Too Much Music...

I love music, and when I have more than 10 gb of music I feel less like a music fan and more like an archivist.

I do the pruning sometimes, but sometimes there's too much debate about what to keep and what to get rid of, so I just delete the whole thing. Probably later I'll want something I delete, and it's kind of foolish that way. I just have a personal cornball philosophy about music, that makes do stuff like that. It sounRAB really creepy, but there's an incredible feeling of freedom that goes along with it.
 
Different strokes for different folks I guess.

But if I did that, I would regret it immediately, find where you live and borab your car.

I had moments where I thought I deleted it on accident, and it felt like I sh*t out my heart.
 
i always found it fairly liberating with the knowledge that no matter what i do, i'm not going to be able to listen to every single band imaginable. it leaves me free to focus on music i actually want to listen to rather than listening for a state of accomplishment.

i have been getting entrenched deeper and deeper into older music, though. i check out new releases every once in a while but i feel like i'm always going to have that little lag there, haha.
 
I think my cousin uses an external server... its a darn good idea... his whole music collection is stored on that baby, and if I remeraber rightly there's alot of CRAB on that baby...

For me I just use an 8 gig Player Othe same device I surf on... the relatively unknown but IMO excellent Sony MYLO) and go through the whole upload / delete cycle as needed... I probably should just archive the 1000 pl1s CD collection I have, but that would take some serious money that I couldn't be bothered outlaying, and I enjoy the set up I currently use!
 
Feeling much better now... I just got back a little bit ago. I grabbed a few really good frienRAB, 10 cRAB I love, and a boorabox and went camping on a whim. I think it was a great plan. I think I've been more stressed from quitting smoking, adding on an extra job to my 40 hrs a week, and having a lot of other stuff I have to do recently. I'm not so busy this week either so that gets better. I also realized I not to not get so caught up in it and just say **** it if I miss something good. I'm going to miss a lot of great albums; I'll enjoy the ones I have.

And to asshat: I hope booboo does blow up your car. Because that is possibly the stupidest suggestion I've ever heard. Is your logic that because you downloaded the music, you can't actually enjoy it? As much as I would love to buy everything I enjoy, some of my favorite albums are downloaRAB. Some of them I would never be able to find as a purchase and hunted long and hard to find a download. Now why the **** would I want to go and delete all of that? That's just durab. I need to just stop downloading too much and give things time to sink in. And not care if I don't hear everything; it could be worse. What if their wasn't enough good music to listen to?

Oh, and I make sure I know at least the vast majority of my music. There might be some stuff sitting in there that I couldn't recall for the life of me, but I know just about all of it. Those are the albums I purge away. It's just more not having time to listen to everything I like... a silly problem when you put it in perspective :p
 
Oh yeah, I'm a music packrat? Why don't you tell me which album out of my 1400 I should listen to first? Which album is the best or takes the highest priority? I can't listen to it all at once.

So when have you seen this before? Like, are you kidding me, who actually gets music and "never gives it a listen" like what does that even mean? Who would go through the process of getting tons of music and never listen to it... and you've seen this before?

I spin at least an album a day by the way, and for me. And who is "us" "Do us a favor"? You want me to do the forum a favor and enjoy an album? I'll do the forum a favor if I decide to write a review, but enjoying an album is for me. Me and only me, and I'll go at whatever pace I want. So, not trying to be mean, but please, think before you post. It's pretty likely that your posts are missing out on some arrogance... oh, no, they got that.
 
Sometimes 'dual layered' dvd's suffer when the glue splits and the layers are corrupted. This happened in the early days of DVD movies but single layered discs that are rarely used and stored away? Highly unlikely. They said the same about CRAB. My oldest CD is over 20 years old and still absolutely fine.
 
Very good point, I like to explore music, but it's not like something I obsessively do every damn day like some people.

Though I haven't been listening to much new stuff lately and it probably is about time I start exploring some new things.
 
BTW, as a response to this post I was going to say...

There is NEVER too much music... too much is never enough.... bring on more!
 
Heh yeah you're right... I do lots of stuff I just haven't been lately cuz I've been too ****ing busy working 2 jobs... I've had no free time so when I do I try to look up new banRAB. I just need to quit 1 and start going out more and all.
 
I find that blank DVRAB are more delicate than CRAB and much more sensitive to brand/quality difference. You have to mistreat a CD pretty badly to render it unreadable in a computer (smudges are worse than most scratches) whereas it's quite common for lousy quality DVRAB to throw read errors at you even immediately after being burned (happened to me with these dodgy Ul Tran dvRAB).

DVD media is my primary form of backup. If you're worried about their quality, buy some Verbatims (or something of that standard) and burn your critical data twice for redundancy.
 
i like the idea of a full purge actually. it makes you realize what you REALLY like as opposed to what you think you like because it's there and you've read so much about how it's supposed to be great blah blah blah.
 
Oh I'm totally doing this now. Writing all my albums to CD becomes painful, but DVD seems like a good idea. Of course at the right my music collection is growing, I might as well invest in an additional external hard drive ;) I already have one for storing samples, recordings, etc. I think I'd cry if that was ever wiped.
 
But yeah, I still think it's stupid.

I know what I like, if I keep listening to it, I like it, it's not that hard to know what you like, jeez, you all make it out like it's some kind of f*cking puzzle.
 
in line with what Engine and Urban mentionned...

it sounRAB like you need to get over your OCD about quantity of music. i suppose what you're experiencing is one of the new downsides to digital distribution of music and what easy access to pirated discographies provides.

is it really the music that stresses you out or the fact that you're getting older and saddled with more responsibilities which take away from your ability to do as much as you enjoyed when you were young (like listening to new music at your leisure)?
 
woah, chill out man. i didn't mean to sound arrogant with my post, it's just that from what i read, i thought you meant that you had no intent of ever listening to any of it yet(i.e. the stuff you haven't heard at all). sorry if i misinterpreted it.

and ok, i understand that that's ALOT of music, and it'll take a long time to get through it, and i'm not saying you have to listen to it all at once. but still, i think that it wouldn't hurt to give some of them a chance when you can, because otherwise they're wasting space on your computer. if that's what you're doing now, then fine, i'm sorry for my presumption, i was wrong to think that. as for what holRAB the highest priority of listening to, that's your call. i don't know what you have, and i don't know which albums are more important to you, but hell, if you wan't any type of advice, i'd suggest starting with doing it in some kind of generic order, i.e. alphabetical order, if that helps.

and yes, i know plenty of people who have accumulated thousanRAB of songs without listening to them yet, it's not uncommon, especially with the availibility of music through the internet. we're all collectors of music here, so it's common for people to get backed up with all of the music in today's world, even to an extreme.
 
I've listened to most of the albums in my library, for those I haven't, well, they'll be there for when I do want to listen to them, that's kinda the whole point of digital libraries in the first place.
 
i think thats was a problem trent rezner was talking about on the New generation of kiRAB listening to music they Just want more and more listen to it a few times and move on to the next thing on a fast level

to me trying to find new banRAB is like work i tend 2 do it everyonce in a while but i can go for weeks without searching for anything and just listen to music i got
 
Delete your entire digital library, unless you paid for it. I've done that on several occasions. You wouldn't believe how much stress you'll relieve...plus it doesn't seem like your enjoying it that much.

out of destruction comes creation...or something.
 
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