I'm drinking alone tonight and adding CDs to my .mp3 drive. Just got some Dennis Brown, and I'm adding stuff from my CD collection. This is a long term project.
When I was a kid, I spent my lunch money on CDs, and then as I got a little older, some of it was diverted to drugs. When I realized I could get music online, I took all I could store, but storage was more expensive then and I was less rich. Now I have plenty of money for hard drives, and the library is free and legal. I spend the occasional $20 on a CD from a small band (maybe 20 times a year), but basically the only way musicians make money off me is when I go to a show. I share what I have with friends by swapping 1G usb drives.
I'm up to about 90 gigs of .mp3s. Half of my cd library is cataloged; I'm constantly loading more in. I run all music in my house through a computer, so I enjoy basically any music I want on a keystroke. It's a great time to be an audiophile.
Do you all do the same thing? Are you using stereos, with racks of CDs lining the walls of your house?
I can't even fill my ipod (didn't think I'd ever buy one of the trendy pieces of crap, but I'm afraid it's been handy for both music and reading) with all the music I own and have stolen.
I own 42 cds. Whatever I steal I wind up deleting after a week of listening. Damn my ADD.
My My Music folder is currently at 10.9 gigs.
You're lucky, Dio. All they have in my local libraries are Placido Domingo, John Denver and Neil Diamond.
Between my wife and myself, we have probably 250+ CDs. I'm just beginning to rip them into mp3s.
I want to get a music-dedicated HD for this purpose (as if 750 GB of combined hard drive space isn't enough), but right now I have just a little over 5.7 GB of music saved.
Dio, how is your sound wired throughout the house? Mine is pretty centrally located, so it's not really an issue (being a typica Florida home, there's just one floor).
Nothing special. My apartment I just run a good speaker set off the computer. It's a small apartment. At my mom's house, we wired the house and use a splitter hooked up to an amp, feb from the pc. Works great. Music in the back yard, and kitchen, but no living room. Or whatever combination you want. Great set up.
I don't know how to quantify my music anymore. I used to have ~400 CDs while in the USAF, but that has been pared down to probably about 80 over the years. I rarely buy any CDs -- maybe 1 or 2 a year, and I buy them off eBay so they are on sale. I've also got about 9 gig on my hardrive, some from my CDs, some from borrowed CDs, and some from "other sources."
I'm not much of an audiophile, but I enjoy my share of older rock. I listent to the music channels on Charter when I'm working, exercising, etc.
I did buy a wireless music player that is supposed to tap into my online music collection, and play it through any stereo with regular RCA plugs. I never bothered hooking it up, so I recently just sold it on eBay.
I do like my iPod though. I constantly update that with different music for my many plane rides each month.
Demon, I'm probably more aligned toward your taste. I trend towards older rock and blues, as well as certain 1980s music.
Weirdest music I've downloaded was turn-of-the-century ragtime and other music from archives.org (http://www.archives.org) that I used for my history unit. This was stuff originally on the Edison Phonograh. I have some stuff from the 1920s and a few from the 1930s from that site. They're public domain. Of course, I'm sure the public demand for that genre of music is minimal.
I haven't bought a CD in about 10 years and every single song I have on my computer is downloaded. I own a few CDs that were given to me as gifts though. All are soundtracks.
On my computer I got about 50 gigs. None ripped from CDs I own.
I think I have around 300-400 CD's myself and then have tons of burned CDs. I used to buy them like you, with my lunch money or any money i could get, it kind of took away my baseball card, comic book obsession as a kid.
Now I'll buy maybe 10-15 a yr, depending on my tastes for music and whats new. I rarely buy older CD's, mostly new stuff.
I download or "swap" with friends more now. I bought a 150 GB drive and have 25 GB's of music on it now. (My itunes says: 5,510 songs, 82.6 days and 24.98 Gb's of music) When you have all that great music available for free its hard to say no or get off your ass and go to the CD store. If I find a great CD, I'll still buy it to support the band and to have the packaging and hang it up on my CD rack.
