How many CDs do you own?

[WayneLigon]

I own 33 CD's, no records, and about 10-15 cassette tapes for the car (which currently has no CD player). Mostly soundtracks.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Oooohhhh! I wanna hear that!

It's pretty cool. One of the weird things to get used to, is that the bass guitar on all of the songs were added after the songs were pretty much done and written.

Also! Vinyl! Yes, I have tons of that as well, lots of post-punk (Wire, Gang of Four, Magazine), and funk/soul music. Pride of my vinyl collection? The whole f'n lot.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

If we are also counting vinyl, I have no idea how much I have, as it's all currently in storage at my mom's house and will probably stay there for a long time as I don't really have the room for it in my house. Probably 600-800 records, in various genres (lots of punk, metal, jazz). Pride of that collection is a mint condition Smithsonian Folkways pressing of Leadbelly songs.

 

[Arnwyn]

How many CDs do you own?

I'm sitting at about 360 right now - most of them are imports.

What is the pride of your collection?

My Special Edition Final Fantasy VII soundtrack.

 

[merztrumpet]

A couple hundred or so but I'm getting rid of most of them soon to switch to vinyl. CDs are a pretty wank format and soon to be a dead one, I think, give or take a decade or two - if that.

 

[Desdichado]

A couple hundred or so but I'm getting rid of most of them soon to switch to vinyl. CDs are a pretty wank format and soon to be a dead one, I think, give or take a decade or two - if that.

Yeah... and... vinyl's going to replace it as a format?

 

[freebfrost]

Somewhere in the 600-700 range.

Highlight was when the soundtrack for Heavy Metal was finally released on cd...

 

[merztrumpet]

Yeah... and... vinyl's going to replace it as a format?

I don't expect vinyl to replace CDs commercially, but I like to spin records. Plus the current format for CDs rot after twenty or so years while vinyl will stay fresh as long as you replace your needles and keep it out of moisture. (Well, eventually they'll wear down but many vinyl from five plus decades ago still play although sometimes with a bit of surface noise.) CDs also have trouble replicating a lot of the frequencies the grooves in vinyl are capable of.


Vinyl may not be very efficient to carry but with hardrives becoming cheaper and the popularity of mp3 players, who wants to lug all their CDs around? Rip my vinyl and upload. It's still apparent though that disc technology will continue to be used (film). It makes sense, for the time being, for audio to follow along. There are blue laser format DVDs under development which can store 100gb. DVD-A is far behind this currently (seventeen gb, I think they're at now, with the x2/dual layered disc) but you can infer the direction this is going.

There are alternative CD formats available (XRCD, HDCD, SACD) and I'm not a real audiophile but I think the push will be DVDs. It's what people are familiar with and it's where the markets at, at least currently.

Either way, the majority of this stuff is still too expensive for any noticeable changes but I'd give it a decade or so.

 

[DarrenGMiller]

I lost count, but own approximately 400 CD's, another 300 or so records, about 200 cassettes and about a dozen or so concert VHS tapes. Somewhere in my parents' storage I have about 200 8-track tapes.


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