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How Much Music is too Much Music??

Did you guys ever take a look at how many mp3's you have? I'm sure most of you have at least 100??


well, i just noticed that in my club/house/trance singles folder i have 4388 songs dating back to 1997, and totaling 40 gigs.

I also have 800 albums/livesets burned on cd's


and i was thinking to myself. why?

what am i going to do with this all when i'm older, married, real job, kids?

right now i have no idea what to do with all these gigs of music besides archive it and say 'yes! i got that track!'

anyone else have any plans of what to do with all their electronic music once their lives totally change??

I know what u mean, I have some 7500 mp3z here, all trance/prog/...
And I'm so proud of it, so happy with them.
When I'm older I can say to my kids, listen to daddy's music, that was the best music of my life, I used to listen alldays to it .
I will always listen to music, I think the feeling will go away when ur older, but u got them and that's what counts

~13,000

all prog and trance

got that problem too, i burn something i every month listen it sometimes and with a new month the older one is archieved and i never listen to it anymore

Re: How Much Music is too Much Music??

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Originally posted by Muff2K what am i going to do with this all when i'm older, married, real job, kids?

Is that really what you want to do with your life?

Muff i know excatley what you mean.....

I collected live sets big time......then around September i looked at my cllection because i wanted to burn aLOT of them...mainly Tiesto of course....and i was like dam i have way too much.....i was reaching over 1,500 live sets and 2,000 singles ALL ON 56Krap....so i started thinking what i wanted to do....should i burn them...LOL....or jus archive them/....

Then October 18th came around and i went to see Tiesto again in NYC...but this time was different then the other times i saw him.....for soem reason i did not enjoy seeing Tiesto......

Thenext day i woke up and i said to myself..."i know why i didnt like seeing Tiesto last night"....it turns out i didnt like it because i barely knew what he was palying....unlke previous timesi saw him where i would know what he would play before he did...LOL...

So basically i was SO OBSESSED with collecting live sets and having every live set by every DJ i could find that i stopped enjoying Tiesto...who you all know is my fav DJ.....it wasnot like before when i would get a new Tiesto set and be happy.....it was all about getting as many sets from asmany DJs as i could.....

So i can say for "ME" collecting all that stuff mademe dislike trance and Tiesto.....so the night after seeing Tiesto in October after realizing why i didnt like seeing him...i started deleting all of my sets...(NOT TIESTO SETS)...jus setsfrom DJs i KNEW i could care less about...such as Taucher, Uhrmacher, Warmduscher, PVD, Scot, etc....DJs i never eveneliked in the first place.....then i went through my singles and basically got rid of all of them...

Collecting for me..well it was fu for a time...until i did not enjoy the music anymore....

NOW....i am back where i was before i had a super collection...i enjoy Tiesto again and look forward to new sets we all get.....right now i am only collecting Tiesto.....i can pretty much say i have the best Tiesto collection on the internet...which is cool in itself...but knowing i enjoy the music and appreciate Tiesto again is worth more then any amount of live sets from DJs that i dont even like....i am much happier now.,...even though my Tiesto collection is a little too big....but atleast i know enjoy Tiesto and am not collecting for the sake of collecting...

sorry for rambling...

Re: How Much Music is too Much Music??

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Originally posted by Muff2K and i was thinking to myself. why?

WHY?? Cause the music is awesome!!!!!!

I've got about 20 gigs of mp3's (singles)

I dll them to listen igf its any good and to try and mix with other songs.

Note: I do not play any of my mp3's outside my room, just so you know

1566 tracks in playlist, average track length: 8:23
Playlist length: 218 hours 49 minutes 56 seconds
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Period (Month)Download Upload Both Directions Dial-Up Time
January 2003 1.76 GB 350.32 MB 2.10 GB 6 day 10 hr
February 2003 1.81 GB 683.37 MB 2.47 GB 6 day 13 hr

Not Bad Ay for 56k

I Dont Think ill have ever had enough, until something better tells me to

Tracks Include Full CDs Livesets Single Albums and Loads of Singles.

