Biggest CD collection in the world

A man has got about 3 million cds and he has to sell it because he's sick.
Here you got the interview

[@Curly_Toes]

Those are not cds

[@Onehundredlobsters]

Why does the title say "CD collection?" This is a story about vinyl record albums. Great film!

[@richardmika2136]

must be them hard to get over sized cds back then

[@zx50]

@Autumn Daniel Exactly. I can only imagine the uploader doesn't know what a CD is, which is crazy in itself.

[@electricmaster23]

I've done the maths... as of this video, given 43 minutes and 17 seconds for the average album duration, and 4 minutes for the average single. One would need to listen to every record sequentially without sleeping for 93.5 years to hear every record in its entirety.

[@raulserrano3670]

Screw digital!!!! Screw netflix hulu or I tunes buy physical copies of movies and music

[@user-rf4vc7mt4d]

i mean ur right and wrong in different ways

[@bjrntorearstein6347]

Collections- and collectors- like this is a rare thing! Some of us still appreciate albums in their purest form. I just hope our kids will wake up from the digital "slumber" most of them are in at the moment..Archives like Paul´s are priceless, and they need to be looked after for posterity.

[@flybeep1661]

"digital "slumber" is that what you call it? Sorry to break it for you but that will never happen. Most people aren't collectors and they just care about listening to music. Where music comes from doesn't matter as long as it is easily accessible and convenient and digital checks all the boxes. There really is no good reason to buy physical media for the average joe. It won't go away completely but it will still diminish until it's a small niche business much like vinyl records are today. Add to that most of the new generation of young people and those coming after are or will be totally unfamilliar with physical media and having no reason to switch to physical media this thing you call "slumber" really isn't a slumber at all. There really is nothing to wake up to.

[@eongecko24]

im also a collector and i really feel for him

[@Kumas576]

Poor man. I really understand him. And everything he said is true.

[@monkeybizwak]

WOW, very touching. man it`s so true what he says about people ears being shut, The largest and most complete music collection I`ve seen Is owned by a friends father and It sits in the attic of the house, racks and racks of the worlds finest and most rare albums... My friend only likes Rap and stupid reggeton ...so sad.

[@BK-gf7uo]

Words can't describe how amazing this collection is...the guy brought up so many points that I totally overlooked i.e. If nothing else, saving vinyl for future generations. That one hit hard

[@pnn264]

I love Vinyl ..I have a vinyl collection. Vinyl will never die

[@higmeister]

The title says these are CDs, but they're vinyls. What gives?

[@skeletons666]

If the vinyl avarage running time is 30 minutes, and there is 3 million vinyls in collection, it would take over 171 years to listen to them all, only once and without sleeping.

[@AntonioCristerna]

Excellent video. Amazing collection. Congratulations.

[@johnedmiston123234]

i love how vinyl is coming back, pure awesomeness

[@GustoTheGamer]

damn i hope he is doing well! great collection!

[@christophermarsh4540]

Record-Rama was truly a destination. I went there many times but this place got my cd collection started as I switched out my cassettes. Prices were not cheap but they had many, many hard to find titles. I miss Record-Rama.

[@shanebeaumont4070]

Chopping off the highs and lows is required to keep a stylus in the grooves without vilolent jumps. Records require it as a physical medium.

[@Atom-dx6qz]

Salute to this legend! If i had the money i would cop all that

[@EliMeadAZ]

And now we're in the vinyl revival. He was right, we were gonna eventually wake up and realize we needed it back.

[@911beats]

exactly im 16 and i love the physical format but there is no shops that sell them no more in my town

[@AudiophileTubes]

SACD is the best format for music. Vinyl, if you have a really expensive stereo system, is up there too.

[@motaboat5187]

Nevermind vinyl records, people these days don't even give a damn about cds. People just listen to whatever they want at home or in the car on their phone. Nobody goes and listens to a full album of an artist anymore.

[@kylesmith556]

I salute you for saying that.

[@DilipKumar-rq7ur]

Yes

[@Paneeks1960]

Its spelled Vinyls and I wish I could make this guy's day by buying this collection for twice as much as its worth. I pray to the good man upstairs that he finds the collector who will cherish these beautiful records and that he gets a ton of money in return for the effort that he put into it!

[@djtrishm]

I wish him luck!

[@LazyGamerMike]

this video has persuaded me to get my favourite albums on vinyl now :P just need a record player lol

[@XtianSe7en]

Oh my god! This is the greatest collection in the earth! 😍

[@flybeep1661]

Tracking information from wikipedia this collection is now part of Brazillian bussines man José Roberto "Zero" Alves Freitas' collection. His collection now counts 8 million records and probably is the biggest in the world.

