How many CDs do you own?

Stuck in 375 - 400, have not count them recently

iTunes says I have 279 albums, but that's not entirely accurate because in relatively small classical collection a CD can be catalogued as two albums (i.e. Violin Concerto by Beethoven and Mendelssohn) and multiple CDs can be catalogued as one large album (i.e. Beethoven's Symphonies), and I also still have a couple of single tracks from eMusic free downloads or other single track samples downloaded from somewhere. eMusic has allowed me to get a lot more albums, although I don't even have time to listen to most of them.

Trademark wrote: I don't keep CDs anymore.  I buy music and if its on CD I sell it back somewhere as soon as I've ripped it.

That is extremely unethical. You might as well just pirate if if you're going to do that.

I don't know, too many though. Looking at my iTunes I'm somewhere in the mid-600s. I have a few more that I ripped to another folder and then some more that I haven't ripped. So 700 something. I'm trying to get rid of a bunch. My tastes have changed a lot since I really started buying CDs.

Around 400 CD's

I reached a collection of > 400 before the end of 2007, I think it was actually closer to 500, but I sort of hit a slump after that - just didn't know what to buy next. Then, in 2008, I discovered prog. I ended up selling or giving away near 100 of my old collection, but I've probably purchased around 200 prog albums since then. So probably somewhere near five or six hundred by now. (People who come visit me are always asking why I have so many)

Hercules wrote: About 100CDs, 2000+ vinyls and no MP3s; not now, not ever. (I really don't want to listen to something which sounds utterly s***e. CD is bad enough.)

Actually with proper bitrates (>192kbps) which are used by all the major mp3 stores today, you can't really hear a difference. And back in the 80s and 90s listening tests showed that CD sound is superior to vinyl ... it was ruined by bad mixes and re-masters of vinyl releases for a while, but those problems have long been solved. All that's left today is the "loudness war" ... but that is largely a choice of the artists and their record companies ... if they want their music to sound like that, then that's their choice, but please don't blame it on the medium.

BTW: Here's my collection distribution:

There is absolutely a difference between vinyl, CD and mp3 quality. vinyl is uncompressed sound, CDs are slightly compressed and mp3s are heavily compressed. I can deal with 320 kbps mp3, but 192 is definitely not comparable to CD.

I have no idea.  My best guess would be between 300 to 350 Cds, around 100 LPs, and throw in a handful of cassettes.

Far more than I need

Edited by T.Rox - January 02 2010 at 22:09

A few hundred CDs. 400 - 1000 LPs. About 10 Cassettes.