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Post by Dawn on Aug 7, 2009 13:48:51 GMT -5
I don't think we've ever discussed this topic before here on the Click, but I saw a related thread on another board and it generated some interesting replies. Many of us here have quite sizable collections of music in various formats - CDs, LPs, 45s, tapes, mp3s. Some of it we have played many times through the years, and others maybe once or twice, or even not at all (I'm guilty of this - have some CDs and tapes still in the shrink wrap!). But, what if you were to listen to each song/album in your collection, without going back and replaying anything? Assuming you were to listen to the material at a rate of one album/CD or an 80 minute CD's worth of 45 sides/mp3s per day, how long do you estimate that it would take you to listen to your entire collection once? I actually started to do this once with LPs, starting with "A" artists, back in 1987 or thereabouts, but didn't get very far. I wish I'd continued it, as it would have been interesting to see how long it would have taken then. Counting everything (other than mix tapes/CDs I've made myself) and not including duplicates of albums I have in several formats, I'm estimating it would take somewhere around 10 years to get through my current collection at that rate. Which means, allowing for replays of favorite songs/albums and new additions, a fair part of my collection will probably not ever be listened to, or listened to more than once in my lifetime. Kind of sobering in a way.  How about you? |
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Post by gremashlo on Aug 7, 2009 14:22:44 GMT -5
I don't think we've ever discussed this topic before here on the Click, but I saw a related thread on another board and it generated some interesting replies. Many of us here have quite sizable collections of music in various formats - CDs, LPs, 45s, tapes, mp3s. Some of it we have played many times through the years, and others maybe once or twice, or even not at all (I'm guilty of this - have some CDs and tapes still in the shrink wrap!). But, what if you were to listen to each song/album in your collection, without going back and replaying anything? Assuming you were to listen to the material at a rate of one album/CD or an 80 minute CD's worth of 45 sides/mp3s per day, how long do you estimate that it would take you to listen to your entire collection once? I actually started to do this once with LPs, starting with "A" artists, back in 1987 or thereabouts, but didn't get very far. I wish I'd continued it, as it would have been interesting to see how long it would have taken then. Counting everything (other than mix tapes/CDs I've made myself) and not including duplicates of albums I have in several formats, I'm estimating it would take somewhere around 10 years to get through my current collection at that rate. Which means, allowing for replays of favorite songs/albums and new additions, a fair part of my collection will probably not ever be listened to, or listened to more than once in my lifetime. Kind of sobering in a way. How about you? I TRIED something similar, in 1986...while I was DJ'ing in Hell (I mean, DeSoto, Missouri), I got seriously drunk one night and dedided that it would be a great idea to play one song off of every album I had with me--about 60-70, as the majority of my collection was still in Nebraska. I got through about 25 before exhaustion and alcohol won out... But , my wife has often asked me this question, regarding my 45's--"Just how many of these have you NEVER played?" I never have an answer for her, as it's a bit humbling to admit you're collecting recorded audio images, and you don't play 75% of them... |
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Post by Ken on Aug 10, 2009 18:14:14 GMT -5
Hmmm that's a head scratcher lol!  I would say maybe ten to twelve years? |
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Post by dave910 on Aug 10, 2009 20:44:02 GMT -5
Dawn, you seem to have a lot of free time on your hands! I was just taking a look at my itunes library which holds close to 12,400 songs! This calculates to about 33 days. I have a few hundred 45's, close to 100 albums and few cassettes as well. This isn't counting the CD's I've yet to load on my hard drive! I'm often asked "how many of these CD's do you still listen to?"  To be honest some haven't got played since I purchased them. I digress. I would say about nine months perhaps. But here's the better question: are there CD's or albums you just would rather never play again? I actually wound up donating a huge batch of CD singles to my church for my annual bazaar, because I have made compilations of most of them. |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Aug 10, 2009 21:45:54 GMT -5
I don't think we've ever discussed this topic before here on the Click, but I saw a related thread on another board and it generated some interesting replies. Many of us here have quite sizable collections of music in various formats - CDs, LPs, 45s, tapes, mp3s. Some of it we have played many times through the years, and others maybe once or twice, or even not at all (I'm guilty of this - have some CDs and tapes still in the shrink wrap!). But, what if you were to listen to each song/album in your collection, without going back and replaying anything? Assuming you were to listen to the material at a rate of one album/CD or an 80 minute CD's worth of 45 sides/mp3s per day, how long do you estimate that it would take you to listen to your entire collection once? I actually started to do this once with LPs, starting with "A" artists, back in 1987 or thereabouts, but didn't get very far. I wish I'd continued it, as it would have been interesting to see how long it would have taken then. Counting everything (other than mix tapes/CDs I've made myself) and not including duplicates of albums I have in several formats, I'm estimating it would take somewhere around 10 years to get through my current collection at that rate. Which means, allowing for replays of favorite songs/albums and new additions, a fair part of my collection will probably not ever be listened to, or listened to more than once in my lifetime. Kind of sobering in a way. How about you? OK ... let me see mine. I'll estimate 5,000 45s, 400 LPs, 200 CDs Maybe 50 cassettes. 5,000 45s means 10,000 sides. Average of - say - 2:45 per side comes to 27,500 minutes Say the LPs average 30 minutes. That's another 12,000 minutes. 200 CDs - average 60 minutes (at least half of them are mixes) -- another 12,000 minutes. 50 Cassettes (some 60s, some 90s) lets say an average of 75 minutes each comes to 3750 minutes. (Not even touching the mp3 cds or the ones only on my hard drive right now.) Comes to 55,250 minutes. Listening to 80 minutes per day, comes to 690 days. That's less than 2 years. I guess that comes from having a majority of my collection on 45s. |
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Post by 55dodger on Aug 10, 2009 22:11:40 GMT -5
Based on what I can estimate what I have on vinyl, tape, & CD, I'd say 8-10 years to listen to everything.
