god, i dont even want to count. seriously. i used to carry 20 cd cases in my car (shouldve gotten those big disc holders). there are at least 4 rotating shelves, a few nightstand shelves, a few smaller desk shelves, and some strewn about around the cd player. then theres vinyl. boxes full of them, probably would reach the ceiling 3 times over if i stacked the vinyl on top of each other. and then my digital library is around 45k tracks saved. i wouldnt cut any of it

Roon server says I'm at 7,548...It's too much, way too much.

I went to music school at that perfect time just before streaming kicked off, and a few of us traded our collections around. I probably only go through 200 albums a year really listening these days. But honestly I'm not sure I could give it up. I love sitting with the music, bringing back the memories of that person and our time together.

Plus I'd miss the ridiculous experience of hitting shuffle on the whole thing, not knowing whether the next track will be Miles Davis, Thundercat, Meshuggah, or the Berliner Philharmoniker!

I don't own any physical albums. And, after the hard disk failure, my music collection has been rebuilt as links in my notes app. It's currently at over 4500 items, although a lot of them are individual tracks — particularly when it comes to old songs from my youth and before.

These are almost all already curated to have some meaning for me, and I do reach for odd corners of that pile pretty regularly, especially when discussing musics on the web or posting it here. Plus, importantly, this whole assemblage defines why my taste is what it's like, so ain't nobody gonna touch my trash!

Oh fuck.

In my main cabinet, each drawer holds.... Ahhhhhhh, I wanna say just under a hundred? That's times six drawers. Of CDs. I have fifty here in my room, plus another hundred-ish boxed up.

Vinyl, I haven't counted since I put them in storage when our last record player bit the dust. But it was around 140? Ish? There's a dozen or so cassettes shoved in a closet of local bands I can't replace, so they got digitized.

Digital purchases, I stopped counting once it got hard to scroll through. I was an early adopter of burning discs, so I wasn't worried about shelling out for digital goods back then. I just made plenty of backups. But it had to be maybe 200 back when I got disabled and couldn't spend on such things often.

I've only bought a double handful since then tbh. I'm fucking poor, so I only spend on small artists. I pirate the rest.

Soooo, that's what? A little over a thousand? Right around there anyway.

If you count pirated stuff, and I don't call that owning in the same way, there's two terabytes currently on my main drive of just music, though it isn't all albums. Maybe 20% of that is singles or a few tracks.

I actually end up listening to most of it over time. My phone and music players tend to only have maybe a few hundred gigabytes on them what with sd cards in the tb range being expensive for my budget, and only my newest devices support that big anyway.

But when I'm really in the mood, I crank up my old gaming PC and just hit play. Since musicbee is set up for it, alli have to do is remember where one the alphabet I was, and start from where I left off.

I reckon I end up cycling through it all maybe once a year to every other year or so.

Reduce it? Fuck that. I could get rid of stuff I pirated for other people, but we're talking about maybe a dozen or so gigs. Why bother?

Some of the vinyl was my parents', so I wouldn't actually play them at this point. Which means I could get rid of the stuff I have in digital format. But, again, fuck that. Vinyl is much cooler to handle. I like having them, despite not needing them. Besides, only a few were worth any money back when I stored them.