mps;686323 Wrote:
> I'm still curious to hear how you make use of such a large collection
> (I'm not criticizing your expectation that LMS should be able to handle
> your collection, just interested in the answer.).
I can't speak for him. But for me, I have about 240,000 or so tracks.
At the moment, I'm in the midst of a several year reripping program to
convert all my CDs to FLAC (I won't repeat the details of my sad story
of carefully ripping all my CDs to 192 mp3 many years ago before I knew
enough). So for now, my primary library is about 68,000 tracks.
But back to the 240,000. I'm a bit of a collector (I still have my
first albums from the early 1960s). If I like an artist, I want to have
everything they ever did. Some of it I may play once and never again.
But I also like the ability to play about any song of any artist that a
friend might want to hear. (You're setting on the deck enjoying a beer
and the friend says, "do you remember that band that Joe's sister dated
the drummer back in high school that had one album released?" And you
say, "you mean this one" as you call it up with iPeng on your iphone.
Stupid or silly I know. And how many of the five or six hundred
complete grateful dead shows do I *really* need? The idea for me is
NOT that I will frequently listen to all this music, but that if I
*want* to listen to something, I have it.
Also keep in mind that much of my major collecting was done well before
anything like spotify, mog, rhapsody, etc. This makes it easy to find
some songs without owning the CD (although many things I own are not on
those services). In today's times I might have done things very
differently. And I have friends that have a lot more CDs than I
have....one with an entire wing of his home designed and built with
moveable shelving designed for mass storage of CDs and vinyl.
Obsessive? yes. But hey, it's their money and their hobby. {and no one
I'm talking about or me is a professional DJ}
--
garym
*Location 1:* VB Appliance 6TB (1.10) > LMS 7.7.1 > Transporter, Touch,
Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
*Location 2:* VB Appliance 3TB (2.0) > LMS 7.7.1 > Touch > Benchmark
DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
*Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.7.1 > SqueezePlay
Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver
Controllers: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER,
or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop
Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag
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