What is approx. percentage of your total

I've got over 53,000 songs from over 5,000 albums by roughly 2,400 artists on my server.

First, I've been collecting music for 45 years. I'm not in the habit of tossing out an old album just because I bought a new one. Second, my musical taste is very eclectic and not geared to what's currently popular or only the music of my youth.

Some days I have an urge for classical. That could be J.S. Bach, or Christian Bach, or it could be Offenbach. This past weekend I listened to The Subdudes and a few days before that I was on a "new flamenco" kick. The weekend before was an early 20th century jazz fest with Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake and others.

So, the point is, if I hear music I like, I buy it. Once I buy it, I keep it so I can listen again, whenever that may be. Do that for a couple of decades and one day you'll wake up and realize you have a bunch of music!

Why are you asking? I don't own that many records to start with. Does it mean anything in particulart? Just curious.

I'm asking because I own about 600 records and I listen to maybe 10% on a regular basis. I'm curious as to someone who has a collection of thousands of records actually knows what they have and how they decide what to listen to. My head would spin.

I'm curious as to someone who has a collection of thousands of records actually knows what they have and how they decide what to listen to.

About 10 years ago I decided to make the switch to digital and started converting my LP and open reel collection. That was about 2,000 albums at the time.

In the process, I discovered a lot of material that, 1) I'd either forgotten I had, or 2) I couldn't even remember acquiring. (There were only a couple in that category.) Discovering I had copies of a few un-released masters on open reel was a real treat.

One advantage of a music server is it makes searching your collection much easier than checking what's on the shelf. Doesn't matter if you're looking by album, song title, artist, year, genre or whatever, I just find it a lot easier to enjoy what I have.

Have approx 2000 vinyls... Half of them are digitized 5% in poor condition, but kept due to inability to get better condition and to extream rarity. 90% in near-mint condition. I don't have and don't use record cleaner or record cleaning liquids and buy them clean and mint most of the times. I listen to all of them and don't have particular preference what I listen most of the time since I like them all with exeption to few rare records that I prefer to keep mint-mint that had only been played once to digitize.
I moved almost all of my CDs to CDR's and computer that has near 400gB of music videos and lossless music.