| Author |
 Topic Search  Topic Options
|
The Whistler 
Prog Reviewer
Joined: August 30 2006
Location: LA, CA
Status: Offline
Points: 7113
|
 Posted: September 19 2006 at 04:34 |
Heh. I keep all my CDs in a big stack; I store some, but gosh, these twenty to thirty or so, they're just so good...I never know when I'd want to listen to one!
Anyway, in the morning, I move them from my chair onto my bed, and visa versa at night.
|
|
"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
|
 |
Jim Garten
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin & Razor Guru
Joined: February 02 2004
Location: South England
Status: Offline
Points: 14693
|
Posted: September 19 2006 at 07:50 |
 BaldJean wrote:
as everyone knows, dragons sleep on their hoards and proggers on their CDs |
Mine are guarded by two fiercely cute cats.
I guess our collection is now in the region of 1500 or so - I used to keep notes of good/bad tracks, but eventually came round to BJ's way of thinking, ie the album should be listened to in its entirety to get each track in context (also, at my age, it's difficult to keep getting up & sitting down again, and I can never decide which of the 7 remote controls is the right one).
No - the real problem I have with a collection of that size is wanting to hear music, but looking through the collection and deciding I hate every album; things were so much easier when we only had a hundred or so...
|
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
|
|
MikeEnRegalia
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: April 22 2005
Location: Sweden
Status: Online
Points: 21206
|
Posted: September 19 2006 at 08:24 |
BaldJean wrote:
Dragon Phoenix wrote:
The really good songs (the 600 or so that I rate 9-10/10) I have burned together on seperate CD's.
|
yikes; I would never listen to songs outside the context of the whole album. in the same spirit I don't skip a song I don't like when listening to an album
|
I also listen to whole albums whenever possible ... if I feel the urge to skip ahead, I rather put on a different album. Except for some mainstream albums which are track oriented, that is.
|
|
|
|
Paulieg
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 18 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 934
|
Posted: September 20 2006 at 02:32 |
|
I have about 1300 CD's and run into the same problem. I listen to the whole CD and don't skip between tracks. With all these CD's there is no way I am going to be able to memorize each song on each release.
|
|
Eetu Pellonpaa
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: June 17 2005
Location: Finland
Status: Offline
Points: 4828
|
Posted: September 20 2006 at 05:07 |
Dick Heath wrote:
Mike what annoys me about MP3 is the dropout between tracks - it was really annoying listening to the originally continuous soundtrack fo Kevin Gilbert The Shaming Of The True on that format fading and coming back between tracks. Is there any MP3 software that avoids this problem and gives greater listening pleasure?
|
Rip musical entities of several tracks as a single mp3 file.
|
|
Bob Greece
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 04 2005
Location: Greece
Status: Offline
Points: 1823
|
Posted: September 20 2006 at 05:12 |
Dick Heath wrote:
Mike what annoys me about MP3 is the dropout between tracks - it was really annoying listening to the originally continuous soundtrack fo Kevin Gilbert The Shaming Of The True on that format fading and coming back between tracks. Is there any MP3 software that avoids this problem and gives greater listening pleasure?
|
I've heard there are some MP3 players where you can adjust the gap between tracks to zero ... I don't know which ones though.
Edited by Bob Greece - September 20 2006 at 05:13
|
|
|
|
ClemofNazareth
Special Collaborator
Prog Folk Researcher
Joined: August 17 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 4659
|
Posted: September 20 2006 at 07:29 |
I have vinyl dating back thirty years or so and have ripped most of them as single mp3s (the whole album on one mp3), but a lot of the great songs are also pulled out as separate files for CD-R compilations I can use in my car.
The cassettes (damn 80's!) I've mostly ripped too, but of course they don't sound quite as good.
All the CDs are ripped so I can play them from any PC in the house and also pull out individual tracks for compilation CD-Rs.
As far as listening, I have a pretty good memory, but for music that I know really well I'm not inclined to play the entire album every time I want to listen to it, unless it's a concept album in which case it really is one contiguous piece of music and should be listened to as such.
|
|
"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus
|
|
Asyte2c00
Forum Senior Member
Joined: January 15 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 2099
|
Posted: September 20 2006 at 22:03 |
My Probelm:
I have roughly 800 albums I always listen to one album a night. However, I go into my room and at my desk look at my record collection for 10-15 minutes deciding what to listen to. I either have listned to it, enjoyed it thoroughly, and dont want it to lose appeal or I am not in the mood to listen to an album that I know must listen to at some point.
I blaze through albums like a wildfire. usually listen to them once, and return to them again to fully appreciate the virtues of them.
|
|
bhikkhu
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: April 06 2006
Location: AČ Michigan
Status: Offline
Points: 5109
|
Posted: September 20 2006 at 22:34 |
|
There are some tunes I have just for making mixes with, but the albums are for me. I listen to the whole thing.
I just got an update for iTunes, and it solves the gap problem. I haven't examined it too closely on the iPod yet, but it may do the same.
|
|
|
|
k_crimson
Forum Newbie
Joined: September 12 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 32
|
Posted: September 21 2006 at 09:29 |
|
It's my dad's collection (about 2500) but the bands I would listen to are all on my iTunes. I think a lot of it's about age because I have no trouble remembering anything about the tracks. I can hear any 5-second piece of a song and tell you the band, the album, and the name of the song. Other way around, you give me the name of the song and I'll sing it and give you the artist and album.
|
|
"the wall on which the prophets wrote is cracking at the seams."
|
|
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage")
? for those with 1,000+ albums...
