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- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
In this thread, I will document the ongoing attempt to put my CD collection - dominated by soundtracks - in boxes. There's a couple of thousand of them or so, but I've never counted, to be honest. Part of this process will involve documenting what is going into the boxes, and digitising all cd's to 320 kbps mp3's. (Not perfect, I know, but I'd like to fit it all on a 1TB drive in the long term.)
The truth is, the ostentatious display of a couple of thousand soundtrack albums has become a bit irritating of late. Far too much of the book shelf is dominated by them, and far too much of my wardrobe by the cd's that are less displayable. There was always the problem - but what if I want to listen to score X? - but I play all music off my hard drives anyway.
So I initiated this project, to drastically reduce the amount of cd's at my ready access to about 400. The albums I truly love, or that have impeccable production values (e.g. Nonesuch records or ECM) or which have very long liner notes I'm likely to want to dip into... those can stay. Everything I might actually want to lend to someone to show them what sort of music I like - they can stay. Everything else - into the box(es). Every composer I love who has a dud album on my shelf - into the box. Every composer I'm not crazy about who has a bunch of albums on my shelf - whole careers go into the box. Anything I don't love. Into the box.
I'm now a month and a half in, and just under halfway through.
As I've gone through this process, I've been embarrassed by the number of CD's that I've purchased and never listened to. Truly a reminder of how much the fear of missing out has become part of the marketing of music for this genre. (Already I've been attacking this front in 2009 by spending my money on short filmmaking instead, and getting a car.)
So what went in last night? (I can only digitise about 15-20 / night.)
- Great Expectations (Peter Salem)
- The Damned / For Those I Loved / A Season in Hell (Maurice Jarre)
- Top Secret (Maurice Jarre)
- Last Man Standing (Elmer Bernstein)
- Hoodlum (Elmer Bernstein)
- Ann of the Indies (Franz Waxman)
- Deep Impact (James Horner)
- Beyond Borders (James Horner)
- The House of the Spirits (Hans Zimmer)
- Trapped (various)
- Honeydripper (various)
- Nim's Island (Patrick Doyle)
- Eragon (Patrick Doyle)
- Gettysburg's (Edelman)
- In a Savage Land (David Bridie)A butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
You selling the digitized ones?
:looking for business opportunities:
'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorfommes
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Or give them away to show goodwill towards humanity?
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- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
fommes wrote
Or give them away to show goodwill towards humanity?
Well, it depends which ones he gives away. Giving someone Randy Edelman's Gettysburg is probably in breach of the Geneva Convention (or at least, it should be). -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Martijn wrote
You selling the digitized ones?
:looking for business opportunities:
Depends if Michael has anything good
On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt -
- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
No plans to liquidate it yet. To be honest, the cost of storage will continue to fall in Gigabytes, and computers become ever faster at accessing files, so that it will be possible to re-digitise in a lossless format in a few years without having to buy too many hard drives.
I will probably after packing them all away do a cull of about 200 or so, but seriously, if I'm getting rid of it, there could be a good reason.
(And yes, GETTYSBURG would be a likely candidate for such a cull.)A butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Are you kidding?
ARE YOU KIDDING?!?!?
Getting rid of Gettysburg?
What is WRONG with you?
Oh...I forgot.
I'm talking to the Glass man.
'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
I went into our local Borders this weekend and have begun to see the changeover taking place i.e. no more CD's. The soundtracks are already gone. Sad to see. Franz with the beginning of his process and Thor are proof positive at least for me. The quality level Franz has compromised on is more than adequate for headphones. Again with my nicer than average older stereo equipment you can easily hear the difference but how many of you own the original Klipsch corner speakers, Mac tube equipment and a tube CD Player, all of which contribute to superior sound quality. Probably very few. Even I will admit that if I'm doing something else the MP3 player quality is adequate. Good luck and keep us posted.
Thomaslisten to more classical music! -
- CommentAuthorWilliam
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
franz_conrad wrote
There's a couple of thousand of them or so...
It is my dream to one day have that many soundtracks.
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- CommentAuthorsdtom
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
You'll probably have them on a hard drive as opposed to a CDlisten to more classical music! -
- CommentAuthorWilliam
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
sdtom wrote
You'll probably have them on a hard drive as opposed to a CD
Good point. I only purchase CDs of the scores I am dying to get the case and liner notes for. -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
To be honest I wish in many ways I'd never built up as many as I have. I remember with great fondness the days when I only had a few albums - and was intimately familiar with each. I'm now in the situation where if I listened to one soundtrack album a night it would take ten years to get through my collection (assuming I didn't listen to any of them more than once, and I don't buy any more). Since in practice I won't listen to as many as one a night, and I will listen to some a lot more than once, and I will certainly be buying more, I've probably got as many as 2,000 albums which I will never listen to again. Last time I had a cull, I just threw about 500 albums away that I couldn't remember listening to more than once - next time I'll probably increase that threshold. -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Southall wrote
I just threw about 500 albums away that I couldn't remember listening to more than once
Threw
away.
