In this thread, I review my album collection

[RetroRomper]

From late 2010 till today, I've been purchasing, downloading and otherwise collecting random music (including a large and obscure smattering of Japanese tracks of one kind or another) that I'll try to systematically listen to and review over the coming weeks.

And hey, hapticanimal said that either I listen / use what I download or I'm officially a digital hoarder and I can't bear the thought of her being right.

I start tomorrow!

[Quinn Z. DeAngelo]

And hey, hapticanimal said that either I listen / use what I download or I'm officially a digital hoarder and I can't bear the thought of her being right.

Hey fella, what difference does it make what your Main Squeeze thinks, she payin' for your disk drive? She ain't payin', it don't make no mind what she thinks, it's your money, not hers. If you're gigoloin' off her, then she's got a right to say, but if either you two is sharing expenses or you're payin' for her, then it's your business and don't you pay no mind to her. What do disk drives cost these days, anyway, 10c per gigabyte?

Let's see, I think a 1000 gig drive is around a C-note, 2 gig is about a hundred and a half, so that's about right @10c. That's from Office Max's website for a Western Digital external USB and a computer store might even be cheaper. MP3s take, say three meg a minute at 340K/sec, a song's probably 6 minutes if you're listenin' to indy stuff as opposed to the crap from the major labels which is probably about 3, so let's say songs even out at 20 meg each (they're less than that, but let's just say), so you can keep 50 songs for a dime and you can store more music than a warehouse full of CDs - 50,000 songs - on a box the size of a textbook that'll last for 5 years - or you get a new one free courtesy of the manufacturer - and costs you about a C note for the whole time or 20 bucks a year, and by the time the warranty expires the same price'll get you ten times as much storage.

Years back I rented a room from a guy who had his collection on CDs. He had about 500 of 'em in racks, was about the height and width of the couch. Who cares if you're hordin', it ain't takin' no room and it ain't costing much above zero per song. Besides, you ain't never gonna listen to all of them anyway.

I got maybe 5,000 songs including the ones I put on hard drive after ripping from disc so I can leave my CD collection in storage. I've listened to all of them at least once and I collect more all the time, some I might never listen to a second time because I don't listen to music 24/7, but when I wanna listen to one I just want to pick it out and listen to it.

Sometimes I'm doing something an hear a song I heard in my head and I decide I want to hear it again, and if I don't have it in my collection there's either Rhapsody or YouTube and I can hear it again.

Say you got a couple thousand regular 3-4 minute songs and you played them 8 hours a day, you'd only be able to get through about 100 songs a day, it'd take 3 weeks to play them all. Even Kasey Kasem only did America's Top 40 once a week and it took him Two Hours to play them all. For 40 songs! (I went to check the Wik; it's "American Top 40" and it took 3 hours, not two. Bolsters my argument too!)

So never you mind what your old lady says, we're all digital horders, just think about the fact it takes more of your time (and what's your time priced out to you, $20, 30 an hour?) to go through the collection to find stuff to get rid of it than just to collect it. Disk space is usually so cheap that it's usually not worth the trouble to figure if it's worth keeping something around until it gets to be at least 9 figures in bytes. And even then it's still only wasting 1c of your disk space.