Keith

You can never ever ever get enough muwahhahaha, and when youre older you will listen to the music and it will remind you of when you were young, thats what my dad does all the time with his oldies, wow that will be wierd when trance is considered "oldies" jolz

It's nuts

Somedays I download so much, that I don't where to begin. Listen to livesets or go through singles? Usually, I use livesets to get singles. Then once I have all the singles from sets, I delete the set since I now have better quality versions of the songs. Livesets are good to keep because even though you may have the singles you like from the livesets, you don't get the mixing or the crowd going nuts but to conserve space, I don't keep livesets. I started liking Trance in about 1997 but wasn't collecting music hard core until about 1999 so I guess I'm a rookie when it comes to a Trance collection. I only have about 500 Trance singles and remixes but I'm building it up and I ain't gonna stop......just as long as Trance doesn't

Pareez

eh, ur right, when is this gonna end..? I'm kinda obsessed on downloading mp3 for the few last.. years. all the time on 56k paid by hour (so I only get like 2 or 3 connected each day). and still more than 6 GB

it's a pain in the ass to download livesets and mixed cd's though, i still haven't heard any of the magik cds for an example. must pray for broadband

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Originally posted by n0bben- i have about 400 mp3s on my hdd. 5 cd-r burned with more mp3s. and im happy with that, im not downloading EVERYTHING just to say "I HAVE THAT TRACK; I DONT LIKE IT, BUT I HAVE IT." i save what i really think is worth saving. you guys should try it sometimes :-)

I usually do this when my harddrive is full
Delete any junk that is installed etc lol
Mind U, CD writer comes handy, but need cases

Keith

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Originally posted by TranceSeeker I know what u mean, I have some 7500 mp3z here, all trance/prog/... And I'm so proud of it, so happy with them. When I'm older I can say to my kids, listen to daddy's music, that was the best music of my life, I used to listen alldays to it . I will always listen to music, I think the feeling will go away when ur older, but u got them and that's what counts

I agree with the kids bit. I've often wondered what my theoretical future kids would think of my collection - coz its huge. If I'm anything to go by I totally got into the 80's coz its what my parents listened to at the time - still love 80's choons now.

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Originally posted by Arbiter Is that really what you want to do with your life?

Is response to your response, which i'm not sure if it was a cheap attempt to flame, or sarcasm


Get older: seems inevitable
Get married: i'd like to have a wife
Get a real job: 16 bucks an hour ain't gonna cut it if i want a house
Kids: sure why not, 2 or 3 shoudl do

so yes i do plan on getting older, married with children and advancing in the workplace!

hmmmm......... my trance collection is still fairly new Butright now I have over 120 cds (not all trance), but the thing is I definatelyneed more becuz Igetsick of each disc Iburn and need to hear the new stuff. But I do wonder if I'll ever quit listening to trance. I hope not. But I mean my dad never listens to oldies. Oh well, thats too much future thinking for now.

when u got no more space lef

ma i have so many music in my h/d livesets i have never even listened too......i really wish they made a cd-r that would hold like 50+gigs......


But on the cool my dad never sayed (come on son listen to this 8track i got when i used to get stoned more than 20 years ago......)

no damn thing as too MUCH music.

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Originally posted by rookie ma i have so many music in my h/d livesets i have never even listened too......i really wish they made a cd-r that would hold like 50+gigs......

they do and its called a DVD-R
but right now im shareing i think over 5000 files thats live sets and singles and like 9 CDs and like 19 full lenth movies such as....Akira..Alice In Wonderland..Van Wilder..Resident Evil..and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back to name a few but all of my music files are Trance Except all 7 of the Happy Hardcore Chapters

ok, 159 GB of trance and chillout here. I'm afraid to even count the files...

P.S. Just got the cheapest 200 GB HD I could find. If you want one, Fry's has one right now on sale for $189 after rebates. (WD 200 GB SE 8MB buffer). Total space now: 580GB.

quality over quantity.
however, there really isnt such a thing as TOO MUCH music
if yer computer can hold the insane amount of tunes that most TAs have sure why not.

600-700 trance vinyls...

wouldnt have it any other way

I have a different perspective on listening to my mp3's now that I produce my own tracks. Now every(most) track(s) is worth something again, a few months ago they were just taking up space unless I heard them, now they are archived for future use to get production ideas from. Agree with first post...downloading music and collecting it to say "check out my collection, I got all these kool songs" is a bit like collecting any other material. The worste is when you collect and dont even get to listen to all of the ones youve downloaded because your busy looking for the next ones to download. Enjoy your music and listen to it because you love it, and listen to what you enjoy, not what some Chart or someone says is great with their Hype.

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