How much music do you "own."

[Diomedes]

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?

[General_Failure]

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.

[Geowhizzer]

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).

[Diomedes]

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.

[Father Demon]

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.

[Geowhizzer]

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 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.

[The BIGSTUD]

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.

[mussa]

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

[Geowhizzer]

Amazingly enough, Mussa, I won't be getting drunk, either. 

[mussa]

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.

[Geowhizzer]

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.

[mussa]

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?

[Geowhizzer]

Just did one, Mussa.  An entire 11-song CD in less than 2 full minutes.

[mussa]

yea im going on 20 minutes for a live CD with 16 songs...i gotta try my burner out

[Diomedes]

Yup.  My old desktop takes that long, whereas my work laptop rips in three minutes or so.