How much is too much? (MP3 R)
waxjunky
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I talked to a dude who said he had 12,000 MP3s on his laptop - that's conservatively 37 days of no repeats. There has to be significant filler in there, to the point of it being a nuisance to navigate.I only have about 1,800 MP3s, a big chunk of it being my own vinyl rips. Still, that's more than 5.5 days of no repeats. Seems like plenty. However, I suspect that I'm 
in the MP3 accumulation game.
in the MP3 accumulation game.
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I am still baffled that such a game exists.
Having music for the sake of having music. Quantity over quality.
Both.
the whole music download/rip thing lends itself to a sort of horder mentality.
same thing with books
have you ever been over to someone???s house that has like a shit ton of books but they don???t touch em
they just want to be surrounded by books maybe to look smart or for some status symbol
that???s similar
i also hate when i see someone???s record collection and its almost 100 percent crap
i mean if you have 1000s of records but they all suck you need to get with it.
the music maybe plays into peoples identities so much that without having all that music they feel useless.
Has anyone else gotten one of these requests when selling something on eBay? I got one for a sealed record.
I suppose you'd be a bit upset if you'd downed a set and someone had already deleted the tracks they didn't like out of it. You'd want the freedom to decide what are the terds yourself.
Also, the temptation to just down the entire catalog of an artist on the off chance they have further nuggets is strong when they are just a click away. You then get hung up on being "Completist" about an artist, even when you know vast tracts of their output is garbage.
I suppose the same applies to vinyl here too.
yeah, I was gonna say 12K is not that much in the 'mp3 game'. There are dudes on the regular with the over 4-500 gig amount that I've come across.
I've got way too much myself, but alot of times its the same with records for me - I'll acquire some MP3s, and then don't get around to really listening to them all to weed out the fluff. (either that or uncheck it in iTunes so it won't be in rotation)
Hoarding is part of a sedentary lifestyle.
i dont have that much. mabye 10 gigs tops. But i delete stuff alot.
I muat admit though, the addition of cover flow on my iphone has turned me into a bit of an mp3 collectro. Something about browsing by the album cover makes me need to have the whole album on there. Even if i only like 1 or 2 songs.
anybody else with this problem?