How many CDs do you own?

Little more than 1,000 CDs, out of wich 800 are prog or prog related and have them listed here:my prog collection

No CD-Rs and no downloads there.

Edited by rosenbach - December 31 2009 at 11:38

The last time I counted (six months- a year ago) there were 540+. That covers prog, grunge classic rock and metal. There will be a lot more than that now...

Somewhere between 4500-5000  prog albums on CDs (less that 30 of progmetal )

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.)

Around 3000, I guess. I have stopped counting. I am just making sure I do not buy any duplicates. 

Just in case burglaries/fire/natural disaster, I always copies the CDs over to a couple of big external harddrives and store one of them in another house. The same goes with my birth certificate, family pictures and other pictures.  

At last count, I had 650 CD's. About 300 of which are prog. I've got around 400 vinyl albums, about 200 of which are prog (many also on CD, though)

I seem to be downloading more these days, as I'm running out of space in my tiny flat to keep piles of CD's..

About 750 prog and prog related. Besides that about 250 mainly various artists, metal, pop and such and classical. So about 1000 in total. Also 200 vinyls and some 150 digital files of CD's I used to own.

Over the last few months I've been converting my cassette collection to CDR's and donating the tapes to the Op Shop so those titles are now part of the CD collection (does that count??) I've been collecting music since I was about 12 (1970). In high school (early 70's) I had over 100 LP's, more than any of my friends could believe. Then I had them all stolen from the school when I was doing radio shows for the cafeteria music programs so I had to start all over again.

Current collection:

Titles on CD = 2915
Titles on LP = 1000 (approx).

I'm doing a major reno to my house in the spring which will include a media room (a family room, but not for the family ). I've dedicated one full wall (22' x 10' ) to store all my media, CD's, LP's, DVD's and Blue Rays. My biggest challenge is how much room to leave for expansion. My wife is not overly excited about the fact that I'm planning on acquiring even more, but what are you going to do? Music really is my only vice.

1422.  I've had to seriously put the brakes on collecting.  I peaked at 132 in 2004.  This year its only been 34.  I'd encourage new collectors to start a spreadsheet log of your titles including date you got the title (which I didn't start doing until '99).  I never did catalog my LPs, which is unfortunate because my house flooded this year and most of those were on lower shelves.  My boss expressed interest in adopting those and is in the process of salvaging the discs.  We're running into titles that should have been on the top shelf as they are out of print and/or I didn't get CD versions yet.  If you look at the collage in my sig, everything from the shelf with the joystick and below was damaged.  About three shelves worth.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 31 2009 at 06:51

No CD's and vinyl anymore - I've transferred everything to digital and always get MP3s now.  I used to have 1,000+ CDs and 500 albums on vinyl.  Changing to MP3 files certainly saves on storage space in the house and its easier to search for albums/tracks!  It also means that the music is available wherever I want it to be in the house, in the car or on my person.

Total collection is over 3,500 albums across a wide range of genres and still growing fast.

The collection is backed up on two hard discs and a further copy to 40 DVDs is stored at a friend's house just in case of a fire.  Can't be too careful!