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My uncle died about a year ago now, and one thing my aunt is gearing up to get rid of is his music collection. He had *hundreds* of CDs of classical music, many of them near-duplicates, because he may have already had a piece but wanted a particular conductor's version, or a performance by a particular orchestra.
Is there anyone here who might be interested in such a collection as a whole, or knows of someone who might? I feel it'd be good to find a home for it as a whole rather than selling every disc off separately.
Can you say anything more about what sorts of classical music it is? Emphasis on certain composers, styles, periods, etc.?
Speaking as a CD collector, you might well find someone to take the collection, but you will probably not find a guarantee to keep it intact, unless your uncle was famous for a related reason.
Maybe you could find someone like the people featured in this article?
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.Robert Garrova (LAist)
when my grandfather died, leaving a mountain of DVDs, home movies of family over his lifetime, I took possession of all of them. I then ripped each one and built a website for the whole family to be able to watch them.
Maybe you could do the same? Rip the entire library and donate it to the commons as a great big torrent in his name.
If you're in the United States, one possibility is the Internet Archive.
They're accepting CDs that they don't have in their collection: see https://help.archive.org/help/does-the-internet-archive-have-my-media/
You can search what they have (and is not publicly available) here: https://archive.org/details/acdc
Thanks for all the interest in this post, which I did not expect. This has over 150 boosts and a dozen replies which is absolutely bananas - I'm not sure I've ever posted anything that's had more than about 5 boosts before. I've had to mute this thread because I can't keep up with the notifications and I don't know what to say to all the individual replies, sorry.
It sounds like a lot of people think this collection of CDs is a lot more significant than it probably is, possibly because it's a post from someone you don't know that's getting boosted around the fediverse which makes it look important. It sounds like it might be possible to find someone who'd like it all.
A few points:
1. Hampshire, UK.
2. CDs have never had region coding, the way DVDs and BDs have.
3. I have little knowledge of music (classical or otherwise) so I couldn't say what type of classical music this is. I know a few of the CD cases are labelled with ranges of composer names (like "Bach - Griegg" or something - I have no idea what composers are there though, I'm just pulling names out of the air, and I haven't actually opened the boxes to look inside yet).
4. I have my doubts about whether any of this is particularly rare or would need to be "saved" and archived, but I suppose it's possible.
So, I guess I can tell my aunt there may be interest in someone acquiring the whole lot, so it might be worth a bit of time to try to catalogue at least some of it. Any ideas where I go from there?
