Oh dear...

Be in the Daily Mail and on Watchdog then.

 

Nope, Ive been using it for months now. mp3, wma, aac, ogg, wav,
whatever the hell you like, you just pay for the bandwidth. So a Joe
Bloggs 128k mp3 album would be a few pence, personally I buy ~192k wmas
which work out at about 40p per album.

 

Yes. 128k sounds awful, 160 is barely passable. 192 is the minimum
IMO. I usually notice the difference when listening to music and a
128k mp3 comes on.

 

http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3info.htm

I was convinced that they were a dodgy site, so I did a bit of
research... interesting, very interesting!

H

 

I've no idea how many I have, though it's probably more than that.
I'll probably never listen to most of them ever again.

that'd be a fairly impressive MTBF.

 

I am about the same. Mind you it doesn't help to have had my original
collection nicked about 10 years ago. I am still confused about what
I now have and don't have, so never dare buy a golden oldy bargain I
might see in a shop.

 

It's interesting. I've been listening to stuff I haven't listened to
for years, mainly because I now know I've got it.

It would.

 

I do the same as Corfield. I've got an Excel spreadsheet that lists
all the cds I've got and I keep a copy on the iPaq. Since I've done
this, I've never bought a duplicate.

I do the same with books and dvds as well, also they double up for the
insurance company and mean they can easily replace them if they get
stolen.

 

I use http://www.collectorz.com/

Horrendously out of date. Must sort that out soon.

 

I have a spreadsheet. Not kept it up to date though since I move from
a Psion to a Pocket PC PDA.

 

I use my memory. Obviously I can't actually remember and list every CD
I've ever bought, but I'm fairly confident that if you showed me a CD,
I'd know whether or not I owned it. So I won't end up with duplicates,
which is all I'd be bothered about.

 

It was more for books, for insurance purposes.

 

you know, I've got home contents insurance (obviously) but it never
occurs to me to do anything like this.

I suppose I ought to take a big inventory of everything I have, but
I'm way too lazy.

 

It was when I realised how many books I had, and more importantly, how
many I had forgotten I had. [0]

Even at a fairly low average price of a tenner, even a fairly small
number like 2,000 books adds up to twenty grand. But if you can't
prove it, your house insurance people will tell you to **** off.

Pay the kids to do it. It's really, really easy (if time-consuming)
with something like http://www.collectorz.com/book/


[0] Speaking of which, I'm fucked if I could find The Music Of Chance
by Paul Auster. Has anyone from here borrowed my copy?

 

no, your absolutely right - I can't find any reason not to do it
except laziness.

I've no idea how many books we have, but I'd be surprised if it were
anywhere near as low as 2000. On the other hand, the large majority of
them are paperback fiction, so the average price is probably more like
7 or 8 quid.

good plan except one is dyspraxic and both are dyslexic. And both are
easily as lazy as I am. I've got a list of "stuff to do" around the
house - I'll add doing this to it.

TBH, I'd just knock up a noddy database with a web front end, so I
could access/maintain the list from anywhere.

 

Nice. I like the way they link with online sources for more info and
there are pda viewers available.

Mine aren't too bad, but I do have a few Amazon orders to add.

 

no, you and Blaney are exactly right - I've never really thought about
it before, but now it's been pointed out, it seems obvious that I
*must* do this.

and "erm, a few thousand books" probably wouldn't be better.

 

That's precisely why. If, god forbid, my house burnt down, without
lists like this there is no way I'd be able to remember what I owned
in order to claim for it.

"Erm, a few hundred books" probably wouldn't go down to well with the
ins co.