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How's your music library?

When looking through the systems on A-gon, people's music libraries are frequently missing, not shown, or possibly not in the same room. After all the $$$ spent on one's system, I'd like to know what's behind all of this. After all, it is the entire raison d'être for audiomania.

I had a collection of about 200+ LPs that I've recently sold or given away; finally able to emotional divorce myself from the vinyl I started acquiring as a teenager. I began building my CD collection about 15-16 years ago. It's now 636 titles and nearly 700 discs. It spans the globe and periods from the Renaissance though 20th century, BeBop to Acid Jazz, Afro Celt to Zap Mama, and a fair dose of Rock & Pop. Recently, the fastest growing genre has been 20th century music which has surpassed earlier "classical" music but still trailing the Jazz and World sections. A modest collection certainly, and compared to a friend who has a library (unfortunately uncatalogued) of well over 2000 titles, quite modest. He's gotta music library! I suspect there are quite a few other impressive libraries out there. Please tell us.

How's in your music library?
ojgalli

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Elizabeth! 2500 LPs in the kitchen?!! Where do you keep your dishes? (Just a rhetorical question.)

Thanks for the suggestion about organization. Mine are divided into 5 sections: Classical (through 19th century), 20th Century, Jazz, World (A real grab bag that includes whatever doesn't fit in the other 4 categories.), and Rock/Pop. Alphabetical by composer or artist, and cataloged using Delicious Library, a Mac program that does CDs, Books, Movies, and games.

I did check the archives by "music collection," and "music library," and found no threads devoted to this subject. There were some ancillary references of interest. One that targeted audiophiles' devotion whether to music or rather audio gear.

Thanks to all for sharing.
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