Your music collection

JD wrote: ^Tell the truth José, did you stage those front rows?

Fantastic

Nogbad_The_Bad 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. 

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - June 09 2021 at 16:33

CDs = +/- 450 albums
MP3 = +/- 400 albums

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: The photo's are from when we moved and I had refile them. They are actually in alphabetical piles from top left to bottom right. They are all now in cabinets in alphabetical order.

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

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.

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 .

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!