Record/CD collections

[BlackHawkPaul]

Let's see some.
Do you collect records? CDs? Is your music collection all digital and living on a hard drive?

This was on the turntable yesterday.

 

[Scoot26]

Other than CD albums I bought before 2005, everything I own is on a hard drive or in the cloud.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

Almost finished with the great reorganizing project.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

Other than CD albums I bought before 2005, everything I own is on a hard drive or in the cloud.

You have backups?
My buddy lost a ton of music because his HD crapped out on him.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Thread is ***. Just like the guy who created it.

 

[Monk]

Thread is ***. Just like the guy who created it.

Reeeeeeeeeeported


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[LordKOTL]

You have backups?
My buddy lost a ton of music because his HD crapped out on him.

All media separtely on an external HDD, my phone's SD card and a RAID-5 NAS FTMFW.
If all three go kaput at the same time I'll take it as the universe consipring against me.

Anyhow, I only have a few CD's anymore. Most of my stuff is digital. My wife and I do have a few records as well--her's are mostly Slovak fairytale from before the fall of the iron curtain, so they're stored away safely after I digitally ripped them. I personally have a couple of George Carlin records, "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", and, for people that are really annoying, a 45 copy of The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird." Again, most ripped and stored safely. There's also a few from my Dad that I ripped from records because they just sound better.

 

[Monster]

Still have a crap load of old LPs... remember finally throwing out about three hefty bags of tape... including my 8-tracks.... and still have maybe 400 CDs under the bed in boxes... shame when you think of all that money... Now I have several thousand songs on my phone.... all in your pocket... soon even that will be old school...

The thing that lives is the music... have great songs from as early as they were recorded on that phone... the Platters and "Smoke gets in my eyes" is on there... wouldn't they take a shit if they were still alive and could see that... heck maybe they are....

 

[Crystallas]

Not as much as I once had. Anything with superior mastering is usually my target for storage, and in many cases, the old formats are still the best versions of many music releases.
Jos and I talked a bit about it here. Glad to see another audio hound on the board.
http://www.chicitysports.com/forum/...sMin-and-Crystallas-vinyl-appreciation-thread

 

[Penny Traitor]

I have the upper shelf of a bedroom closet that has boxes of shoe boxes with what has to be a couple thousand CDs. Albums, EPs, Demos, Freebies, probably a few hundred thousand hours of free AOL that I really do nothing with anymore, but don't have the heart to ditch them. I got into high school during the transition away from vinyl over to the cassette tape, so I never had a huge record collection and all of my tapes were trashed by 1990.

Been all digital for over a decade. I have an external drive devoted to backing everything up and the library loaded on four other devices.

 

[Omeletpants]

I still have to do something with my 8000 8 track tapes

 

[roshinaya]

Listen the majority of my music on my computer/DAP. Still buy CDs and vinyl to support artists and labels. Don't buy digital files because it almost costs as much as the physical thing.

 

[winos5]

^^^^ This. digitilizing your collection is great, but better back it up. Still listen to CDs and vinyl.

 

[roshinaya]

^^^^ This. digitilizing your collection is great, but better back it up. Still listen to CDs and vinyl.

Yep. It was a hassle to rip all my CDs to lossless files, but worth it. And I need to get myself a new external HDD to back it up, just in case. Don't want to do it all over again. Even if I had only one HDD crap out on me in over 2 decades of computing.

 

[cozzy1]

I have all of the old LPs that my folks didn't want (some proper 60s gems in there), and there's still a few newer bands who release their stuff on vinyl - and i get those too.

You just can't beat that crackling sound when the needle hits a record!

 

[LordKOTL]

Multiple copies of a digital file on different sotrage usually takes care of the backup problem; like I said if the SD card in my phone, my external HDD, and a fuckin' RAID-5 NAS device all go down at the same time I might as well get on a roller coaster to be hit in the face with a duck, because the universe has to be conspiring against me.

As such, I only buy rarities on any sort of *digital* media. Analogue it depends. If it's something I really like that's older I'll get the vinyl and then rip it and store the record. Usually a commercial digital remaster screws with the sound and gets rid of the pops and hiss which add characer to the older music; it just sounds more like a vinyl recording if I directly record it from the vinyl.

 

[Shantz My Pants]

With the way digital music has been going, especially with my numerous playlists on spotify, I haven't purchased a CD in a long time. I'd like to start getting into record collecting but funds right now between the Puerto Rican hookers and cocaine is tough to try and spend elsewhere.


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[BlackHawkPaul]

With the way digital music has been going, especially with my numerous playlists on spotify, I haven't purchased a CD in a long time. I'd like to start getting into record collecting but funds right now between the Puerto Rican hookers and cocaine is tough to try and spend elsewhere.


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Don't start collecting records now. The market bubble is at/near the peak.
It's amazing what people will spend on a repress of a very common album (Pink Floyd/Zepp, others).
If you do enough digging you can piece together a nice collection for little money. The problem is that someone thinks their RATT albums are worth more than original presses of early Zappa work.
The great thing about newer records are that most of the distributors will sell direct.
I was a bit surprised to see the markup on represses that I bought 15 years ago at $9.99 selling now at 34.99. I get inflation, but that's highway robbery.

 

[roshinaya]

It's all those damn hipsters with their record collecting and high paying IT jobs. And the vinyl re-issue racket is indeed very lucrative.

 

[cozzy1]

It's all those damn hipsters with their record collecting and high paying IT jobs. And the vinyl re-issue racket is indeed very lucrative.

Not to mention the whole "remastered album" thing, where you spunk more money for an album that only sounds marginally different to the one you originally bought!