Author |
Topic Search Topic Options
|
Tursake
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 15 2010
Location: Oulu, Finland
Status: Offline
Points: 382
|
Topic: How many CDs do you own? Posted: April 21 2010 at 06:22 |
Started buying CD's last fall so I've only got about 70 :S
|
Last.fm: TursakeX
RYM: Tursake
|
|
Kashmir75
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 25 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 1029
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 20:17 |
Wow, Abstrakt! I've been collecting for about the same amount of time as you, but I've only got around 300 CDs or so! I've a ways to go!
|
Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
|
|
Abstrakt
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 18 2005
Location: Soundgarden
Status: Offline
Points: 18292
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 15:54 |
Abstrakt wrote:
About 420 CD's, and maybe 60-80 LP's (i'm getting rid of most of them i think. LP's that is!)
|
About 450 CD's now Been collecting since i was about 12. Started seriously when i was 14 or so. I'm 17 now
|
|
Slartibartfast
Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam
Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
Status: Offline
Points: 29630
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 12:39 |
Dammit, I need to buy more CDs, shelves, etc.
|
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
|
|
The T
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: October 16 2006
Location: FL, USA
Status: Offline
Points: 17493
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 12:29 |
Update: 1560
|
|
|
Ethos
Forum Groupie
Joined: April 01 2010
Location: USA
Status: Offline
Points: 51
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 12:16 |
Around 1500.
|
"As sure as Eggs is Eggs."
|
|
tamijo
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 06 2009
Location: Denmark
Status: Offline
Points: 4287
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 12:12 |
4-5 hundred CD's - got about 100 vinyls left, gave away 6-700 to a young proghead friend , as i have no room for a permanent record player in my living room, an unknown amount on the PC - many recorded from my old vinyls.
|
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
|
|
Slartibartfast
Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam
Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
Status: Offline
Points: 29630
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 11:59 |
All my cassettes were ruined when my house flooded back in September. I had some good live stuff from off the radio. Most of them were copies of LPs that I had so I wasn't too upset about it. 1439 CDs more or less. More or less. More or less because if I have a box set where each disc is in it's own "jewel" case I logged in each disc. I've never done this for double disc sets though. Don't ask me why. By the way, I'd highly recommend doing a log for those of you who it's not too late to do so. I only started logging in purchase date or arrival date in 1999, but it's pretty cool to have a record of that. I've got a good music DVD collection going now.
Edited by Slartibartfast - April 20 2010 at 12:01
|
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
|
|
AtomicCrimsonRush
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: July 02 2008
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 14258
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 09:52 |
I cant count them all - but over 400 CDs
a huge amount of downloads
hundreds of vinyl albums
many casettes still!
a good collection of DVDs
one day I may count them and get a shock
|
|
|
thellama73
Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: May 29 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 8368
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 09:13 |
I haven't made any effort to catalogue them in a long time. I believe I'm somewhere in the neighborhood of 600-700 CDs.
edit: just counted. It's 740. More than I thought!
Edited by thellama73 - April 20 2010 at 10:43
|
|
|
latenighefog
Forum Newbie
Joined: April 17 2010
Location: Bangkok, Thaila
Status: Offline
Points: 35
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 09:05 |
I haven't counted yet, but I think ther are 500+ CDs for now..
|
|
lucas
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: February 06 2004
Location: France
Status: Offline
Points: 8138
|
Posted: April 20 2010 at 03:25 |
1162 CDs
|
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
|
|
SaltyJon
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: February 08 2008
Location: Location
Status: Offline
Points: 28772
|
Posted: January 05 2010 at 23:37 |
I used to keep mine in a CD wallet, but got out of the habit over the last few years.
|
|
|
Kashmir75
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 25 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 1029
|
Posted: January 05 2010 at 23:35 |
^Yeah, that's what I'll be doing from now on. No more CD plastic wallets for me.
|
Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
|
|
SaltyJon
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: February 08 2008
Location: Location
Status: Offline
Points: 28772
|
Posted: January 05 2010 at 23:25 |
My dad bought his copy of Dark Side of the Moon right when CDs started being released. It still works and plays fine now, and the only storage method he's used has been keeping it in its case on a shelf the entire time.
|
|
|
Kashmir75
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 25 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 1029
|
Posted: January 05 2010 at 22:41 |
Nightfly wrote:
Kashmir75 wrote:
My only problem with CD as a medium is that they can easily get scratched, leading to the disc skipping, or that your PC won't recognise it when you're trying to rip it to Itunes.
