MUSIC COLLECTION HABITS POLL FOR ONCE AND FOR ALL

YOU FORGOT SHEET MUSIC

AND 78RPM SHELLAC DISCS.

digital 4 lyfe

i own the most cds by far, but only really listen to digital and vinyl these days! this poll solves nothing.

aren't cds, uh, digital??

*pushes spectacles up on face*
*goes back to watching anime on youtube*

I only listen to 1980s VHS concert videos.

I make up awesome music in my head.

tuneless whistling

Vinyl I think... most of the music on my iPod is from CDs, and I'm sure I own more records than CDs

Total I prob have roughly 200 CDs and maybe 150-200 records, about 1,500 mp3s (most downloaded).

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:38 PM

8tracks

wax

I haven't counted my CDs for years, but I think I have around 500 of them, whereas I have only about 60 vinyl records and maybe 50 albums worth of music on the computer.

I have about 1,500 CDs, no idea how many LPs and 7"s (somewhere between 20 and 80 at a guess, never counted), and... really very little music exclusively as digital files. Maybe a dozen albums?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/423728629_941fd6c2fa.jpg
It's the only way.

Where is wax cylinder band?

More pressingly, where is CASSETTE band?

I have roughly 800 CDs. Got rid of my vinyl and cassettes years ago, and only have a handful of MP3s.

All of you folks should get rid of your CDs NOW before the market for used CDs totally disappears.

CDs and vinyl are probably both neck-and-neck: somewhere in the 2000 to 3000 range in each case, counting vinyl 45s. But I'm guessing CDs have the edge, when stuff in storage is taken into account.

MP3s = 0.

Cassettes = a couple hundred probably (all but two or three now in storage.)

8 Tracks = 1 (Popcorn by Hot Butter, which I found at an antique barn for 50 cents a couple years ago, and which I've never seen a copy of in any other format.)

vinyl just about beating mp3s, both way way way ahead of cds (about half-a-dozen left i haven't sold or given away)

MP3s = 0.

-- xhuxk, Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:53 PM

this is totally o_O to me

I used to have 0 MP3s too, before last summer, when I got my first own PC.

All of you folks should get rid of your CDs NOW before the market for used CDs totally disappears.

-- ian, Saturday, 16 February 2008 21:33 (Yesterday) Link

Perhaps we want to, I dunno, listen to them?

And stock up on MP3s, because the used-MP3 market is set to explode.

this thread is asking the wrong question, or asking the right question but in the wrong way.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

vinyllll

mostly cd, but switching now to digital and vinyl...id like no more cds

pretty much just digital these days.

my cd's are mostly just back ups.

never caught the vinyl bug.

vinyl for dance and old cheapo gems

mp3s for things that makes me go o_0

sold/given away all my cds except my classical collection, bad mp3s can't do classical stuff.

i want more vinyl, and to play the vinyl I have more often, but first i need to get rid of the horrible buzzing sound. Something to do with earth loops i think? does anyone know about this and can they please give me the ....really.....slow... Simplified English version that doesn't involve sticking a capacitor up my rectum?

mostly cd, but switching now to digital and vinyl...id like no more cds

^^^ definitely. I've been gradually getting rid of my CDs for aages, except classical which really the digital quiet really helps with.

buzzing on vinyl - is it your amp? My old NAD amp buzzed for ages, but then it died for real. Still haven't fixed it, will probably cost me loads.

no, the amp's fine for cds & radio. when the turntable is first plugged in its fine as well, but gradually the buzzing gets louder to the point where quiet passages are unlistenable.

I take it you have the "ground" (or whatever it is called, that cable with the forklike end in you vinyl player) plugged to you amp.

yeah definitely check the ground. some tables don't need it but if you have a ground connection on the table it should be used

I know the cable you mean! but this turntable doesn't have one.

whats the table?

When I got my first vinyl player, I got it used so I didn't even know what the point of that cable was. So my player had an irritating buzz too, before someone told me the ground should be plugged to the amplifier, which made things better. Can anyone explain me in layman terms why a vinyl player needs to be grounded?

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xpost nothing good - Sony PSJ20 apparently

I probably have more mp3s than anything else and spend more time listening to mp3s than CDs, BUT I think of the CDs (and vinyl, but I have more CDs) as my collection; the mp3s I treat more as stuff I download, might never listen to, probably listen to once, often forget about. Most of them would be no great trouble to track down again should I even remember what it was and decide I want it. Hell, I've downloaded stuff again just to save me the bother of finding the first copy.

I'm just bad at deciding to delete stuff.