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Post by Dawn on Aug 11, 2009 12:56:48 GMT -5
I don't think we've ever discussed this topic before here on the Click, but I saw a related thread on another board and it generated some interesting replies. Many of us here have quite sizable collections of music in various formats - CDs, LPs, 45s, tapes, mp3s. Some of it we have played many times through the years, and others maybe once or twice, or even not at all (I'm guilty of this - have some CDs and tapes still in the shrink wrap!). But, what if you were to listen to each song/album in your collection, without going back and replaying anything? Assuming you were to listen to the material at a rate of one album/CD or an 80 minute CD's worth of 45 sides/mp3s per day, how long do you estimate that it would take you to listen to your entire collection once? I actually started to do this once with LPs, starting with "A" artists, back in 1987 or thereabouts, but didn't get very far. I wish I'd continued it, as it would have been interesting to see how long it would have taken then. Counting everything (other than mix tapes/CDs I've made myself) and not including duplicates of albums I have in several formats, I'm estimating it would take somewhere around 10 years to get through my current collection at that rate. Which means, allowing for replays of favorite songs/albums and new additions, a fair part of my collection will probably not ever be listened to, or listened to more than once in my lifetime. Kind of sobering in a way. How about you? I TRIED something similar, in 1986...while I was DJ'ing in Hell (I mean, DeSoto, Missouri), I got seriously drunk one night and dedided that it would be a great idea to play one song off of every album I had with me--about 60-70, as the majority of my collection was still in Nebraska. I got through about 25 before exhaustion and alcohol won out... But , my wife has often asked me this question, regarding my 45's--"Just how many of these have you NEVER played?" I never have an answer for her, as it's a bit humbling to admit you're collecting recorded audio images, and you don't play 75% of them... LOL, I can relate!  |
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Post by Dawn on Aug 11, 2009 12:59:43 GMT -5
Hmmm that's a head scratcher lol! I would say maybe ten to twelve years? Isn't it though? I honestly didn't realize my collection was that big until I thought of it in terms of playing time. |
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Post by Dawn on Aug 11, 2009 13:03:47 GMT -5
Dawn, you seem to have a lot of free time on your hands! I was just taking a look at my itunes library which holds close to 12,400 songs! This calculates to about 33 days. I have a few hundred 45's, close to 100 albums and few cassettes as well. This isn't counting the CD's I've yet to load on my hard drive! I'm often asked "how many of these CD's do you still listen to?" To be honest some haven't got played since I purchased them. I digress. I would say about nine months perhaps. But here's the better question: are there CD's or albums you just would rather never play again? I actually wound up donating a huge batch of CD singles to my church for my annual bazaar, because I have made compilations of most of them. Yes, I have to admit there are a number of items in my collection that I'd just as soon not revisit. That's particularly true of the cassettes; many of them were impulse music club buys. I got rid of some of them a few years ago before a move, but still have some left. It's hard to find a place that will accept tapes these days, though. |
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Post by Dawn on Aug 11, 2009 13:08:10 GMT -5
I don't think we've ever discussed this topic before here on the Click, but I saw a related thread on another board and it generated some interesting replies. Many of us here have quite sizable collections of music in various formats - CDs, LPs, 45s, tapes, mp3s. Some of it we have played many times through the years, and others maybe once or twice, or even not at all (I'm guilty of this - have some CDs and tapes still in the shrink wrap!). But, what if you were to listen to each song/album in your collection, without going back and replaying anything? Assuming you were to listen to the material at a rate of one album/CD or an 80 minute CD's worth of 45 sides/mp3s per day, how long do you estimate that it would take you to listen to your entire collection once? I actually started to do this once with LPs, starting with "A" artists, back in 1987 or thereabouts, but didn't get very far. I wish I'd continued it, as it would have been interesting to see how long it would have taken then. Counting everything (other than mix tapes/CDs I've made myself) and not including duplicates of albums I have in several formats, I'm estimating it would take somewhere around 10 years to get through my current collection at that rate. Which means, allowing for replays of favorite songs/albums and new additions, a fair part of my collection will probably not ever be listened to, or listened to more than once in my lifetime. Kind of sobering in a way. How about you? OK ... let me see mine. I'll estimate 5,000 45s, 400 LPs, 200 CDs Maybe 50 cassettes. 