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What's in your CD collection?
#25re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:16pm1000 DVD's? No offense, but where is the sense in that?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#26re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:19pmI have all my CDs listed in an Excel table. :P
#27re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:20pm
When you don't have to buy them all they can add up fast.
My collection is not yet organized as I would like, because that vision of Patronus you had with a wall of disks obsessively entering each in exactly the "right" way, well that is me. 
It is always what is MISSING from Pat's collectoon that gets me. We will fix that someday soon.
The excell table is also my listing space.
I agree the iTunes automatic choices are ridiculous, much more work for the OCD tyoes amoung us.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
Updated On: 12/10/05 at 10:20 PM
#28re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:21pm
If you have 1000 DVD's, if you watched one a day, it would take you about 3 years to watch them all. And that's if you weren't collecting any more during that time.
That's what I mean - why keep so many?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#29re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:25pm
Rath, I got on the DVD thing really early. I had my player in 1996 when the players were still very expensive, but the media online was very cheap. I remember one sale during the boom of e-tailers from a not surprisingly dead retailer called 800.com.
When they first opened they had a list of about 200 DVDs that you could choose from at a 3 DVDs for $1 deal. The catch was that it was one per household. Since it was so early in the DVD era - I was the only household I knew that had a DVD player so I basically got everything they had in that one sale.
I do agree with you though and I have a lot of movies that I don't particularly care about now and may look to shed a lot of them if I do in fact move to the city - but at that time I got a lot of DVDs for not much more than it would be to rent them.
SP78, even the best collection can't have EVERYTHING in it. We have to get you to watch "Halloween" and all the inferior, yet relevant sequels and then we'll talk.
#30re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:25pm
The idea of a "collection" is simply that you have it.
If you have a thousand you can plop in any one of them on any given day. That is the reason for it.
This argument is being brought to you by a guy who may have 20 DVDs and 10 or so VHS tapes total, by the way. 
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#31re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:26pmWho says all the DVDs you buy are movies you haven't yet seen?
#32re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:28pm
No worries, SP78, if anjilly and I move to New York in the next year or so, you'll have my entire collection at your fingertips.
Updated On: 12/10/05 at 10:28 PM
#33re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:28pm
Excellent.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#34re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:29pm
Not I, Plum. But owning them would imply the intention of watching them at some point, no? And more than once - otherwise, you would just rent or borrow them, and not waste the storage space.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Updated On: 12/10/05 at 10:29 PM
#35re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:37pm
As far as cast recordings and solo CDs I have...
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Adam Pascal- Civillian
Anthony Rapp- Look Around
Aida
Assassins (Revival)
Avenue Q
Bare: A Pop Opera (Demo Tracks)
The Boy From Oz
Carols for a Cure 2005
Dance of the Vampires (Demo Tracks)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Footloose The Musical
Gypsy (With Bernadette Peters)
Hair- The Actor's Benefit CD
Hairspray
In My Life (Demo Tracks)
The Last 5 Years
Les Miserables 10th Anniversery
The Light in the Piazza
The Lion King
Little Women
Matt Caplan- Overtones
Movin' Out
Parade
Passion
The Producers
Thoroughly Modern Millie
RENT (Only the "Best Of" Single Disc CD)
RENT (Regular Double Disc Edition)
The Rocky Horror Show (Revival)
Songs for a New World
Sweet Charity
Sweet Smell of Success
Tick, Tick...BOOM!
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Urinetown
Wicked
I'm sure I'm missing some..but these are what I have as far as I can remember.
Updated On: 12/11/05 at 10:37 PM
#36re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:41pmOk...to reply to this accurately would mean to know where all my CDs are....they are usually scattered between 2 CD players, my car and school....
#37re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/10/05 at 11:17pm
That's a good idea, orangeskittles...I have some cast recordings as separate playlists, but making one large one would be smart.
While we're on the subject, I have an iTunes question. Is it possible to have a playlist of songs that don't appear in your music library? I have TONS of music from my old computer that I'd like to have the option to listen to, but I don't want it to interfere with the organization since none of it will be labelled correctly, and I don't have time to label it.
I swear I'm not this OCD in any other aspect of my life... just with music.
#38re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/11/05 at 10:39am
Patronus --- That's awesome! I can't believe I didn't know about Profiler! Probably because I used MS Access years ago to make my lists and never looked for anything new. I used to design Access databases at my last job, so I just used that and went with it.
And Rath --- I have over 1,000 DVDs because I work on them professionally. Many in my collection are "freebies," and the rest (come tax time) I get to write off as research. (Thank God.) And you'd probably be horrified to know that I'm a "baby" when it comes to collecting, according to some of the people I work with. I know several people who have well over 3,000 DVDs. (Some are running departments at the studios, though.)
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#39re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/11/05 at 10:44am
Ah, yes. I forgot about the "freebies."
My wife used to work in HR for a major media retailer and we got a ton of free discs and a pretty sizeable discount on the ones we paid for.
Enjoy DVD Profiler, best12bars. I depend pretty heavily on it. To be able to input new discs by UPC code is really nice. In fact, I believe it even works with a bar code reader if you have one.
#40re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/11/05 at 10:47am
Man, I feel like I've been working with a needle and thread... and you just showed me a sewing machine.
Thanks again, Pat!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#41re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/11/05 at 11:06am
I agree.
A major help, Patronus. Thank you.
I'm sure I'll have some questions for you.
#42re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/11/05 at 11:09am
Feel free with the questions, I'll do my best to answer.
The best advice I can offer initially is that DVD Profiler doesn't like to play well with other programs. I'd recommend limiting the amount of switching between Profiler and Firefox, Word, Outlook etc. It has a tendency to freeze up when you try to multitask quickly.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#43re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/11/05 at 11:20amI gather that it is only for DVDs and not CDs. Is that correct?
#44re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/11/05 at 11:22am
Sadly, yes.
I've been on the lookout for a DVD Profiler-esque program for CDs for ages and haven't been about to find anything.
You can also upload your collection through the program to make an online list available if you choose:
http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/Webb-Page
I haven't uploaded my collection in a while so some of the newer stuff isn't there, but you get the gist of it.
Updated On: 12/11/05 at 11:22 AM
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#45re: What's in your CD collection?
Posted: 12/11/05 at 11:28am
Very cool. I added my first two DVDs. I have been building my cd list in an Access d/b.
Thank you for offering this suggestion. This is terrific.
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