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How's your music library?

When looking through the systems on A-gon, people's music libraries are frequently missing, not shown, or possibly not in the same room. After all the $$$ spent on one's system, I'd like to know what's behind all of this. After all, it is the entire raison d'être for audiomania.

I had a collection of about 200+ LPs that I've recently sold or given away; finally able to emotional divorce myself from the vinyl I started acquiring as a teenager. I began building my CD collection about 15-16 years ago. It's now 636 titles and nearly 700 discs. It spans the globe and periods from the Renaissance though 20th century, BeBop to Acid Jazz, Afro Celt to Zap Mama, and a fair dose of Rock & Pop. Recently, the fastest growing genre has been 20th century music which has surpassed earlier "classical" music but still trailing the Jazz and World sections. A modest collection certainly, and compared to a friend who has a library (unfortunately uncatalogued) of well over 2000 titles, quite modest. He's gotta music library! I suspect there are quite a few other impressive libraries out there. Please tell us.

How's in your music library?
ojgalli
newbee
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Jwc, You're more ambitious than I am. :-)

I started to do that once, catalog all my stuff, but ultimately I simplified that by simply purging and or re-prioritizing placement. Apart from recordings I gave away, I have set up two locations - the prime location in classical is where I keep performances that I actually pull out to listen to now, the secondary location is where I put recordings I only pull out for reference.

The prime location is broken down into categories by composer with sub categories of type of music and if the collection is large enuf into further sub-sub categories by performer. Compilations are filed by conductor, on in chamber/solo instrument, by performer(s). (I do this in other types of music but I usually just file by performer).

The benefit is that I don't need to go to a card file or a computer to find stuff that I regularily listen to, don't need to do all that clerical work, and on those few occasions I do need to pull a reference recording it comes up fairly by walking my little fingers. Not a perfect system but it works for me (and FWIW, while the format differs our numbers are not far apart.)
mcrosier
61 posts
 
I have trimmed down my collection considerably and now sit at about 500 LP's and 2000 CD's, of which about 15 are SACD's. I keep them in Classical, Jazz, Blues, World, Country and Pop categories. And keep track of them with an antiquated data base on my computer that will have to be replaced soon. I would like to give them all ID#s, so filing would be faster.

all the best

matthew
larryi
1,972 posts
 
Around 1200 classical CDs, and 800 jazz, pop, rock. Around 900 classical lps and 900 jazz, pop, rock albums.
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decapg
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Ashra--> have you read "silence" from John Cage?? I'm actually almost half way through it and I find it amazing a little too philosophical but I like it!
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warrenh
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Elizabeth,I emailed you on the side, but maybe it didn't go through. You have quite a vinyl collection there, and I was wondering what TT and cartridge you use? If it's a Garrad TT with a Pickering cartridge? --hay, that's OK. We'll be gentle...lol...
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