CDs becoming worthless = yeah, looking almost that way now, but, ugh. Amassing these thousands of wasteful planet-destroying plastic circles has been my life's work! ;_;

Can anyone explain me in layman terms why a vinyl player needs to be grounded?
-- Tuomas, Friday, 29 February 2008 13:25 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

So it doesn't get unbearable about being the superior format?

HA!

about 800 CD albums
about 100 Vinyl albums + 50 7"
about 50 MP3 albums + 500-odd single downloaded MP3s

Can anyone explain me in layman terms why a vinyl player needs to be grounded?

I... think so? Firstly, for the same reason anything electrical needs to be grounded -- for safety, to provide a path for abnormal or "fault" current to escape without damaging the equipment or frying the cat. But in audio equipment it gets a lot more complicated, since electricity and magnetic charges are literally made audible, and balancing the flow of current between components or even between parts of the same component is the kind of fine-grained problem that an audio aspie could get really obsessive about. What you want to avoid is a "ground loop" -- I can't pretent to know exactly what that is, but I know it's an imbalance in the flow of current and is responsible for that familiar 60Hz hum. Reducing that noise as much as possible is art as well as science.

Hmm. I've sold, given away, or simply abandoned on the street 1000+ LPs in the 20 years since leaving the nest & acquiring a CD player; and rarely looked back. These days, vinyl accounts for, like, 0.5% of my yearly new purchases, CDs the remainder. I think I currently still own more vinyl than aluminum, but that certainly won't last.

Do I regret transferring my allegiance to compact discs? Rarely, aside from everytime Scott Seward starts another one of those jaw-dropping "Here's what I bought last weekend!" flickr-photo threads.

As for MP3s, I don't own any.

But I've certainly "borrowed" a few hundred - borrowed from people who also don't "own" any, themselves.

Yeah, that'll totally hold up in court. ;)

I'm not going to count that shit

I have 300 or so LP albums on the bottom shelf in my computer room; sadly, the cats have taken to sharpening their claws on the spines when I'm not looking.

I just re-alphabetized my CDs over three small shelving units in the living room, 300 is probably a good estimate there, too.

I have about 1700 digital music files, .mp3s, and m4as, I guess they are, but my favorite stat is the line in the ITunes status bar where it tells me 6.5 Days.

98% of the music I listen to is from my computer's hard-drive. If I'm at home I listen to music in the computer room through my computer's little Atlec Lansing speaker system, even though the soundsystem in the living room has MUCH better speakers. Every now and then I might pop a compilation CD I made on my computer into the CD player in the living room

While on the road I plug my Ipod into my cassette deck and listen to digital tunes that way.

Recently I have begun a project to digitize some of the vinyl I have that's never been issued digitally; these are the first records I've played in some years, though my girlfriend still listens to HER collection of 50's pop fairly frequently.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i have a few thousand LPs & 45s (maybe 2000-2500 LPs & 45s together) and about 75-100 CDs and maybe a week's worth of music on my computer, which I never listen to, because let's face it: mac book built-in speakers are dick.

I don't even know, probably a couple of hundred LPs/12"s, a few hundred 7"s, over 2000 CDs. (and 100000+ mp3s, that I will probably never get around to listening to)

ian, how long have you been buying records?

wow, you'd think for all the shit-talking against cds on various other threads on this subject matter, there wouldn't be so many cd collectors on ILX

fully expected dig & vinyl to trump CDs, this is a surprise

OMAR LITTLE, since i was about 15. i started listening to my mom's old LPs (Beatles, Stones, Neil, Joni etc.) and shortly thereafter began actively buying records. My purchasing skyrocketed when I moved to NYC; there's just so many more records here than in RI. Also, working with THE LARGEST VINYL SELECTION IN NYC (/plug) helps.

wow, you'd think for all the shit-talking against cds on various other threads on this subject matter, there wouldn't be so many cd collectors on ILX

-- Mark Clemente, Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:41 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

LURKERS.

8 Tracks = 1 (Popcorn by Hot Butter, which I found at an antique barn for 50 cents a couple years ago, and which I've never seen a copy of in any other format.)

I has this on CD, so it's out there.

I have about 1,180 CDs at the moment.

and 0 vinyl (had about 100 though).

and 0 downloads, legal or otherwise.

Amassing these thousands of wasteful planet-destroying plastic circles has been my life's work! ;_;

story of my life ^^

wow, you'd think for all the shit-talking against cds on various other threads on this subject matter, there wouldn't be so many cd collectors on ILX

-- Mark Clemente, Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:41 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

LURKERS.

-- ian, Friday, February 29, 2008 5:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I don't think lurkers so much as that the cd listeners don't feel the need to shout about the advantages of their medium of choice over the status quo.