Can someone explain large personal music libraries to me?

[Nik]

I have 5TB worth of 96k mp3's.

Ugh, I wouldn't listen to ANY of those, even if you handed me a 5TB drive with all of them on it for free. :thumbsdown:

 

[Homerboy]

I'm embarrassed with as much music as I have.
Working at a radio station for 15yrs, having access to 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of CDs will do that to you.

 

[Nik]

I'm embarrassed with as much music as I have.
Working at a radio station for 15yrs, having access to 1000s and 1000s and 1000s of CDs will do that to you.

GIMME :thumbsup:

would love a music-related job

 

[Train]

ouch...they don't sell high bitrate in the ghetto?? :awe:

not to opressed minorities they don't.

Fuck the man.

 

[Homerboy]

GIMME :thumbsup:

would love a music-related job

Just a volunteer DJ for 15 years or so.
Community/college radio. I still sub once in a while, lotsa good friends are full-time employees there. Gave it up in February.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Radio is usually crappy quality and limited options.
streaming services are generally mediocre quality and again, limited options.

I prefer to buy cds. I've been buying CDs since I first collected allowance when I was 12. (18 years ago) .... Some were expensive at $25 or so a pop, most were $10-12, some were cheap.... One time I bought 55 CD's from a dealer for $250. All legit. (Bloodsoaked records was the store, it was his last hurrah before fading into obscurity... all death metal.)

Anyhow ... I've switch gears to mostly buying DVDs about 7 or 8 years ago ... but ... I still buy at least 20 or so disks per year ... and I've accumulated a decent collection over the time. I can listen to what I want whenever I want, and I have a good selection of stuff that I like to listen to.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Piracy

Or a subscription based service. I love my Zune Pass.

 

[shortylickens]

You must be young.
Back in the 70's people had whole rooms filled with vinyl.
In the 90's people had whole shelves full of CD's.
In the modern world, people have hard drives full of MP3's.
Thats just the way it is. And the cool thing with modern tunes is you only need to buy the songs you like, instead of an album of 20 songs with only 3 good ones.

 

[Homerboy]

You must be young.
Back in the 70's people had whole rooms filled with vinyl.
In the 90's people had whole shelves full of CD's.
In the modern world, people have hard drives full of MP3's.
Thats just the way it is. And the cool thing with modern tunes is you only need to buy the songs you like, instead of an album of 20 songs with only 3 good ones.

Not exactly. "Singles" are what is killing the music world.

 

[shortylickens]

Not exactly. "Singles" are what is killing the music world.

Explain yourself sir.

 

[zinfamous]

music is one of the most overrated "things" in the world

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2102134

 

[Nik]

Not exactly. "Singles" are what is killing the music world.

Haha... LOL...

 

[Miramonti]

When Allofmp3 was Alloftherage...

 

[sygyzy]

Even if the cost of music was 1/10th of that, I fail to see how it is any better than simply using on-demand radio. :whiste:

Explain.

That's the problem. Until Spotify (yes I think it's the best option) becomes readily available in the US, people will need libraries. I've been testing it and it really does not make sense for me to collect albums/MP3's anymore.

 

[pontifex]

-I like lots of different musical genres and bands within those genres.
-I don't like to always listen to the same songs over and over and over and over.
-I listen to music as much as I can.
-I've been collecting this stuff for many years, a lot of it was obtained during the days before file sharing was "bad."
-If I want to listen to a certain band, song, or genre, I can. Can't do this with radio.

 

[CRXican]

I have almost 30GB. Most ripped from CDs.

 

[sandorski]

4 things

1) They're Large
2) They're Personal
3) They're Music
4) They're Libraries

Any questions?

 

[TheVrolok]

Music is just one of those things that people collect/hoard.

 

[Nik]

I have almost 30GB. Most ripped from CDs.

It JUST hit me that you and the person on OT who have the same username and same avatar might just be the same person

 

[Soundmanred]

I love alot of different kinds of music, my moods change and I'm not poor.

 

[hellotyler]

I don't know if this is considered piracy or not because people aren't downloading, but sometimes DJs or friends will consolidate their music collections. Or if somebody brings a CD you might just have your computer set to auto-import. 100gb seems pretty insane though, I'm not sure how anyone would do that.

 

[Anubis]

Shit, I know people who go buy a metric shit-ton of $2 records at the local music store (even stuff like Ramona Falls still comes on vinyl, noobs) and will rip it to his collection.

$2000 seems much more awesome for that much music than $10,000.

This, also yard sales are great, whole box of CDs for 10$ YES PLEASE

also 100GB isnt that much TBH especially if you rip FLAC

this is not all flac

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/TheEvil1/Untitled.jpg

i haven't listened to FM radio in over a decade, I had sat radio from 2003-2007, Services like Pandora and Slacker are alright but still can not match a real collection

 

[erikistired]

have you listened to the radio in the last 10 years? yeesh.

 

[zerocool84]

I have about 14,400 tracks @ 71.2GB

 

[IronWing]

music is one of the most overrated "things" in the world

If you're a soulless husk I guess that might be true.


I have a bit over 40 gigs (8000+ songs) right now. I'll probably be buying more until the day I die. Over the decades it just accumulates.