Strykz said:
Post how much music you have!
Here's what's in the collection of someone who works in the music industry:
About 500 CDs, about 50 12" vinyl, maybe 30 7" vinyl, about 100 cassettes and a few things stored on really weird formats like DAT tapes and 1/2" reels. I even have a totally obsolete ADAT VHS somewhere. There's also whatever's in the mail that I haven't opened yet, I'm guessing another 50 CDs or so at this point.
Also on average there's about another 1000 CDs in my house in boxes at any given time, but each box is usually multiple copies of the same album so I'm not sure if that counts. There's also various master CD copies of things on one of the labels that I work for, maybe I have 100 of those masters, not sure.
The only MP3s I have are burnt from my own CDs. I don't file share or download - ever, legally or otherwise. I couldn't quantify my collection in terms of hours or gigabytes and anyway that number is always changing. I try to keep it consistent by getting rid of old CDs as I get new ones but sometimes it's hard to find new homes for them.
Strykz said:
what is your preferred media player?
At home, Windows Media Player because it's the default one and it works. At work we have Linux and we use something called Banshee which is amazing and makes iTunes look like a bad joke. I have iTunes at home anyway just so I can use Quicktime, but I rarely use Quicktime and I use iTunes absolutely never. I don't use portable MP3 players, iPods etc under any circumstances, I hear enough music when I'm at work, I don't need to hear it at all times. Sometimes it's good to get a break.