What % of your CDs do you ACTUALLY listen to??

Interesting question. When I got my HDX, rather than sit down and rip my entire collection - life's too short - I have got into the habit of ripping as I go. I have probably done only around 20% of my CDs now, and the last time I ripped an existing CD (excluding new purchases) was a while ago now.
There are some horrendous CDs lurking on my shelves, so I suppose tastes change and music moves on.....

In my collection, the CDs are new (1990 forward) and the lps are old (1969-1989) with a few exceptions.

A dozen records might get played in a year. 75% of the cds will see the light of day in a year. Fewer than 100 cds will account for 90% of the playtime in a year.

I rotate my 700 cds on a regular basis with many getting played more often. I listen to the lesser favorites while working rather than listening intently with main system.

That's kind of tough to answer. Technically the answer is 0% because I've ripped them all, but I'd say over a year I probably listen to 50% of them. Of those about 10 CDs are in heavy rotation at any given time. Since I listen to playlists I can hit about 20 CDs in one listening session. I rarely listen to a whole album unless its classical or jazz.

For me its 99% I make a point of listening to stuff I've not played for a while and I try not to overplay anything in my collection. So the collection is in constant rotation and as I buy only a few Cd's a month its easy to do, most of my money goes on the "proper" collection, vinyl.



Dean...

0% at the moment, i'm too busy playing vynil on my Dr Peter refettled LP12.

Mrs 555 bought the first ipod of the family a few weeks ago, so I finally had to rip my CDs.
About 75% passed the test, & the rest are currently being converted into HiFi/CD vouchers.

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That's kind of tough to answer. Technically the answer is 0% because I've ripped them all, but I'd say over a year I probably listen to 50% of them.

I guess I listen over a year to most of my collection (some munters are notable exceptions)
I have everything ripped on my pod so on my daily dog walks and in the car the pod is set on shuffle. Sometimes I find myself dragged into some music I have not listened to in some time. This usually gets followed up on at home by a listen on the naim.
Interestingly, how much of your cd collection can you recognise when only one random track is played from any of the albums you own? The shuffle setting brought a new game of cd recognition to my life. I need a hobby.

I have roughly 400 albums from the looks of things, and id say on a regular basis i listen to maybe 50% but over a year i think its more like 85-90%.

Having been a student for the past 5 years all my CDs are in wallets (i have two 320 cases for future expansion) and when im at home i make an effort to play actual CDs and flick through the collection. I think this is why my 'listen rate' as it were, is pretty good. Im always spotting a CD ive not listened to in a 'while' a putting it on. Its also thanks to lots of time where im able to listen to music. Listening pretty much whenever im doing any kind of uni work means there isnt often a day that goes by when there isnt something playing.

I expect this to change once i get a job (which fingers crossed, will be soon) but i don't expect ill ever sell off my collection. It might be considered a little nostalgic for someone of a brief 23 years old, but flicking through iTunes or the sonos just isnt the same. Maybe this attitude will change as well, shall just have to wait and see!

57.35%

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Originally posted by BigH47:
57.35%

So on an hour long CD you press stop after 34 minutes and 25 seconds - that's very curious.

I tend to listen to CDs straight through from the first track to the very last.

So to answer the OP, when I play one of my CDs I listen to 100% of it.

In any two year period all of them.

It is a firm rule that any disk that manages to evade me that long finds itself in a charity shop for someone else to enjoy.

I am not a collector of recorded music in any reasonable definition.

I simply like most of my favourite repertoire on recordings of usually one but very occasionally a few varied recordings.

In respect of duplicated repertoire, I am finding that in most cases where I used to listen to many different performances of a favourite piece, as time goes by I have found the one that pleases me the most and many of the variants have and continue to fall away.

ATB from George

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In my collection, the CDs are new (1990 forward) and the lps are old (1969-1989) with a few exceptions.

I'm going to start a new thread about this, but I'll mention it here first. I don't know how many CD's I have (200-300?)and I don't know how many vinyl albums I have (500+)because I'm too lazy to count and I don't want to start thinking about music as quantitative bragging rights.

So, since my HiFi has improved so much with the Nait 5i/Vienna Acoustics/Cambridge 840c system bought 16 months ago, I have embarked on a listen-to-all-my-CD's project. I pull a CD, listen to it critically at least once, sometimes 2-3 times, sometimes add a casual listening as well, and then stack it on top of my mantlepiece. I've hit about 60 CD's so far. Frequently I pick them without my reading glasses on and without a specific title/artist in mind. This frees me from whatever prejudices I might have developed from listening to them in previous environments such as my old NAD/DynacoSS/B&O speaker system, or one of three car stereos in three different cars (CDs bought for the car tend to be raucous and loud to cover the high noise floor; I thought PJ Harvey had long silent tracks on her CD's until I listened to them on my new HiFi). What surprises have been brought to bear! Jonathan Fire*Eater, The Byrds Play Dylan, and Marianne Faithful "Before the Rain" all have proven themselves vastly more significant, and musical than I had remembered. So has Ronnie Dawkins "Monkey Beat." And others. Our slow economy has given me more time to listen and less money to buy music, and so I am happily discovering new gold in my old jewel box(es).

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Originally posted by Consciousmess:
These CDs never gets played as she knows I wouldn't be happy her playing them on my Naim!!

Why? She has to put up with your 300...