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I have more! I must thin them out soon.
How many are classical?Quote:
Originally Posted by majex45
Well I have at long last catalogued and housed all my CDs. For those that might be interested there are:
Classical - 672 CDs
Jazz - 521 CDs
Blues and R&B - 284 CDs
and
Rock, Pop and Folk - 1975.
Thus a total of 3,452, which if you include a few "odds and sods" such as test discs and samplers comes to around 3,500.
So not as many as some have here, but enough for me. :)
:eek: If anyone here has more than that, they probably own a record shop. And are these all 'keepers'? I know you don't tend to hang on to titles you're not keen on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I think you need to split out pop, rock and folk it's too wide a genre range. Or is that just one CD by the band 1975?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I did very rough count and it seems I have around 800 which is a lot more than when I last counted when it was about 300.
About 50 are jazz and the rest rock, pop, blues, RnB and hip-hop. No classical except for 2, both compilations and one of those is a Naim sampler disc and isn't all classical.
I have eight, filed between ZZ Top and Anita's 'Now' CDs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
It looks like I have about 700 CDs, not including the 'Now' ones. The shelving I made for them is at capacity, so I'm unlikely to increase on that number as I don't want them to be piled up in corners or boxed up, the dining room's enough of a tip as it is.
I need some more storage as I'm already overflowing and I still have albums on my want list. 800 is enough to be going on with though.
I've got about 10 world music CDs and the other 1990 are rock, pop, classical, jazz, blues, R&B, folk, rap, hip hop, dance, electronic and country.
There is at least one Member here (a fellow admirer of Kylie Minogue) who has 5,000 CDs, and I think Peter (Majex45) might have a similar number. However it's not a competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
What has surprised me is that I inherited about 2,000 CD to add to my own collection of a similar number. There were of course many duplications, but in having ended up with 3,500 CDs it looks like Oxfam have benefited from a donation of 800 discs.
I'm still working my way through the new additions, and of course I shall dispose of those that don't "do it for me".
(PS I have just remembered I have a couple of drawers containing about 200 CDs, which were not part of my original estimate. The discs are 'World' or ethnic music (about 120), and spoken word: audio-books as well as radio comedy recordings.)
There are two schools of thought regarding cataloguing records. Some will file them according to the artist's name in alphabetical order, regardless of genre. This has the advantage that one need not worry about genre or style, but what about duets - who's name comes first? "Page and Plant", or "Page" before "Plant"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
The other system is what I have followed for both my vinyl collection as well as for the CD collection; that of dividing the collection into genre, then within each genre by artist's name or ensemble name in alphabetical order. This seems to me to be more logical and natural. The problem is the size of the genre - and as you point out that my grouping of "Rock, Pop and Folk" is too large and needs splitting out. Frankly I'm not sure if there is an obvious division between Rock and Pop. The Beatles are obviously Pop, whereas The Rolling Stones are Rock, but I wouldn't separate them. There is a problem where an artist's early work may be in one genre, but later segues or moves into another.
In my vinyl collection Folk was a separate genre, but there were some difficulties with artists such as John Martyn, or Joni Mitchell. Martyn's early work was definitely acoustic Folk. Then later he started to play an electric guitar, and with the addition of a Echoplex echo effects pedal his playing started to move more towards rock. Later in teaming up with Danny Thompson, on double bass, the music moved into jazz, especially when John deliberately slurred his singing. Similarly Joni Mitchell started off as an acoustic folk artist. Later she started to move towards folk pop and then to jazz (around the time of her LP 'Mingus'). Soft Machine started as an experimental pop group, then moved towards jazz and ending there.
So no one system is perfect, you just have to use one which seems 'right' for you.
I think you have it right as you have it now, at least that's what I would do. As for the Page/Plant example you mention, I would go by the first surname that appears on the title, and hope I remember who that is when digging it out.
They are all filed under Plant as I have more of his solo work, than I do of Jimmy Page (of which I have none). So anything by 'Page and Plant' is filed under 'Plant'. But their names are not that far apart, so I wouldn't miss either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony