I grew up using Cassettes, recording stuff from our vinyls and even owned some commercial tapes. I got rid off them over the years and only own Synchronicity from The Police and a Best of from Santana.

So far my collection includes 1269 CDs, 341 Vinyls and 74 DVDs. Including crap i should propably burry somewhere (even have a Best of LP from Barry Manilow ) and some Bootlegs, i can't even remember how i got most of them. For example i have "Dio - The great Deceiver" it's a Red Vinyl containing some Live songs and 2 studio songs (The Great Deceiver and Living for the King)

Mine is around 460 CDs and 40 cassette tapes. That does not include stuff I'm planning on getting rid of, stuff in the maybe pile, or CD-r's. It refers to pretty much everything that is visible on the many CD racks in my room.

I got bout 800 CDS maybe 200 DVD movies, about 10-11,000 songs on mp3 maybe 2 or 3 cassettes and 3 albums on vinyl

As of right now, I have 2324 CDs, 32 LPs and 75 DVDs. I also have one Minidisc - Aerosmith's Greatest Hits.

My CD collection is modest - about 630 CDs. It would have been bigger by now had I not purged some albums at one point which ironically I re-purchased as I had started listening to those bands again.

However I find that the real value is not in the quantity of CDs, rather in how acquainted you are with the music you collect. Sure it is easy to drop money month-after-month and hoard as many CDs as your wallet can possibly handle, but actually knowing the albums in your collection well enough makes even a small CD collection seem like an wide and all-encompassing collection of albums.

I do not claim to fully be in that position yet; however I can say that I know more than half of the albums that I own very well. That puts me in a slightly better position than having thousands of CDs and only really knowing several hundred.

Perhaps others here have a different view. But to me, quantity is not so important. It comes or should come as an indirect result of collecting albums that you actually like and enjoy listening to time after time.

yeah, I remember going to the used vinyl shops in California and the going , eventually Cause my couldn't remember if I had the vinyl already


I downsized my cds when I moved to Montana......sold off about 2/3 of what I had . Gave away a few hundred cassettes. (done that a few times over the past decade due to thrift stores selling them for a buck or less)

I have about 1000 lps with me here in Montana and three times that still in California.

I also have 3 portable hard drives (TB each) with live music on them. audio and video format, mostly blues, jam bands and 60's pyshcadelic bands.

Wow, I never realized how small my CD collection was haha.

Quality over quantity every time. That said if you can afford the quantity, why not? I have a small collection (probably around 220 albums right now) not through choice but through budget limitations. If I had more disposable income, my collection would definetely be bigger and there would be no upper limit.

My music collection is quite small compared to the rest of y'all, but I only recently started collecting CD's. I've probably got around 100-110 albums.

I got my first album in 1971 and for most of that deacde, the lps I received were kick-downs from siblings, their boyfriends/girlfriends and older guys I jammed with. So when ya put 40 years of doing something, it changes the perspective.

Perhaps to some, there is nothin but quality in the quantity of their collection. Just sayin'