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

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

plenty of doubt

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Monday, January 1, 2018 5:15 AM (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.