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Question: CD Collections: Mingling or Separating? :: Total Votes:28 Poll choices Votes Statistics All of my music is kept together 14  [50.00%] Some artists are separate, but MO is with the majority 2  [7.14%] I keep MO with a few other favorites, but most are together 0  [0.00%] My MO collection is separate from everything else 9  [32.14%] My MO collection is on an alter, surrounded by candles and incense 1  [3.57%] There is other music?? 2  [7.14%] Guests cannot vote

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Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Aug. 08 2008, 23:05 Is your MO collection with your other albums? Mine aren't, as I've run out of space on my media rack. I suppose - technically - there's enough room to shove them in. But they're doing fine, in their own rack, on my computer desk. larger -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 00:50 Part of my CD collection is here...my MO's CDs mixed with my trance CDs and other stuff...I've got more,but the ones I listen more are there. -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

clotty Group: Members. Posts: 237 Joined: Mar. 2006 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 00:59 "other artists" .... " other favourites" I'm sorry I'm not sure what you mean? -------------- Clotty Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 01:12 All my cd's are in boxes and the rest resides in my hard drives. If I listen to a CD, it's usually the backup mp3 I made of the original CD.  But since Windows keeps everything in alphabetical order I guess you could say Oldfield is kind of in his own area...... -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 01:38 Quote (clotty @ Aug. 09 2008, 00:59) "other artists" .... " other favourites" I'm sorry I'm not sure what you mean? Tati, did you take those photos of Mike? I'm sorry, Clotty, let me clarify what I meant: "Some artists are separate, but MO is with the majority" = meaning you keep some albums separate from the main group, but MO is not among those. "I keep MO with a few other favorites, but most are together" = meaning the opposite - that MO is among the select few that are kept apart from the rest. I hope that's clearer. Maybe I should have gone with my first impulse - having "yes" and "no" and leaving it at that.   Scatterplot, although I have a lot of music on the computer, I still like to display my collections. That's my materialism showing, I think. -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 01:45 Actually, while we're on the subject......if you want to ease the crowding on those shelves, but more importantly, back up those expensive CD's you spent years collecting......pop 'em into your PC optical drive. Windows will give you an option to "Rip music from CD"....do it. I keep mine set to rip to 360kB/s (the max. and the default bitrate) mp3's. Then, if you only have a CD-R drive, once you have 700 Megs of backups, burn them to a blank data CDR. If you have a DVD burning drive, once you've got about 4.2 gigs, burn it. You'll be glad you did. Like, if the doggy chews up QE2 or you loan it out and your buddy never returns it, then runs off to Venezuela, there's nothing to cry about. Personally, I like to take the tracks and albumwrap them to one long CD file, then burn the folders with the individual tracks+the albumwrap CD all in the same folder named after the album. Jim -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

clotty Group: Members. Posts: 237 Joined: Mar. 2006 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 01:55 Sweetpea Thank you for trying to explain it to me, but I just don't understand who these other artists you're talking about are. What other CDs would I have other than those by Mike Oldfield. It's a completely alien concept to me. Doesn't everyone else just have a shelf with Mike Oldfield CDs on it and then next to that they have a big space waiting for more Mike Oldfield CDs to be released? -------------- Clotty Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 02:15  I must be very slow tonight as I didn't catch on, at first. And, yes, I do have some empty space on my dedicated MO rack for future albums. It'll be good for another fifteen CDs, then I'll have to buy another rack. The fact that I counted the slots should probably go into the 'Signs That You've Been Listening to Too Much MO' thread. -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

clotty Group: Members. Posts: 237 Joined: Mar. 2006 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 02:24 -------------- Clotty Back to top

Hifiguru Group: Members Posts: 275 Joined: Aug. 2002 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 03:03 Here is my impressive collection of music..click image for bigger picture :P i dont separate others from oldfield except videos and cds...vinyls in pictures are mostly oldfield ones. cds from other artists (bottom middle picture) i dont have many since i mostly listen mp3s. -------------- -TB Limited ultimate edition 2009 (still sealed) -Hergest Ridge Limited 2010 #017 -Ommadawn Limited 2010 #065 -Incantations Limited 2011 #003 -Platinum Limited 2012 #316 -QE2 Limited 2012 #112 -Opening Ceremony London 2012 #61 -Five Miles Out 2013 Limited LP #116 -Crises 2013 Limited LP #259 Back to top

