I was wondering this morning if my music collection has really increased as much as it seems. Overall, it's massively bigger than a few years ago, but if a big chunk of it is stuff I'm lukewarm about listening to again...
With the new speakers installed, I started making a list of things I want to repurchase on CD to upgrade the listening experience from MP3. I was surprised how short the list was of stuff that is that important to me.
In the past when I bought much less music and on CD, more of it was in heavy rotation. So has my collection in practice got that much bigger? Or have I just added a large layer of what is in effect subscription radio to a core that is not that much bigger than it used to be? Is there a limit to the number of albums it's possible to love at a given point in time?
Interesting point GP. Since my Groupon vouchers for emusic have run out I've been able to download much less, and have therefore become more selective, yet I do not feel I have missed anything that I really wanted. Inevitably emusic will eventually increase prices to US levels soon and I'll reduce even more. Yet will it be an issue to me? I'm not sure it will, as some of what I've downloaded is at best peripheral in terms of being played regularly. What will probably happen is that I will revisit those albums more often instead of newer albums. In the early morning (ie now) I tend to start to play CDs before I turn the computer on, so I choose from a much more limited range. In my last car I had a six CD changer in the boot, so I'd regularly recycle those albums. I knew the music better than I do now. But what has happened is that some downloaded albums have emerged as ones I play a lot - Koppel's Polar Explorer springs to mind here.
One related point is that whilst the size of my itunes has increased enormously it is partly accounted for by replacing a lot of low quality copies of my own CDs from Windows Media Player days into Lossless copies.
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With the new speakers installed, I started making a list of things I want to repurchase on CD to upgrade the listening experience from MP3. I was surprised how short the list was of stuff that is that important to me.
In the past when I bought much less music and on CD, more of it was in heavy rotation. So has my collection in practice got that much bigger? Or have I just added a large layer of what is in effect subscription radio to a core that is not that much bigger than it used to be? Is there a limit to the number of albums it's possible to love at a given point in time?
One related point is that whilst the size of my itunes has increased enormously it is partly accounted for by replacing a lot of low quality copies of my own CDs from Windows Media Player days into Lossless copies.