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Originally Posted by Unicr0n
I do something similar to Mrd00d, in that three or four of my friends have copies (or large portions, in some cases, in that most people don't have a terabyte and a half of free space just for music) of my collection, and this serves a dual purpose. First, in the event of a hard drive failure I can reacquire my collection with minimal effort. And second, it introduces my friends to new music that they never would have found otherwise.
I've never felt 'burdened' by my collection -- I'm sitting on about 215,000 tracks, and most of the time I just run my entire library on shuffle (I've never been a huge 'album' listener, I kind of prefer the chaos of never knowing what's coming up next), and I'm quite content with that. I've been building this collection, with a few breaks due to lack of internet, for about ten years now, and I'm quite proud of it.
I also feel this need to sort of, I don't know, preserve music. I mean sure, all the famous, well known music is gonna be around forever, but what about all the lesser-known stuff, the stuff that barely anyone ever hears? Even if it isn't fantastic, it deserves to be preserved for future generations, at least in my opinion. So I acquire anything and everything that I can. I know I'll never listen to all of it, it's a literal impossibility when you look at my download vs. listening rate. But just to know that it's preserved, and that my friends, being how they are, pass around a lot of this lesser known music, and that it slowly sort of radiates out from my position to other places makes me feel like I'm doing something to maintain a medium that I care deeply about.
I literally lay awake at night thinking about all the stuff that is probably slipping through the cracks as I'm laying there -- small print runs that I'll never get my hands on, that will get lost in the folds of time. It makes me quite sad, actually.
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Brilliant, yes, I'm glad you brought that up. And before I start, I'm glad someone else shares some sentiments with me. It may or may not be irrational, but I also feel the need off and on to preserve music. I remember at one point thinking to myself, before I realized the scope, that I would try to download everything. I would have every album by any and every band that I considered enjoyable (that alone I try to keep up with, but is still hard) plus a smorgasbord of 'classics' of genres I don't listen to that I ... might in the future (Let me go download butt loads of Hawaiian music, Celtic music, movie score-type music, flamenco, ). That's insane (for now). Until I can have 100+ TBs, and a download speed that exceeds 4 MB (or should I say, at least averages 4 if not exceeds), this can't be. But I reckoned I wanted to be familiar with and have access to all forms of media...
Nice collection by the way. I've gotten about 100k in 5 years, but I'm at my ceiling. Filled my space up, got about 5 Gigs left I use to grab new stuff, and if I keep it, I delete a movie or something. It's a buzzkill for me to have to pick and choose what to keep. I want to hoard all music, all movies, all tv shows. It's just not a reality (yet).
Imagine meeting someone and they ask you if you have <something> and you're like... "Oh yea. I don't know who they are/what it is, but I got em/it. Enjoy!" I think I wouldn't feel this way if things were faster overall. I just want instant, reliable access to all media without needing internet. The internet suffices in the meantime.