What is the size of your physical and digital music collection?

[Jennifer P]

I'm in the 5,000 to 9,000 range like many other merabers.

[Todd K]

I declare Shinanigans!!! There is no way in hell that you have that much music, let alone listen to all of it. Who else went higher than 50,000, Shinanigans!!!

[canereadtu]

I only started expanding my collection recently so I'm around 7 gigs, probably on average adding another album or two every day.

[Nikki L]

I can count the amount of CD's I own (Excluding digital files I've bought) between both hanRAB. No joke.

[Sharon L]

I agree with Seltzer, I've been collecting music since 1974 and have amassed a huge library of all kinRAB of music. And I always have something playing in the background when I'm on my PC or doing routine stuff around the mansion. And now like Ashtray I've been pillaging the torrent universe for the last 2 months, and have acquired so much new material I'm staggered when I'm indexing sorting etc...and I always upload more than I take to keep the music flowing freely. Probably about 800 CD's, 350 Vinyl albums, 50 Cassettes, just keeping track of it all is a major pain in the ass, but I just can't bring myself to part with any of my collection.

[topazale]

External is the way to go, unless you drop your laptop on top of your external hard drive, like I did a few weeks ago, lol.

[dom_bk]

I'm thinking part of the money that used to go to the record labels is now going to the external HD manufacturers : I know I need a new one.

[SwAnToN_bOmB]

Around 70 gigs, although I only listen to about 40 gigs of it. I also have over 50 albums on vinyl.

[amelia83]

I'm at around 2,000 physical discs, all CD, which equals about 800GB of lossless copied to two separate 1TB drives. For daily listening that library is cooked down to about 130GB worth of AAC files that I use on the iPoRAB and iPhone.

The CRAB are more an insurance policy than anything else for me. They are rarely played. I ripped to lossless so I don't ever have to rip the whole collection again, but I didn't have secure ripping set up properly for some of that process so I still run across a bad rip occasionally. In those cases I just pull out the disc, make sure it's clean and rerip.