theweightless Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: April 2001 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 09:31 i keep all my music in same rack, but Mike is on top shelf -------------- ASMK Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 09:32 Quote (Sweetpea @ Aug. 09 2008, 03:38) Tati, did you take those photos of Mike? Nope,it was taken by Martin Glatz from German MO Fanzine Hiawatha II,got them on the german fan meeting that happened a few hours before Mike's last gig @ Nokia Night of the Proms 2006 in Frankfurt. Nowadays,most of my CD collection are on big boxes,waiting for a place where I can put all of them together.Dunno how many CDs I've got,I think it's around 500... -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 11:22 Nice thread idea.And Clotty`s "deadpan" posting style had me completely fooled there as well,heh heh.I keep my Mike Oldfield album`s seperate as well I must admit.And I guess this is the reason why I can`t really have a go at my wife for all the shoes she buys.Mike is on the shelf adjacent to the record deck there and inbetween a tin full of mp3 discs with all the Elvgren ladies on the front of it.Directly above Mike is a shelf full of all The Beatles albums along with some of their solo stuff.And then top right is reserved for XTC and some box-sets etc.The little green boxes are jammed full of mini-discs and the larger boxes are also full of cd`s.There`s also a lot of vinyl down the bottom there most of which is out of shot.Along with a couple of external hard drives which are also full of music.A lot of which I`ve since sold to make room more than anything else.The empty shelf was where my now defunkt cd recorder used to be.And is now affectionatly refered to as "the dust shelf"...In fact there all pretty much the dust shelves at the moment,I must remember to scold the housemaid over it..   Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 17:46 From TB to TMB, excluding The Complete, they're all one over another in a rack. The Complete and all the other M.O. discs are not kept together, but scattered all over my house. However, when I have the complete CD discography of an artist or a band (I do have several), I tend to group together all the CDs I have by the same artist/band. I have over 2500 original CDs, about 200 CDs I burned by myself, and about 300 vinyls. No MO on vinyl, unfortunately... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 17:55 I keep my music together, my favourite artists in one rack, and others nearby, Still need more storage .  I had to move my LPs and casettes into my bedroom to fit a a  proper tv stand in to fitin my lounge  to hold my 32 inch  tv. My TV I was given by a neighbour,  he had been given it and he couldn't tune it in, so it was sitting outside his flat ,the flats are  enclosed in a entrance hall so it didn't get wet.  His wife said I could have it, so for £3.20 I got a perfectly good TV, a visit to the Hitachi website I was able to download an instruction manual to tune it in (my printer packed up so it cost me £3.20 to print it off at my local library)     .   So good I outwitted my neighbour . -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

Ratty Group: Members Posts: 386 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 19:31 My mike oldfield collection is separate, its upstairs in my bedroom. Good job Sue likes Mike, im sure she would have been puzzled by my obsession to sleep with another man otherwise!!!!! I just couldnt bare the thought of someone breaking in and nickin my collection, yep, ive had it from my mates that this collection would scare the burglars away...what do they know? most of em are still into Howard Jones or the Thompson Twins...no style and no origionality!! I just couldnt keep my MO stuff with my other cd's!! -------------- Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Aug. 09 2008, 21:11 Quote (Tati The Sentinel @ Aug. 09 2008, 00:50) P..my MO's CDs mixed with my trance CDs and other stuff...I've got more,but the ones I listen more are there. Tati, it's interesting that your focus is divided between MO and trance. What is your opinion of Mike's trance pieces? I'm thinking in particular of "Lakme", which I like more every time I hear it. If you like "Lakme" too, are there any non-Mike trance pieces that you like more? Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Aug. 10 2008, 10:15 In theory, it's all alphabetical,except for the holiday stuff. The entire collection got wildly out of order during my recent move and I haven't re-organized it yet. One of my favorite record shops of old had everything arranged by record label, which I found insanely complicated in terms of finding anything.  It's pretty easy to spot the MO CDs, though. It's the largest part of the collection and the jewel cases look like they've been driven over. -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Aug. 11 2008, 14:18 Hifiguru, am I mistaken, or are your MO LPs out of chronology? Dirk, are the plates Elvgren, too? Speaking of dust, my photo was taken after a whirlwind of cleaning and organizing. Ratty, it's nice to think that MO's music adds an extra level of security to your household! Inkanta, is there a particular reason why your MO cases appear to have been "driven over"? Or is it general wear and tear? I would find label order a nightmare since I don't pay attention to which record company makes what. On my media rack, the left is DVDs. The right is CDs beginning with 'general' music for the top three shelves. Then it's 'various artists' compilations, soundtracks, spoken word, sounds of nature, "Ultra-Lounge", and custom compilations from friends. After that, there's classical and a few Playstation games. I don't know why I still have the games - I don't have a Playstation anymore. *shrug* -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Aug. 11 2008, 17:25 Most of my CDs are in a rack in the living room, the vinyl is in the bookshelf, and the CDs I rarely listen to have been relegated to boxes underneath my computer table. MO is not seperate. I don't keep CDs in any particular order either, just roughly sorting them by artist and / or genre. Ah, I just remembered... I once sorted my CDs by spine colour, just for fun - it looked nice, and it actually worked pretty well because most of the time I knew where to look for stuff, but eventually I gave up on it simply because I tended to disregard the white section. I don't know, it's not like I don't like white, but in fact the white ones made up the largest group, and this big white spot in the CD rack just didn't look inviting at all. Back to top

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