[@MarcoAGJ]

This guy speaks truth.

[@browland1]

I'm a collector myself and it saddens me to see the state of things today; music stores are closing, younger people limit their music to sound files on a computer, and there is little appreciation for the physical format anymore. Despite that, I will continue to buy CDs and records and my collection will continue to grow. If only I could pony up the $3 million...I would so take that collection and preserve it in the same manner as he did. :)

[@coreygallagher2658]

I wish I had that collection holy shit it would be amazing!!!

[@AudiophileTubes]

Did this man sell his collection as of early 2012? I used to get a lot of my vinyl from a man named Jim Danas in Queens, NY. Another great collector, he was.

[@200Tommo791]

I totally understand his plight, and hope and pray that this becomes a museum of some sort. Wish I had $50 mil to pay him, merely for the trouble he has gone to. Wow.

[@GlobalMetalApocalypse]

I'd be scared to drop that release from 1881

[@DanielBMS]

Well yes, but the point is that people have certain biases towards certain formats.

[@JayAre555]

The government should buy it and make a museum/ archive of it. It doesn't seem so important now but in a couple of years it will be a treasure of unimaginable value. Otherwise all that recorded music will just be gone and that's just not acceptable.

[@joshintheflesh848]

I wish I could have gotten this handed to me. I would carry the torch. This is my dream

[@AVL64]

i cant afoord this but surely theres a millioner/billioner who can appreciete this.

[@Atheismrulez]

I agree with him on most things, except the one about quality. Sure, 128kbps MP3 is very compressed and some songs can sound mushy and the instruments sound somewhat different, not to mention that some of the sounds altogether are lost, but that's what FLAC, ALAC and AAC were made to counter for. A 256kbps AAC file will give you almost the same quality as a CD, but the file is more than 10x smaller. FLAC files are exactly the same quality but manage to compress it to 60% of the original.

[@DanielBMS]

There are people who claim that cassette tapes are better then all exiting formats.

[@JTOwens89]

Where is this place? I'd love to visit this guy and check out the collection.

[@foxnews63]

if i had the money and the space i would buy it all

[@trim6421]

Things like this should be kept forever,like all the other history we have. I would hope Google will step in and take care of this PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

[@michaelgonzalez723]

That ledgit made me sad

[@ryanelgieextrastuff]

ill take all his metal and rock to add to my pitiful 46 CD collection

[@WSGaming95]

I would love all that, sampling magic right there.

[@quickitscomin]

What an amazin collection. I would love all that music whether I like it or not if I had a massive big warehouse! I love all music especially rare stuff.

[@iammetalhead123]

Hell, I'll buy it all. I would do anything just to see it, much less own something like this. This man gave his life to music, and look what happened he has to live the rest of his life in worry, and despair because no one wants it or is interested in it. If this guy isn't dead, I would like to go to his shop and fill the fucking cart full.

[@masterjunky863]

Amazing!

[@BJ22PIANO]

If I had the money, I would think about buying it. (if only...)

[@shewolfish]

What a shame that he obviously has no adult children who'd take over the collection & love it as much as he does. If it was me, just for the love of the music, I would donate the entire collection for cataloguing in a major museum - as long as the collection remained intact.

[@McGuire40695]

Also, I hope that I win big on the lottery so I can find this man and give him $5 million for his outstanding collection.

[@quickitscomin]

He is right as well when he says music sounds better on vinyl. Ask any audiophile! It's a shame it takes an audiophile these days to recognise that.

[@vcuvcu]

this is an awesome collection if i had the money and could contact him with no doubt i would buy it i hope some day i can acomplish something like this

[@rhondadreher6567]

Hold On To those memories, an avid music collector here. This is the best hobby in the world!!!

[@cimarronhopper4605]

Rhonda Dreher tell me about it over 200 cds i have and at least 50 pieces of vinyl

[@voynaimir3]

This does belong in a museum. My brother-in-law has a collection of well over 1000 vinyl albums, and a good friend of his has a vinyl collection of around 10,000 albums. Many experts, including these guys, believe that vinyl sounds better than CDs, and I am not unconvinced. And forget MP3 and computer downloads, they are mostly junk if you have any ear for music. For myself I did switch to CDs about 25 years ago for space economy reasons. Plus the availability of classical music (which is my first love in music) on CDs was becoming amazing. Gave my collection of mostly classical vinyl records to my brother-in-law, who I knew would treat them right. Now I hear some of those albums when I go to visit.

[@DanielBMS]

Wow what a great program. Where is it from? Makes me feel a little guilty that I don't collect records myself. I have planned to, but they aren't very compatible so I would listen to them less.

