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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2010 at 11:01
My own: 15-20
Laying around the house: 100-150
What iTunes says I have: 403
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2010 at 14:40
290 CDs, 3 vinyls (Rick Wakeman's Six Wives..., Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick, and Allman Brothers' Eat a Peach).  The vinyls aren't albums which carry any specific meaning to me, but I found them all for cheap prices, so I figured why not. LOL  3 or 4 music DVDs now as well.
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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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 03 2010 at 21:06
I'm always fairly careful with my CDs.  The only thing I've noticed which is particularly destroyable is the cases.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2010 at 03:38
I own 10 cd's

...and about 400 vinyl's.
I find it ironic vinyl's endure the test of time so much better then cd's. I've got records from the sixties that still sound as if they were new, almost no-one has a cd of the beginning eighties that still works.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2010 at 03:45
Originally posted by Mr ProgFreak Mr ProgFreak wrote:


Originally posted by Hercules 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:Smile


I don't agree with you. I just got my first vinyl of Opeth and I finally understand for the first time what modern prog is about. The music started to sound 'alive'. No cd or mp3 ever reached this very important point for me. I agree it's only for a few among us to hear the difference between mp3 192kbps and the original cd, but the cd fails short in every aspect to sound as good as a vinyl record.

What your saying about the loudness war is totally true though. A loudness war did occur in the vinyl age, but to record louder on a vinyl it takes more space, so they had to quit because of the lack of space. But it's sometimes funny how much louder Kayak II sounds then Motherheads Ace of Spades (for example).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2010 at 17:49
About 250 maybe. Some dreadful ones (ie teenage bad metal, boring indie etc) at my parents' house which I can't quite throw away for some reason, a bit like the equally grim goth and psychedelic clubbing gear I'll never wear but can't get rid of... In Liverpool I have about 100 and rising... I haven't counted but know that they are far outnumbered by my books.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2010 at 20:00
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Direct Link To This Post 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.
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Direct Link To This Post 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.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2010 at 12:27
Originally posted by Kashmir75 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. Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2010 at 22:41
Originally posted by Nightfly Nightfly wrote:

Originally posted by Kashmir75 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. Wink

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).
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Direct Link To This Post 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.  
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^Yeah, that's what I'll be doing from now on. No more CD plastic wallets for me. 
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Direct Link To This Post 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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 20 2010 at 03:25
1162 CDs
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 20 2010 at 09:05
I haven't counted yet, but I think ther are 500+ CDs for now..
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Direct Link To This Post 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!


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Direct Link To This Post 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
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post 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.  LOL

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. Big smile


Edited by Slartibartfast - April 20 2010 at 12:01
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