I have 700 albums representing everything I’ve enjoyed since childhood as well as new stuff I’ve yet to explore. They’re all digital files. Going by what I actually play, I think I could easily cut this in half. How about you?

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Oh fuck.

    In my main cabinet, each drawer holds… Ahhhhhhh, I wanna say just under a hundred? That’s times six drawers. Of CDs. I have fifty here in my room, plus another hundred-ish boxed up.

    Vinyl, I haven’t counted since I put them in storage when our last record player bit the dust. But it was around 140? Ish? There’s a dozen or so cassettes shoved in a closet of local bands I can’t replace, so they got digitized.

    Digital purchases, I stopped counting once it got hard to scroll through. I was an early adopter of burning discs, so I wasn’t worried about shelling out for digital goods back then. I just made plenty of backups. But it had to be maybe 200 back when I got disabled and couldn’t spend on such things often.

    I’ve only bought a double handful since then tbh. I’m fucking poor, so I only spend on small artists. I pirate the rest.

    Soooo, that’s what? A little over a thousand? Right around there anyway.

    If you count pirated stuff, and I don’t call that owning in the same way, there’s two terabytes currently on my main drive of just music, though it isn’t all albums. Maybe 20% of that is singles or a few tracks.

    I actually end up listening to most of it over time. My phone and music players tend to only have maybe a few hundred gigabytes on them what with sd cards in the tb range being expensive for my budget, and only my newest devices support that big anyway.

    But when I’m really in the mood, I crank up my old gaming PC and just hit play. Since musicbee is set up for it, alli have to do is remember where one the alphabet I was, and start from where I left off.

    I reckon I end up cycling through it all maybe once a year to every other year or so.

    Reduce it? Fuck that. I could get rid of stuff I pirated for other people, but we’re talking about maybe a dozen or so gigs. Why bother?

    Some of the vinyl was my parents’, so I wouldn’t actually play them at this point. Which means I could get rid of the stuff I have in digital format. But, again, fuck that. Vinyl is much cooler to handle. I like having them, despite not needing them. Besides, only a few were worth any money back when I stored them.

    • FarraigePlaisteaċ (sé/é)@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      Sounds like you’ve got something for every occasion there! I don’t know how you managed to listen to most of the 2TB collection - that’s impressive! I have a total of 256GB of music - mostly FLAC - and I still haven’t listened to most of it yet.

      There’s a dozen or so cassettes shoved in a closet of local bands I can’t replace, so they got digitized.

      Ah, this reminds me of the cassettes I had of a local band I absolutely loved. I let them go when I had other stuff going on in life and I regret it so much to this day. I must try and track those guys down and see if they still have copies.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        I’m a music fiend. If there’s nothing preventing it, I would have music going 24/7. There’s times I do, though not as much as I used to.

      • BruisedMoose@piefed.socialEnglish
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        17 hours ago

        To answer the original question, I have about 1500 CDs, 200 records. If required, maybe I could whittle it down to 250. It would be painful though.

        And actually that doesn’t take into account a lot of my own local music collection. A lot of digital stuff, a mail bin full of CDs and another full of cassettes.

        I love local music and I love hearing stuff from short lived bands. So I’d love to hear anything you could share as far as names with locations.