How many records do you own that you never play ?

[Dave2002]

I almost wish this question hadn't been posed. I"ve just found a box with maybe 40 CDs in, and over half haven't been unwrapped. Trouble is, this is only a small part of the total. At least I did find some CDs (which I had listened to) which I'd like to listen to again. More concerning is that some of the CDs have become unmatched with their cases. The problem is now a bit like matching socks after washing.

[Dave2002]

I've been converting CDs to a hard drive for a while and then donating the CDs to charity or just tossing them. Unfortunately the incoming is keeping pace with the outgoing. It really is a retirement project

Retirement won't make solving this any easier, sorry!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've been converting CDs to a hard drive for a while and then donating the CDs to charity or just tossing them.

Either way, it's illegal, one you no longer own the originals. It's like photocopying a library book.

[Dave2002]

Either way, it's illegal, one you no longer own the originals. It's like photocopying a library book.

What you gonna do? Rat on that man!

Anyway, I think he's in an out of the way place in another jurisdiction.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

What you gonna do? Rat on that man!

Anyway, I think he's in an out of the way place in another jurisdiction.

You've seen the dire anti-piracy warnings on American DVDs?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Anyway, as I said to my daughter, "Just because you didn't caught, it doesn't make it OK".

[Barbirollians]

Dug out one I have scarcely played tonight and cannot really fathom why as it has been spellbinding- Paganini 24 Caprices with Ivry Gitlis.

[Dave2002]

Anyway, as I said to my daughter, "Just because you didn't get caught, it doesn't make it OK".

Try telling that to motorists round here who regularly drive at 50 or 60 in a 40 area. There is virtually no enforcement.

I have to confess that for about 10 years I drove down one road at 70, and it was only in the last year or so having been to Scotland and driven along various roads which I thought would have a limit of 50 that I checked the rules, and then realised that on a lot of roads in the UK the limit is actually 60. I"m not sure that was the rule when I took my driving test. In those days there was no limit IIRC, and since then the speed limits were adjusted - at one point down to 50 during the petrol crisis, and then back up to 70 for some roads. Only dual carriageway roads and motorways now have a limit of 70. Single carriageway roads have a limit of 60. Since realising that I try to keep within the limits. The limits can, of course, be overridden by explicit speed limit signs.

Ignorance doesn't make what I did right. The fact that I was not ever stopped tells a story. Many people drive on UK motorways at 80 or more, and sometimes it's veering on insanity to drive slower if there are other idiots driving up one's rear at high speed and there's nowhere to go since the whole road in front is packed with others all exceding the limit.

Reverting back to CDs etc., it is possible that the rules for disposing of them are different in different countries, so it does not automatically follow that ripping them and then disposing of them is illegal - though not in the UK.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Only dual carriageway roads and motorways now have a limit of 70. Single carriageway roads have a limit of 60.

I live just off the A30 dual carriageway and frequently pass a speed camera at the bottom of a steep dip. Totally hate the fools who go gunning down the hill at 80+, see the signs, then bang their anchors hard on at the last second to get down to, or even below, 60!

OT I know, sorry...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I counted my CDs earlier in the week - 1,695, so quite small next to Petrushka's mighty collection, and those of some other forumites. but there are many I've listened to only once and surely many I'll never listen to again.

It's 1,696 now though - another one arrived yesterday.

[teamsaint]

I never play CD 14 from the Gardiner Bach Archiv 22 cd box.

thats because it has gone missing.

[mathias broucek]

I never play CD 14 from the Gardiner Bach Archiv 22 cd box.

thats because it has gone missing.

Try moving house. We moved last year and a missing disk from the Harnoncourt Beethoven box turned up!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I never play CD 14 from the Gardiner Bach Archiv 22 cd box.

thats because it has gone missing.

Go on, tell us what (was) on it.

[Petrushka]

I counted my CDs earlier in the week - 1,695, so quite small next to Petrushka's mighty collection, and those of some other forumites. but there are many I've listened to only once and surely many I'll never listen to again. It's 1,696 now though - another one arrived yesterday.

Ah yes, but you can never know for certain that you will never play some again. Caliban's self-imposed 20 year no listen rule for disposing of CDs would be way too short in my case as I frequently pick up a disc not heard in many, many moons and wonder why I've not played it for so long once I've reheard. It certainly prevents the curse of overfamiliarity.

[teamsaint]

Go on, tell us what (was) on it.

from memory, Cantatas for the second ( or was it third) Sunday after Epiphany.
I forget the BWV numbers, mid 70's a couple of them maybe?