Needless details about your collection..
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Here’s one: according to both iTunes and MusicBee, my Bernard Herrmann collection is 70 Albums for a total uninterrupted listening length of 5 days… that’s a whole work-week.
I was looking for a certain album and just noticed. Not that it’s relevant.
Please, indulge me and share needless details (it’s about details, not about collection size number of composers etc.) about your collection. 🙂
Fun topic.
To do what you did, if I pressed “play” on my John Williams iTunes collection today, and let it play continously, it would stop on November 11. 😀
I’ll see if I can think of other needless details.
I have a collection of TV themes – self recorded via TV via cable back then and from other sources, generally not just from some CDs – that would run 1,2 days 😉
I don’t think I don’t have at least one track by every “major” composer 😉 (I do like Zimmer and – primarily the earlier – Giacchino)
In fact, I own two Giacchino albums: The Incredibles and Rogue One. And I like them both in their own way.
To my shame I must confess, that I own two albums, which feature a Zimmer track.
One is a piano collection of film themes, which has Time from Inception.
And the Raiders of the Symphony album of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra has the track 503 from Angels and Deamons.Apart from that I am afraid, there is nothing special about my collection.
Maybe worth mentioning is the soundtrack that I bought the most often.My very first soundtrack album was the The Empire Strikes Back LP, a birthday present from my parents.
As soon as I found it in a record store, I bought the double LP.
Later when CDs appeared, I bought again the single LP album on CD.
I skipped the double CD.
But then came the ARISTA box. That was the fourth time I got it.
Then came the special edition 2-CD complete score album. That was number five.
I skipped the sony edition and the disney demaster of the OST.
Some years later I bought the Charles Gerhard album for completenes, which made it purchase no. 6.
Since then I am waiting for some ultimate edition coming one day.
Maybe in two years?Perfect reply. Exactly the spirit in which this thread was created. 🙂
Yes, except for the fact that I made a mistake while browsing iTunes. It’s if I played my ENTIRE COLLECTION (all 2877 albums worth), that it would stop at November 11. If I only played my Williams collection (some 280 titles), it would stop August 19 if I pressed ‘play’ today. So bit of a difference, LOL. 😀
Yes, except for the fact that I made a mistake while browsing iTunes. It’s if I played my ENTIRE COLLECTION (all 2877 albums worth), that it would stop at November 11. If I only played my Williams collection (some 280 titles), it would stop August 19 if I pressed ‘play’ today. So bit of a difference, LOL.
But still, it is interesting thought. Imagine, that guy has a composer career of about 70 years and in that time he probably hasn’t even written a Month time of music.
Later when CDs appeared, I bought again the single LP album on CD.
I skipped the double CD.There were both a single CD album and a double CD album for Empire?
Perfect reply. Exactly the spirit in which this thread was created. 🙂
Yes, except for the fact that I made a mistake while browsing iTunes. It’s if I played my ENTIRE COLLECTION (all 2877 albums worth), that it would stop at November 11. If I only played my Williams collection (some 280 titles), it would stop August 19 if I pressed ‘play’ today. So bit of a difference, LOL. 😀
Yeah, I noticed and wanted to ask you “wow, that’s a lot of John Williams recordings… what do you have?” I did check my own (considerable, but not as large as yours) John Williams collection. When I typed in “John Williams”, I get results for 170 albums and 12-13 days long, and so I was wondering what the heck am I missing? My actual “John Williams” albums are fewer, because just typing in “John Williams”, the programs also list compilations such as AMAZING STORIES where Williams appears, plus even unrelated recordings by the guitarist John Williams. I have about 125 albums or 9 days of listening time where the composer “John Williams” is the “Album Artist”.
Yeah, I noticed and wanted to ask you “wow, that’s a lot of John Williams recordings… what do you have?” I did check my own (considerable, but not as large as yours) John Williams collection. When I typed in “John Williams”, I get results for 170 albums and 12-13 days long, and so I was wondering what the heck am I missing? My actual “John Williams” albums are fewer, because just typing in “John Williams”, the programs also list compilations such as AMAZING STORIES where Williams appears, plus even unrelated recordings by the guitarist John Williams. I have about 125 albums or 9 days of listening time where the composer “John Williams” is the “Album Artist”.
I don’t have any expansions, so that means less minutes there. But I’ve sorted many of his performance gigs under his name (like the piano gigs of the 50s and 60s), so that ups the minutes a bit (with some exceptions, like the Mancini albums that are sorted under ‘Mancini’). But going into the parameters of sorting is a whole other, complex topic in itself that I won’t delve into here.
I don’t have any Williams or Goldsmith albums in my collection.
The outrage! The scandal! The HERESY! 😀
But going into the parameters of sorting is a whole other, complex topic in itself that I won’t delve into here.
Yeah, that would be a different topic. This is just for fun.
I seem to have 18 different versions of “Jingle Bells” in my collection, which means I can play “Jingle Bells” continuously for 49 minutes without playing the same track twice. 😀
I don’t have any Williams or Goldsmith albums in my collection.
Please leave this forum or do we have to ban you? 😉
Fun fact: I don’t think there’s a single (main) genre of music not represented in my collection. Versatility is the spice of life!
I file by genre, so I may file albums by a particular film composer in various locations, depending on the genre of the music.
That’s interesting, because my music is filed without regard to genre. So in my CD shelf, “Madonna”, “Gustav Mahler”, and “Henry Mancini” are all next to each other or in close proximity.
Because I see music (like books or films) fits often into more than one genre, I do have my genres very generic, so there is “pop”, “jazz”, “classical”, “score” (or soundtrack), “ambient”, “electronic”… not much more.
If more programs supported multiple genres across the board, I’d assign multiple genres to lot of recordings.So I’m not even sure if I have every main genre in my collection as defined by Thor.
I used the genre categories at Wikipedia, and realized I had something from every one of them (even if it’s just a single track or two in some instances). I even had lots of the sub genres represented for many of them. Interesting.
I wouldn’t necessarily file them by genre, though, as Dr. Jacoby. That’s an intriguing way of doing it.
I sort CDs generally by soundtracks, classical and pop/rock/jazz and by artist/composer within. Digital files also primarily use these general genres, soundtrack sometimes with additions like TV score or something. But scores have no actual genres like symphonic, jazz or whatever.
In iTunes, I only use genres “Classical”, “Electronic”, “Jazz”, “Musical”, “Rock” and “Soundtrack”, although the span is obviously much greater. I’ve painted myself into a corner by not having “Pop” as a genre, for example. It has led to ludicrous situations sometimes. Enya, for example. Didn’t know where to put her, so she ended up in “Electronic”. But at least better than “Rock”, LOL.
The outrage! The scandal! The HERESY
LOL, indeed. I had Leviathan once, sold it years ago.
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