How Big Is Your... You Know... ?

[Harry Tic]

Music collection?

I'm at just under 14,000 tracks on iTunes. The vast majority of them are legal (honest!) although a few are of uncertain provenance and I don't care to inquire further. I do some periodic pruning so there's not a lot of dross on there (although I guess that dross is in the ear of the beholder). Quite a significant number of those are rips from vinyl--old LPs that I inherited from my folks and lots of thrift store weirdness.

While I'm on the topic, what programs or tips do you all have for organizing your collection? My metadata needs to be cleaned up and, although I've kind of resigned myself to iTunes (11 is quite a bit better than the previous version, but, still) I wouldn't mind finding something better.

[BigPiney]

While I'm on the topic, what programs or tips do you all have for organizing your collection? My metadata needs to be cleaned up and, although I've kind of resigned myself to iTunes (11 is quite a bit better than the previous version, but, still) I wouldn't mind finding something better.

Mediamonkey is good for organizing. It will redo your folder structure if you so desire. A friend with as much music as you swears by it.

[Jacob]

Basically 0 songs. It's been years since I listened to something in my own collection of music.

[Harry Tic]

Basically 0 songs. It's been years since I listened to something in my own collection of music.

Spotify? I subscribe to Rhapsody so I discover new stuff that way. But I'm a dinosaur that actually likes to have my own electrons on my own hard drive. I'm also starting to get back into vinyl (or, at least I'm getting into the idea of getting back into vinyl--I'm too poor and too ignorant to be a true audiophile).

[Harry Tic]

Mediamonkey is good for organizing. It will redo your folder structure if you so desire. A friend with as much music as you swears by it.

I'll look into it. I assume it plays nicely with Mac.

[Jeff Lebowski]

1408

I rarely tap into my music collection anymore. Spotify is the way to go.

[old_gregg]

>70,000. Almost entirely pirated. I don't really so single albums, I like to have discographies.

[doctorcoug]

17 million

You see, about 7 years ago I did the math and I realized that, if I spent $1 on every track that I wanted to own, I'd be almost 65 years old before I broke even using rhapsody. So, I bought metallica, led zeppelin, the beatles, and a membership to rhapsody. Fast forward 7 years, I've used mog, rdio, samsung's awful app, rara, sony's crappy app, and I've finally settled back at spotify.

I have an android phone, so I used the old app, stored the files on my SD card, upgraded the app so I can still keep the files on my SD card (cool trick, by the way).

I have playlists as that...genres and I also have artist playlist folders with album playlists--I'm a huge album junky, I want to listen to the music how the artist wanted me to be entertained (my big gripe with spotify is that they don't keep a list of all my artists that I have in playlists). Using playlist folders, I've pretty much gotten around the artist gripe.

Unfortunately for you, you didn't do the math and now you will probably never use a subscription service in the future, relegating yourself to purchasing new music for the rest of your life.

[wuapinmon]

Unfortunately for you, you didn't do the math and now you will probably never use a subscription service in the future, relegating yourself to purchasing new music for the rest of your life.

Yeah, Harry Tic, you dumbass. Your old-fashioned hronir of the master recordings come at steep price. Besides, meta-analysis shows that doctorcoug has done everything twice as fast for half the price. Soon he'll have no need of processors nor bandwidth; the Aleph is his mind and music is his Zahir.

[Harry Tic]

You see, about 7 years ago I did the math and I realized that, if I spent $1 on every track that I wanted to own, I'd be almost 65 years old before I broke even using rhapsody.

Wait. You're telling me I didn't need to spend $14000 buying Steve Jobs the world's most comprehensive collection of black turtlenecks?

My three ex-wives, accountant, and my therapist wish you had told me sooner.

(actually, does anybody fill up their ipod with iTunes $1 singles?)

[Harry Tic]

Here's the problem, in my opinion, with being able to stream anything you want, anytime you want to. It's handy every now and then when you are suddenly jonesing to hear, I don't know, the Captain and Tennille sing "Muskrat Love" as only they can. And you've got to have it NOW.

But other than that, it's like you've got nothing. Part of the fun of a music collection is curating the damn thing: it's knowing your way around it. 14,000 is really pushing the envelope for me and I should probably trim it down further. Of course, I was the kind of kid that would buy a new LP and play it over and over again and read every single liner note, every song lyric, and study the cover and sleeve art intensely. Go ahead, ask me who played bass on Journey's Escape or exactly how long Rush's "Cygnus X-1" clocked in at. I could answer those questions for almost any album I purchased as a teenager.

[old_gregg]

17 million

You see, about 7 years ago I did the math and I realized that, if I spent $1 on every track that I wanted to own, I'd be almost 65 years old before I broke even using rhapsody. So, I bought metallica, led zeppelin, the beatles, and a membership to rhapsody. Fast forward 7 years, I've used mog, rdio, samsung's awful app, rara, sony's crappy app, and I've finally settled back at spotify.

I have an android phone, so I used the old app, stored the files on my SD card, upgraded the app so I can still keep the files on my SD card (cool trick, by the way).

I have playlists as that...genres and I also have artist playlist folders with album playlists--I'm a huge album junky, I want to listen to the music how the artist wanted me to be entertained (my big gripe with spotify is that they don't keep a list of all my artists that I have in playlists). Using playlist folders, I've pretty much gotten around the artist gripe.

Unfortunately for you, you didn't do the math and now you will probably never use a subscription service in the future, relegating yourself to purchasing new music for the rest of your life.

until there's something you want to listen to not stored locally and it's impossible/inconvenient to stream.

[doctorcoug]

Yeah, Harry Tic, you dumbass. Your old-fashioned hronir of the master recordings come at steep price. Besides, meta-analysis shows that doctorcoug has done everything twice as fast for half the price. Soon he'll have no need of processors nor bandwidth; the Aleph is his mind and music is his Zahir.

That is pretty funny.

I missed that most came from LPs, that is fascinating, don't think I'd like listening to that quality of recording, but also least it was free.


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[doctorcoug]

until there's something you want to listen to not stored locally and it's impossible/inconvenient to stream.

Ok...trying to think of a time when this might happen. A moment when my phone doesn't have the internet. On an airplane...wait they have that now. In the wilderness...There is a reason I'm there.

Any moments I've missed?

via a galaxy s3 far far away

[doctorcoug]

Here's the problem, in my opinion, with being able to stream anything you want, anytime you want to. It's handy every now and then when you are suddenly jonesing to hear, I don't know, the Captain and Tennille sing "Muskrat Love" as only they can. And you've got to have it NOW.

But other than that, it's like you've got nothing. Part of the fun of a music collection is curating the damn thing: it's knowing your way around it. 14,000 is really pushing the envelope for me and I should probably trim it down further. Of course, I was the kind of kid that would buy a new LP and play it over and over again and read every single liner note, every song lyric, and study the cover and sleeve art intensely. Go ahead, ask me who played bass on Journey's Escape or exactly how long Rush's "Cygnus X-1" clocked in at. I could answer those questions for almost any album I purchased as a teenager.

This is entirely possible on spotify

via a galaxy s3 far far away