garym;686327 Wrote: > 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} Thanks for the interesting response. I can understand where you're coming from (although my 6000 song collection is currently kicking my ass :) ).
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