title of the piece, but I know the band and the album usually. Probably the one thing I cherish the most, was the 400 hours of Space Pirate Radio material going back to 1974, of which about 330 to 340 hours survived all the way to 1999 and 2000 and got turned into mp3's and Guy Guden, finally has a copy of all those for his delectation! The amount of music and the mix of things and the "mind melts" and the various insania that Guy included in his shows is above and beyond anything that anyone can do on "radio", when almost all of the shows around are just a top of the pops thing with favorites, and here, it is not difficult to go from Debussy to Tomita to Faust in one swell foop ... and it is great fun! These shows had almost all been done on 120 cassette tapes and the ones that made it to 26 years were all Maxell's or TDK's. The shows that did not survive? You got it ... some of them were on Radio Shack's toilet paper tape! But there are things I still don't know what they are and one of them is what appears to be one of those Miles' like horns doing something with eastern music, which is very meditative but on the jazz side of things ... I have never found that piece of music, and it is not Miles or some of the names that are usually listed with "eastern" influences in jazz. For that matter, that one classic pop song ... something like "ohh mau mau, oh mau mau .... " (similar to that) which I have never found out who it was! Other than that ... it is all here including some classic music that is not listed. At least 100 albums worth of those! C'mon ... you're not gonna have Bernstein's The Rite of Spring? Or one of Leinsdorf's Turandot's specially one with Nilsson and Tebaldi dueting their way to hell and back with Mario Del Monaco buried in the middle! Or Gigli doing Tosca? You don't love music, then!
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 08:03 |
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Mixed tapes were the best
 Half of the process was making them and fiddling with odd time-based maths in my head. Add a friend or two and you effectively get a small party. |
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Grumpyprogfan
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 07:34 |
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I'd say approximately 850 CD's. Storage will be an issue if I don't stop buying, but for now I'm good. If I don't like a CD I'll sell it. Maybe someone else would love it. I'm not a completist. I grew up with vinyl in the 70's, I still have maybe sixty albums but haven't listened to one since the late 80's and I don't miss the snap, crackle, and pop that you get no matter how well you take care of them. The best things about vinyl were the posters/stickers included, or the ones that folded out were great for deseeding weed. Loved it when CD's came out in the mid 80's and have never looked back. My turntable hasn't worked for a long time, bad belt perhaps. Back in the day, the first spin of vinyl would be recorded onto cassette and we would listen to the cassette over vinyl. For one, you wouldn't have to get up every 18 or so minutes to turn the vinyl over, clean it, yada yada. There was 45 minutes per side on cassette and it was portable. Gotta say I liked cassette's better than vinyl, never liked 8-track (too bulky). Mix tapes were the bomb. And the ones you made (if you had a decent deck) were better than the ones manufactured. However, I don't listen to cassette's anymore.
Cool thread, hoping to see abundant participation!
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Progishness
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 07:27 |
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I do have quite a few CD's (having dispensed with vinyl years ago) but the bulk of my collection is digital now (mostly in the the lossless FLAC format) - currently at around 9,000 tracks [my PC with its excellent soundcard and speakers has a hard drive dedicated purely to media]. Oh yeah once I get into collecting a particular artist I tend to be a bit of a completist, hunting out all the rarities. I do however draw the line at alternate takes, demos, and other 'work in progress' stuff, but anything that was more or less completed (except maybe for a final mix down) but was otherwise unreleased back in the day does tend to get me salivating at the gills.
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Posted: June 08 2021 at 06:56 |
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I noticed another thread on here that started down quite an interesting off-shoot. The music collection.
How big is your collection by now? Do you consider yourself a completionist? Cd versus vinyl...versus tapes and 8-track for the old school rawkers  Do you have enough room? Have you ever sold anything that you shouldn’t have? Do you have a rare apricot coloured vinyl copy of Tormato..and why won’t you sell it? Are you a digital only kind of guy/gal? Do you own a NAS..and does it work properly (my friend’s didn’t!)? The questions beckon..and I figure you have plenty more things to add to this, hopefully, very open kind of thread.I’ll start out by saying that I currently am reaching some sort of tipping point where I either need to stop purchasing music entirely, which isn’t going to happen anytime soon..or find a nifty solution with some cd-furniture. It was getting out of hand a year ago..and now it’s just like living in a messy music store...which I kinda dig but still...there are so much music I am overlooking because it’s hidden in strange dark places. In getting something like the abovementioned cd-furniture I will most likely alphabetise my music..and hope it stays in an orderly fashion! I still somewhat collect vinyl but it’s put on hold as 99% of all my listening is done over headphones...and vinyl and cans are just a poor match for my ears. The cds though are still coming through the door. I stopped counting a good while ago  Edited by Guldbamsen - June 08 2021 at 07:19 |
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