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How's your music library?

When looking through the systems on A-gon, people's music libraries are frequently missing, not shown, or possibly not in the same room. After all the $$$ spent on one's system, I'd like to know what's behind all of this. After all, it is the entire raison d'être for audiomania.

I had a collection of about 200+ LPs that I've recently sold or given away; finally able to emotional divorce myself from the vinyl I started acquiring as a teenager. I began building my CD collection about 15-16 years ago. It's now 636 titles and nearly 700 discs. It spans the globe and periods from the Renaissance though 20th century, BeBop to Acid Jazz, Afro Celt to Zap Mama, and a fair dose of Rock & Pop. Recently, the fastest growing genre has been 20th century music which has surpassed earlier "classical" music but still trailing the Jazz and World sections. A modest collection certainly, and compared to a friend who has a library (unfortunately uncatalogued) of well over 2000 titles, quite modest. He's gotta music library! I suspect there are quite a few other impressive libraries out there. Please tell us.

How's in your music library?
ojgalli
krell_man
827 posts
 
One more question to add to this, if I may. How does everyone organize their library.

I have over 600 CD's, and they too span from the late 60's/early 70's to present, from keyboard/synth oriented to folk to rock.

I find myself completely forgetting about some artists or titles when having everything in alphabetical order, especially when the CD's are at the top or bottom of the rack. I have gone past the bifocals on to trifocals. So it's hard to tilt my head to the top and bottom of the rack.

I've thought of grouping by female, female fronted group, male and male fronted groups. Or grouping by folk, punk, keyboard, light, medium and hard rock, etc. But you always have CD's that span those lines.
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davt
500 posts
 
I have only about 700 LP's and 350 CD's, mostly purchased in the past 2 yrs. The finest I have seen is approx. 60,000 LP's and I think he had 4 or 5 CD's. I buy both LP's and CD's as the music is often available on one and not the other. I also try to get old original LP's but they can be tough to find in good condition. I hope to get a camera soon to display the small collection and system soon. But camera money can buy more LP's!
edesilva
768 posts
 
You can always do like John Cusack in High Fidelity and organize them "autobiographically."

My collection of 1500+ CDs is digitized and pretty well tagged. I can click on a button and organize 'em by title, by artist, by genre. ;)
decapg
11 posts
 
Mine is quite little compared to most people here on audiogon. I have about 115 cd's and 50 lp's which includes every style from Jazz , Contemporary Classical, Rock, Electronic , Blues , to Avant-Garde etc... I've been starting to build a music collection about 4-5 years ago (i'm now 22years old.) Most of my spending went into building my system which I consider an excellent starter audio system. Now I can concentrate on building up my music collection , there are endless titles that I would like to get my hands on and such little time!
ipy
113 posts
 
Like some of you, ever since I went the PC/Server route, it has been pure bliss organizing my CD collection using MediaMonkey. Unfortunately my digitised collection (1000+) is only properly cataloqued.....:-(
BTW, slightly off topic but another thing which I find useful with the SB3/Server is if I set it to randomly select from the collection I begin to rediscover music that has been neglected over the years :-)
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