I've had to repurchase some of my collection, or burn replacement discs, because the aluminium layer has started to rot away, making playback impossible. I bought some of those plastic wallets to store my discs in, which may have caused the problem. The wallets were probably made of cheap plastic, not PVC, which probably oxidised the metal. So now I always keep my CDs in their cases and out of sunlight, etc.
Has this happened to anyone else? And which is more reliable and resistant to damage? Vinyl or CD?
Apart from their destructability, CDs are a great format. The sound quality is very clear. |
I've heard of cd rot but I thought it was only a problem asociated with the very early discs (early 80's). I bought my first cd in 1987 and it still plays fine and I'm yet to come across one in my collection that wont play anymore. perhaps as you say it was your storage method that caused the problem. I store mine upright in their cases.
To answer your other question, Cd's are more resistant to damage but in the long term I imagine a vinyl record that's been well looked after will have a longer lifespan. Like i said, none of my cd's are showing problems but I imagine they're not going to last forever. Ask me again 20 years. |
Yeah, I changed my storage method, which should help preserve their life a bit more. And I've got them all ripped to Itunes, so my collection has been preserved. But CDs are not 100% reliable.
I heard the companies claim a CD should last at least 100 years. I don't know about that. If well looked after, they should last a long time. But it's still a little too early to see if they are long-lived enough for archival purposes (the medium has only been around since the 80s).
|
Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
|
|
Nightfly
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: August 01 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 3659
|
Posted: January 05 2010 at 12:27 |
Kashmir75 wrote:
My only problem with CD as a medium is that they can easily get scratched, leading to the disc skipping, or that your PC won't recognise it when you're trying to rip it to Itunes.
I've had to repurchase some of my collection, or burn replacement discs, because the aluminium layer has started to rot away, making playback impossible. I bought some of those plastic wallets to store my discs in, which may have caused the problem. The wallets were probably made of cheap plastic, not PVC, which probably oxidised the metal. So now I always keep my CDs in their cases and out of sunlight, etc.
Has this happened to anyone else? And which is more reliable and resistant to damage? Vinyl or CD?
Apart from their destructability, CDs are a great format. The sound quality is very clear. |
I've heard of cd rot but I thought it was only a problem asociated with the very early discs (early 80's). I bought my first cd in 1987 and it still plays fine and I'm yet to come across one in my collection that wont play anymore. perhaps as you say it was your storage method that caused the problem. I store mine upright in their cases.
To answer your other question, Cd's are more resistant to damage but in the long term I imagine a vinyl record that's been well looked after will have a longer lifespan. Like i said, none of my cd's are showing problems but I imagine they're not going to last forever. Ask me again 20 years.
|
|
soundsweird
Prog Reviewer
Joined: December 08 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 408
|
Posted: January 05 2010 at 00:17 |
I have over 2,000 CD's, about 500 vinyl (LP's and 12"), maybe 150 store-bought cassettes, and about 150 cassettes that have songs I've taped from albums I later sold... the cassettes were all bought and recorded in the 80's, before I started buying CD's. About half of my vinyl LP's I keep for the artwork, though I have the CD's. Most of the rest have not been released on CD.
|
|
RoyFairbank
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 07 2008
Location: Somewhere
Status: Offline
Points: 1072
|
Posted: January 04 2010 at 21:34 |
hundreds? I only have about ... perhaps 30 CDs, more or less. I just bought It's Hard and Second's Out for Christmas. With the Napster pay service included, It looks like I have something like 300 albums on my WMP, but the data is in a real mess and it could be far more or far less in strict practice. I'd have to manually sort all the data into distinct albums and such and count it to get a good read. In any case, a good deal of data is deleted from the WMP every so often and new data brought in from Napster, so really there is no major limits to the amount of music I can listen to at any one time. The only limit is whether the artist has a Napster page. For artists like King Crimson, this is not the case. I own a greatest hits from them. If its not on Napster, or if I really, really like it, I'll buy the album. Unfortunately ease of access has caused my musical tastes to evolve somewhat mainstreamish, my major investigations last year:
Talk Talk Bob Dylan Eric Clapton Phil Collins Solo
You can see the progression from art rock to mainstream pop.
If I was buying CD's, I would have perhaps explored classical Prog more, but I admit to feeling a little hostile to the idea of modern prog, neo-prog and "foreign" prog. I'd rather explore old music that isn't prog then new music that supposedly is.
|
|
Morningrise
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 18 2009
Location: Buenos Aires
Status: Offline
Points: 2766
|
Posted: January 04 2010 at 20:00 |
419 cd's
|
|
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.