Guest ruiagnelo Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 I have a fairly extensive collection of music, about twenty five thousand tracks (i don't know what your definition of extensive is, but for me it's huge really) and i keep adding new stuff frequently. Sometimes feels really good to have that much, as i can choose from a wide range of styles to listen to immediatly, but in certain moments it just seems such a ridiculous amount of music. Like right now, i don't really feel like i am getting that much from everything i have. Music really feels good if you concentrate on it and give it some time to listen. That's how it works for me. Now imagine you listen to music for 4 hours day, which is one eighth of its total time, lets assume that it equals to 4 albums or 80 tracks, than you still have 99,68% of the remaining music to listen to, considering the amount of tracks i own. If you keep following a specific order, how long will take to listen to it again?? One day i started browsing my music folders and deleted some stuff, to shorten the collection. Later i regretted for it and was really hard to get that stuff again. I now think it's always worth having what you have, even if you can't listen to it as much as you wish, but in the other hand, don't you get much more from stuff if your limited and afford to have more?? How do you guys deal with it? It's somewhat confusing to me, in the sense that makes me think and then i lose time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 I deal(t) with it by just listening to stuff I knew I liked and ignoring the rest until I really felt like listening to it (which happened, albeit rarely.) Then my music HD ate it and I lost all ~110 gigs of music I had. Now I have like 12 gigs of stuff I listen to a lot, I actually much prefer it, though I do get annoyed when I feel like listening to something I used to have and then can't find it anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 the music infidel has spoken! you admit to having a vast cavern of music data that you rarely listen to, yet still are compelled to consume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 the music infidel has spoken! you admit to having a vast cavern of music data that you rarely listen to, yet still are compelled to consume. Hey, take it easy there. Having that much means that i am just a mere consumer? I don't get music just to build a collection and it's not my fault that i like almost everything i find. You just made an assumption on the subject without even thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 the music infidel has spoken! you admit to having a vast cavern of music data that you rarely listen to, yet still are compelled to consume. Hey, take it easy there. Having that much means that i am just a mere consumer? I don't get music just to build a collection and it's not my fault that i like almost everything i find. You just made an assumption on the subject without even thinking. no i made a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Strike Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 I'll never forget my mother-in-law's wedding back in February, she's 53 and married this Latino dude after about three months of knowing him (ahem, dumb bitch) so everyone was mega uncomfortable because not a single person approved of the wedding or even knew this guy and worse, they demanded a 50:50 ratio of country/mariachi shit :wtf: (I'm sorry but Mexicans make the worst music--absolutely no offense meant to Latin board members, the white ass country is even worse if it helps you feel better). Well, her gaggle of "office ladies" got really fucked and bombed and one came up and said, "do you have any disco?" and I was just like Alex, "Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones!" and if I could have done a backspin/needle skip effect, I would have...it was basically, *accordions and guitars pumping* "Aye, yai, yai, yai" BLAAAOW "Burn baby, burn, Disco Inferno!" and about 10 women drunkenly rushed the table I was at with my rig and fucking got to business. About 15 minutes into fucking turning the place out, the groom, who can make my skin crawl like no other, says "the bride wants more country please". I knew that I was in a position of appeasement but I didn't go without a fight...I picked up the mic, faded to channel 1, and just literally repeated what he said in a droll manner "the bride wants more country" and I did a hard shift straight down into the worst fucking tear-in-your beer honky tonk for emphasis. All of the women go "ahhhhh" in extreme disappointment and I shrugged my shoulders as in, "whaddya do?" It portended the future though because she has zero communication with any of her old friends except with that freak of nature from El Paso. You need kit to adapt to any situation but frankly, I get sick of sifting through another goddamn Eagles, Del Vikings, or cock rock ballad on my way to high experimental electronics. A+ post, great read! I LOLed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 So, anyway, I've tried all the automated shit with scripts to stick artwork in all your folders and to auto-seek tags and it has all been a huge FAIL...no other way to do it than to mow the grass with scissors afaik. I just use Foobar2000 and Mp3 Tagger to manage my files and manually grab .jpegs myself :wtf: Sometimes i think about that, a software that makes it all automatically. I do exactly the same thing when i get new music: use tagscanner to give artwork and proper tags and scan itunes to add it to library. It's an important process for me. Don't you think we are losing time? I think that... maybe, because all that matters is the music, but i keep on doing it, so fuck it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaen Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 i have more music than i could ever possibly listen to, it depresses me, i dont have enough usb ports to even plug in the TB drives i have filled, its just stupid. i may wipe everything soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 the music infidel has spoken! you admit to having a vast cavern of music data that you rarely listen to, yet still are compelled to consume. Hey, take it easy there. Having that much means that i am just a mere consumer? I don't get music just to build a collection and it's not my fault that i like almost everything i find. You just made an assumption on the subject without even thinking. no i made a joke. i have more music than i could ever possibly listen to, it depresses me, i dont have enough usb ports to even plug in the TB drives i have filled, its just stupid. i may wipe everything soon Don't do that. It's just the wrong move altough it looks like a solution. Seriously, i have done that and it's just stupid. I ended up losing time to get everything back