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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
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warrenh
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Elizabeth, what do you use to turn those LPs? :)
qdrone
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I have close to 18,000 black diamonds and they are in alphabitized order. The collection runs the gamit from Pop to Classical from jazz to RocknRoll. Lately I have thought of selling some of them off because after the last 3 years my music interests have changed dramaticly. There are records in there that I know I would never listen to again because as I've gotten older and have come to appreciate a different kind of music like blues or mellower sounds. I have around 750 cd's catorgized the same way.
oregon
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Howdeee!
My collection consists of approximately 1000 Lps and 200 CDs. I prefer vinyl for its sonic properties, a few pops and clicks never bother me. Another reason I prefer vinyl is because I like changing the music often whether the mood is to stick with the same genre, or change it. CDs go on for over an hour and can cause me to loose interest in the music. I will often record some tracks from an LP mixed with other LPs and enjoy that CD in my car or just relax in my listening room without having to change an Lp.
All music is listed alphabetically by first name. This is the best way for finding things quickly and easily. In the past 20 years, I tried by last name, band name, genre. It's simpler to go by first name regardless of genre. "Collections" are tricky, but I have one small shelf for collections.
Also, this year I splurged, drove for 3 hours and purchased 2 shelves from Ikea- the "Expedit" shelves. Lps fit perfectly and they really looks sharp. I considered building custom shelves, but these are much better in that they can be moved. With this crazy hobby, built-in shelves might be a mistake.
Email me if you wish to see the shelves.
Enjoy!!!
ojgalli OP
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Elizabeth! 2500 LPs in the kitchen?!! Where do you keep your dishes? (Just a rhetorical question.)

Thanks for the suggestion about organization. Mine are divided into 5 sections: Classical (through 19th century), 20th Century, Jazz, World (A real grab bag that includes whatever doesn't fit in the other 4 categories.), and Rock/Pop. Alphabetical by composer or artist, and cataloged using Delicious Library, a Mac program that does CDs, Books, Movies, and games.

I did check the archives by "music collection," and "music library," and found no threads devoted to this subject. There were some ancillary references of interest. One that targeted audiophiles' devotion whether to music or rather audio gear.

Thanks to all for sharing.
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