5,000 45s means 10,000 sides. Average of - say - 2:45 per side comes to 27,500 minutes Say the LPs average 30 minutes. That's another 12,000 minutes. 200 CDs - average 60 minutes (at least half of them are mixes) -- another 12,000 minutes. 50 Cassettes (some 60s, some 90s) lets say an average of 75 minutes each comes to 3750 minutes. (Not even touching the mp3 cds or the ones only on my hard drive right now.) Comes to 55,250 minutes. Listening to 80 minutes per day, comes to 690 days. That's less than 2 years. I guess that comes from having a majority of my collection on 45s. That's still quite a long time, especially since that doesn't include files on your hard drive. You have a very nice 45s collection! I've been thinking of thinning mine out some, but haven't yet gotten around to it. |
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Post by Dawn on Aug 11, 2009 13:09:07 GMT -5
Based on what I can estimate what I have on vinyl, tape, & CD, I'd say 8-10 years to listen to everything. It sounds like you and I have similar-sized collections, Woody. |
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Post by 55dodger on Aug 12, 2009 1:32:01 GMT -5
Based on what I can estimate what I have on vinyl, tape, & CD, I'd say 8-10 years to listen to everything. It sounds like you and I have similar-sized collections, Woody. Well I went thru my library last night. Eliminating the stuff I made, CD singles, & individual MP3 downloads, I still had over 1,000 different CDs I know I have almost 900 vinyl albums. My cassettes I've never cataloged, so I guessed. The CD estimate was 3.5 years, vinyl was around 2.5. So my cassette guess was around another 3 years. So that's nine years. Taking Dave's thought that I might own albums that I don't want to listen to, I chopped a year. so 8 years is my low end. |
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Post by m c dornan on Aug 12, 2009 20:23:13 GMT -5
Well, I've got maybe 2500 LPs. (they're not in one place so it's hard to get a visual sense of them) Never much into 45s. Maybe 20. About 300 cassettes. Some are duplicates of the LPs, most aren't. I reckon that's about 8 years to hear them all. Too bad the world ends on December 21 2012...  Do you think songs saved on playlists at Youtube count as our holdings? |
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Post by dave910 on Aug 13, 2009 0:29:37 GMT -5
Dawn, you seem to have a lot of free time on your hands! I was just taking a look at my itunes library which holds close to 12,400 songs! This calculates to about 33 days. I have a few hundred 45's, close to 100 albums and few cassettes as well. This isn't counting the CD's I've yet to load on my hard drive! I'm often asked "how many of these CD's do you still listen to?" To be honest some haven't got played since I purchased them. I digress. I would say about nine months perhaps. But here's the better question: are there CD's or albums you just would rather never play again? I actually wound up donating a huge batch of CD singles to my church for my annual bazaar, because I have made compilations of most of them. Yes, I have to admit there are a number of items in my collection that I'd just as soon not revisit. That's particularly true of the cassettes; many of them were impulse music club buys. I got rid of some of them a few years ago before a move, but still have some left. It's hard to find a place that will accept tapes these days, though. Dawn, You could probably donate those cassettes to a church. Many have annual bazaars or fairs where people love to pick up stuff like that at very low prices |
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Post by daniel on Nov 14, 2011 22:50:45 GMT -5
Goodwill is another option for cassettes. None of the music resale places here (Half Price Books, Buybacks) will accept cassettes (Or VHS) anymore, as they can only sell them for 15-25₵ each.
As far as my music collection... I'd estimate about 6 years just for the CD's. I don't even know how many I own, I have 5 of those crappy Big Lots 475 or 500 capacity CD shelves full, plus some stacked on top. I admit, a lot of stuff I have I'll NEVER listen to all the way through, I simply bought it because it was a good deal I couldn't pass it up. The Neil Diamond "In My Lifetime" box or Barry Manilow "Complete Collection" I found for $4 each at Goodwill are examples. Both artists only have 3 or 4 songs I'll ever listen to, but at that price I just couldn't pass them up.
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To be honest some haven't got played since I purchased them. I digress. I would say about nine months perhaps. But here's the better question: are there CD's or albums you just would rather never play again? I actually wound up donating a huge batch of CD singles to my church for my annual bazaar, because I have made compilations of most of them.
