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time to purge my music?

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My music collection has grown over the years and now sits at almost 400gigs. Thats a shitload of mp3's and a good chunk of it i dont listen to. I also had a mishap already where a good number of my tracks have already been lost due do a drive failure when i was transferring them over to a new volume (my own fault for doing a cut and paste instead of copy, i should have known better). So the tracks that were lost were either odds or evens in the directory, a PITA for what is mostly full albums. Most of the stuff i care about i can re-rip from my old CD's, the other stuff was aquired a long time ago and cant be replaced.

Im having a very hard time deleting anything because i think i might need it or listen to it or save it for the kids or something.

how can i get over my digital hording!
 
Buy another hard drive? I never intentionally delete my music, although I don't have hardly as large of a collection. I've lost bits and pieces inadvertently throughout the years and always regretted it.
 
rcpratt said:
Buy another hard drive? I never intentionally delete my music, although I don't have hardly as large of a collection. I've lost bits and pieces inadvertently throughout the years and always regretted it.
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im still kicking myself for losing part of it after being so careful with it for the past 10 years. And i probably wouldnt be in this spot if i didnt lose any of it. i HATE seeing albums partly complete and want to just see them go, but i dont want to delete them.

drive space isnt a problem. i have more than enough.
 
Keep the partials as a placeholder so you remember what's missing. When the gaps have been filled, delete the partials.
 
I'm so glad I don't have this desire to horde music.

Pandora adequately satisfies my music desires.
 
Why delete? Just back it up and start a new collection from scratch. Use the old collection as a source too. If you ever remember something you had before but not now, just search the old collection and copy it over. Hard drives are so cheap nowadays, not worth the risk loosing something you might later want.
 
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