? for those with 1,000+ albums...

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.

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. 

 

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?

Edited by Bob Greece - September 20 2006 at 05:13

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.  

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...
    

as everyone knows, dragons sleep on their hoards and proggers on their CDs 

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

Dick Heath wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: soundsweird wrote:        So, my question to those of you with similarly large collections, is this: do you just listen to the whole album no matter what, do you have some system like mine, or do you have an unusually good memory? I ripped all my albums as high resolution mp3 files ... I listen to them using Winamp, which allows me to access & browse the albums easily. Currently the media library contains 18,000 tracks (1,500 albums), and I don't have any problem finding stuff to listen to. As for individual tracks ... I rather think in terms of albums, and if I decide to listen to an album I'll listen to it as a whole (maybe I'll start skipping tracks when I'm bored). 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?

There are two possible reasons for that gap:

- Bad ripping software (which adds a few seconds of silence to the files)
- Bad player

If you're using Windows, the best solution would be to use winamp to listen to the files. It has really many options, and one of them is gapless playback. With that you can even remove the small gap that standalone CD players have (it's only a fraction of a second, but nevertheless annoying).

If you want to try winamp let me know in this thread - and I'll explain how to configure gapless playback.

Australian wrote: I have...no where near 1000 album but I keep all the albums I own in an Excel spreadsheet so I know what I have.

One solution is the iPod or whatever mp3 suits your fancy. A 60 gig iPod can hold well over 10000 prog songs. The reason I specified 10K is the length of some prog songs vs pop type songs. 15000 short songs can fit on an iPod with the 60 gig drive.