THREW AWAY.
Just trying to wrap my mind around that.
THREW.
AWAY.
Good GOD.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Martijn wrote
Southall wrote
I just threw about 500 albums away that I couldn't remember listening to more than once
Threw
away.
THREW AWAY.
Just trying to wrap my mind around that.
THREW.
AWAY.
Good GOD.
They were all rubbish. What's the point of keeping them? -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
How's about...ermmm...just of the top of my head, something, like, say...OFFERING THEM TO YOUR DEARLY BELOVED FRIENDS HERE ON MAINTITLES????
Or even selling them?
Crikey...at just a quid a piece you'd still have cleaned up.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Southall wrote
Martijn wrote
Southall wrote
I just threw about 500 albums away that I couldn't remember listening to more than once
Threw
away.
THREW AWAY.
Just trying to wrap my mind around that.
THREW.
AWAY.
Good GOD.
They were all rubbish. What's the point of keeping them?
He has a point there.Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders. -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
I have a better one.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Which is....?Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders. -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
This.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Martijn wrote
How's about...ermmm...just of the top of my head, something, like, say...OFFERING THEM TO YOUR DEARLY BELOVED FRIENDS HERE ON MAINTITLES????
Or even selling them?
Crikey...at just a quid a piece you'd still have cleaned up.
I wouldn't mind giving them away, but I return to my point that they were all rubbish - and frankly, to "give them away" I'd have to pay postage to send them to people, which was not high on my priority list.
I'd have loved to have sold them, but putting 500 things like James L Venable's "Iron Monkey" or Randy Edelman's "Gettysburg" on Ebay would surely end up costing me more than it retrieved. -
- CommentAuthorBhelPuri
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Southall wrote
I just threw about 500 albums away that I couldn't remember listening to more than once
OMG! Couldn't you post a list here and ask if people wanted any of them?
Or you could have sold them off on ebay. If the effort of listing and selling them is too much, then there are some shops where you can drop off your stuff, and they'll sell your things on ebay and take a percentage of the proceeds. -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Rubbish...he actually calls Gettysburg "rubbish".
What magnificent marvels have been cast out amongst those 500?
I would not be surprised to have seen Ben Hur in there. Or some Delerues.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Southall wrote
I'd have loved to have sold them, but putting 500 things like James L Venable's "Iron Monkey" or Randy Edelman's "Gettysburg" on Ebay would surely end up costing me more than it retrieved.
James L Venable's "Iron Monkey" or Randy Edelman's "Gettysburg"......
OH MY GOD HE DEFINITELY HAS A POINT THERE!
Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders. -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
...and I would have gladly paid for postage as well.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Christodoulides wrote
Southall wrote
I'd have loved to have sold them, but putting 500 things like James L Venable's "Iron Monkey" or Randy Edelman's "Gettysburg" on Ebay would surely end up costing me more than it retrieved.
James L Venable's "Iron Monkey" or Randy Edelman's "Gettysburg"......
OH MY GOD HE DEFINITELY HAS A POINT THERE!
I meant JAMES had a point;
on throwing them away.Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders. -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
You're weird.
Srsly.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Heh; it didn't feel weird - at all, when i threw away 2 Tyler Bates' promos i got recently
Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders. -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Martijn wrote
...and I would have gladly paid for postage as well.
For which title would you have gladly paid for postage? Iron Monkey or Gettysburg? -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
Martijn wrote
Rubbish...he actually calls Gettysburg "rubbish".
What magnificent marvels have been cast out amongst those 500?
I would not be surprised to have seen Ben Hur in there. Or some Delerues.
Sorry, I had forgotten that in your world Edelman would be considered in the same breath as Rozsa and Delerue; that there's every chance you would take Edelman's Ten Commandments to a desert island before you took Bernstein's. -
- CommentAuthorTimmer
- CommentTimeMay 27th 2009
William wrote
franz_conrad wrote
There's a couple of thousand of them or so...
It is my dream to one day have that many soundtracks.
It'll happen one day and you'll wonder how the frig you got that many and how you ever afforded them in the first place.On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt