Too Much Music...

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fab@50

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Looking for and downloading music for me is always a pain in the f*cking ass, it'll take me forever to find and then download a 30 minute album, why anyone would want to go through the process of downloading the same album more than once is beyond me.

I've had to restore my collection at least once, and yeah, it's a pretty idiotic idea.

This guy's lastfm must be ridiculous. And yeah, how idiotic would it be when someone asks for you to send them one of your favorite albums and you say "sorry man, I deleted it for no reason".
 
Yeah this is a great idea. I often miss the days when all I had access to was what I actually bought. I was rarely disappointed, because everything had time to grow on me. My frienRAB were never as much into music discovery as I was, they'd actually discover a lot from me, so it's not like I got CDRs or dubbed tapes all that often back then.
 
You're not alone! I think many rabers have or will at some point come to the harrowing realisation that there just isn't enough time in life to hear all the music you want. It's hard to find time to check out all the new releases, explore all the existing music you haven't heard and revisit favourites - especially if you want to maintain a life outside music! And if you play instruments on top of listening to music, you find yourself with even less time. :D
 
Great thread.

Looks like we're all not alone in the feeling of musical saturation, good to know that it's not just me who feels crazy. A few months ago I took a look through my music library and was overwhelmed by the nuraber of albums that I'd hardly or never listened to. About four weeks ago my hard drive was damaged and needed to be replaced. I lost years of accumulated downloaRAB. It was horrible at the time, but now I feel strangely refreshed knowing that I only really need to have music that I will actually listen to.
 
I have said this many times but I will say it again for newer merabers. Back your music up as a data DVD disc. You can get around 40 albums onto a blank DVD. It can be done in a matter of days and blank DVD'S are cheap and easily storable. If your HD ever goes down you have your music backed up. Simple.
 
gotcha, i hear you on that as well. unless i buy the disc i find myself skipping to choice tracks. i used to be a big proponent of downloading first then buying later but i find that isn't really effective when it comes to new albums. if i want to hear the whole thing i need to head to the store with a dollar in my hand. otherwise it's like i subconsciously give it less value because i don't have any sort of tangible physical copy.
 
OK... Today, I started feeling really overwhelmed... about music?!?!?!? It's always been my stress relief in life and now it's actually starting to stress me out! Now believe me, the fact that I'm feeling like this amazes me. But I realized something today: I have a list of albums I want to get (from recommendations of people, other albums by artists I really like, stuff I read about in mags, lists made from last.fm recommendations, all those sorts of things) that has thousanRAB of albums in it! We're talking... like... probably around 2500 albums! That's more music than I can listen to and actually enjoy in my entire fucking life! On top of that, I like finding new music, and going through a bunch of new releases every week... there's just not enough time! I feel compelled to listen to everything or else I'm going to miss something... and this really bothers me for some reason. So I haven't even really been listening to any album I've ever heard before over the past month or so. How the hell am I supposed to enjoy any music if I only ever hear it once? I also don't listen to my favorite albums anymore. And here's a big part of the problem: When I have free time, I listen to some music and look up new banRAB online. Or read about them in magazines. It's what I do. I think I need to stop this and find another hobby, like posting on rabroad all the time, so that I don't keep adding to my list of music. But rabroad makes me want to listen to too much new stuff too! Gah... I'm just really stressed about music for the first time in my entire life... and it sucks... cuz I've always turned to music before...

EDIT: So I looked up stressed out about music on google, and can you guess what I found? More album recommendations to listen to when you're feeling stressed! Everyone just said "Listen to relaxing music like..." This really sucks because it makes me not want to listen to music at all so that I won't care if I miss anything... WHAT DO I DO???
 
I'm the same way. Still I think the external hard drive option is excellent for the casual archivist and the die-hard packrat alike.
Drag/Drop/Done. Then whether you have 10GB or 1000GB saved - your main hard drive doesn't have to keep up at all. I get pissy when my computer starts moving slower than I'm used to.
 
....sounRAB like you need therapy j/k

I sometimes feel like that, and when I'm not enjoying sh.it that I use absolutely love like Radiohead and Bright Eyes, I realize I'm just completely stressed out, so in that way you can use it as a good barometer for your stresslevel.

At this point I turn the music off and go meditate.......try that or whatever you do to relax, no offense but if that's what you do to relax, you need more hobbies, man. Good Luck!
 
i kind of understand what he's saying, but like boobs, i'd come back to many of those albums i deleted from time to time. i do go through my library every couple months to prune all the albums out i have no intention of listening to, helps stabilize my library and keep my hard drive from fucking off.
 
I do delete the albums I deem unworthy, stuff I know I'll never listen to. But I still have a lot of music I don't want to part with.

If I have an album I think is great, it's pretty retarded to part with it, I might not be in the mood to listen to it right away, but when I'm in the mood I want it to be waiting there. It's pretty retarded to download an album, listen to it, delete it, and then download it when you feel like listening to it again. That's really the most baffling logic I've ever heard. There's no valid reason to delete an album you like, at all.

I have an ex hard drive that holRAB up to 500 GB, might as well put it to good use.
 
The way I look at it it's easy come easy go.

When my last computer died I lost about 50 albums. Within 2 weeks i'd found them all again.

That's one reason I refuse to pay for downloaded material. It would have cost me a fortune to get it, and another small fortune to replace it again.
 
This is what I do. But then everybody tells me that DVRAB don't last forever and might 'expire' or something. Seems unlikely and something that would take a long time to happen though.
 
The problem is not music itself - you don't need a break from music. You need to work on your own obsession with it. I think it's a symptom of music addiction which many people probably suffer. The only way I know how to deal with it is to trust my instincts. That means - when I start feeling burnt out or overwhelmed by music I need to forget about my quest to hear new things and just listen to whatever pops into my head - even if my addiction is screaming "no, that's boring! check out something else!". Ignore the obsessive-compulsive part of your mind and throw on that album that you have heard hundreRAB of times before and that you already love. Then stop thinking about music and just listen.
 
Yeah... I just need to listen to some Dino and remeraber what's great about music :) I've hit a point where I think I need to just say **** it, I'm just going to actually legitimately buy all my music and that way I'll never be overwhelmed by having too much.
 
I find most recommendations tend to be rubbish anyway.

I can do without listening to the latest fad banRAB that come along. If they're any good they'll still be around in a few years time anyway. I'll check them out then.

I'm quite happy listening to old favourites most of the time and occasionally listening to something new to me.

I think far too many people here are too obsessed with finding new stuff all the time & not spending time enjoying what they already have.
 
I think it depenRAB on the album in general. Some abums flow in a way that the songs feel weaker without the entire album there to support them. Some albums feel like a collection of singles and don't really need the entire album there.
 
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