How often do you file/purge physical copies of music?

It's that time of year again... ditching more bootlegs and stuff that just never moved me.

never.

the current google/amazon fall out, the ongoing issues with spotify rates etc.
i need to keep my hard copies, cos a lot of this stuff is not going to be available via streaming.

Just posted on Twitter/FB that I'm going to spend tonight totally emptying my iPod and re-filling it. Way too much stuff in there that I never actually listen to, but makes it through mini-purge after mini-purge due to name recognition and/or self-delusion ("I'm definitely gonna want to hear that one of these days"). Going back to the absolute essentials.

I did purge about 200 items a couple of years ago but I haven't actually sold them all yet cos I just put them on discogs. I put everything in a database and that's apparently out of 4900 so that's not a huge amount of stuff really. I should probably do that again, cos I haven't miss a single one of those 200 even the ones I still have in a pile in my office

the only time i listen to cd's is with my son who is enamored with them and likes to bring them to our cd player and put them in himself. he likes the autonomy, and the music, too. so, i've made purges of things that i havent listened to in ages and things i'd rather he not (and by the time he's old enough to he'll be able to stream it, no doubt).

i still have vinyl records that collect dust. i may purge (via taking to half price books) all but a select few.

things my son likes from my contribution to the household album collection: daft punk, zapp, kraftwerk, talking heads
from my wife's: a lot of the monkees

Organising, I recommend Discogs, plus a nice Qlik front-end I made to filter out stuff I sold

(and by the time he's old enough to he'll be able to stream it, no doubt).

plenty of doubt

i got rid of almost all o fmy cds a few years ago but my vinyl collection ballooned after that to a point where it's taking up too much space. I compulsively buy some fucking albums over and over again in different formats; how many times in my life have I bought Peter Gabriel's 4th album? I need to stop that and pare out the 1/2 of this vinyl lot that I do not and probably will not listen to.

never purge, have boxes of CDs with lots of great stuff but i don't have the heart to get rid of. Only exception is when I occasionally gift a cd to someone that means something to me

(and by the time he's old enough to he'll be able to stream it, no doubt).

plenty of doubt

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oh?

I have getting on for 4,000 CDs, records, tapes &c. Do you really think most of them are streamable now, let alone in the future as services become more competitive & balkanised?

Why are you confusing yourself for m bisons son

I'm not?!!

Acquisition criteria is much more stringent these days, through economic and temporal necessity - plus wife is v keen on zero waste philosophy right now (I am only quite keen) - there isn't spare cash or enough time to buy like we did five years ago. Even then, we last purged majorly 10 years ago when we moved in together, and sold duplicates.

We bought a multi-room streaming system a year ago, and most of the back catalogue of CDs is in sealed plastic crates in the garage to protect it. We keep all the stuff we buy in any year separate, have done for years, and over the last year that's all stayed out in the livingroom. Filtering it into alphabetised boxes seems like it might be an arsehole, so that will need some thinking!

I have a buttload of CDs, been buying them since 1987. I put all of them into what they call CD Wallets (large) on Amazon. And now they fit on a shelf and a half in my bookshelf. I would avoid the largest case they have, a 520 CD behemoth that weights maybe 25 lbs full. But the 280 capacity ones are excellent. If you go this route, don’t get the cheapest cases, they fall apart and rip easily.

I don't purge CDs but I somewhat reluctantly started purging liner notes after I realized I'd lost or damaged too many of them in various moves.

and yeah, definitely get the heavy-duty canvas cases if you're going to do that, the cheap cases also tend to get damaged during moving

I have a few of the book-sized uhaul boxes worth of CDs I probably need to go through and purge. These are CDs that I would need to digitize before thinking of chucking, and the thought of spending hundreds of hours collating these CDs stops me from even starting.

I've been ripping and tagging about 2K CDs over the past few months. The repetitive boredom is so deep that I swear I'll never purchase physical media again.

When we ripped ours we set up a little station in the kitchen, so I’d just rip stuff constantly while making breakfast and dinner.

Don't buy more than 10-20 CDs / tape cassettes per year... they're usually researched and deliberated over beforehand, so minimal culling. Been to lazy to try and sell anything lately. Regular Bandcamp purchases (often digital), keep the clutter to a minimum.

^ This has been my method the last few years. I basically just buy 20-30 CDs a year now.

Do you limit yourself or do you only find that many that you want to own?

(a few months later -- apologies) I use streaming services to narrow down my purchases. I kind of have a loose rule of roughly 70%-or-better ratio to buying the album as a CD or just a handful of songs.