Let’s talk collections and listening habits!
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COLLECTION SIZE:
No idea. About 6,000 LPs, probably 3,000 CDS, losts of digital files.
I don’t file soundtracks together, so I have no idea what percentage are soundtracks (or soundtrack related).
ACQUISITION HABITS:
I’ve more or less stopped. These days, I’m more likely to buy lossless downloads from Qobuz. I do take advantage of sales by the specialty labels, because none of the music I care about ever sells out anymore, so I can wait for something to go on sale.
LISTENING HABITS:
Random, based on mood. In October, I listen to lots of horror soundtracks.
This was something accidentally brought up by Nick, I think, in the “Cheers!” thread: The ever-amusing idea of posting photos of your physical music collection. Here’s mine (although missing the boxed sets, which are on another shelf). You go next!
Oh dear, my shelf is a mess these days. Here are some CDs, books and dvds. The vinyl and more CDs are somewhere else.
Oh dear, my shelf is a mess these days. Here are some CDs, books and dvds. The vinyl and more CDs are somewhere else.
Yes, appears some of the shelves have caved in due to weight?
And Nick, that’s cheating! 😀
And Nick, that’s cheating! 😀
Hey, it’s really my entire music collection that’s on that physical drive. 🙂
Most of my CD collection is on a shelf in our living room. Some more CDs are boxed away, the LPs are on a shelf in our garage.
Incidentally, I took a snapshot of it this week on Monday (December 15th) morning, because the sun made some crazy circles that looked cool, but puzzled me for a moment. Might as well share it here. Must have been some odd alignment of light, I have not seen before or since.
Where can I again upload those images? By the way, @Thor: maybe you can pin a post with an instruction about how to handle images on top of the forum. Otherwise I will ask you a hundred times.
Yes, appears some of the shelves have caved in due to weight?
It’s more that I never put the shelves on properly..
Where can I again upload those images? By the way, @Thor: maybe you can pin a post with an instruction about how to handle images on top of the forum. Otherwise I will ask you a hundred times.
Good point. There should be a tutorial for that. I’ll put it in the first post of the “Forum Feedback” thread.
Incidentally, I took a snapshot of it this week on Monday (December 15th) morning, because the sun made some crazy circles that looked cool, but puzzled me for a moment. Might as well share it here. Must have been some odd alignment of light, I have not seen before or since.
Beautiful. Did J.J. Abrams take the photo?
Haha, yeah, looks like it. I quickly grabbed for my phone and made a couple of photos, when I made the photo, it was already fading, altogether, it was only there for a minute or two.
That’s it. Behind the Ecoutez le cinema box of John Williams are the two Ennio Morricone boxes. But that’s it for film music. On the right hand side of that cupboard is another one with pop and Rock music.
I haven’t listened to Legend in ages. Maybe I should do it this weekend.
Nick, are you listening to Goldsmith a lot?Last Goldsmith I listened to was Basic Instinct. And I am not a fan of that score. But I try and try to warm up with it because everyone keeps saying that it’s so great. But it never really impressed me.
I haven’t listened to Legend in ages. Maybe I should do it this weekend.
Nick, are you listening to Goldsmith a lot?I do, too. LEGEND is a good score and the synth work pretty well although as usual a matter of taste.
Last Goldsmith I listened to was Basic Instinct. And I am not a fan of that score. But I try and try to warm up with it because everyone keeps saying that it’s so great. But it never really impressed me.
Can understand that. I like it, nice moody theme but otherwise lots of rather routine standards like with many 90s Goldsmiths for me.
LEGEND was my first Goldsmith album and has a special place in my heart. To be honest, I don’t remember what was the second. But it was a CD already. Probably THE OMEN. Or Poltergeist.
LEGEND was his only score, that I had as an LP.Oh, we’re doing special composer sections now? (by the way, that’s an impressive Goldsmith collection, Mr. Zwar).
I made this floor spread (perhaps the ultimate geekboy activity?) when John David Towner Williams turned 88 five years ago. Only a very few new JW CDs since then, so I can still use it:
I love that picture, Thor. Great collection! But could it be that Superman IV is missing?
Williams wrote three new themes for that. And I don’t see it on the picture.Yup. I have SUPERMAN IV on CD-R (and obviously files), but that doesn’t count. It, along with six other JW items, are missing from my physical collection (although, again, I own all as files). Also, the picture is from five years ago, so there are some more missing that I actually HAVE managed to procure since then (like THE FABELMANS and INDY V….and the Greiving book, I’d probably add that to the picture too if I were to make a new one). Why are those 7 items still missing, you ask? Well, because this.
I haven’t listened to Legend in ages. Maybe I should do it this weekend.
Nick, are you listening to Goldsmith a lot?I don’t have any meaningful statistics, unfortunately, how much I listen to what, but Goldsmith is definitely one of my favorite composers and perhaps I’d go so far to say Jerry Goldsmith is probably the most “important” (as in important for me) composer of film scores in my collection. He was the initial “starting point”, when I was a teen and started to search the record stores for film music, I bought every Goldsmith album there was, never knew quite what to expect. I have over 240 Goldsmith albums in my collection, most of his output. Not sure how “complete” it is, but I guess I wouldn’t stop now to complete the gaps. 🙂
Last Goldsmith I listened to was Basic Instinct. And I am not a fan of that score. But I try and try to warm up with it because everyone keeps saying that it’s so great. But it never really impressed me.