I used to store all my CD'S in books, but then they kept getting scratched, so now I have 2 wall storage units, a tall floor unit and still have 3 books.
Dio, I'm staying in tonight as well, you just gave me a good idea to upload some more of my CD's. I won't be getting drunk though...amazing
Amazingly enough, Mussa, I won't be getting drunk, either. :)
On average how fast can you upload a CD? does it depend on your CD drive its loaded into? My shtein takes forever, and its an older cd drive.
Quote from: mussa on September 15, 2006, 09:44:00 PM
On average how fast can you upload a CD? does it depend on your CD drive its loaded into? My shtein takes forever, and its an older cd drive.
I think mine wwould be done in 2-3 minutes. I'll do one in a few minutes and let you know.
Yea mine is taking 1-2 minutes per song. I have to try out my external CD-R burner, since its newer and has a faster read....in theory that should be faster overall...
anyone rush fans? whats your fav. CD of theirs?
Just did one, Mussa. An entire 11-song CD in less than 2 full minutes.
yea im going on 20 minutes for a live CD with 16 songs...i gotta try my burner out
Yup. My old desktop takes that long, whereas my work laptop rips in three minutes or so.
not much better around 15 minutes. it started off fast and then got slower for some reason. ghey
61.58 gigs as of this post.
I have a few hundred Cd's, all of which were loaded into the computer and now they are stored away in cd carrying book things. I use a 300 gig external to house the mp3's i got off of newegg.com for a good deal.
computer has a dvd-R drive which loads CD's into Itunes in about a 1/5th of the time it takes if I use the CD-R drive.
i have about 2000 cd's...all original...i dont download whole albums as i like to have the real inserts artwork ect...i have about 1500 full length cd's and another 500 singles...ALL HIP-HOP
and i have another 500 12 inch and full length records
peep some of the cd's
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your mom's gonna yell at you for not cleaning your room.
your mom yells at me when i sneak it in her pooper
I used to have a rack like that, but switched over to binders about 8 years ago. shtein took up too much space.
liar...she enjoys it.
I used to have a rack like that, but switched over to binders about 8 years ago. shtein took up too much space.
most def...i have two other racks in the garage because i dont have room...i cant do books tho...my shtein doesnt leave the jewel case unless its in a cd player...my cd collection is my heart
of course i have tons of mix cd's in books...discs i dont care about and bring to tailgate and places like that
There's no way that is IGY's crib... not a single taterskins item to be found.
Did I spot an old penn state pepsi bottle with a eagles koosie over it?
you most certainly did
not as good as my mike schmidt face that i used to rock when i stole kids bags on halloween
(http://render2.snapfish.com/render2/is=Yup6aQQ%7C%3Dup6%3DzqH%3AxxqUD7qRUrKxzX7BHpUUKxgXPoo%3F87KR6xqpxQQPPxGaexQolxv8uOc5xQQQPaQJlleQeaqpfVtB%3F*KUp7BHSHqqy7XH6gXPoo%7CRup6lQQ%7C/of=50,590,442)
haha, i got one of those bottles. good stuff!
Quote from: Diomedes on September 15, 2006, 07:58:55 PM
Do you all do the same thing?
Basically I do. I've got 93GB of MP3s at the moment and I each year I buy my favorite 15-20 CDs that I don't already own. For me they don't have to necessarily be from smaller bands, though with the state of music today that is usually the case anyway. I have in the neighborhood of 300 CDs.
I tag up all my MP3s myself, complete with artwork. I sync with my iPod and, for the best albums I don't own yet, burn to CDs to play in my car. My computer is hooked into a good Monsoon speaker system. Next year I plan to go the full media center route, wirelessly streaming video from my Mac to my TV and audio to various locations around my apartment via AirTunes.
I wouldn't say I'm an audiophile, but I'm definitely a music junkie.