Vinyl, CD's and Digital Files Accumulated Over A Lifetime

3000 CD's, 800 SACD's, 12,000 records, 250 master dub RTR albums (most 2 reel).

18tb of music files; (50% 16/44, 50% higher rez).

streaming with 'infinity' amount of files.....

still adding vinyl and files. but not more silver discs. i don't think about music i might not listen to again. not yet at that point of down-sizing. not sure i'll ever get there. it might be my kids problem.

I got about 1000 LPs and 1500 CDs.  Going to be a chore burning all the CDs to my server and cleaning all my LPs with the new model Degritter coming out soon.

I have far too much physical media, both cd's and vinyl. I was culling the cd collection a few years ago, too daunting a task to organize everything, and don't have the time. Perhaps when I retire, whenever that is, no intentions of ever retiring, love my job too much.

Yes, burning CDs to a server can be a daunting task, particularly editing metadata that is wrong or not found by whatever service you use for the task.  I have a lot of classical CDs and many have no automatically populating data about the CD; it is no fun filling in 30 different tracks on an opera CD in a foreign language.  When I got my first server, I had about 3,000 CDs to load.  This took about a month of evenings.  I now have about 5,000.  You can bet I have a number of back up hard drives because I am not loading this many CDs manually again.

That's why I enjoy making a playlist of a few thousand of my favorite songs and then letting them run through on 'shuffle' - that way I'll hear things I never would have gotten around to otherwise. Obviously I still won't be able to hear everything, but I like the randomness of it...