[@canadianlightbulbs]

wow he sure has alot of CDS

[@giggabyt78]

coming back it is back

[@xxxWolFangxxx]

thats actually really sad :(

[@ryanodaly]

What a sad story

[@bfnfamily]

That's amazing.

[@broadcastogod]

WHERE IS THIS PLACE?!!?!?!?

[@Hogis__]

arent those like vinyls?

[@glasgowdrive]

WOW THATS A LOT OF CDS! !!!??

[@nerissamustacisa3133]

woah a library of cd's haha nice

[@cimarronhopper4605]

Dont worry paul i know how much it means to you if i could afford it ide buy it i love music

[@bepisman3852]

Yep, those are definitely cds

[@DanielBMS]

So what happened to this man's vinyl music collection?

[@c.liedtke5826]

Did anyone catch what he says at 2:54 ('they ask for a..')? Thanks

[@seangabel5824]

They ask for a song. My eyes light up and I feel like I'm part of the human race

[@kerdizzle04]

I'd buy it if I had room

[@ChubbierHalo]

very true

[@ThaCGNStudio2]

@TheFinlandnator have you ever listened to real vinyl?

[@lanimar3417]

Everyone has its own eccentricities. I am a collector too but only one artist and only cds. One collector has to know when it is too much or it is such a waste of 'life'. One has too include other people too. Not just objects. When its too much, its called greed. Because you can't bring them with you to heaven.

[@SCAREDBANANA]

Ever heard lossless formats?

[@McGuire40695]

This is actually very cool! I want to try and get a big (CD) collection going and so far, I only have 80 or so =P

[@McGuire40695]

@Feze Monkey i havent bought many since 2019, but im arounf 350

[@Thijs3FM]

Me too.

[@manigoug3925]

It's all back now.All they want is Lps now they are now awake

[@HCDHR]

no dislikes, That is what i like

[@gotham61]

@ronkrisin It's usually just referred to as the Rolling Stones Promotional Album

[@0o0enileda0o0]

The title is a bit misleading. He has a vinyl collection. It would be great if a university bought it and turned it into a music library. That way anyone could access the collection.

[@VampyFreakRawr]

i wish i was rich... i would really buy it, i'm a music obssessed

[@jcheng6]

Whoa.

[@ThaCGNStudio2]

@TheFinlandnator basically all of the music from the time period he was talking about (1948-1966) only 13% of that music has been re-released

[@TOOVOOT]

i want to live there

[@CDTucker336]

I bet maybe 1O of his albums are worth something, everything else would sell for .50 to 1.00 each at a garage sale. It is a shame vinyl and CDs are fading out quick with Spotify and digital downloads. To find a store other than Walmart that sells new and current CDs is almost impossible!!!

[@anonymouslyhonest3761]

CDTucker336 dude there are still hundreds of record stores and cd stores XD

[@anthonywhiteman4488]

Bullshit!!! He has so many LP's and 45's. Take you head out of your ass!!!

[@ThereIsNoLord]

Ryans World is right. They are called THRIFT STORES

[@melissahams5108]

3 million records at $1 each is still $3 million

[@ThereIsNoLord]

I guarantee the Brazilian guy who bought them didn't pay anywhere near $3M. Maybe 1/10 of that.

[@joeyengage]

This is sad.

[@adrianmixit1998]

He has the biggest vinyl collection. Not cds.

[@o0LanternLight0o]

NOOOOOOOOO! YOU CANT JUST GET RID OF EM! WHAT THE HELL? WHAT BILLIONAIRE WOULDENT BE ALL OVER THIS!?!?

[@colemartinst123]

Whats the song hes listening to near the end? It souned familiar.

[@rebelcat1969]

Perhaps you already know it four years later. The song is called Music, sung by John Miles, a british rock singer. This is from the seventies.

[@xSBxUltrax]

Plenty of bands are still being printed on vinyl. Just don't expect any of that bullshit on tv though.

[@kevenortega2634]

I would bit it if I had $3 million dollars. I share his passion for music

[@anthonywhiteman4488]

He is right. Vinyl has the best sound. Anyone that tells you otherwise is a fool!!!

[@1sonofabiscuit837]

Anthony Whiteman cds rules deal with it poser

[@rock858965]

if i was has million i will pay 20 million or more

[@hansouth2355]

crazy

[@sclitchmusic]

Vinyl not cds

[@GlissandoMaren]

Ohhhh... If I had 3 Million $... ^^

[@leprechaunstew]

Who the hell are "the Stores"?

[@FetaCheese222]

Well, not every CD has the crap compressed out of it. I'd love to buy this man's collections, but who on earth has the money?

[@xs3kShUun8x]

damn, i'm sad!