I’m afraid I OD’d on BASIC INSTINCT copies over the years.
I think both the score and the movie are excellent, among my favorite Jerry Goldsmith scored movies of the decade.
Thor, I have many but by no means all of the John Williams albums in your picture. I’d never give away that LOST WORLD CD with the dinorama packaging. 🙂
Impressive Williamas collection. Don’t have all those on CD, too. But I have some expansions you of course don’t 😉 And for weird reasons I even once parted with my HOME ALONE CD (old album) because I thought “Ah, Christmas music, often do I listen to that…” (“how often” is of course a joke for any album by now…). The bottom rule is of course to never part with especially Williams or Goldsmiths at all. Of course I have it digitally by now (no I didn’t even copy the CD back then…).
Here’s photo of my physical collection:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KG46sB-m5wNosuJ7E4ztqH7QahfQOldt/view?usp=sharing
Looks I am running out of space. That isn’t the case actually, I just need to re-organise and get better shelves at time 😉Nice, Malte! Yes, you know you’re running out of space when CDs are placed in all different ways…horizontal, vertical, in every empty space. 😀
I’d never give away that LOST WORLD CD with the dinorama packaging.
Will never be sold, no, even if it scratched my CD a bit. I put it inside a plastic sleeve, and THEN inside the cardboard packaging to protect it a bit. But that’s not particularly healthy either. I just hope it still plays fine.
I gave away a lot of OSTs after I got the expansions. Mostly I give them to my little brother who listens to soundtracks as well a little bit. He also got my dinorama.
And dang, that disc (showed earlier in this thread) is giving up its life. I only bought in in March 2024, just almost two years (in two days)… maybe I still have warranty.
That disc contains my music and is failing badly… fortunately, I have a 99,99% up to date backup (in two places). And am currently transferring my music data to a new disc, will still take a few hours, and then consolidate the bits and bytes. Still, it is once again, it’s a reminder how important backups are. 🙂
Still, it is once again, it’s a reminder how important backups are. 🙂
Oh, yes, I do a daily incremental backup of all of my data. Music currently once place – have to get nother harddisc – only but the important other personal and work files are backed up on two drive. And I regulary check all harddrives using Apple First Aid. After two years already is fast… I haven’t had that yet – knock on wood – and I am generally using Western Digital for 20 years ( not the same disc of course but surey for more that 2 years 😉 – as well.
Just last year I thought a drive just broke from one second to the other. But gladly in the end it was just an USB hub I connecteed another devices that somehow had kicked it out completely. Only after a restart it showed up again and workss flawlessy since then.
I have a few Terrabytes of data, and most of it is very important and virtually not replaceable. Heck, even my music collection is pretty much irreplaceable. Sure, theoretically I could re-rip the largest part of it again from my CDs, and I could re-download a lot of my purchases from Qobuz etc. (though by far not all, because many either don’t sell online anymore, like Chandos, Qobuz removed a lot of titles, some companies only offer copies for a limited time, many Kickstarter files I’d have to ask Intrada etc. if they could resend the stuff to me, and so on). But ripping thousands of CDs takes quite a bit of time. Plus I’d have to retag all of that etc, no way, would probably take me a couple of years to get everything together, let alone that it would be wasted time. And that’s just the music, let alone irreplaceable videos/photos of family etc.
So I’d rather have backups. Drive failed yesterday, and I already got a replacement drive, and have most of the data on that drive re-inserted. Also, there’s still warranty on the WD Passport so it’s likely that I get it replaced as well.
Unfortunately, the WD Passport gave up on itself during a backup, so I have to now check if any albums are affected. So far, I’ve found one, Quartet’s BLACK RAIN, CD1, but I can easily insert that from another backup or re-rip a single CD, that’s no big deal.Oh gosh, that brings back memories, Nick.
A few years ago, I had to wipe my ex-laptop clean due to some issue. Before that, I transferred all my music to an external harddrive. Once wiped, I was about to import the music again when the external harddrive fell to the floor and was ruined. Totally devastating, I lost my entire music collection!
Of course, I still had my CDs, which made up about a third of the collection, but the laptop didn’t have any CD-ROM drive. I could have bought an external CD-ROM drive, of course, but the thought of re-importing about 1000 CDs was gruelling. I remember it took me about half a year importing all my CDs to iTunes in the first place, with correct tagging etc.. What came to the rescue was my old iPod, of all things, which had maybe a third of the collection on it. But beyond that, I had to rely on help from fellow fans to rebuild it (chief among them FalkirkBairn, who once posted here).
I’ve learnt from my mistakes. In addition to a new external harddrive, I also have my music collection stored on my dad’s NAS. Thankfully, I’m content with 320kps mp3s, I don’t need fancy-schmanzy lossless files that take up enormous amount of space. My tinnitus-affected ears wouldn’t be able to hear the difference, anyway. So the collection can – so far – all fit on my 1TB external harddrive, as well as my dad’s NAS server.
Best of luck in the process, Nick!
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