How many albums do you own?
 

I know we have a similar thread but that's in song form, even if you have 1,000,001 songs it really doesn't mean anything to me.

I hope mods don't deem this thread to be unnecessary.

So, how many albums do you own?

(Physical/digital, it doesn't matter - whatever's in your media player.)

I beg to differ, if we're talking about owning. ;) But I'm sure people will specify.

CDs - 1,662 (I might have up to 100 more that aren't in my RYM profile)
MP3 - 1,386 (no overlap with physical items)
Vinyl - 13
Cassette - 22 (had a bunch more as a kid, but got rid of many when I started buying CDs)

I voted 3,000-4,000.

Used to have just over 1200. but a lot of them were **** so i had a mass deletion. Now I have about 800.

Album 3781
EP 492
Compilation 467
Bootleg / Unauthorized 280
Single 248

Plus about another 1000 not listed yet.

Somewhere over 200 on CD. Probably 12 digitally.

8!

952 in digital form.

~700

99.9% Digital

My digital collection consists of 2021 total releases
7" - 8
10" - 5
12" - 24
Album - 1290
Album (Live) - 112
Bootleg - 4
Collection - 55
Compilation - 5
DVD Audio - 2
EP - 167
EP (Live) - 7
Mix - 28
Mix (Live) - 7
Promo - 2
Score - 35
Single - 261
Soundtrack - 15

Oh ****, -100 points to me for not completely reading the OP. I thought you meant physical albums.

1,438 albums, 1,430 of which are digital

Digitally I'd say about 1600, Physical probably around 100, I don't exactly know, all I know is I have 1699 albums on my iTunes, but I know for a fact some of them are ripped CDs.

I have around 1200 or so... I can't be arsed to pick out soundtracks/live albums/singles and all that. Still growing everyday...

I physically own 25-30 cd's. Records I own about a half dozen, which makes no sense since I don't own a record player more for the album art. On my ipod I have about a dozen. I'm not much of a collector on albums. I mostly stream albums online and purchase songs.

About 50 physical, whether they be records or CDs. I plan to buy everything that I like one of these days, hence why I'm getting a job with the sole intent of blowing every penny I make on purchasing music. For now, I'm essentially a school-focused-robot, though. :/

I have about 1,500 digitally.

CD: +/- 600
LP: +/- 400
Digital: 6744

Obviously there's a lot of overlap--everything I have on CD is included in the digital total as are most of the LPs (at most 25 or 30 are not). There are probably about 50 I have on all 3.

724 according to RYM. 69 of which are CD.
It's funny, all my friends think I have a huge music collection, but compared to you hoarders it's nothing! :laughing:

Loads

I reckon if you have bought more than 25 albums per year, you haven't really listened to them.

So in around 15 years of real music listening, I should have max 375. Unfortunately I have about twice that.

It's probably less than 300 albums that I really know inside out and really love though.

Almost 1,0000..

Slash
 

Anyone see Slash on "That Meta Show"?

Tbh I'll listen to 25 albums in a day if the circumstances are right.

This....

wat

I don't know how people manage that. I thought I was awesome when I got through 10 in a day. Hell, I'm proud if I listen to one every day.

Wow...that's a lot of time spent listening to music, depending on album length it's still a minimum of about 12 hours or so. Impressive.

Granted those days are few and far between, but it illustrates my point.

I'm not even AWAKE for 12 hours.

Eh I don't buy that one bit.

On the average workday, I'll listen to an average of 8 albums - including commute, work, evening at home. Now granted if that was 8 different albums each day of the year, then yeah I haven't really "listened" to them. But that's not the case. I do complain about not spending as much time with individual albums as I used to, when music wasn't so abundant, but I still listen in-depth to many more than 25 albums in a year.

Is that a misplaced comma or an extra 0? :D

I'm at work for 8 hours

Yup.

I listen to ~2 albums a day.

"own". As in 'have bought'?
I have a lot of music on my PC, but that doesn't really count, does it?
I have about 2000 albums on my PC, but I also have more than half of that in my record cabinet :D.
Physical albums:
1,001-2,000
1200 vinyl albums
300 CD albums
A couple of original cassettes and tapes.
And then I have some interesting compilation albums. No top 40 stuff, but things like Nuggets, Rubble, Studio One Scorcher, Colours of Funk etcetera.

I'm not including my classical vinyl. I have about 400 classical records but I'm not even sure what's on there. Still have to listen to those.

Own as in how many is in your collection, digital or otherwise.
I kind of thought if people had a physical copy, they'd have it digital as well.
I know that's the case for me, any CDs I own are also in my iTunes.

186. I may have to do some deleting soon.

As downloading is legal here, I do own a lot of music I haven't actually bought.
I wouldn't consider that 'owning', that's why.

I mostly buy vinyl, so I download most of the albums I own as ripping a vinyl album is a lot more work than ripping a CD :).

Edit: I'm the only person amongst my friends I know who has a digital copy of all the albums he owns. I don't think it's that common overhere :)

Legally - less than 15
Illegally - near 1000 including EPs and a couple of bootlegs

You can listen to it at will, it's on your computer at your fingertips, you can put it on an external hard drive, mp3 player so I class it as owning.
I'm thinking of starting a vinyl collection myself, I feel like there's more cons than pros.
What do you enjoy about having a vinyl collection?
Even if I buy albums on vinyl that I own digitally, nothing really changes for me.
I'm just buying a physical copy of something I already own.