again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 do the tagging and artwork acquiring as you rip the shit to your hard drive/download it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 Man sometimes I feel like I have way too much music (close to 2k CDs, probably about 250GB on my computer). I don't try to listen to it all, I just listen to what I feel like. Problem is I often feel like listening to a ton of stuff all in the same day but the day is never long enough! And some days I have so much I can't decide what to play, nothing sounds good. About 3-4 weeks ago I got fucked by a virus or malware and spent a few weeks trying to fix the damn computer. That means I didn't have access to my digital library (well I did, because it's all on an external drive, but I didn't think about bringing it to work until like 2 weeks later) so I was stuck with the music that was on my 8GB iPod that I'm used to changing out daily. I don't change everything on it daily, just a few albums here and there that I feel like listening to, the rest stays on for repeat listens and such. So what was cool about this situation is that it forced me to listen to some things more than I may have otherwise, and it also got me looking at and pulling CDs down from the shelf. It gets old staring at a list of digital file names trying to figure out what you want to hear. I love the association between visual art and music and it was nice reconnecting a little bit. Sure I can look at art online and I can make sure all my MP3 albums have proper art attached to them (I don't really care about this, but I do care about clean tags). But looking at my overstuffed book case and saying "Oh I haven't heard this in a while" or just browsing it that way, the old school way, was nice. It's not that I have fewer albums on the shelf than on the computer, it might be the opposite in fact, it's just that it was a nice change of pace. Monday I got the computer all working again, reconnected the library, started downloading shit again, back to normal. Been going to bed late every night since spending too much fucking time in front of the screen researching new music, organizing files, deciding what to put on the iPod for the next day, etc. It's truly an obsession. I love music but I hate how much control it has over me. I feel like dumping it sometimes, but it's my best friend and that would be very hard. do the tagging and artwork acquiring as you rip the shit to your hard drive/download it. This is what I do...so it doesn't really feel all that time consuming unless I happen to be ripping a bunch of CDs in one session or downloading a lot of stuff at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 OK this is going to sound veeerrry anal... but this is how I deal with my music listening most of the time. (presuming you use iTunes) Make 5 Smart Playlists with the following criteria: * smart playlist 1: limit to 20% of your songs (ie. 2000 if you have a 10,000 song library), playcount is >10 * smart playlist 2: limit to 40% of your songs, playcount is 0 * smart playlist 3: limit to 30% of your songs, playcount is 2-10 * smart playlist 4: limit to 10% of your songs, playcount is 1 * smart playlist 5: date added is within the past two months (whatever song limit you want) Now, make smart playlist 6: feed from sp1, sp2, sp3, sp4, and sp5 I know, but it works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 yeah wow i just listen to albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ricky Downtown Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 the other day i deleted a bunch of songs and albums i don't listen to. i deleted them from my itunes library but kept the files in case i wan't them for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 Man sometimes I feel like I have way too much music (close to 2k CDs, probably about 250GB on my computer). I don't try to listen to it all, I just listen to what I feel like. Problem is I often feel like listening to a ton of stuff all in the same day but the day is never long enough! And some days I have so much I can't decide what to play, nothing sounds good. That's actually what i feel. The same you told happened with me a few times. Like spending to much time outside home, where i can't have access to the whole library, only having 8gb sony mp3 player, really makes me focus more on what i actually have there. This is so contradicting tho. The only difference is the amount of music in the two scenarios. Conclusion: excess really makes difference on your mind. OK this is going to sound veeerrry anal... but this is how I deal with my music listening most of the time. (presuming you use iTunes) Make 5 Smart Playlists with the following criteria: * smart playlist 1: limit to 20% of your songs (ie. 2000 if you have a 10,000 song library), playcount is >10 * smart playlist 2: limit to 40% of your songs, playcount is 0 * smart playlist 3: limit to 30% of your songs, playcount is 2-10 * smart playlist 4: limit to 10% of your songs, playcount is 1 * smart playlist 5: date added is within the past two months (whatever song limit you want) Now, make smart playlist 6: feed from sp1, sp2, sp3, sp4, and sp5 I know, but it works for me. That would be too random for me. But i get your point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uptown devil Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 bump your listening time up to 12 hours a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 Yeah man if you really like music, then put music in your life. Play the fuck out of it. Or else you are just a product consumer and a collector. I mean you're asking a music board about it, what are you expecting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 yeah wow i just listen to albums. indeed, i feel well fucking normal now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 yeah wow i just listen to albums. indeed, i feel well fucking normal now. me too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 Deleted it all and switched to spotify premium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muflontillah Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 517Gb of 100% legal shyt plus Cds and Lps yo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 517Gb of 100% legal shyt plus Cds and Lps yo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muflontillah Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 ...no problemo understanding when should I listen to what :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 ...no problemo understanding when should I listen to what :D That's no problem for me either. The day is simply too short for everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 bump your listening time up to 12 hours a day That's probably about where I am! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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