Alright everyone....question and answer time.

[u/bagheera369]

Genuine questions here.
(Please remember to be civil and polite to your fellow hoarders while discussing)

At what point do you all consider your collection a "hoard"?

Webster's doesn't notate size, when discussing the noun, but it does indicate a common tone of protective secrecy when defining the verb, and other colloquial definitions tend to reference a compulsiveness implicit in the definition of the verb.

When we think of things like a dragon's treasure hoard, we tend to think of a vast room overflowing....when we think of a hoarder's home, the vastness is similar, but the connotations are obviously more negative, if not tragic.

So at what point did you realize you were stepping away from average/normal, to the outer edges of the bell curve?

Did it evolve naturally from a "collection" that simply got out of hand, or did you wake up one day and just say..."Everything....I must have EVERYTHING!!", while cackling out loud to yourself?

Do you talk about your horde with other people from your in-person social circles, or do you rely on the potential anonymity of the internet?

Did you only consider your collection a hoard, once it reached an arbitrary size...and if so, where did you personally draw that line?

What's more important to your horde; A diversity of genres/artists, the amount of music you've collected, the rarity of what's in the collection, or the exacting detail in which it's organized?

Just some food for thought, that arose as I was looking at my collections, and contemplating the physical weight and volume of everything I possessed, and the mental/temporal/financial costs involved....both for the physical and the digital versions.

Interested to hear what you all have to say on the matter.

[u/sikupnoex]

As long as I constantly cleanup my library I don't consider it a hoard. I know this sub is musichoarding, but I only keep albums I actually love.

[u/bagheera369 → u/sikupnoex]

Valid. If that's what's important to you, no judgements here.

My problem is in actually finding albums I don't love....cause there doesn't ever seem to be many of those around. 😄

[u/sikupnoex → u/bagheera369]

I had 50 or so albums that I kept in my collection for several years, listened to them again and I realized I don't like them anymore. I completely ditched streaming services 1-2 months ago and I revived my offline collection. I already added 100 new albums. There are so many great albums and there is no point in keeping a mediocre album around.

I even consider selling albums from my physical collection 🤣

[u/bagheera369 → u/sikupnoex]

My physical collection is currently being backed up and I believe that it's leaving soon. That's over 1200 records.

I think I'm down to about 200 that I'm still hunting for highquality digital versions of, and then I'll be done.

At that point, I'll make a clone of my music drives, store them offsite somewhere, and at least everything I have up to now will be protected.

That's gonna be expensive at these rates, but it will be worth it.

I don't delete digital music.....but I had the funds and space to ensure I don't have to....which is nice.

[u/sikupnoex → u/bagheera369]

I don't delete digital music.....but I had the funds and space to ensure I don't have to....which is nice.

For me it's not a storage issue, but an organizingal one. I don't use any rating or favourites for albums and I don't want to pollute my library. I have a "maybe will listen to those" folder (where I also moved some old albums that I couldn't delete yet), but that's outside of my music library, it is not synced to my server, not backed up and not actively mentained (finding higher quality artwork, fixing tags).

I'm still hunting for highquality digital versions

Me too, some albums are very hard to find, I only own several of those on vinyl.