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This year I realized the incovenience of having too many records when I had to move the entire collection from one room to another and the possibility of moving out of the house also emerged. It's still a bit over 1000 records (600 CDs/400 LPs) but I'm thinking about the future.
I ended up selling almost as many albums as I bought this year, I got rid of albums that don't mean much to me or don't represent a quality listen. I'm fine with streaming the albums I kept for the curiosity value alone.
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At first, looking at the topic, I thought it was about how many albums are great & enough for one band/performer... And I had a ready answer to it that I used to model the situation of legendarity, stardom, cultness by three examples, namely The Beatles, Queen and Gentle Giant. I think that 10-15 years is the limit for band's existence. When some members go solo time to time, I think 18-19 years is the ultimate border. 

Reckoning that it is fairly rational to make 1-1.5 studio albums a year, 18-19 albums are the limit. That's how I perceive it all. 


Speaking of the actual topic of this thread, I used to listen to any music including progressive rock (including my favourite Gentle Giant) in 128/44 tagless mp3. I think this exact format ought to be considered legally free for any music by any authors (like I think that 320*240 800 Kbps videos of any movies ought to be considered legally free for anyone, too). 

To my humble mind, DVD and nice quality Audio CD are two final columns that need no improvement. Hyper 2234-channel Flu-Ray et al is not for me. Just a personal opinion. 

And so, my personal decision and solution is: free low-quality audio or possibly rather expensive good quality SHM-CD or whatever else. 

Then, how many albums depends on the way of thinking, way of listening, way of processing of what you've just listened to. I'd say that 2,000-3,000 LPs (perhaps including the individually made compilations) is the total summit covering practically everything I need to know and listen to. 

Again, thoughts may differ. And that's great! 
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That is a difficult question and depends on the individual. I have many albums/recordings that I use strictly for reference purposes, be it for recording techniques, the musical development of an artist or just to support a favorite artist that has put out a new album, even if I don't particularly like the direction that the music is going in. Needless to say, I rarely listen to these albums but I'm glad that I have them.
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I've probably owned MAYBE 1,000 discs in my entire 32 year life, lmao. My current collection is at about 200 discs. Nothing compared to some! I enjoy 100% of those 200, though Wink.

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I’ve stopped thinking of my collection as a collection and started thinking of it as a library. Libraries have a ton of books no one checks out, but the fact that they’re available anyway has value too. I’m not a hoarder either - I don’t buy stuffI don’t expect I’ll want to hear, but I do like the “library” to be fairly comprehensive within certain bounds. Now that I’m staying home a lot more, I am finding time to dig fairly deep.
So it may seem wasteful to some, but it’s been a fulfilling hobby my whole life.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I’ve stopped thinking of my collection as a collection and started thinking of it as a library. Libraries have a ton of books no one checks out, but the fact that they’re available anyway has value too. I’m not a hoarder either - I don’t buy stuffI don’t expect I’ll want to hear, but I do like the “library” to be fairly comprehensive within certain bounds. Now that I’m staying home a lot more, I am finding time to dig fairly deep.
So it may seem wasteful to some, but it’s been a fulfilling hobby my whole life.
yeah, the "library" tag definitely works.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I’ve stopped thinking of my collection as a collection and started thinking of it as a library. Libraries have a ton of books no one checks out, but the fact that they’re available anyway has value too. I’m not a hoarder either - I don’t buy stuffI don’t expect I’ll want to hear, but I do like the “library” to be fairly comprehensive within certain bounds. Now that I’m staying home a lot more, I am finding time to dig fairly deep.
So it may seem wasteful to some, but it’s been a fulfilling hobby my whole life.


Works for me, good definition, I'll use that, mines around 2000 albums but 1/3 is on hard drives.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I’ve stopped thinking of my collection as a collection and started thinking of it as a library. Libraries have a ton of books no one checks out, but the fact that they’re available anyway has value too. I’m not a hoarder either - I don’t buy stuffI don’t expect I’ll want to hear, but I do like the “library” to be fairly comprehensive within certain bounds. Now that I’m staying home a lot more, I am finding time to dig fairly deep.
So it may seem wasteful to some, but it’s been a fulfilling hobby my whole life.

I'm curious what people consider a lot though. To some over 500 is a lot. To others over 5,000 is but some might think that's not that much. For me personally it's up to the individual. If you don't intend to play a good chunk of what you have then you have to much but as was stated if you want to look at it as a collector or as a library then I guess it doesn't really matter. As long as no one feels their collection is just taking up space then it's probably not a big deal.
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^ I guess it depends on how much time you can dedicate to listen to music or if you don't mind having unplayed records in your collection (which I do). For me 500 wasn't enough, I could easily listen to my whole collection in less than a year.
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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

^ I guess it depends on how much time you can dedicate to listen to music or if you don't mind having unplayed records in your collection (which I do). For me 500 wasn't enough, I could easily listen to my whole collection in less than a year.

How about 5,000? LOL
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

^ I guess it depends on how much time you can dedicate to listen to music or if you don't mind having unplayed records in your collection (which I do). For me 500 wasn't enough, I could easily listen to my whole collection in less than a year.

How about 5,000? LOL
Yep! 5,000 sounds about right. Smile


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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I’ve stopped thinking of my collection as a collection and started thinking of it as a library. Libraries have a ton of books no one checks out, but the fact that they’re available anyway has value too. I’m not a hoarder either - I don’t buy stuffI don’t expect I’ll want to hear, but I do like the “library” to be fairly comprehensive within certain bounds. Now that I’m staying home a lot more, I am finding time to dig fairly deep.
So it may seem wasteful to some, but it’s been a fulfilling hobby my whole life.

HolyMoly, good post Smile. My kids call it my music library, never thought about it.......But I like it. I have many genres in my collection/library, as I too want a broad range of material to listen to. I can't just listen to rock based music 100% of the time and prog is so damn boring at times!! I grew up with R&B and Funk, I love them both! I have a growing love of jazz, especially modal jazz and some hard bop and have a small collection of blues. As well from 70's Disco and Rap (the garbage from today, is garbage) Grandmaster Flash and the like.

I don't generally count the digital downloads I have bought as my collection, I do buy albums in mp3, FLAC, WMA, 24bit hi-rez and super hi-rez DSD files (spendy buggars)....All these number to about 2,300 albums, all of this is what I play during the working day.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

There isn't one album I'd want to part with out of my entire 3000+ CD collection. Well, maybe one album by Mike Oldfield. You know which one. Smile
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