Well the collection itself is nice to look at.
It looks interesting in the same way that a case full of books an look interesting.
There's much variety in covers and size (7", 10", 12" and some weird abnormal sizes).
There's usually a lot of effort put into the cover and it really shows off.

But the main reason I'm collecting vinyl is because the music (apart from the unwanted noise which I really hate. I can't understand that there's people who actually say that crackles and pop are a part of the magic that is vinyl. I hate them. I also hate pepole who say that vinyl sounds good because it sounds warm. If it sounds warmer than your CD player, something's wrong) just sounds better.
It sounds more natural, there's more holograpic depth in the sound, it's more dynamic, the bass is a bit more 'loose', it's not as tiring to listen to, the top range is more transparent.
I can give you all the technical details but that will only result in endless discussions about distortion, channel seperation and background noise. We don't want that.
I really listen to vinyl because of the sound itself. And I just love the sleeves. A record feels more like a gain to me. I don't care so much about that plastic little box a CD is in.
Another good thing about vinyl: It's practically invulnerable. I received a pile of 90 records that had been in a garden for two years. Outside, in the rain. I have to clean them. I'd rather kill the owner, but hey. Eitherway, they're perfectly playable. The covers are of course damaged beyond repair, but the vinyl is just fine. Try that with a CD. And make a scratch of 1cm anywhere on a vinyl record. Play it. Most of it is fine. Try the same thing at the center of a CD. Play it. It won't.

Eitherway, digital will catch up sooner or later. I have a soundcard that can record 24 bits 192khz sound (a CD only does 16 bits 44.1khz) and I must say it gets really close to a vinyl record. But the CD we all know and use... It just isn't there yet.

And I should probably point out that I have a good, expensive yamaha CD player that I have modified so it sounds even better. And I can really enjoy the music that's on a CD.
But it's not up there with my record player, yet.

And then, it doesn't have to be expensive. Yes my record player is expensive. So is my phono preamplifier and my cartridge, but you can get a decent Technics turntable here for 40 dollars, put an Audio Technica AT95E cartridge in it, find a NAD PP2 preamp somewhere and enjoy audiophile quality for less than a hundred bucks.

Overhere, vinyl is actually 10-20% cheaper than CD's.

Got carried away again. Sorry.
Have I mentioned that I love vinyl? :D

Eitherway, back to your question: What's the cons? I can't see any.
Yeah, you have to get up every 22 minutes or so. I collect tapedecks for that :D.

Good insightful post!
The cons are really the money aspect, I have to buy a record player and build up a collection.
Vinyl is more expensive over here than CDs.
You have side A and B, so I'd have to get up and turn it over.
I spend a lot of time on the computer, music is at my fingertips.
People in general have moved away from vinyl, and even away from CDs - it's all digital these days thus making it harder to get hold of vinyl I'd imagine.
I only know one store, which is in Piccadilly (the centre of town)
Space, it'll take up a certain amount of space.
And I can't listen to vinyl in the car, so I'm thinking is it worth building up my CD collection.
I have about 100 CDs and hardly any of them are favourite albums of mine.
Mostly stuff I used to be into, Appetite For Destruction for example.
If I never hear it again I wouldn't have any grievances.

The pros:
Even though it takes up space, it looks nice.
The sound may be better, but I have no idea because I've never actually heard a record being played. Well, not that I know of. - but even that's not a proper pro, because I don't know for sure.

So I'm really unsure about what to do.

Glad you think of it that way

I'm not sure about where you live, but if you tell me where you'd like to buy yourself a player (craigslist? ebay?) I can provide you with some advise.

A new CD here is about 15 dollars.
When you want to buy a CD by an old common band like The Eagles, Dire Straits, the CD will cost you about 7 dollars.
A new vinyl record (not some audiophile limited edition, just a regular one) is about 13 dollars. So yeah, it's cheaper. But that's probably because CD's are really expensive here.

I have most of my music at my fingertips and at my record player. Works for me. And as I said: I collect tapedecks. So I make mixtapes to solve that issue :).
I have got a mix tape system now, you might want to check it out:
http://stijnkraft.ebenau.net/green/tapes/
Just click any of the tapes ;)
I don't mind getting up every 22 minutes. You might, I don't know.
There's record players that can play both sides of the record, but they're usually not very serious.
In some cases the fact that the album is divided in two parts is actually adding something good.

Not sure about that where you live. Here I can get pretty much everything on vinyl, new. I just go to my local store and order an album. There's more CD's there, too. But I just order what I want. No prob.
And then there's the internet. I mainly use velvetmusic.nl, bol.com and nlstore.nl, but that's of no use to you :)

The space it takes up in hight and width, it compensates for in thickness. It doesn't really matter that much

I have a Minidisc player in my car. And you can still download your records and put them on a CD. Or you could (which is really easy) just record the records to your PC.

Mmm... I have about 300 CD's.
I buy everything on vinyl. I only have like 25 albums on CD that I couldn't find on vinyl. The rest is mostly the same as I have on vinyl. I usually buy my CD's second hand for 2 or 3 dollars.

Yes

Most of the time it won't sound better since most people don't know how to take care of their records and they use cheap ass plastic crap.
The record itself can sound better, but not without the proper equipment, of course :)

All I can say is I'd like to advise you when (if...) you decide to buy a record player. If you don't like it, you can always sell it. That's the advantage of knowing what to buy and buying things second hand :)

The first thing I would throw out of the window in case of fire (after my cat and my backup HDD) is my record collection. I truly love it. I probably wouldn't rescue my CD's...

I've only got bout 130, chipping away slowly at grabbing new ones.