I thought it might be interesting to know how many CD's (approximately ) each of you own. You can also estimate cassette tapes and vinyl.

I have about 70 Cd's, about 100 cassette tapes, and about 50 records -- almost all of it's jazz or cjazz.

Aprox. 600+ cd's, 400+ cassettes and 100 lp's. I had more lp's but sold all my non-jazz stuff to a Pro DJ due to not having enough room in my small apt.(at the time). (Yeah, I'm still kicking myself in the @$$ over that one). Even got rid of my Pioneer speakers (huge, 15" woofers, etc.)Sigh!!

I'm about where you're at, bward, except don't have that many cassettes.

I used to have tons of 45's, got them at the local dimestore for 77 cents each! My mom sold most in a rummage sale.

Got rid of all the LP's, 45's, cassets and 8-tracks years ago. Have around 600 cds at the moment. I had hit 900+ at one point but had to unload some when a found myself among the unemployed a year or so ago. The collection is 90 per cent jazz of one kind or another with a few rock things mixed in. Most of rock is of the greatest hits variety.

At one time I had well over 1000 LPs but lack of space and the fact that I could only take so much of Herman's Hermits, Buckinghams, Peter and Gordon ect. I have been kicking myself for giving up all my Beatle LP's however, should have kept those.

I carried this one over from the thread on Contemp Jazz General that LLB aka Laura started called "How Do You Not Overplay a C.D." or something like that....is that where you got the idea, Brent? Here it goes....

I have like 400 C.D.'s, 200 tapes and about 400 L.P.'s...when I get bored, I pull out something I haven't heard in AGES and get into it like it was still the newest thing in my collection. Or, if I don't want to do that, I turn on my DirecTV satellite dish and cruise the selection of music and tune in something good (I have like 18 or so different channels). Just a suggestion, sure beats the hell out of MOST radio these days, smooth jazz one's or not! ( I think I seriously need a whole room of a house for my music collection. I saw something on VH-1 once on Elton John and his mansion in France had one!) I want one of those for Christmas-LOL! yeah right, in my DREAMS!

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Anita Bonita

Tapes, probably less than 100. That, of course, is not counting tapes I recorded music onto.
Vinyl, there may be a 45 or two in there and well over 100 LPs. I'm not really sure anymore as they never get played. (Something about having a constantly broken stylus and an entertainment system in a room where everybody congregate keeps me from using it.)
CDs? Heck I lost count after the first 200. Let's see. There are 14 in the CD stack at my computer; about 50 stacked on a shelf at my computer printer stand (not counting software); another 50 or 60 in the crate-like rack on the floor next to the computer. That's just in my bedroom.
Call it 115.
24 in my bag, for a subtotal of 139.
In the living room, and this is all quess-work:
30 in the mobile CD rack on the floor; 40 in the fixed CD rack on the entertainment center; between 30 and 40 in the entertainment center cabinet.
Call it 105 for a sub-subtotal of 244.
Finally, there's a box in storage that has - guessing again - 60.
So rounding it off, I'd say there's 300. This may be a conservative estimate. (Guess I need to take inventory. Darn you, bward.)
Oh, and I got 8 more coming in from BMG.

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Woody
jazzwriter23@yahoo.com

I'm embarassed to admit it, had to look it up, 1796 CDs, catalogued in a database. I have been thinking about a special wall sized rack for them because they're stuffed into 4 racks which hold 525 CDs each.

I can index by artist, title, song, label, instrument, genre, year, and some are cross catalogued for solo artist from a band type efforts. Some of my genres are what you'd expect like Blues, Traditional Jazz, Jazz Vocal, Contemporary Jazz, Pop, Dance. But then there are the genres for Psychedelic 70's rock, Southern Rock, 80's hair bands, indie music and the like.

That's what happens when you're a geek.

PS. I burnt my vinyl and tapes onto CD, so now I only have about 50 LPs.

[This message has been edited by Kat (edited February 26, 2002).]

I've got, you ready for this...?

About 45 CD's!

Well, I'm young. I also hardly have any money, what can I say...

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[This message has been edited by apmkk (edited February 26, 2002).]

First let me say that I was never really a music FANATIC until I discovered jazz, which hasn't even been 10 years yet. Before that, I had maybe 20 or 30 or so vinyl albums from my early "rock" days.

I'm now up to about 170 CDs, which are 99% jazz. The only cassettes I have are compilation tapes I made from some of my CDs, so I could have a variety to listen to at work. I think there are about 30 of those.

You guys with the 600 of this and 400 of that...can you imagine how much money you must've put into those collections??? You wanna send ME some of that $$$??

WHOA, KAT!! Just read YOUR post!! Almost 1800 CD's?? You must be either very wealthy, or extremely broke!!



[This message has been edited by smjzzfan (edited February 26, 2002).]

Well...I wish that I was wealthy! let's just say that CD purchasing is part of my weekly budget. And I'm lucky enough to get freebies here & there. I replaced much of my vinyl collection thru the years and what I couldn't buy, I converted to CD for myself.

Once I did the math and scared myself for how much I had acquired thru the years. I had to re-do my inventory for my homeowner's policy to include my CDs & audio equipment.

This is a safer hobby than the black boot collection that I had going. it doesn't affect my wallet as much.