Traveling_Alone

Out of curiosity: People with 100k+ songs, have you actually listened to all of it? Are you still actively downloading music? Do you buy music?

Not being a dick about the buying music thing. Just curious.

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grindy

I'm not as analytical about it as you. I'm always amazed how you go about managing your stuff.
I don't even sort by genre, just by the alphabet.
My main foci are free improvisation and avant-prog, but there's enough of most genres there. I mostly enjoy stuff outside of genre boundaries. Lots of obscure japanese stuff. I also have tons of bootlegs.
Favourite labels are probably Tzadik, ReR Megacorp, Cuneiform, P.S.F., Trans Museq, AltrOck, Soleil Zeuhl and others that don't come to mind at the moment.


I have at least listened in a bit into everything I have to decide whether I'll keep it. There are also artists whom I love so much, that I know I'll like everything they're associated with, so sometimes I don't bother to.
Of course I haven't listened to every single song, it's great to have a huge pile of music I know is good, but still full of surprises.

I buy quite a lot of music, but since I was a college student until recently, my finances were much worse than my appetite for music.
I decreased downloading in the last year, since it's too time consuming, although I still buy and download dozens of albums every month.

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Traveling_Alone

Gotcha man, thanks for the answers. I used to have a much larger collection, but have not downloaded music in years. Since around the time Blogspots were the big thing, so I'm completely out of the loop there.

So basically rely on what I buy, which as you said, due to finances isn't any where near what I'd like for it to be. And then of course use Spotify and YouTube when all else fails.

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Ashwell John

13 GB almost full out of 16 GB. Not sure how much songs are there. LOL!

innerspaceboy

Most certainly. Each week I add at least one new discographic label/artist archive to my library.

In an effort to control my music spending, (and to prune my physical music collection down to an essential few thousand LPs) I've cut back my spending to one or two albums a month at $40-60 per album (plus an average of ~$12 per disc in shipping from their respective nations of origin).

While I am well-versed in my artists' and labels' histories and the circumstances of their recordings, there is obviously much I have yet to sample. I implemented a playlist project to resolve this which you can read more about here.

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InfamousKing013

Due to limitations on my Iphone, I only have 394 songs. When I had my MP3 player (which I recently lost) I had almost double that.

rosanna13

289
Cause I reinstall my music app several times before.

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ElvisMan

Mine only holds 800 cause I have a buncha audiobooks on there. The upside is it's full of cherry picks, I don't have a single full album on there outside of Elvis Presley's The Sun Sessions and Richard Pryor's comedy album That N*gger's Crazy.

Ilistentoeverything

2000+ I only constantly listen to about 500. I need to do some music cleaning. lol

Learn Piano 2Day

I have 673 songs right now, If I don't like a song enough to buy it then I only add it to my spotify or soundcloud.